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Author | : Bruce D. Haynes |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1479811238 |
Explores the full diversity of Black Jews, including bi-racial Jews of both matrilineal and patrilineal descent; adoptees; black converts to Judaism; and Black Hebrews and Israelites, who trace their Jewish roots to Africa and challenge the dominant western paradigm of Jews as white and of European descent. The book showcases the lives of Black Jews, demonstrating that racial ascription has been shaping Jewish selfhood for centuries. It reassesses the boundaries between race and ethnicity, offering insight into how ethnicity can be understood only in relation to racialization and the one-drop rule. Within this context, Black Jewish individuals strive to assert their dual identities and find acceptance within their communities. Putting to rest the notion that Jews are white and the Black Jews are therefore a contradiction, the volume argues that we cannot pigeonhole Black Hebrews and Israelites as exotic, militant, and nationalistic sects outside the boundaries of mainstream Jewish thought and community life. it spurs us to consider the significance of the growing population of self-identified Black Jews and its implications for the future of American Jewry.
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Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780870684432 |
Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Haim Cohn, examines Biblical and contemporary documents to provide a startling and provocative look at the Trial and Passion of Jesus from a legal perspective. The author's profound knowledge of the period offers the reader invaluable insights and the necessary context in which to place the events of the Biblical narrative.
Author | : Malcolm H. Stern |
Publisher | : New York : Ktav Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9780870681684 |
Author | : Beth S. Wenger |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400834058 |
Most American Jews today will probably tell you that Judaism is inherently democratic and that Jewish and American cultures share the same core beliefs and values. But in fact, Jewish tradition and American culture did not converge seamlessly. Rather, it was American Jews themselves who consciously created this idea of an American Jewish heritage and cemented it in the popular imagination during the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. History Lessons is the first book to examine how Jews in the United States collectively wove themselves into the narratives of the nation, and came to view the American Jewish experience as a unique chapter in Jewish history. Beth Wenger shows how American Jews celebrated civic holidays like Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July in synagogues and Jewish community organizations, and how they sought to commemorate Jewish cultural contributions and patriotism, often tracing their roots to the nation's founding. She looks at Jewish children's literature used to teach lessons about American Jewish heritage and values, which portrayed--and sometimes embellished--the accomplishments of heroic figures in American Jewish history. Wenger also traces how Jews often disagreed about how properly to represent these figures, focusing on the struggle over the legacy of the Jewish Revolutionary hero Haym Salomon. History Lessons demonstrates how American Jews fashioned a collective heritage that fused their Jewish past with their American present and future.
Author | : Alan M. Dershowitz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0684848988 |
Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
Author | : Abraham J. Peck |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2007-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439634572 |
According to historian Benjamin Band, the first record of a Jew in Maine concerns Susman Abrams, a tanner who resided in Union until his death at 87 in 1830. Historical records beginning in 1849 also tell of a small Bangor community that organized a synagogue and purchased a burial ground. But it was not until the late 19th century that Jewish communities grew large enough to establish multiple synagogues, Hebrew schools for boys, kosher butcher shops, and Jewish bakeries. Eventually there were Jewish charitable societies, community centers, and social clubs across the state. Now, 150 years later, Jews serve every Maine community in every possible capacity, free from the barriers of social or religious discrimination. This book honors the accomplishments of Maines Jewish residents.
Author | : Barbara Kessel |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1584656204 |
Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage
Author | : Leonard Rogoff |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807895997 |
A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive social history of its kind, Down Home demonstrates that the story of North Carolina Jews is attuned to the national story of immigrant acculturation but has a southern twist. Keeping in mind the larger southern, American, and Jewish contexts, Leonard Rogoff considers how the North Carolina Jewish experience differs from that of Jews in other southern states. He explores how Jews very often settled in North Carolina's small towns, rather than in its large cities, and he documents the reach and vitality of Jewish North Carolinians' participation in building the New South and the Sunbelt. Many North Carolina Jews were among those at the forefront of a changing South, Rogoff argues, and their experiences challenge stereotypes of a society that was agrarian and Protestant. More than 125 historic and contemporary photographs complement Rogoff's engaging epic, providing a visual panorama of Jewish social, cultural, economic, and religious life in North Carolina. This volume is a treasure to share and to keep. Published in association with the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, Down Home is part of a larger documentary project of the same name that will include a film and a traveling museum exhibition, to be launched in June 2010.
Author | : Emily Sigalow |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691174598 |
Taking readers from the 19th century to today, the author shows how Buddhism in the U.S. has given rise to new contemplative forms within American Judaism and shaped the way Americans understand and practice Buddhism.
Author | : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780841909342 |