Author: Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315479567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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"This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen Whitfield is one of the most original essayists on these two topics. Few other scholars combine the density of his knowledge with the verve of his prose". -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University
Author: Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651710
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.
Author: Howard Simons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691095455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
Author: Mark Shulman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164517431X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand -- and measure -- time and space. He was laughed at before his ideas were idolized. He was the toast of pre-war Germany before he fled for his life. How did such a peace-loving man contribute to the atomic bomb?
Author: Katalin Franciska Rac
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author: Barbara E. Mann
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813552125
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This “spatial turn” equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them. Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what “space” has meant within Jewish culture and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.
Author: Chester A. Brown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396062971
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Excerpt from The American Jewish Times-Outlook, 1966-1967, Vol. 31 And once again Ellul is upon us. As the sacred days draw closer we witness the annual High Holiday machinery mesh ing its gears. Brightly lettered signs in English begin to appear on the usually somber facades of synagogues and temples. Ticket committees take up their stations in lobbies and offices of the houses of prayer, Mothers look to the family wardrobe in anticipation of the great communal gathering. The station ery stores are doing a brisk trade in New Year cards. Cantors and Rabbis send their white robes to be cleaned as the former rehearse scores and the latter type their sermons. In short, American Jewry is preparing for the Days of Judgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365587927
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Excerpt from The American Jewish Times Outlook: September, 1964 As man relates himself to Deity and contemplates his precarious position in the world, his significance becomes as a piece of dust. He becomes aware of the flight of time, as one year gives way to another; he begins to sense the vanity of material possessions, as he meditates over his frailty and the uncertainty of his life. In humility, as he permits his senses and intellect to guide him rather than passion and emotion he is moved to acknowledge the Lord as the source Of life and blessing. As did his forefathers throughout the ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Chester A. Brown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483062016
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Excerpt from The American Jewish Times-Outlook, Vol. 26: 1960-1961 This is the condition of the world on the eve of our religious New Year 572 i, and we are part of it. We do not like much of it, but there is the consolation that we can do something about it. It is not the premise of the individual man or woman to bring about a change in the world or even in a community; but it IS the premise and the duty of each individual to, work on his own improvement and thus, through his or her own action, act in such a manner as to project their good influences upon others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
