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Author : Jack Moline
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Humor
ISBN : PSU:000015798206
This is the book for readers who have suffered through those peculiar rites of passage, including Hebrew school, youth group, and the obligatory summer in Israel. Black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Dolly Beil
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781927483176
A colorful memoir of Jewish life in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Dolly Beil spent the first part of her life in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao (Qingdao), Mukden (Shenyang), Harbin, and Tientsin (Tianjin). Her father, owner of a jewellery store and a businessman, descended from the prominent family of Solomon Guterman, who owned an estate in Irkutsk, Russia. Her mother was one of three daughters of Grigory Lazarovich Gershevich, who built the first hotel in the northern city of Harbin, located on Pacific Road. The year of Dolly's birth -- 1927 -- meant that she and her family, part of the country's small Jewish community, would live through events that would change China, and them, forever: The Japanese occupation Liberation by Americans at the end of World War II Civil war between Nationalist and Communist forces The flight of foreign nationals from an increasingly closed society Beil's entertaining stories will draw you into an unusual blend of European and Asian life in the country of her early joys and sorrows: China, the country that she loves so much to this very day. Includes seventy black and white photos.
Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520254466
"This memoir conveys us back to Draitser's childhood and adolescence and provides a unique account of post-Holocaust life in Russia. We live side by side with young Draitser as he struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Despite the waves of anti-Jewish campaigns, which swept over the country and climaxed in the infamous "Doctors' Plot," we feel the Draitsers' loving family life - lively, evocative, and rich with humor. This intimate story ends with the death of Stalin and, through the author's anecdotes about his ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Myrna Frommer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0151001324
The reminiscences of 100 people combine to create a portrait of Jewish-American life.
Author : Irving M. Abella,Eddie Goodman,Rosalie Sharp
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015040043948
Author : Miriam Grossman
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0873064380
A sensitive explanation of the body's changes and how Jewish tradition views related matters, such as modesty.
Author : Ori Z. Soltes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389136814
* A comprehensive historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish custom* The essays and over 150 images in the book explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics, as well as became integrated into the larger society of India* Includes the memoir of growing up Jewish in India by Siona Benjamin, and an analysis of her trans-cultural artGrowing Up Jewish in India offers an historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish customs. It offers an investigation both within Jewish India and beyond its borders, tracing how Jews arrived in the vast subcontinent at different times from different places and have both inhabited dispersed locations within the larger Indian world, and ultimately created their own diaspora within the larger Jewish diaspora by relocating to other countries, particularly Israel and the United States. The text and its rich complement of over 150 images explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics as Jews, became well-integrated into the larger society of India as Indians, and have continued to offer a synthesis of cultural qualities wherever they reside. Among the outcomes of these developments is the unique art of Siona Benjamin, who grew up in the Bene Israel community of Mumbai and then moved to the US, and whose art reflects Indian and Jewish influences as well as concepts like Tikkun olam (Hebrew for 'repairing the world'). In combining discussions of the Indian Jewish communities with Benjamin's own story and an analysis of her artistic output - and in introducing these narratives within the larger story of Jews across eastern Asia - this volume offers a unique verbal and visual portrait of a significant slice of Indian and Jewish culture and tradition. It would be of interest to Jews and non-Jews, Indian and non-Indian alike, as well as to history enthusiasts and the general reader interested in art and culture.
Author : Jay David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037423830
"The experience of growing up Jewish in America has produced some of the very best works of fiction and nonfiction ever written. Now, Growing Up Jewish brings together twenty-five accounts by some of our most popular and admired authors as well as newer and lesser-known voices. These twenty-five stories of childhood and adolescence explore issues of Jewish identity, language, generational differences, and family life. But above all, they touch on the universal themes, the rites of passage, and the joys and tensions of coming-of-age."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Helen Wolfers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0648797783
The decision to publish this book was partly inspired by a letter from Sigmund Freud, in which he stated: "There were other considerations (apart from anti-Semitism), which made the attractiveness of Judaism and Jews, irresistible - many obscure forces of emotions, all the more powerful the less they were to be defined in words." Elsewhere Freud went on to say that although he was unable to define these 'obscure inner forces' he was sure that the day would come when they would be identified.'Growing Up Jewish' attempts to delineate and explain at least some of these obscure inner forces. The book begins, in Sydney, Australia with the authors earliest experiences relevant to the development of Jewish identity. It then proceeds to trace this development from her experiences in 3 other countries while working for the United Nations in the field of population control. After retiring in Jerusalem, Israel, the author focuses on the consequences for Jewish identity of the re-establishment of a Jewish national homeland. In conclusion, drawing on the experiences described in the book she proposes a theoretical explanation of this Jewishness which, defying all odds, has survived millennia of homelessness, centuries outside the ghetto walls, and now still persists even outside its own religion.
Author : Rachel Biale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1942134630
An informative memoir of kibbutz life that reveal a piece of Israel's early story that should not be forgotten.
Author : Herbert Bronstein
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0916694054
The revolutionary Haggadah is written in gender-inclusive contemporary language and has sold over 900,000 copies since its introduction.
Author : Myrna Frommer,Harvey Frommer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803269005
Brings together the childhood memories of a hundred men and women, young and old, who reflect on family life, interaction with the gentile world, and the meaning of peace
Author : Grace Paley,Laura Shaine Cunningham,Dinah Berland,Persis Knobbe
Publisher : Plume
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037756791
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Author : Lisa Cooper
Publisher : Urim Publications
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789655242164
Based on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. The book weaves personal tragedy and the little-known history of the period together as Pearl finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows.
Author : Rita Goldberg
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620970744
A groundbreaking second-generation memoir of the Holocaust and its legacy by Otto Frank’s goddaughter—“The extraordinary tale is heroic” (The New York Times). Rita Goldberg recounts the extraordinary story of her mother, Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland. After the arrest of her parents in 1943, Hilde fled to Belgium, living out the war years in an extraordinary set of circumstances—first among the Resistance, and then at Bergen-Belsen after its liberation. In the words of The Guardian, the story is “worthy of a film script.” As astonishing as Hilde’s story is, Rita herself emerges as the central character in this utterly unique memoir. Proud of her mother and yet struggling to forge an identity in the shadow of such heroic accomplishments—not to mention her family’s close relationship to the iconic Frank family—Goldberg offers an unflinching look at the struggles faced by children and grandchildren whose own lives are haunted by historic tragedy. Motherland is the culmination of a lifetime of reflection and a decade of research. It is an epic story of survival, adventure, and new life. “A double memoir that braids her parents’ story with her own, and succeeds in articulating a difficult truth.” —The Economist
