Jewish category: 3083 books
Mediating Modernity
Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer’s seventieth birthday...
No Haven for the Oppressed
United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
No Haven for the Oppressed is the most thorough and the most comprehensive analysis to be written to date on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II. Friedman draws upon many sources for his history, significantly upon papers which have only recently been opened to public...
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the...
by Victor Teboul
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
About this Book
In 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In the midst of this crisis, Victor Teboul’s Mythe et images...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic...
by David B. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Who are the Jews? Where did they come from? What is the connection between an ancient Jewish priest in Jerusalem and today's Israeli sunbather on the beaches of Tel Aviv? These questions stand at the heart of this engaging book. Geneticist David Goldstein analyzes modern DNA studies of Jewish populations...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of Eretz...
The Essential Book of Jewish Festival Cooking
200 Seasonal Holiday Recipes and Their Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Deeply rooted in ancient rituals, the seasonal rhythms of the land of Israel, and biblical commandments, the Jewish holidays mark a time for Jews around the world to reconnect with their spiritual lives, celebrate their history, and enjoy tasty foods laden with symbolic meaning. With Phyllis and Miriyam...
by Brian J. Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education...
Jewish Questions
Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions...
Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays
From Shofar to Seder
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing texts...
The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World
Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers’ rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites.
The Remembered...
by Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish...
The First Book of Jewish Jokes
The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections...