Orange County Jew A Memoir

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449073480

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Orange County Jew by Martin Aaron Brower Pdf

When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness. Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture. However, during the years following World War II, Orange County was transformed from a small rural community with citrus groves, row crops and cattle -- first into a bedroom community for neighboring Los Angeles County and then into a dynamic urban empire. As the County's population and employment base exploded, Orange County's Jewish population grew from a small enclave of Jewish shopkeepers into a vibrant Jewish community in excess of 100,000. To the surprise of many, Orange County now boasts one of the leading centers of Jewish life in the nation, complete with 30 synagogues, a grand new Jewish Community Center, one of the nation's largest Jewish day schools and one of its finest homes for the aging. In his book "Orange County Jew: A Memoir," Brower superimposes the growth of the Jewish community over the amazing development of Orange County itself, and uses as a framework the personal story of his own 36 years as a resident of Orange County and as a player among its major real estate development companies and its entrepreneurial leaders.

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449073503

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Orange County Jew: a Memoir by Martin Aaron Brower Pdf

When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness. Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture. However, during the years following World War II, Orange County was transformed from a small rural community with citrus groves, row crops and cattle -- first into a bedroom community for neighboring Los Angeles County and then into a dynamic urban empire. As the Countys population and employment base exploded, Orange Countys Jewish population grew from a small enclave of Jewish shopkeepers into a vibrant Jewish community in excess of 100,000. To the surprise of many, Orange County now boasts one of the leading centers of Jewish life in the nation, complete with 30 synagogues, a grand new Jewish Community Center, one of the nations largest Jewish day schools and one of its finest homes for the aging. In his book Orange County Jew: A Memoir, Brower superimposes the growth of the Jewish community over the amazing development of Orange County itself, and uses as a framework the personal story of his own 36 years as a resident of Orange County and as a player among its major real estate development companies and its entrepreneurial leaders.

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467870962

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Los Angeles Jew by Martin Aaron Brower Pdf

During the 80 years of this author's life, the Jewish population of the City of Los Angeles exploded from a mere 65,000 Jews to 520,000 Jews, establishing Los Angeles as the third largest Jewish population center in the world.Yet, little has been written about this transformation, with most Jewish generational novels concentrating on the New YorkJewish experience.And yet,the Los Angeles Jewish experience was completely different from that of New York. The author, a native of Los Angeles,addresses the Los Angeles Jewish experienceas a personal memoir -- sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and always engrossing.

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351526845

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Confessions of a Secular Jew by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world. The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a "progressive" secular Yiddish education which identifi ed Jewish struggles against oppression with working class struggles against exploitation. In the vanguard was the Soviet Union. Goodheart's heroes were Moses, Bar Kochbah, Judah Maccabee, Karl Marx and that strange honorary Jew, Joseph Stalin, whose anti-Semitism would later become known to the world. Confessions of a Secular Jew is the story of Goodheart's disillusionment with the naive, even false, progressivism of that education. At the same time, it is an attempt to rescue and come to grips with the positive remains of that education and heritage.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Wicked Son
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642939712

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Free as a Jew by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation. They need adults with the confidence to teach their importance. Ruth tried to take on that challenge as dangers to freedom mounted and shifted sides on the political spectrum. At the high point of her teaching at Harvard University, she witnessed the unraveling of standards of honesty and truth until the academy she left was no longer the one she had entered.

Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520942257

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Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin by Emil Draitser Pdf

Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"—even in casual conversation—he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.

Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1614650608

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In One Era, Out the Other by Michael Kaufman Pdf

Author : Alexander Z. Gurwitz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817319038

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Memories of Two Generations by Alexander Z. Gurwitz Pdf

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 : Ari L. Goldman
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307487582

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Living a Year of Kaddish by Ari L. Goldman Pdf

This exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one—from the author of The Search for God at Harvard. "His candid, searching book ... breaks our heart." —The New York Times Book Review Ari Goldman describes how his year in mourning for his father affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of kaddish, Goldman discovered that he could connect with and honor his father and his mother in a way that he could not always do during their lifetimes. And in his daily synagogue attendance, he found his fellow worshipers to be an unexpected source of strength, wisdom, and comfort.

Author : Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578540363

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Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine by Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph. D. Pdf

Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine is a manifesto of feminine light, truth & POWER. Because... the time has come for women to stop eating the poisonous bitter apples of old patriarchal lies! Rabbi Tamara Kolton was the senior rabbi at an unusual atheistic temple. But there came a time when she was keeping a secret. This is a story of self-discovery and the deep healing that every woman needs in her life. It is also the story of the most misunderstood woman in history: Eve. Yes, Eve of the garden, the snake and the damn apple. We are taught that Eve was a sinner. But that is not true. Eve is the Mother of Spiritual Bravery. For thousands of years, women have been shamed and silenced. But we are waking up as a collective and refusing to be silent anymore. What do you truly yearn for deep down in your gut? What would you do if you had the audacity to act on your own behalf? Your yearnings, your urges to transform your life and take those big, even terrifying leaps, actually are a call to bravery and spiritual fulfillment from your true spiritual mother, the radical, beautiful, Eve. We are going to answer the call. In this book, Rabbi Tamara Kolton will guide you on a healing journey in which you will tenderly be asked to love your shame and fear away and step onto a path of spiritual healing and bravery. Through magnificent exercises and gorgeous memoir, you will: Journey deep inside the myth of the Garden of Eden and experience Eve for who she REALLY is. Discover God in the feminine and how this fierce, feminine and nourishing energy can truly transform your life and heal our world. Connect with feminine LIGHT, TRUTH & POWER! Because Eve was no sinner. Eve was a spiritual badass. You can be too. This book will show you how.

Author : Ben-Zion Gold
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822034784843

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The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust by Ben-Zion Gold Pdf

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Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512490299

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Jewish Comedy Stars by Norman H. Finkelstein Pdf

From vaudeville to viral comedy on the web, here are more than 40 short biographies of Jewish comedians who heavily influenced the entertainment industry in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Sorted chronologically into chapters like "On Stage," "On Air," "On Fire," and "Comedy 2.0," this book profiles Jewish comedians from George Jessel to Sarah Silverman.

Author : Moshe Kasher
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455504954

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Kasher in the Rye by Moshe Kasher Pdf

“The finest, most moving and powerful memoir I have ever read.”—MAYIM BIALIK Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But Kasher in the Rye is not an "eye opener" to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all. When he was a young boy, Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland , California. That's where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away. Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Kasher's first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations.

Author : Sampson Giat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145357364X

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My Memoir As an Activist for Israel and Yemenite Jews by Sampson Giat Pdf

"Volunteers for Israel, the Yemenite Aliyah of 1992, the disappearance of Yemenite babies during the Aliyah of 1949-1954."

Author : Hinde Bergner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0674019709

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On Long Winter Nights-- by Hinde Bergner Pdf

In this intimate memoir of a young Jewish woman's adolescence and life in a nineteenth century Eastern European shtetl, Hinde Bergner recalls the gradual impact of modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught between her thirst for a European education, true love, and the expectations of her traditional family.