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Author : Shelley M. Buxbaum,Sara E. Karesh
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9781438102559
Explores key events in Jewish-American history and offers biographies of many of the important Jewish-American personalities.
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : David Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451651614
"Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual experience of being asked by President George W. Bush "How's your faith?" David's answer was just emerging. Raised by a Catholic mother and a Jewish dad, he had a strong sense of Jewish cultural and ethnic identity, but no real belief--until his marriage to a Protestant woman of strong faith inspired him to explore his spirituality for himself and his growing family. David's journey has taken him inside Christian mega-churches and into the heart of Orthodox Judaism. He's gone deep into Bible study and asked tough questions of America's most thoughtful religious leaders, including evangelical preacher Joel Osteen and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic Archbishop of New York. It has brought him back to his childhood, where belief in God might have helped him through his mother's struggle with alcoholism, and through a difficult period of public scrutiny and his departure from NBC News, which saw his faith tested like never before. David approaches his faith with the curiosity and dedication you would expect from a journalist accustomed to holding politicians and Presidents accountable. But he also comes as a seeker, one just discovering why spiritual journeys are always worthwhile"--
Author : Elliott Abrams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780684825113
The author addresses the loss of Jewish identity in a Christian Society, and calls for Jews to return to their heritage.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780684848983
Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
Author : Abraham J. Karp
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:B4438538
Author : Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : UOM:39015050400368
Author : Belden Menkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:$B108124
An interpretation of contemporary American Judaism by eleven of its leaders.
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0814325475
This volume is a documented history of the Jewish people in North America from the late 16th century. It chronicles the evolving domestic, religious and political experiences of Jews in the American colonies and later the United States.
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 : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCAL:B3421974
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna,David G. Dalin
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 0268016542
This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.
Author : Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780195065374
A driving force in the history of American Jews has been the pursuit of religious equality under law. Jews reasoned that state and federal legislation or public practices which sanctioned religious, specifically Christian, usages blocked their path to full integration within society. Always a small minority and ever fearful of the outspoken proponents of the Christian state, nineteenth-century Jews became ardent defenders of church-state separation. In the twentieth century, Jewish defense organizations took a prominent role in landmark court cases on religion in the schools, Sunday laws, and public displays of Christian symbols. Over the last two centuries, Jews shifted from support of a neutral-to-all-religions government to a divorced-from-religion government, and from defense of their own interests to the defense of other religious minorities. Jews in Christian America traces in historical context the response of American Jews to the issues presented by a Christian-flavored public religion. Discussing the contributions of each major wave of Jewish immigrants to the reinforcement of a separationist stand, Cohen shows how Jewish communal priorities, pressures from the larger society, and Jewish-Christian relationships fashioned that response. She also makes clear that the Jewish community was never totally united on the goals and tactics of a separationist posture; despite the continued predominance of the strict separationists, others argued the adverse effects of that position on communal well-being and on the very survival of Judaism.
Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245387
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 : Arnold M. Eisen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213819
Numbers: Politics in the Wilderness5. Deuteronomy: Legacies
Author : Lila Corwin Berman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691242118
The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish to the non-Jewish, and modest donations to vast endowments. Yet, as Lila Corwin Berman illuminates in The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex, the history of American Jewish philanthropy reveals the far more complicated reality of changing and uneasy relationships among philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism. With a fresh eye and lucid prose, and relying on previously untapped sources, Berman shows that from its nineteenth-century roots to its apex in the late twentieth century, the American Jewish philanthropic complex tied Jewish institutions to the American state. The government’s regulatory efforts—most importantly, tax policies—situated philanthropy at the core of its experiments to maintain the public good without trammeling on the private freedoms of individuals. Jewish philanthropic institutions and leaders gained financial strength, political influence, and state protections within this framework. However, over time, the vast inequalities in resource distribution that marked American state policy became inseparable from philanthropic practice. By the turn of the millennium, Jewish philanthropic institutions reflected the state’s growing investment in capitalism against democratic interests. But well before that, Jewish philanthropy had already entered into a tight relationship with the governing forces of American life, reinforcing and even transforming the nation’s laws and policies. The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex uncovers how capitalism and private interests came to command authority over the public good, in Jewish life and beyond.
