Jewish Experiences Across The Americas
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Author | : Katalin Franciska Rac |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1683403975 |
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author | : Marcie Cohen Ferris |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781584655893 |
A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
Author | : Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : 9780268016562 |
This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.
Author | : Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822987155 |
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
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 |
Author | : Hasia R. Diner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691221707 |
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 | : Myrna Frommer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780151001323 |
The reminiscences of 100 people combine to create a portrait of Jewish-American life.
Author | : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience |
Publisher | : New York : Holmes & Meier |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780841909359 |
The book presents a range of the liveliest, most informative writing on Jews in America from colonial times to the present. this revised and expanded edition of the popular reader contains nine new selections and continues to explore traditional areas as well as topics of current interet - such as jewish women in american society and jews in american popular culture.
Author | : Howard Simons |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780385266970 |
A carefully crafted portrait of Jewish life in America, drawn from a series of remarkable interviews conducted by noted journalist Howard Simons. The story of a very special immigrant group and its 300-year effort to realize the American dream.
Author | : Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300190395 |
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year