Jewish category: 3083 books
Herzl's Vision
Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published The Jewish State. In response to the wide resonance that the book received, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland,...
Canada's Jews
A People's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered...
Not in the Heavens
The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence...
Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters...
by Julian H. Preisler
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
West Virginia has a unique history of Jewish settlement dating back to 1849 when the first Jewish organization in the state, a Jewish burial society, was established by a small group of German Jewish immigrants in the city of Wheeling. From modest beginnings, Jews settled in towns and cities and established...
by Arlene Cohen Rossen, Beverly Magilavy Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
In the mid-1800s, many Jewish families joined the western expansion and emigrated from Germany to Akron, a canal town that also had an inviting countryside. They sought economic security and religious freedom�a new start in a new town. But it was not an easy life. They organized their Jewish community...
Hollywood’s Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film...
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish family...
Jewish Secularity
The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or “somewhat secular.” Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? What are its implications for the Jewish community, its institutions, and its future? In reflecting on secular forms of Jewishness, the...
by Dr. Martha J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
The predominant attitude over the past 1,700 years among Christians toward Jews has been both indifference and hatred. The decision of the First Nicaean...
Israelis and the Jewish Tradition
An Ancient People Debating Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this powerful book one of the most important Jewish thinkers in the world today grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israel’s secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities from the point of view of one who is deeply committed to religious...
by Nancy Schoenburg, Stuart Schoenburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied...
Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity
Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered mainly for his coinage of the word "Zionism," Birnbaum was a towering figure in early Jewish nationalism. Because of his unusual intellectual trajectory,...
Music from a Speeding Train
Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence,...