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Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0881256064
Offers a look at the major events and historical figures in Jewish history, from the first Hebrews and the Exodus to the world Jewry of today.
Author : Robert Bonfil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047427315
In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the family chronicle of Ahima'az, one of the most important sources of medieval Jewish life in Western Europe composed in Capua, Italy in 1054.
Author : Lucien Wolf,Jewish Historical Society of England
Publisher : London, Jewish Historical Society of England
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015009339006
Author : Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780374716158
Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist. "A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people." --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree. In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family’s correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers. With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.
Author : Jewish Chronicle Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 090049879X
Author : Abraham David
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817352905
Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan "This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions. A comprehensive introduction presents the realities of Prague and Bohemia, as well as offering a helpful discussion of the chronicle and other contemporary Jewish accounts." —Conservative Jewish Quarterly "In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper." —Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Author : David Cesarani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521434348
A history of an important newspaper and of Jewish communal life, interpreted through its most vibrant public voice.
Author : Michael Brenner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834266
A concise narrative history that brings the story of the Jewish people marvelously to life This is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jewish people from biblical times to today. Based on the latest scholarship and richly illustrated, it is the most authoritative and accessible chronicle of the Jewish experience available. Michael Brenner tells a dramatic story of change and migration deeply rooted in tradition, taking readers from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to the founding of the modern state of Israel; and from the Sephardic communities under medieval Islam to the shtetls of eastern Europe and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. The book is full of fascinating personal stories of exodus and return, from that told about Abraham, who brought his newfound faith into Canaan, to that of Holocaust survivor Esther Barkai, who lived on a kibbutz established on a German estate seized from the Nazi Julius Streicher as she awaited resettlement in Israel. Describing the events and people that have shaped Jewish history, and highlighting the important contributions Jews have made to the arts, politics, religion, and science, A Short History of the Jews is a compelling blend of storytelling and scholarship that brings the Jewish past marvelously to life.
Author : Shlomo Eidelberg
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0881255416
The unique emotional power of each chronicle may be felt in the translation. The Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson is a moving narrative concerning the Rhineland massacres. The second chronicle, that of Eliezer bar Nathan, interprets some of the same events in elegiac style and liturgical language while the third chronicle, the Mainz Anonymous though fragmented, is highly analytical in nature. The fourth chronicle, Sefer Zekhirah, is a personal description of the Second Crusade, full of poignant detail. Together, the chronicles present a moving human record of these events, of value not only to professional historians but to all who seek to broaden their understanding of the Jewish experience.
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300190397
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Author : Robert Moses Shapiro
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0881256307
The huge number of victims of the Holocaust is emotionally incomprehensible. The real horror can only be apprehended on the individual level. In the case of the Holocaust, many such records exist, since, as Ruth Wisse has observed, "many of the Jews in the ghettos and concentration camps . . . showed more concern for preserving a record of the incredible event they were witnessing than for their own survival." The studies presented in this volume survey this evidence--diaries, letters, oral histories, ghetto chronicles, rabbinic works, collections of photographs, songs--that originated in Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, Auschwitz, and elsewhere. Together these documents allow us to gain some inkling of the experience of those who suffered in the ghettos and concentration camps--without the coloration and rethinkings of later recollections.
Author : Ḥayah Bar-Yitsḥaḳ
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0814327893
The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are concealed in undocumented shadows of history. What survived are legends of origin that early chronicles, historians, writers, and folklore scholars transcribed, thus contributing to their preservation. According to the legendary chronicles Jews resided in Poland for a millennium and developed a vibrant community. Haya Bar-Itzhak examines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community creates its own chronicle, how it structures and consolidates its identity through stories about its founding, and how this identity varies from age to age. Bar-Itzhak also examines what happened to these legends after the extermination of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust, when the human space they describe no longer exists except in memory. For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust, the legends of origin undergo a fascinating transformation into legends of destruction. Jewish Poland -- Legends of Origin brings to light the more obscure legends of origin as well as those already well known. This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Author : Raymond P. Scheindlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1567994016
Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781953368133
Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the
Author : Michael A. Meyer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0814319513
Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another - both physical and intellectual - somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer characterizes the scope of his Ideas of Jewish History. As the only volume of readings in the area of Jewish historiography and the philosophy of Jewish history, Ideas of Jewish History acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history.