Jewish category: 3083 books
The Jewish Holidays
A Journey through History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The events surrounding the holidays molded the foundation of the Jews as a nation and are related to their continuity and survival as Jews throughout history. In The Jewish Holidays: A Journey through History, author Larry Domnitch contends that there is a cyclical nature to the events of Jewish history....
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers
From Spinoza to Soloveitchik
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers...
Who We Are
On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular...
Borrowed Voices
Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...
by Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Hartford's Jewish presence dates back to the mid-1600s. The earliest permanent settlers were German Jews, who purchased the first building for use as a synagogue in 1856. With increasing immigration from Eastern Europe, the population soon expanded. Jewish-owned businesses became part of Hartford's...
by Lee Dorman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Nashville�s Jewish community traces its beginning to 1795 with the birth of Sarah Myers, the first Jewish child born here. Her parents, Benjamin and Hannah Hays Myers, were both from prominent pre�Revolutionary War families in New England and stayed in Nashville just one year before moving to Virginia....
by Terese Pencak Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?
The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers,...
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States,...
Revolutionary Yiddishland
A History of Jewish Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe...
Never Better!
The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel...
by David Biale
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.
The author of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest's Jewish community leaders organized an Artistic Enterprise under the aegis of OMIKE Országos Magyar Izraelita Közművelődési Egyesület (Hungarian Jewish Education Association)...
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and
political activism of American Jewish women from approximately
1890 to the beginnings of World War II.
Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that...
Mixed Feelings
Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love—often unrequited or impossible love—to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature...