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Author : Diane Matza
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0874518903
A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok,Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015033251839
The Jewish community in America is the largest and most influential outside Israel. In this book, Dan Cohn-Sherbok interviews members of the Jewish community in Denver and records their words. He also speaks to non-Jews who come into daily contact with the Jews. Over 100 varied voices are sampled.
Author : Henry Green,Richard Stursberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1773271539
In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an abrupt end to these once vibrant communities, scattering their members to the four corners of the earth. Their stories are mostly untold. Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews is a window into the experiences of these communities and their stories of survival. Through gripping first-hand accounts and stunning portrait and documentary photography, we hear on-the-ground stories of pogroms in Libya and Egypt, the burning of synagogues in Syria, the terrible Farhud in Iraq, families escaping via the great airlifts of the Magic Carpet and Operations Ezra and Nehemiah, husbands smuggled in carpets into Iran in search of wives. The authors also provide crucial historical background for these events, as well as updates on the lives of some of these Sephardi Jews who have gone on to rebuild fortunes in London and New York, write novels, and win Nobel Prizes. Sephardi Voices is at once a wide-ranging and intimate story of a large-scale catastrophe and a portrait of the vulnerability of the passage of time.
Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252070895
"Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology, and an insider's look at a profession that is also a vocation.Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. The job of the hazzan--much more than the traditional ""messenger to God""--is deeply embedded in cultural, social, and religious symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Slobin traces the development of the American cantorate from the nebulous beginnings of the hazzan as a recognizable figure through the heyday of the superstar sacred singer in the early twentieth century to a diverse portrait of today's cantorate, which now includes women as well as men. Slobin's focus on the current nature of the profession includes careful consideration of the sacred singer's part in creating and maintaining the worship service, the recent relationship between the rabbi and the hazzan within the synagogue, and the music that contemporary cantors sing. This first paperback edition features a new preface by the author. A thirty-five-minute cassette for use with Chosen Voices is available separately from the University of Illinois Press."
Author : Jonathan N. Barron,Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1584650435
A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
Author : Margalit Bejarano,Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815651659
Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.
Author : Judith Ruderman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253036995
In Passing Fancies Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today’s contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and environment, rather than essential qualities. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity—seeking, on the one hand, deep engagement with Jewish history and the experiences of the Jewish people, while holding steadfastly, on the other hand, to the understanding that identity is fluid and multivalent. Looking at a carefully chosen set of texts from American literature, Ruderman elaborates on the strategies Jews have used to "pass" from the late 19th century to the present—nose jobs, renaming, clothing changes, religious and racial reclassification, and even playing baseball. While traversing racial and religious identities has always been a feature of America’s nation of immigrants, Ruderman shows how the complexities of identity formation and deformation are critically relevant during this important cultural moment.
Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
Author : Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253219275
Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.
Author : Deborah Ager,M. E. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441183040
With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.
Author : Samuel Milligan
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609404543
This is a collection of nine familiar Sephardic folk songs, most dating to the 16th century or earlier, both religious and secular in nature, in attractive arrangements for voice with pedal or lever harp accompaniments of moderate difficulty. Texts are in Ladino, with translations provided. Arranged by a well-known arranger/transcriber, Nine Sephardic Songs is perfect for those preparing voice and harp programs and fills a specific niche in available harp music.
Author : The Museum of the City of New York
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0815607393
New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. The Museum of the City of New York, in partnership with the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and a group of local Arab and non-Arab scholars, activists and educators, undertook a long overdue exploration of New York's Arab populations. The result is a revealing collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities.
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jewish historian
ISBN : 1584653434
In this volume, Gary Phillip Zola brings together an assortment of Jacob Rader Marcus's most important unpublished essays. Marcus called upon American Jewry to study its heritage, insisting on the link between individual Jews and the larger Jewish community.
Author : Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584654392
The first and only complete exploration of the role of American women in the creation and support of the State of Israel from pre-State years through the struggles of Israel's first decades.
Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 1584651717
A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.