Jewish category: 3083 books
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers...
by Gustav Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
A Glance at Jewish Literature
The Talmud
The Jew in the History of Civilization
Women in Jewish Literature
Moses Maimonides
Jewish Troubadours and Minnesingers
Humor and Love in Jewish Poetry
The Jewish Stage
The...
Marrying Out
Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish...
by Flavius Josephus,William Whiston (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter...
The Archive Thief
The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs...
The Story of the Jewish People
Letters to Auntie Fori
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
A history of Judaism written in letters from historian Martin Gilbert to his acquaintance in India, who wants to learn more about her ancestry.
At her ninetieth birthday celebration in New Delhi, “Auntie Fori” revealed to her longtime acquaintance, Sir Martin Gilbert, that she was not of Indian...
by Alan S. Pierce, Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Forced to flee the brutal pogroms of Europe, Jewish immigrants sought refuge in the beauty of Boston's North Shore. Drawing on their artisan skills, many found work in the tanneries of Peabody and the shoe factories of Lynn, while other enterprising Jews established their own businesses in Salem and...
Jewish Community of St. Louis
1890-1929
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
The St. Louis Jewish community began in the early 19th century and increased rapidly in the decades surrounding the turn of the century. Jewish immigrants brought skills and determination that helped the community evolve and prosper, but they faced challenges to survive, acculturate, and flourish....
On Middle Ground
A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...
The Case of the Sexy Jewess
Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display. A social phantasm with real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive...
City of Promises
A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume...
Abraham
The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
One of the world’s best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule...
Hollywood's Chosen People
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling...
The New Diaspora
The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered...