Jewish category: 3083 books
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering...
by Shannon Sarna
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Step-by-step instructions for the seven core doughs of Jewish baking.
Jewish baked goods have brought families together around the table for centuries. In Modern Jewish Baker, Sarna pays homage to those traditions while reinvigorating them with modern flavors and new ideas. One kosher dough...
by Edith M. Kozdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Tinis People is a true story about real people, her memories of Jews, Poles, Czechs, Germans and Austrians all of whom she thought of as her people form the backbone of this book. The book provides a historical, cultural and social perspective on the life of a Central European Jewish family from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement.
When...
Refugees or Migrants
Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees†‹
For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained...
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily...
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion
Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative. While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many previous studies of the topic, this...
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833–1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transformation,...
by Nello Pavoncello Giacomo Saban, Giacomo Saban, Nello Pavoncello
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
The Jewish rites, traditions, songs and recipes from all over the world, together with the relative different menus for all the holidays are here clearly described.
As a result of more than twenty centuries of migration of the Jewish People scattered around the world, their traditions, ceremonial...
Building Jewish Roots
The Israel Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Building Jewish Roots offers an exploration of how participants build rich and varied Jewish identities through their experiences in Israel at the long-established Livnot U'Lehibanot program. Shapiro argues that Israel Experience Programs offer something vital to participants - the power to shape and choose their own Jewish identities.
American Jewish History
A Primary Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials complements existing textbooks on American Jewish...
Transnational Traditions
New Perspectives on American Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires—as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global...
Montreal of Yesterday
Jewish Life in Montreal 1900-1923
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Winner of the 2001 Canadian Jewish Book Awards: Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish translation, Montreal of Yesterday was originally published in Yiddish in 1947. It had earlier appeared in installments in the pages of the Keneder Adler - the Canadian Eagle - Montreal's legendary...
by Brian E. Crim
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish...