Jewish category: 3083 books
Aesthetics of Sorrow
The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The term “wailing culture” includes an array of women’s behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself—a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving...
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World
A Social and Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis...
by Arthur A. Chiel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg. He was impelled as a result to record the events of that history and...
Ordinary Jews
Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violence
Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival...
by anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Edited by "a Lady". With a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to theToilette. First published in 1846. According to the Preface: "Among the numerous works on Culinary Science already in circulation, there have been none which afford the slightest insight to the Cookery of the Hebrew kitchen....
Divergent Jewish Cultures
Israel and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often...
by Lisa Lampert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of...
"To Tread on New Ground"
Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hava Shapiro is among the nearly forgotten Jewish women writers who sought acceptance in Jewish literary circles of the last century. Born in Slavuta (modern-day Ukraine) in 1878, she published works of fiction, memoir, literary criticism, and journalism, including a volume of short fiction and a scholarly...
by Christian Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany examines the relationship between the colonial and antisemitic movements of modern Germany from 1871 to 1918, examining the complicated ways in which German antisemitism and colonialism fed off of and into each other in the...
For the Honor of Our Fatherland
German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War focuses on the German Jews’ role in reconstructing Poland’s war-ravaged countryside. The Germany Army assigned rabbis to serve as chaplains in the German Army and to support and minister to their own Jewish...
Out from Hiding
Evidences of Sephardic Roots Among Latinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Dr. Dell Sanchez began his journey into the lineage of his Latino family when it surfaced from his research of Jewish survivors of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions of the 15th 17th Centuries. The more Sanchez dug into historical record, the more he began to suspect his own Sephardic Jewish...
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish...
Confessions of the Shtetl
Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates...
by Howard N. Lupovitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book is a survey of the history of the Jewish people from biblical antiquity to the present, spanning nearly 2,500 years and traversing five continents.
Opening with a broad introduction which addresses key questions of terminology and definition, the book’s ten chapters then go on to...