Jewish category: 3083 books
1929
Mapping the Jewish World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections
The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as...
by Ari Mermelstein, Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zadoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A new collection edited by Ari Mermelstein, along with Victoria Saker Woeste, Ethan Zadoff, and Marc Galanter, and with chapters by leading scholars in their fields.
Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing...
The Joys of Jewish Preserving
Modern Recipes with Traditional Roots, for Jams, Pickles, Fruit Butters, and More--for Holidays and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Jewish cooking is loaded with delicious fares that are steeped in history and culture. Experience a wide variety of savory foods, preserves, holiday dishes and more with The Joys of Jewish Preserving.
Jewish cooks, even casual ones, are proud of the history of preserved foods in Jewish...
Leaving the Jewish Fold
Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold—by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, Leaving the Jewish Fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from...
The Impossible Jew
Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the...
Jewish Continuity in America
Creative Survival in a Free Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.
Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation...
Early Modern Jewry
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of...
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History Magazine
This newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating...
Stolen Words
The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world—tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections,...
by Allen Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Jewish Family and Children�s Service of Greater Philadelphia (JFCS) resulted from the merger of two important human service organizations in 1983: the Association for Jewish Children of Philadelphia and Jewish Family Service of Philadelphia. Helping one in four Jewish households in crisis and in need...
by Allen Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
The cradle of Jewish life in Philadelphia began with the establishment of the first synagogue, Mikveh Israel, in 1740. With the influx of many German Jews in the 1840s, the community expanded above Spring Garden Street into the Northern Liberties neighborhood. Urban settlement of Philadelphia's Jewish...
Home Lands
Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the more communities he saw close-up, the clearer it became to him that...
by Phyllis Appel
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The more than fifty individuals profiled in The Jewish Connection are a small representation of those who overcame challenges to make important contributions. The reader will learn the role these men and women played in the American Revolution, World Wars I & II, the Civil War, the Women's Rights...
by Alison Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between 1890 and 1914, little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu. Rescuing a lost legacy, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna explores the myriad ways in which Jewish women contributed to the development of...