Jewish category: 3083 books
by Victor Teboul
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism
How does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s...
Violins of Hope
Violins of the Holocaust-Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and the Israeli violin maker dedicated to bringing these inspirational instruments back to life.
The violin...
Beyond Sectarianism
The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of the group for the next four decades. As American Orthodoxy continues to grow in geographical, institutional, and political strength,...
Visualizing Jews Through the Ages
Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish...
by Fred Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. This young Jewish couple—he a graduate student in theater, and she a doctor—was poor but resolute. Risking their own lives and relying on false papers,...
by Abraham Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Abraham Cohens Ancient Jewish Proverbs contains hundreds of Jewish proverbs and sayings, many from the Talmud and Mishna. The proverbs are divided into categories, such as Family Life, Human Existence, and Human Virtues. This edition is illustrated and includes a table of contents for easier navigation.
The Faith of Fallen Jews
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) earned recognition as perhaps the greatest Jewish historian of his day, whose scholarship blended...
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of...
by Yehuda Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness – a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the State of Israel. Ironically, Professor Bauer demonstrates, events during this period stemmed in part...
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
Community and National Identity, 1880-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations,...
Calypso Jews
Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of...
by Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year—what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal.
Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations—examine...
by Moshe Katz
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
With the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948, the world saw a new Jew arise from the ashes of the Holocaust and from millennia of persecution in Arab and Christian lands. From the four corners of the earth, the Jewish people, the nation of Israel, returned home. The “dry bones”...