Death Of A Jewish American Princess

Author : Shirley Frondorf
Publisher : Villard
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307831163

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Death of a Jewish American Princess by Shirley Frondorf Pdf

In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.

Author : Lisa Fineberg Cook
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439166864

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Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me by Lisa Fineberg Cook Pdf

Six days after an InStyle-worthy wedding in Los Angeles, Lisa Fineberg Cook left behind her little red Jetta, her manicurist of ten years, and her very best friend for the land of the rising sun. When her husband accepted a job teaching English in Nagoya, Japan, she imagined exotic weekend getaways, fine sushi dinners, and sake sojourns with glamorous expatriate friends. Instead, she's the only Jewish girl on public transportation, and everyone is staring. Lisa longs for regular mani/pedis, valet parking, and gimlets with her girlfriends, but for the next year, she learns to cook, clean, commute, and shop like the Japanese, all the while adjusting to another foreign concept -- marriage. Loneliness and frustration give way to new and unexpected friendships, the evolution of old ones, and a fresh understanding of what it means to feel different -- until finally a world she never thought she'd fit into begins to feel home-like, if not exactly like home.

Author : Debbie Lukatsky,Sandy Barnett Toback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233681292

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The Jewish American Princess Handbook by Debbie Lukatsky,Sandy Barnett Toback Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 099634585X

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Jocie by Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg Pdf

What an adventure converting from a Southern Jewish American Princess into a civil rights activist! After Dr. Martin Luther King's death, I called my maid "Mrs." -- my family didn't. "Jocie" is about sacrifices, even death, crazy situations and funny incidents. New insight led to new friends, adventures, music and a long-lasting love.

Author : Debbie Haback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Jewish women
ISBN : 0943084024

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The Jewish American Princess Handbook by Debbie Haback Pdf

Author : Barbara Rose Brooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625501668

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The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess by Barbara Rose Brooker Pdf

"Dianne Roseman is programmed by her angry mother to be a Jewish princess and to define herself by marriage. After a brutal rejection, while dreaming of becoming an artist, Dianne struggles with divorce, single parenting, and a passionate love affair with David Noel, a well-known dealer of contemporary art. Against all obstacles, from 1960 and into the '80's, Dianne evolves into her true self"--Back cover.

Author : Michael Knox Beran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643137070

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Wasps by Michael Knox Beran Pdf

An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind. Charming, witty, and vigorously researced, WASPS traces the rise and fall of this distinctly American phenomenon through the lives of prominent icons from Henry Adams and Theodore Roosevelt to George Santayana and John Jay Chapman. Throughout this dynamic story, Beran chronicles the efforts of WASPs to better the world around them as well as the struggles of these WASPs to break free from their restrictive culture. The death of George H. W. Bush brought about reflections on the end of patrician WASP culture, where privilege reigned, but so did a genuine desire to use that privilege for public service. In the time of Trump—who is the antithesis of true WASP culture—people look at the John Kerry, Bobby Kennedy, and Philip and Kay Grahams of the world with wistfulness. And even though we are a more diverse and pluralistic nation now than ever before, there is something about WASP culture that remains enduringly aspirational and fascinating. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century, Beran’s saga dramatizes the evolving American aristocracy that forever changed a nation—and what we can still glean from WASP culture as we enter a new era.

Author : Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313084447

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Girl Culture [2 volumes] by Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Pdf

Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen magazine in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape—and are shaped by—girl culture, this two-volume resource offers a wealth of information to help students, educators, and interested readers better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture.

Author : Stefan C. Reif,Andreas Lehnardt,Avriel Bar-Levav
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110377484

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Death in Jewish Life by Stefan C. Reif,Andreas Lehnardt,Avriel Bar-Levav Pdf

Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307813473

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Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .

Author : Marione Ingram
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632208514

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The Hands of Peace by Marione Ingram Pdf

Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany, only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe. Marione moved first to New York and then to Washington, D.C. where, in 1960, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination in housing, employment, education, and other aspects of life in the nation's capital, including the denial of voting rights. In D.C., Marione made a name for herself as a freedom fighter. She was a volunteer for the March on Washington and an organizer of an extended sit-in to support the Mississippi Freedom Party. A year later, at the urging of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Marione went south to Mississippi. She was part of a coalition to end segregation and extend civil rights to African Americans—and she was uncompromising in her demand for equality. In Mississippi, Marione became a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as well as an educator at one of the country’s most influential Freedom Schools. The school was one of the targets of the Ku Klux Klan. When they burned a cross in front of it, she painted the word "FREEDOM" in bold letters on the charred crossbar, creating an icon in the struggle for equal rights. As a white woman and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most unlikely of heroes in the fight for civil rights for African Americans. This is her empowering story—a tale of courage, strength, and determination.

Author : Peter Y. Medding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195351880

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry by Peter Y. Medding Pdf

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, history, literature, the arts, religion, education, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features current scholarship in the form of symposia, articles, and book reviews by distinguished experts of Jewish studies from colleges and universities across the globe. Each volume also includes a list of recent dissertations. Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century will appeal to all students and scholars of the sociocultural history of the Jewish people, especially those interested in the nature of Jewish intermarriage and/or family life, the changing fate of the Orthodox Jewish family, the varied but widespread Americanization of the Jewish family, and similar concerns.

Author : Rachel J Siegel,Ellen Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317765585

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Jewish Women in Therapy by Rachel J Siegel,Ellen Cole Pdf

Here is the first volume ever to focus on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. Through poignant reflection and observation, the authors convey the richness and variety of Jewish women’s experiences and the Jewishness and femaleness of the concerns, issues, values, and attitudes that Jewish women--both clients and therapists--bring into the therapy room. Jewish Women in Therapy is a landmark book in many ways. It calls attention to the historical and political realities of the Jewish heritage and acknowledges the oppression of both Jews and women that therapists have typically ignored. And although Jewish women have participated in the therapeutic process, as clients, scholars, and therapists, seldom have they chosen to write about it. Never before have the writings of so many distinguished leaders in the field, including Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Evelyn Torton Beck, and Susannah Heschel, been compiled. They examine the damaging stereotypes of Jewish women--the Jewish American Princess and the Jewish Mother--that flourish today. Chapters also address the conflicts that many women feel about being Jewish and being female, celebrate the contributions of Jewish women to feminism and to therapy, examine the deliberate omission of women from the political process and the religious ritual, and convey the complexities of the oppression that are still blatantly directed at both Jews and females.

Author : University of California, San Francisco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UCSF:31378005452191

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UCSF News by University of California, San Francisco Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg
Publisher : Hillhelen Group LLC
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0996345868

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Jocie by Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg Pdf

What an adventure converting from a Southern Jewish American Princess into a civil rights activist! After Dr. Martin Luther King's death, I called my maid "Mrs." -- my family didn't. "Jocie" is about sacrifices, even death, crazy situations and funny incidents. New insight led to new friends, adventures, music and a long-lasting love.