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Author : Jay Howard Geller,Leslie Morris
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130122
Tracing Germany's significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture
Author : Nancy Sinkoff,Howard N. Lupovitch,James Loeffler,Jonathan Karp
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814349694
Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.
Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781686140
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
Author : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385353137
An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love. In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle and resilience, valued heritage and evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national), converge into a resonant portrait of cultural identity in the modern age. Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing through to the present day, Cohen tracks his family’s story of repeated upheaval, from Lithuania to South Africa, and then to England, the United States, and Israel. It is a tale of otherness marked by overt and latent anti-Semitism, but also otherness as a sense of inheritance. We see Cohen’s family members grow roots in each adopted homeland even as they struggle to overcome the loss of what is left behind and to adapt—to the racism his parents witness in apartheid-era South Africa, to the familiar ostracism an uncle from Johannesburg faces after fighting against Hitler across Europe, to the ambivalence an Israeli cousin experiences when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank. At the heart of The Girl from Human Street is the powerful and touching relationship between Cohen and his mother, that “girl.” Tortured by the upheavals in her life yet stoic in her struggle, she embodies her son’s complex inheritance. Graceful, honest, and sweeping, Cohen’s remarkable chronicle of the quest for belonging across generations contributes an important chapter to the ongoing narrative of Jewish life.
Author : Nancy Sinkoff,Contributor Howard N Lupovitch,James Loeffler,Jonathan Karp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814349684
Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.
Author : Meri-Jane Rochelson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814333443
Examines the fascinating and controversial career of Israel Zangwillauthor, journalist, feminist, Zionist, and the first Jewish celebrity of the twentieth century.
Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691165813
"Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience"--
Author : Israel Rabon
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012992940
A homeless Jewish soldier encounters other lost souls while wandering the streets of post-WW I Poland in this tale of despair, first published in Yiddish in 1928. ``Rabon has remarkably created a character who responds acutely to the life of the city from which he is isolated, and this sensitivity adds beauty to the otherwise harsh, strange landscape of this striking novel, '' said PW.
Author : Michael A. Meyer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0814328741
A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following deal with antisemitism:
Author : Menachem Kellner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781802079265
The crucial question for today's Jewish world, Kellner argues, is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. This accessible book examines how the split that threatens the Jewish future can be avoided. For this second edition, the author has added a substantial Afterword, reviewing his thinking on the subject and addressing the reactions to the original edition.
Author : Jan Grabowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253010872
A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of those who escaped the death camps would survive to see liberation. As Jan Grabowski’s penetrating microhistory reveals, the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. Hunt for the Jews tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa, Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland. Drawing on materials from Polish, Jewish, and German sources created during and after the war, Grabowski documents the involvement of the local Polish population in the process of detecting and killing the Jews who sought their aid. Through detailed reconstruction of events, “Grabowski offers incredible insight into how Poles in rural Poland reacted to and, not infrequently, were complicit with, the German practice of genocide. Grabowski also, implicitly, challenges us to confront our own myths and to rethink how we narrate British (and American) history of responding to the Holocaust” (European History Quarterly).
Author : Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520219651
This account of the traditional customs that are practiced when a Jewish person dies provides an anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning, and explains the cultural meaning behind Jewish practices and traditions.
Author : Theodore Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101590164
What makes someone Jewish? Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where he studied the New Testament, sang in the choir, and even took Communion. Later, as an adult, he wondered: Am I still Jewish? Seeking an answer, Ross traveled around the country and to Israel, visiting a wide variety of Jewish communities. From “Crypto-Jews” in New Mexico and secluded ultra-devout Orthodox towns in upstate New York to a rare Classical Reform congregation in Kansas City, Ross tries to understand himself by experiencing the diversity of Judaism. Quirky and self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with religion.
Author : Ruby Namdar
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062467508
“In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the human fragility that emerges in the mix." —Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin Winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award Picking up the mantle of legendary authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, an exquisite literary talent makes his debut with a nuanced and provocative tale of materialism, tradition, faith, and the search for meaning in contemporary American life. Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes and published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion—the crowning achievement of an enviable career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half his age, offers lively companionship. A man of elevated taste, education, and culture, he is a model of urbanity and success. But the manicured surface of his world begins to crack when he is visited by a series of strange and inexplicable visions involving an ancient religious ritual that will upend his comfortable life. Beautiful, mesmerizing, and unsettling, The Ruined House unfolds over the course of one year, as Andrew’s world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs. Ruby Namdar’s brilliant novel embraces the themes of the American Jewish literary canon as it captures the privilege and pedantry of New York intellectual life in the opening years of the twenty-first century.
Author : Allan Havis
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing In
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Jews, Ethiopian
ISBN : 0881455334
A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported. Meanwhile, there is also a reckless, clandestine operation afoot to airlift one last group of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. "In 1996, Israel announced a blood shortage and urged its citizens to give generously. The Falasha-Ethiopian Jews who were new immigrants and eager to embrace their spiritual homeland-turned out in record numbers. A newspaper report later revealed that all of the Ethiopian blood had been discarded, untested, because of a fear of AIDS and other diseases. The Ethiopians were humiliated, and the Israeli government, thrust into damage control, recognized that the people rescued from oppression from Northeast Africa (through airlift operations nobly named 'Moses' and 'Solomon') were now facing discrimination in the very state meant to be a safe harbor for all Jews. Israel's complex relationship with the Falasha (which literally means 'stranger') provides the foundation for A JEW ON ETHIOPIA STREET, Allan Havis's new play." -Caroline Palmer, American Theater "A play about the fascinating story of Ethiopian Jews." -Max Sparber, Citypages