Jewish category: 3083 books
Cultures of the Jews
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have...
Pastrami on Rye
An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council
For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. As a social space it rivaled—and in some ways surpassed—the...
In Her Hands
The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Though over one hundred private schools for Jewish girls thrived in the areas of Jewish settlement in the Russian empire between 1831 and 1881, their story has been largely overlooked in the scholarship of Jewish educational history. In Her Hands: The Education of Girls in Tsarist Russia restores these...
Jewish Cooking Boot Camp
The Modern Girl's Guide to Cooking Like a Jewish Grandmother
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Straight from the kitchen of a fun, fabulous Jewish mom, Jewish Cooking Boot Camp is a guide to whipping up traditional favorites for a new generation. Handed down over the centuries, these recipes and tips will take even the most kitchen-challenged gal (or guy) confidently through the Jewish holidays,...
Jews on the Frontier
Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier
Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1938–1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938–1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of documents—including...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, only to turn murderous...
by Laurel Plapp
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western...
Magical American Jew
The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature...
The New Mediterranean Jewish Table
Old World Recipes for the Modern Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ball soup and knishes, brisket and gefilte fish. But Joyce Goldstein is now expanding...
Homes Away from Home
Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
How did Jews go from lives organized by synagogues, shul, and mikvehs to lives that—if explicitly Jewish at all—were conducted in Hillel houses, JCCs, Katz's, and even Chabad? In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century,...
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that...
by Dr Evdoxios Doxiadis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
By looking at the very specific case of the Greek-speaking Romaniote and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities in Southern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, this book explores the attitudes and policies of the Greek state with regards to the Jewish communities both within its borders and in the areas...
Socialism of Fools
Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in...