Jewish category: 3083 books
The Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.
Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to...
The Jews in America Trilogy
"Our Crowd," The Grandees, and "The Rest of Us"
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Three New York Times bestsellers chronicle the rise of America’s most influential Jewish families as they transition from poor immigrants to household names.
In his acclaimed trilogy, author Stephen Birmingham paints an engrossing portrait of Jewish American life from the colonial era through...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe by Helen Epstein (4,700 words and 28 illustrations)
In the American film Airplane, a stewardess asks a passenger whether he would like something to read. "Do you have anything light?" the man asks. "How about...
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary"...
One Hundred Great Jewish Books
Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its historical and cultural context, provides a summary of content and author, and reflects on its relevance for today’s readers.
From Continuity to Contiguity
Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped...
Unfinalized Moments
Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection...
We Are Coming, Unafraid
The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book tells the little-known stories of three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Many of the soldiers, ranging widely in education level, social class, and combat...
Avengers and Defenders
Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago’s Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago’s Jewish Past, Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known,...
A History of Jewish Connecticut
Mensches, Migrants and Mitzvahs
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
During the Revolutionary War, Sephardic Jews fled British-occupied New York to become the first Jewish families in Connecticut. This long Jewish history is explored in a collection of essays by historians and community members across the state, from colonial times and the role Jews played in the Civil...
by Linda Baulsir, Irwin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The Jewish Communities of Greater Stamford presents a broad historical view of the Jewish people of Stamford, Darien, Greenwich, and New Canaan, Connecticut, and Pound Ridge, New York. The book goes back to the era just prior to the American Revolution, when lone Jewish families settled among the Connecticut...
Isaac's Army
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto...
by Avrom Bendavid-Val, Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
A magical place, a lost history: Trochenbrod, the setting for Everything is Illuminated, is now rediscovered for a new generation.
In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of...