Jewish Experiences Across The Americas

Author : Katalin Franciska Rac,Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403975

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Jewish Experiences across the Americas by Katalin Franciska Rac,Lenny A. Ureña Valerio Pdf

Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148335

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Zion in America by Henry L. Feingold Pdf

Scholarly survey covers Old World origins; profiles of New World cultures of German and Eastern European Jews; the effects of changing political and economic climates; and immigrant settlement on the Lower East Side settlement.

Author : Bruno Lasker
Publisher : New York : The Inquiry
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126645139

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Jewish Experiences in America by Bruno Lasker Pdf

Author : Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080520654X

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Being Jewish in America by Arthur Hertzberg Pdf

A respected rabbi discusses the major issues facing American Jews, including their social history, culture, politics, personal experiences, and connections with Israel and Zionism

Author : Abraham J. Karp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007400380

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The Jewish Experience in America: The era of immigration by Abraham J. Karp Pdf

Author : Adriana M. Brodsky,Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479819348

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Jews Across the Americas by Adriana M. Brodsky,Laura Arnold Leibman Pdf

An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States Jews Across the Americas is a groundbreaking sourcebook capturing the historical diversity and cultural breadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States. Featuring primary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Jews Across the Americas builds upon new developments in Jewish Studies, engaging with transnationalism, race, sexuality, and gender, and highlighting the lived experiences of those often left out of Jewish history. Jews Across the Americas features an impressively broad and far-reaching range of historical sources, including artifacts and objects that have not previously been featured as integral to Jewish history in the Western hemisphere. Entries teach readers how to understand everything from wills and advertisements to sermons, and how to interpret photographs, domestic architecture, and comics. Whether it’s a recipe from Brazil that blends Moroccan and Amazonian foodways, or a text about the first non-binary Jew to cross the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, each entry broadens our understanding of Jewish American history.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:B3421974

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The American Jewish Experience by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience Pdf

Author : Kristin Ruggiero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1845194144

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The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean by Kristin Ruggiero Pdf

Since the 1970s, the Latin American Jewish Diaspora has been recognized as a unique phenomenon in diaspora studies, due to the development of new ways of thinking about internationalism and globalization. Important works of the 1980s and 1990s established the critical role of Jews in Latin America. This collection - now in paperback - moves the field forward by providing an interdisciplinary and comparative view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. The contributors have been impacted and shaped by their own or their families' memories of the Holocaust and the lived horrors of anti-Semitism in Latin America. The collection explores and celebrates what it means to have memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and to uncover and recover the historical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author : ABC-Clio Information Services
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001601064

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The Jewish Experience in America by ABC-Clio Information Services Pdf

Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292784437

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Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America by Marjorie Agosín Pdf

Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile—though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While commonalities of religion and culture link these communities across time and national boundaries, the Jewish experience in Latin America is irreducible to a single perspective. Only a multitude of voices can express it. This anthology gathers fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America. Some of the pieces are personal tales of exile and survival; some explore Jewish humor and its role in amalgamating histories of past and present; and others look at serious episodes of political persecution and military dictatorship. As a whole, these challenging essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America and how it changes throughout history. They leave us to ponder the tantalizing question: Does being Jewish in the Americas speak to a transitory history or a more permanent one?

Author : Sondra Leiman
Publisher : Urj Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0807405000

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America by Sondra Leiman Pdf

Aimed at intermediate grades (5-6), this spirited text chronicles the story of Jewish migration to America from the earliest colonial settlement in 1654 to the present day.

Author : Aviva Ben-Ur,Wim Klooster
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501773167

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Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World by Aviva Ben-Ur,Wim Klooster Pdf

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined swathe of global powers that included Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. How, when, and where do Jews figure in this important chapter of history? This book explores these questions and many others. The essays of this volume foreground the connectivity between Jews and other population groups in the realms of empire, trade, and slavery, taking readers from the shores of Caribbean islands to various outposts of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires. Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World revolutionizes the study of Jews in early American history, forging connections and breaking down artificial academic divisions so as to start writing the history of an Atlantic world influenced strongly by the culture, economy, politics, religion, society, and sexual relations of Jewish people.

Author : Sondra Leiman
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613909968

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America by Sondra Leiman Pdf

Aimed at intermediate grades (5-6), this spirited text chronicles the story of Jewish migration to America from the earliest colonial settlement in 1654 to the present day.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814794944

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The Modern Jewish Experience by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have proliferated at institutions of higher learning around the world since the 1960s. From the vantage point of the nineties, it is difficult to fathom that until thirty years ago, Jewish studies courses were mainly limited to a few elite universities, rabbinical seminaries, and Hebrew teachers' colleges. Today there are few colleges at public or private insitutions of higher learning that do not sponsor at least some courses on aspects of Jewish study. In light of this explosion of research on Jewish topics, non-specialists and educators can benefit from guidance through the thicket of new monographs, source anthologies, textbooks and scholarly essays. The Modern Jewish Experience, the result of a multi-year collaboration between the International Center for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, offers just such guidance on a range of issues pertaining to modern Jewish history, culture, religion, and society. With contributions from two dozen leading scholars, The Modern Jewish Experience presents practical information and guidelines intended to expand the teaching repertoire for undergraduate courses on modern Jewish life, as well as a means for college professors to enrich and diversify their courses with discussions on otherwise neglected Jewish communities, social and political issues, religious and ideological movements, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Sample syllabi are also included for survey courses set in diverse linguistic settings. An indispensible resource for undergraduate instruction, this volume may also be used to great profit by educators of adults in synagogue and Jewish communal settings, as well as by individual students engaged in private study.

Author : Björn Siegel,Joachim Schlör,Kobi Cohen-Hattab,Franziska Weinmann,Dalia Wassner,Michael Studemund-Halévy,Frank Jacob,,Allison Schachter,Sebastian Schirrmeister,Caroline Jessen,Elias S. Jungheim,Saskia Fischer,Jessica Cooperman,Caroline Emig,Shai Ginsburg
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783869565521

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“They Took to the Sea” by Björn Siegel,Joachim Schlör,Kobi Cohen-Hattab,Franziska Weinmann,Dalia Wassner,Michael Studemund-Halévy,Frank Jacob,,Allison Schachter,Sebastian Schirrmeister,Caroline Jessen,Elias S. Jungheim,Saskia Fischer,Jessica Cooperman,Caroline Emig,Shai Ginsburg Pdf

The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the publication of his book “They Took to the Sea” in 1964, this volume of PaRDeS seeks to follow these ideas, revisit Jewish history and culture from different maritime perspectives and shed new light on current research in the field, which brings together Jewish and maritime studies. The articles in this volume therefore reflect a wide range of topics and illustrate how maritime perspectives can enrich our understanding of Jewish history and culture and its entanglement with the sea – especially in modern times. They study different spaces and examine their embedded narratives and functions. They follow in one way or another the discussions which evolved in the last decades, focused on the importance of spatial dimensions and opened up possibilities for studying the production and construction of spaces, their influences on cultural practices and ideas, as well as structures and changes of social processes. By taking these debates into account, the articles offer new insights into Jewish history and culture by taking us out to “sea” and inviting us to revisit Jewish history and culture from different maritime perspectives.