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Cover of Jewish Holidays: A Brief Introduction for Christians
by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, Rabbi Daniel Judson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2006

A window into Judaisms sacred daysthroughout history and today. Written especially for Christians.Holy days and holidays provide the peak experiences of Jewish life. These moments speak deeply to the Jewish soul and animate Judaisms culture. They encourage Jews to participate in their shared historical...
Cover of Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler
by Helen Epstein, Wilma Iggers, Arno Pařík
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015

Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life...
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The Modern Jewish Canon

A Journey Through Language and Culture

by Ruth R. Wisse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001

What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating...
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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History

The Roles and Representation of Women

by Paula E. Hyman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted �the Jews� as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between...
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The Jewish Body

An Anatomical History of the Jewish People

by Melvin Konner
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009

A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs. Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and controversial of microscopic...
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Prophets of the Past

Interpreters of Jewish History

by Michael Brenner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010

Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He...
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Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds

Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917

by Vassili Schedrin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire—its institutions, personnel, and policies—from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the Russian state both in the Pale...
Cover of The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen
by Simon Wolf, Louis Edward Levy, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014

This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index   CONTENTS Dedication      Editor's Preface      Introduction      Jewish Patriots of the Revolutionary Period (Introductory)     ...
Cover of Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes (Second Edition)
by Richard Raskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015

The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants—and looking closely at the ways in which the comic behavior enacted in the punchline can...
Cover of Jewish Communities on the Ohio River
by Amy Hill Shevitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007

When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz...
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by Nadia Valman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and perspectives...
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Jewish Bodylore

Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices

by Amy K. Milligan
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018

Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices explores the Jewish body and its symbology as a space for identity communication, applying the tools of bodylore (the folkloric study of the body) to the Jewish body in ways that are in line both with feminist and queer theory. The...
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Cotton Capitalists

American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era

by Michael R. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation’s most important economic sector In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy...
Cover of On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
by Paul Reitter
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012

Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the...
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