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Author : Philip Cowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002633850
Author : Robert Sabetay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Jewish soldiers
ISBN : 0984071369
Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691221700
Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
Author : Yossi Klein Halevi
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Children of Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 0316498602
"When Yossi Klein Halevi was a boy, his father told him stories - not fairy tales, but stories of his own harsh past, of living in a tiny hole in the ground to hide from the Nazis, of the nightmarish experience of the Jewish people. He grew up, his father's stories grew within him, and Halevi found himself identifying more and more with the persecution and suffering of his people. Even as a boy, he wanted justice, retribution, and action." "By the sixth grade, Halevi was learning how to handle a gun, handing out leaflets, joining right-wing movements. Soon he was swept away by the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane and was on the front lines of every protest, hoping to see his face and raised fist on the television news reports. At the climax of his activism, he led an unprecedented demonstration in Moscow to force the world to free Soviet Jews. But then Halevi began questioning the basic premises of his life, repudiating rage as a worldview, and trying to free himself from the bitter accounts of history. He wished for a life that embraced a world different from his father's." "In Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, Halevi looks back on his youth with wry affection, reflecting on who he was - and why - and seeing his hotheaded and passionate fellow activists from the perspective of time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415919223
Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0815604009
In this groundbreaking study, Henry L. Feingold--one of the most prominent historians today--examines the special challenges facing American Jews. The twin processes of American acculturation and secularization have acted like a powerful whirlpool, pulling them away from their inherent sense of separateness as Jews. They became Americans.
Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1424354468
Author : Violette Shamash,Tony Rocca
Publisher : Memories of Eden
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780955709500
As a privileged young woman growing up with her extended family in Baghdad, Violette Shamash relives the excitement of a vibrant society coming to terms with daily life, first under Ottoman, then British, and finally pro-Nazi rule, which ended in disaster for the Jews of Iraq.
Author : Mayer Kirshenblatt,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520249615
The author reccounts his youth as a Jewish child in Poland before the second World War.
Author : Philip Cowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002694729
Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520248489
Annotation A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans.
Author : Anne Richardson Roiphe
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671690019
Author : Alexander Z. Gurwitz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817319038
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States. In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world. As a boy, he studied in traditional yeshivas and earned a living as a Hebrew language teacher and kosher butcher. Widely travelled, Gurwitz recalls with wit and insight daily life in European shtetls, providing perceptive and informative comments about Jewish religion, history, politics, and social customs. Among the book’s most notable features is his first-hand, insider’s account of the yearly Jewish holiday cycle as it was observed in the nineteenth century, described as he experienced it as a child. Gurwitz’s account of his arrival in Texas forms a cornerstone record of the Galveston Immigration Movement; this memoir represents the only complete narrative of that migration from an immigrant’s point of view. Gurwitz’s descriptions about the development of a thriving Orthodox community in San Antonio provide an important and unique primary source about a facet of American Jewish life that is not widely known. Gurwitz wrote his memoir in his preferred Yiddish, and this translation into English by Rabbi Amram Prero captures the lyrical style of the original. Scholar and author Bryan Edward Stone’s special introduction and illuminating footnotes round out a superb edition that offers much to experts and general readers alike.
Author : Lucette Valensi,Nathan Wachtel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066375
"A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University "A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University
Author : Jerold S. Auerbach
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610270045
An acclaimed U.S. professor of history finds his roots in a personal journey through Israel--and through assimilated America, academia, baseball, and family--headlong into deep tensions about country, culture, identity and religion. Worried about the commitment of Jews to their heritage, Auerbach (renowned author of Unequal Justice) shares his story and musings with insight, irony, and intensity.
