Jewish category: 3083 books
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies
Recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural History
It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European...
Epic Trials in Jewish History
The Evolution of Modern Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Twelve contentious legal cases serve as definitive markers in the ebb and flow of modern Jewish history. Ranging from the blood libel trials of the late-nineteenth century until the trial of the Holocaust at the beginning of the twenty-first century legal battles have consumed the Jewish community...
by Riv-Ellen Prell
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism...
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras...
Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous
My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
What is Jewish cooking in France? In a journey that was a labor of love, Joan Nathan traveled the country to discover the answer and, along the way, unearthed a treasure trove of recipes and the often moving stories behind them.
Nathan takes us into kitchens in Paris, Alsace, and the Loire...
by Faye Levy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A celebration of Jewish kosher cooking and tradition
This expert cookbook offers all the recipes and information any cook needs to celebrate Passover, Rosh Hashanah, and many other Jewish holidays. 1,000 Jewish Recipes includes instructions for maintaining a kosher kitchen, information on the...
by Leah Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
First in a series of books exploring Jewish culinary traditions, this perfect book for hosts and hostesses takes us through the most social part of the meal: the appetizers. From nibbles and salads to dips and meatballs, more than 25 inspired, modern starters draw from global Jewish influences. Rounding...
Rhapsody in Schmaltz
Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. Rhapsody in Schmaltz traces the history and social impact of the cuisine that Yiddish-speaking Jews from Central and Eastern Europe brought to the U.S. and that...
Sweet Noshings
New Twists on Traditional Jewish Desserts
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
No matter your religion, you'll enjoy these tasty recipes. I know Jew will! Growing up, Amy Kritzer loved to cook traditional foods with her Bubbe Eleanor. Whether they were braiding challah or rolling out rugelach dough, there was always tons of laughter (and a messy kitchen.) These days, inspired...
The Modernity of Others
Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become...
Jewish People, Yiddish Nation
Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified...
The Defining Decade
Identity, Politics, and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
The 1960s witnessed a radical transformation in the Canadian Jewish community. The erosion of longstanding barriers of anti-Semitism resulted in increased access for Jews to the economic, political, and social Canadian mainstream. Arguing paradoxically that even as Canada became more accepting, Canadian...
After Expulsion
1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail
from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nation’s
Jewish community officially...