Jewish category: 3083 books
The Provincials
A Personal History of Jews in the South
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his...
Rabbis and Revolution
The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The Habsburg province of Moravia straddled a complicated linguistic, cultural, and national space, where German, Slavic, and Jewish spheres overlapped, intermingled, and sometimes clashed. Situated in the heart of Central Europe, Moravia was exposed to major Jewish movements from the East and West,...
To Tell Their Children
Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment...
Feeling Jewish
(A Book for Just About Anyone)
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction,...
by Gustav Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Jewish Literature and Other Essays by the German Jewish historian of literature and editor; son of Elijah, Karpeles Gustav Karpeles.Karpeles stimulated into active life the Jewish literary societies in Germany, but made himself most widely known through his writings on Heinrich Heine.
Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930
Struggles for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1933–1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" from the Jewish perspective. This first volume, taking us from Hitler's rise to power through...
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics
Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the United States. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry...
"We Are Jews Again"
Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008...
The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939
A Study of Literature and Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism.
This...
Rethinking Poles and Jews
Troubled Past, Brighter Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since Polish Catholics embraced some anti-Jewish notions and actions prior to WWII, many intertwined the Nazi death camps in Poland with Polish anti-Semitism. As a result, more so than local non-Jewish population in other Nazi-occupied countries, Polish Catholics were considered active collaborators...
Jews and Booze
Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council
From kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American Jews were forced to choose between abandoning...
by J. Abelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Abelsons Jewish Mysticism is wonderful introduction to the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. Abelson also discusses how other religions such as Christianity and Gnosticism have affected Jewish mysticism. This edition is illustrated and contains a table of contents for easier navigation.
The Impossible Takes Longer
Memoirs of Vera Weizmann (wife of Israel's first President) as told to David Tutaev
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Vera Chatzman was born on November 27, 1881, in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. She was a medical student soon to become a pediatrician when, in 1906, she married Chaim Weizmann, a chemist already involved in the Zionist movement. For the next 46 years of their marriage, Vera was his companion,...