Jewish category: 3083 books
An Unusual Relationship
Evangelical Christians and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
It
is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in
common. Yet special alliances developed
between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals
viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to
recognize their true savior....
My Brother's Keeper
Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
Thirty captivating profiles of Christians who risked everything to rescue their Jewish neighbors from Nazi terror during the Holocaust.**
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER unfolds powerful stories of Christians from across denominations who gave everything they...
Hasidic Williamsburg
A Contemporary American Hasidic Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Based on his previous book...
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection,...
by Samuel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, finally, back in print. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic...
Mission, Meaning, and Money:
How the Joint Distribution Committee Became a Fundraising Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
BEHIND THE SCENES AT AMERICAS LARGEST JEWISH CHARITY
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, affectionately referred to as the Joint, is considered to be one of the most effective and professionally-run Jewish nonprofit organizations in the United States. To support and expand its...
A Family Remembers
German-Jewish Life from 1848 to 1926
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
A Family Remembers is a collection of memories from a German-Jewish family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three personal narratives relate the day-to-day activities of life in stories about business, education, health, family obligations, and more, and reveal larger philosophies...
Children of the Ghetto
A Study of a Peculiar People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave...
by Mordecai M. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
In this book, Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought. This work continues to function as a central text for the Reconstructionist movement, whose influence continues to grow in American Jewry.
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff,...
The Stakes of History
On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today
Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical...
Writing Jewish Culture
Paradoxes in Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the...
by Josephus
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
'I am Josephus...I myself fought against the Romans' In August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with some early success, but soon became mired in factional...
The Avengers
A Jewish War Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer...