Author: Grace Cohen Grossman
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Grace Cohen Grossman
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781560987321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Grace Cohen Grossman
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
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Category : Jewish museums
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Shimon Shokek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317797388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This new approach introduces Kabbalah as a spiritual Jewish way of living, a practical wisdom for living, creativity and well being, and not merely a religious phenomenon or esoteric theology. Professor Shokek suggests that the Kabbalistic theme of Creation is the central ingredient in the spiritual teachings of Jewish mysticism. He skilfully reveals the core questions that emerge from the wisdom of the Jewish sages, opening up a lively avenue of debate in this increasingly popular area of study.

Author: Avi Y. Decter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442264365
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Jews are part and parcel of American history. From colonial port cities to frontier outposts, from commercial and manufacturing centers to rural villages, and from metropolitan regions to constructed communities, Jews are found everywhere and throughout four centuries of American history. From the early 17th century to the present, the story of American Jews has been one of immigration, adjustment, and accomplishment, sometimes in the face of prejudice and discrimination. This, then, is a narrative of minority-majority relations, of evolving norms and traditions, of ongoing conversations about community and culture, identity and meaning. Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites begins with a broad overview of American Jewish history in the context of a religious culture than extends back more than 3,000 years and which manifests itself in a variety of distinctive American forms. This is followed by five chapters, each looking at a major theme in American Jewish history: movement, home life, community, prejudice, and culture. The book also describes and analyzes projects by history organizations, large and small, to interpret American Jewish life for general public audiences. These case studies cover a wide range of themes, approaches, formats. The book concludes with a history of Jewish collections and Jewish museums in North America and a chapter on “next practice” that promote adaptive thinking, continuous innovation, and programs that are responsive to ever-changing circumstances.

Author: Gabrielle Anna Berlinger
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081435047X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.

Author: Cyrus Adler
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
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Category : Jewish scholars
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253070007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they made a remarkable decision: they would create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended. With insight and clarity, Jeffrey Shandler draws upon the surviving archival sources to tell the story of the purpose, development, and ultimate fate of the Museum of the Homes of the Past. Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.