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Author : Albert Isaac Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041544151
Author : Sol Gittleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0807063657
Author : Etan Diamond
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807868157
Suburbia may not seem like much of a place to pioneer, but for young, religiously committed Jewish families, it's open territory." This sentiment--expressed in the early 1970s by an Orthodox Jew in suburban Toronto--captures the essence of the suburban Orthodox Jewish experience of the late twentieth century. Although rarely associated with postwar suburbia, Orthodox Jews in metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada have successfully combined suburban lifestyles and the culture of consumerism with a strong sense of religious traditionalism and community cohesion. By their very existence in suburbia, argues Etan Diamond, Orthodox Jewish communities challenge dominant assumptions about society and religious culture in the twentieth century. Using the history of Orthodox Jewish suburbanization in Toronto, Diamond explores the different components of the North American suburban Orthodox Jewish community: sacred spaces, synagogues, schools, kosher homes, and social networks. In a larger sense, though, his book tells a story of how traditionalist religious communities have thrived in the most secular of environments. In so doing, it pushes our current understanding of cities and suburbs and their religious communities in new directions.
Author : Albert Isaac Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:39103330
Author : Albert Isaac Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015004808013
Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1584656700
A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities
Author : Egon Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3826992
Author : Selig Adler,Thomas Edmund Connolly,Jewish Publication Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:51298566
Includes successive typescripts, cut and uncut galleys of the work, and an exemplar of the published book's binding.
Author : Stephen H. Norwood,Eunice G. Pollack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851096435
Written by the most prominent scholars in American Jewish history, this encyclopedia illuminates the varied experiences of America's Jews and their impact on American society and culture over three and a half centuries. American Jews have profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. Yet American history texts have largely ignored the Jewish experience. The Encyclopedia of American Jewish History corrects that omission. In essays and short entries written by 125 of the world's leading scholars of American Jewish history and culture, this encyclopedia explores both religious and secular aspects of American Jewish life. It examines the European background and immigration of American Jews and their impact on the professions and academic disciplines, mass culture and the arts, literature and theater, and labor and radical movements. It explores Zionism, antisemitism, responses to the Holocaust, the branches of Judaism, and Jews' relations with other groups, including Christians, Muslims, and African Americans. The encyclopedia covers the Jewish press and education, Jewish organizations, and Jews' participation in America's wars. In two comprehensive volumes, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History makes 350 years of American Jewish experience accessible to scholars, all levels of students, and the reading public.
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110499438
The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.
Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781648431364
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger “religious boom.” The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and construction. The design of the synagogues departed from traditional concepts, embraced modernism and innovations in building technology, and evolved beyond the formal/rational style of early 1950s modern architecture to more of an expressionistic design. The latter resulted in abstraction of architectural forms and details, and the inclusion of Jewish art in the new synagogues. The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American Jewry’s resilience in continuing their physical and spiritual identity, while embracing modernism, American values, and landscape. In addition, the book contributes to the discourse on preserving the recent past (e.g., mid 20th century architecture). While most of the investigations on that topic deal with the “brick & mortar” challenges, this book introduces preservation issues as a function of changes in demographics, in faith rituals, in building codes, and in energy conservation. As an introduction or a reexamination, The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s offers a fresh perspective on an important moment in American Jewish society and culture as reflected in their houses of worship and adds to the literature on modern American sacred architecture. The book may appeal to Jewish congregations, architects, preservationists, scholars, and students in fields of studies such as architectural design, sacred architecture, American modern architecture and building technology, Post WWII religious and Jewish studies, and preservation and conservation.
Author : Riv-Ellen Prell
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807036331
Her exaggerated coiffure, with its imitation curls and soaped curves that stick out at the side of the head like fantastic gargoyles, is an offense to the eye. Her plated gold jewelry with paste stones reveals its cheapness by its very extravagance. This description of a "ghetto girl" was printed in the American Jewish News in 1918, but with slight variation it might easily be mistaken for a description of our current pernicious and pejorative stereotype of Jewish womanhood, the "JAP." What are the origins of these stereotypes? And even more important, why would an American ethnic group use racist terms to describe itself? Riv-Ellen Prell asks these compelling questions as she observes how deeply anti-Semitic stereotypes infuse Jewish men's and women's views of one another in this history of Jewish acculturation in the twentieth century.
Author : Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0838678483
In non-technical language and in an objective spirit, the author provides insight into the changing patterns of living and thinking of three generations of American Jews.
Author : Hasia Diner,Shira Kohn,Rachel Kranson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813550305
In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat from public life during these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique." As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie Morningstar, leading scholars explore the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their mark after the Second World War.
Author : Lila Corwin Berman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226247830
In this provocative urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit s Jews have played in the city s well-known narratives of migration and decline. Like other Detroiters in the 1960s and 1970s, Jews left the city for the suburbs in large numbers. But Berman makes the case that they nevertheless constituted themselves as urban people, and she shows how complex spatial and political relationships existed within the greater metropolitan region. By insisting on the existence and influence of a metropolitan consciousness, Berman reveals the complexity and contingency of what did and didn t change as regions expanded in the postwar era."