Jewish Families

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504026284

Get Book

"Our Crowd" by Stephen Birmingham Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.

Author : Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253033123

Get Book

Jewish Family by Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor Pdf

In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their work, the authors paint an intricate picture of the ecosystem that the family unit provides for identity formation over the life course. They draw upon theories of family development as well as sociological theories of the transmission of social and cultural capital in their analysis of the research. They find that family networks, which are often intergenerational, are just as significant as cultural capital, such as knowledge and competence in Judaism, to the formation of Jewish identity. Pomson and Schnoor provide readers with a unique view into the complexity of being Jewish in North America today.

Author : Joanna Beata Michlic
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512600117

Get Book

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present by Joanna Beata Michlic Pdf

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family unit; the transformation of gender roles under duress; youth's wartime and early postwar experiences; postwar reconstruction of the Jewish family; rehabilitation of Jewish children and youth; and the role of Zionism in shaping the present and future of young survivors. Relying on newly available archival material and novel research in the areas of families, youth, rescue, resistance, gender, and memory, this volume will be an indispensable guide to current work on the familial and social history of the Holocaust.

Author : Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307440869

Get Book

Jewish Family and Life by Yosef I. Abramowitz,Susan Silverman Pdf

A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Haggadot
ISBN : 1541572416

Get Book

In Every Generation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788736619

Get Book

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand Pdf

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths. After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.

Author : Marsha Rehms Staff,Evelyn Bitterbaum,Patricia Danoff,N. Amanda Ford
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780822574491

Get Book

Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families by Marsha Rehms Staff,Evelyn Bitterbaum,Patricia Danoff,N. Amanda Ford Pdf

SINGLE PAPERBACK, PART OF THE JEWISH IDENTITY SET

Author : Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033109

Get Book

Jewish Family by Alex Pomson,Randal F. Schnoor Pdf

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Growing into Our Skin as a Jewish Family": Proposing a New Approach to the Study of Jewish Self-Formation -- 2. Dreidels on the Christmas Tree: Jewish Capital in the Family -- 3. "Reversing Some Screwed-UpThing": Changes in Families' Jewish Lives over the Life Course -- 4. "It's about the Kids, Right?": Jewish Families as Social Systems -- 5. "This Is the Way Our Family Is": The Work of Home-Based Family Ritual -- 6. "I'm My Generation": Talking with Jewish Teens at Home -- 7. Home Work: Reflections on Studying Families for Ten Years -- Appendix: The Participating Families -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Author : Alexander Stille
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0312421532

Get Book

Benevolence and Betrayal by Alexander Stille Pdf

This history of Italy's Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust examines the lives of five Jewish families: the Ovazzas, who propered under Mussolini and whose patriarch became a prominent fascist; the Foas, whose children included both an antifascist activist and a Fascist Party member, the DiVerolis who struggled for survival in the ghetto; the Teglios, one of whom worked with the Catholic Church to save hundreds of Jews; and the Schonheits, who were sent to Buchenwald and Ravensbruck.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780195128208

Get Book

Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Cherlin,Carin Celebuski,William Petschek National Jewish Family Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Jewish families
ISBN : 0874950430

Get Book

Are Jewish Families Different? by Andrew J. Cherlin,Carin Celebuski,William Petschek National Jewish Family Center Pdf

Author : Malka Drucker
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fasts and feasts
ISBN : 0316193437

Get Book

The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays by Malka Drucker Pdf

Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.

Author : Darryl Lyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Jewish families
ISBN : OCLC:1193943426

Get Book

Great Jewish Families by Darryl Lyman Pdf

Author : Dara Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393531572

Get Book

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn Pdf

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Author : Elie Barnavi,Miriam Eliav-Feldon
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0805241272

Get Book

A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People by Elie Barnavi,Miriam Eliav-Feldon Pdf

The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People is both an authoritative reference work and a sumptuous gift volume.