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by Azriel Shohet
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community....
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Entangled Histories

Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of...
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Holocaust Survivors in Canada

Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955

by Adara Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological,...
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by Deborah Dash Moore, Mitchell Reddish
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of...
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge

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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2000

The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has...
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Roads Taken

The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way

by Hasia R. Diner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs...
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Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony

Jewish Secular Endeavors 1867-1938

by A. Robert Neurath
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

The best places for Jews after 1867 were Budapest and Vienna. 1867 was the year Jews were given equal rights in Austro-Hungary as Christians had. The 1918 defeat of the Empire in World War I, and its subsequent dismemberment, impacted negatively upon the Jewish population. The new republics, Austria...
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From East to West

The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

by Moses A. Shulvass
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. And yet, the history of the Jewish migratory movements has not been fully explored in Jewish history. While the Jewish migratory movements in the nineteenth and twentieth...
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by Lewis Glinert
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993

When do you say mazal tov? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these...
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Theatrical Liberalism

Jews and Popular Entertainment in America

by Andrea Most
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film–especially in...
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Edgar and Brigitte

A German Jewish Passage to America

by Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933 and became American law professors. More German than Jewish,...
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Jacob Neusner

An American Jewish Iconoclast

by Aaron W. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only...
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Jean-Claude Grumberg

Three Plays

by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and...
Cover of Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200
by C. D. Elledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers. In this volume, C. D. Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the earliest literature within Judaism that exhibits a confident hope in resurrection. He not only aids the study of...
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