Jewish category: 3083 books
The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination
A Case of Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people...
You Never Call! You Never Write!
A History of the Jewish Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy,...
Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The question of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and socialists about the vitality of Jewish existence in the diaspora, the...
Becoming Soviet Jews
The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
An “endlessly rewarding” contribution to the study of Jewish life in the Soviet Union: “Fascinating . . . nuanced and respectful of human limitations” (Slavic Review).
Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our...
Reconstructing the Old Country
American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest...
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust
Kafka's kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust...
by Natalie Ornish
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition...
Imperialism and Jewish Society
200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among...
Why Be Jewish?
A Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Edgar M. Bronfman's clarion call to a generation of secular, disaffected, and unaffiliated Jews, this book addresses the most critical question confronting Judaism worldwide.
Completed in December 2013, just weeks before he passed away, WHY BE JEWISH? expresses Edgar Bronfman's awe, respect,...
The Jewish Way
Living the Holidays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Called “enriching” and “profoundly moving” by Elie Wiesel, The Jewish Way is a comprehensive and inspiring presentation of Judaism as revealed through its holy days.
In thoughtful and engaging prose, Rabbi Irving Greenberg explains and interprets the origin, background, interconnections,...
Jewish Albuquerque
1860-1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Albuquerque, founded by Spanish colonists in 1706, seems an unusual place for Jewish immigrants to settle. Yet long before New Mexico statehood in 1912, Jewish settlers had made their homes in the high desert town, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River. Initially, business opportunities lured...
Jewish Denver
1859-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
In 1859, during the Pike�s Peak gold rush, at least 12 Jews joined the great migration to Colorado in search of gold and a brighter future. The unpredictability of mining and a growing demand for supplies encouraged many of these Jewish settlers to establish small businesses in Denver and in towns...
by Leonard F. Vernon, Allen Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
Initial Jewish settlements in South Jersey emerged in the mid-19th century and offered a safe haven for people to re-create strong families and practice religion freely, without fear of government-sponsored violence. Looking for work, German Jews first migrated from their community in Philadelphia to...
The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
**“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers,...