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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Jewish Year Book
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Jewish Communal Directory
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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The Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918
Author: Jewish Community of New York City
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Category : Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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Category : Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
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JEWISH COMMUNAL DIRECTORY
Author: Jewish Community of New York City
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ISBN: 9781371115883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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ISBN: 9781371115883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Menorah Journal
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Jewish Charities
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
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The Passport as Home
Author: Andrei S. Markovits
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life’s work. As we follow his quest to find a home, we encounter his engagement with the important political, social, and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. We also learn about his musical preferences, from classical to rock; his love of team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and American football; and his devotion to dogs and their rescue. Above all, the book analyzes the travails of emigration the author experienced twice, moving from Romania to Vienna and then from Vienna to New York. Markovits’s Candide-like travels through the ups and downs of post-1945 Europe and America offer a panoramic view of key currents that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. By shedding light on the cultural similarities and differences between both continents, the book shows why America fascinated Europeans like Markovits and offered them a home that Europe never did: academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity and religious tolerance. America for Markovits was indeed the “beacon on the hill,” despite the ugliness of its racism, the prominence of its everyday bigotry, the severity of its growing economic inequality, and the presence of other aspects that mar this worthy experiment’s daily existence.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life’s work. As we follow his quest to find a home, we encounter his engagement with the important political, social, and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. We also learn about his musical preferences, from classical to rock; his love of team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and American football; and his devotion to dogs and their rescue. Above all, the book analyzes the travails of emigration the author experienced twice, moving from Romania to Vienna and then from Vienna to New York. Markovits’s Candide-like travels through the ups and downs of post-1945 Europe and America offer a panoramic view of key currents that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. By shedding light on the cultural similarities and differences between both continents, the book shows why America fascinated Europeans like Markovits and offered them a home that Europe never did: academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity and religious tolerance. America for Markovits was indeed the “beacon on the hill,” despite the ugliness of its racism, the prominence of its everyday bigotry, the severity of its growing economic inequality, and the presence of other aspects that mar this worthy experiment’s daily existence.
The Jewish Forum
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Jewish Year Book
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Author: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344518
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity. Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344518
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity. Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.