Author: National Council of Jewish Women
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Proceedings of the First Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women
Author: National Council of Jewish Women
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish women
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women
Author: National Council of Jewish Women
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920
Author: Melissa R. Klapper
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society. While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history. Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society. While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history. Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.
Proceedings
Author: Jewish Chautauqua Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
JPS: the Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888-1988
Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827618867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Jonathan Sarna's meticulously documented centennial history presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by America's foremost publisher of Jewish books in English. Sarna's engaging blend of anecdote and analysis contextualizes the Jewish Publication Society within American Jewry's evolving social, political, and cultural history. He demonstrates that the society has been a major factor. Sarna recounts the inspired struggle of the Jewish Publication Society's founders, a group of genteel Philadelphia philanthropists including Cyrus Adler and Mayer Sulzberger, who believed fervently in the need to educate their immigrant coreligionists with Jewish books in the new vernacular. He also tells the story of Henrietta Szold, best known for her later achievements as the founder of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah. Szold worked doggedly for twenty-three years as the society's first editor until a shattered love for a JPS author became the catalyst that led her to Palestine and Zionist leadership. Here too are fascinating accounts of the long deliberations and intense work that produced the authoritative JPS Bible translations of 1917 and 1985, translations acceptable to all major branches of Judaism. Sarna also recounts the controversy surrounding the 1973 publication of The Jewish Catalog, a project developed by the bold JPS editor Chaim Potok. The Catalog, embodying the spirit of the Jewish counterculture, not only became the best-selling JPS book after the Bible, but it also showed that JPS could meet the challenge of a new generation as it moved toward its second century.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827618867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Jonathan Sarna's meticulously documented centennial history presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by America's foremost publisher of Jewish books in English. Sarna's engaging blend of anecdote and analysis contextualizes the Jewish Publication Society within American Jewry's evolving social, political, and cultural history. He demonstrates that the society has been a major factor. Sarna recounts the inspired struggle of the Jewish Publication Society's founders, a group of genteel Philadelphia philanthropists including Cyrus Adler and Mayer Sulzberger, who believed fervently in the need to educate their immigrant coreligionists with Jewish books in the new vernacular. He also tells the story of Henrietta Szold, best known for her later achievements as the founder of Hadassah and Youth Aliyah. Szold worked doggedly for twenty-three years as the society's first editor until a shattered love for a JPS author became the catalyst that led her to Palestine and Zionist leadership. Here too are fascinating accounts of the long deliberations and intense work that produced the authoritative JPS Bible translations of 1917 and 1985, translations acceptable to all major branches of Judaism. Sarna also recounts the controversy surrounding the 1973 publication of The Jewish Catalog, a project developed by the bold JPS editor Chaim Potok. The Catalog, embodying the spirit of the Jewish counterculture, not only became the best-selling JPS book after the Bible, but it also showed that JPS could meet the challenge of a new generation as it moved toward its second century.
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814344682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.
Stadtgeschichten
Author: Claudia Schnurmann
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825892548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Tales of Two Cities compares both metropolises and soon discovers differences as well as similarities. American and German experts from different fields (for example historians, geographers, architects, journalists or Americanists) join our 'guided tours' through Chicago and Hamburg. They introduce the reader to the sister cities as migration magnets and spaces of different interests. They discuss challenges and chances of urban life, city planning, safety measures or media cities within an Atlantic context. The volume includes contributions in German as well as English. Claudia Schnurmann is a researcher at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Iris Wigger is a researcher at the School of Sociology at University College in Dublin (Ireland).
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825892548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Tales of Two Cities compares both metropolises and soon discovers differences as well as similarities. American and German experts from different fields (for example historians, geographers, architects, journalists or Americanists) join our 'guided tours' through Chicago and Hamburg. They introduce the reader to the sister cities as migration magnets and spaces of different interests. They discuss challenges and chances of urban life, city planning, safety measures or media cities within an Atlantic context. The volume includes contributions in German as well as English. Claudia Schnurmann is a researcher at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Iris Wigger is a researcher at the School of Sociology at University College in Dublin (Ireland).
The Jewish Year Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870687518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870687518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Jewish Literature
Author: Israel Abrahams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description