Jewish category: 3083 books
Diasporas of the Mind
Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to...
Clepsydra
Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and...
The Jew's Daughter
A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
A new approach to thinking about the representation of the Other in Western society, The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative offers an insight into the gendered difference of the Jew. Focusing on a popular narrative of “The Jew’s Daughter,” which has been overlooked...
by Geoff Hamilton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979,...
Jews and French Quebecers
Two Hundred Years of Shared History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Jews and French Quebecers recounts a saga of intense interest for the whole of Canada, let alone societies elsewhere. This work, now translated into English, represents the viewpoints of two friends from differing cultural and religious traditions. One is a French Quebecer and a Christian; the other...
The Days Between
Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The Jewish High Holidays—the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1941–1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942 is the third volume in a five-volume set published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on Holocaust history. Incorporating historical documents and accessible narrative, this volume sheds light on...
A History of Czechs and Jews
A Slavic Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952....
The Quiet Voices
Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction
The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights...
by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Despite the fact that scholars of the post-Talmudic era have been of great importance to the continued interpretation of religious texts for more than a millennium, they are typically not given as much attention as their Talmudic-era predecessors. Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship compiles thorough...
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection...
On the Chocolate Trail
A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Take a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate—a real treat!
In this new and updated second edition, explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in this gastronomic and historical adventure through cultures, countries, centuries and convictions....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important NSA publication provides a historical guide to western communications intelligence and the Holocaust from 1939 to 1945.
Contents: Chapter 1: Background * The Context of European and Nazi Anti-Semitism...
Czechs, Germans, Jews?
National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was...