Jewish category: 3083 books
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust
Between Destruction and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland.
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust starts by...
by Yoram Ettinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2014
The user-friendly "Jewish Holidays' Guide for the Perplexed" provides succinct interpretations by Jewish Sages, easily integrated into conversations, presentations, sermons, interviews and writing. The "Guide" highlights the relevance of Jewish holidays to modern day challenges,...
Jewish Cooking for All Seasons
Fresh, Flavorful Recipes for Holidays and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This first paperback edition of Jewish Cooking for All Seasons by Laura Frankel collects more than 150 creative, convenient, and seasonal kosher dishes. From everyday meals to holiday favorites, this book celebrates and updates Jewish cooking with innovative recipes that use fresh, seasonal ingredients.
When...
Beyond Stereotypes
American Jews and Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
In the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of the few American cultures not closed off to them. Jewish athleticism challenged anti-Semitic depictions of Jews supposed...
by Gustav Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In a well-known passage of the Romanzero, rebuking Jewish women for their ignorance of the magnificent golden age of their nation's poetry, Heine used unmeasured terms of condemnation. He was too severe, for the sources from which he drew his own information were of a purely scientific character,...
by Joel Magalnick
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
With 2014 marking the celebration of 90 years of publication of the Jewish Transcript, the Pacific Northwest's oldest and longest publishing Jewish community newspaper, we decided to take a look back at our history to help you create your High Holiday menu. What you have on your digital reading...
Celebrate!
The Complete Jewish Holidays Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action. Unlike many books of its kind, Celebrate! The Complete Jewish Holidays Handbook is nondenominational and comprehensive in approach. The author includes the historical...
An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century...
by Simon Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History by the Jewish historian, writer and activist,Simon Dubnow.He is the father-in-law of Henryk Erlich, a famous Bundist leader.Dubnow was ambivalent toward Zionism, which he felt was an opiate for the spiritually feeble.Despite being sympathetic...
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent...
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl
Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
“Explore[s] the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds.” —Jewish Book Council
At the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote...
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars
Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories - An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
- This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift.- This volume contains translations of Yiddish stories from eminent...
The Curtain
Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece...
Jewish Salonica
Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled...