Jewish Settlement And Community In The Modern Western World
Download Jewish Settlement And Community In The Modern Western World full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Jewish Settlement And Community In The Modern Western World ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Ronald L. Dotterer |
Publisher | : Susquehanna University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Jews, American |
ISBN | : 9780945636137 |
Essays on the Polish shtetl, as well as on Jewish communities in Alsace, Cologne, Vienna, London, Boro Park (Brooklyn, N.Y.), New York City, and Mea Shearim and Geula (Jerusalem).
Author | : Howard M. Sachar |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 1225 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804150508 |
When this encyclopedic history of the Jews was first published in 1958, it was hailed as one of the great works of its kind, a study that not only chronicled an assailed and enduring people, but assessed its astonishing impact on the modern world. Now this scholarly and comprehensive book has been massively revised and updated by its author, a professor of modern history at the George Washington University and one of the most respected authorities on the lives and times of the Jewish people. The new edition casts additional light on the milestones of the Jewish saga from the eighteenth century to the close of the twentieth: the Jews' emergence from the ghetto and into the heart of Western society, the debate between the voices of tradition, assimilation, and Zionism; virtual destruction during the Holocaust; and troubled rebirth in Israel. Here, too, are evocative portraits of today's disapora, from the Jews of America to the embattled communities of the former Soviet Union and the Third World.
Author | : Ava Fran Kahn |
Publisher | : Heyday |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781890771775 |
Puts aside many stereotypes and examines the less-told story of the migration of Jews to Californiaand the West from the mid-19th century to the 1920's
Author | : Moses Rischin |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814321713 |
In a series of nine original essays, the editors and other leading American historians bring dramatically new perspectives to bear on our understanding of the West, its Jews, and other Americans, both old and new. Whether comparing the history of the Jews of the West with the Jewish experience in the older regions of the country or bringing attention to the uniquely local aspects of the western experience, the contributors to this landmark volume perceive the West as an increasingly important and vital presence in the nation's history. The agrarians of Utah's Clarion and the cureseekers of Denver, no less than the boomers of Tucson, have been representative Americans, Jews, and westerners. Essays on the role of intermarriage, the shared encounter of immigrants and migrants, and the response to the founding of the State of Israel by western pioneer families, tell us much about the interaction of the West with our American world nation.
Author | : Arthur Ruppin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lloyd P. Gartner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192892592 |
Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas.The book starts in 1650, when there were no more than one and a quarter million Jews in the world (less than a sixth of the number at the start of the Christian era). Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities and their interactions with their neighbours, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation, the dark shadows of anti-Semitism, the impact of World War II, bringing us up to the twentieth century through Zionism, and the foundation ofIsrael.Throughout, the story is powerful and engrossing - enlivened by curious detail and vivid insights. Gartner, an expert guide and scholar on the subject, writing from within the Jewish community, remains objective and effective whilst being careful to introduce and explain Jewish terminology and Jewish institutions as they appear in the text.This is a superb introductory account - authoritative, in control, lively of the central threads in one of the greatest historical tapestries of modern times.
Author | : Uzi Rebhun |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781584653271 |
Offers a complete sociological perspective of Jews and Jewish life in Israel from 1948 to the present.
Author | : Norman H. Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Beech Tree Paperback Book |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
Author | : S. Ilan Troen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000043614 |
Upheavals of the modern period have dramatically changed the traditional pattern of the rescue of Jews by Jews. Whereas until the mid-nineteenth century rescue was carried out by community leaders in accordance with the religiously rooted injunction for the redemption of captives, in the modern period largely secular international Jewish organizations and the State of Israel have emerged as the primary instruments of expressing Jewish national solidarity. The campaigns to restore the exodus from the Soviet Union and to rescue Ethiopian Jews through Operation Moses are the most recent expressions of the imperative to save threatened Jewish communities and reconstitute them elsewhere. The dynamics and achievements of organized rescue in the modern period are critically assessed in this volume, which includes 18 interpretive essays and case studies by leading European, American and Israeli scholars. Organizing Rescue is divided into four sections. The introductory essays examine the roots of Jewish solidarity in Jewish law, and trace the transformation of rescue activity from a religious to a largely secular undertaking. The three sections that follow group selected case studies chronologically. Part I, from the Damascus Affair to the First World War (1840-1914), deals with new patterns of response to the persecution of Jews in Europe, Asia and Africa under the impact of emancipation, nationalism and antisemitism. Part II, World Wars and the Shadow of the Holocaust (1914-1948), deals with the transitional period that brought hope and bitter disillusion to Jews in Europe and the Middle East. Part III, The Contemporary Period (1948 to the present), examines the different manifestations of Jewish national solidarity that developed in response to the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. These studies illuminate and evaluate the efforts of Jews to defend and preserve communities separated by vast distances and diverse cultural and political systems. By placing these studies in an integrated historical and comparative framework, Organizing Rescue provides a timely and unique perspective for understanding national Jewish solidarity in the modern period.
Author | : Rotem Kowner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1009192868 |
Jewish settlement in Asia, beyond the Middle East, is largely a modern phenomenon. Imperial expansion and adventurism by Great Britain and Russia were the chief motors that initially drove Jewish settlers to move eastwards, in the nineteenth century, combined as this was with the rise of port cities and general development of the global economy. The new immigrants soon become centrally involved, in ways quite disproportionate to their numbers, in Asian commerce. Their role and centrality finished with the outbreak of World War II, the chaos that resulted from the fighting, and the consequent collapse of Western imperialism. This unique, ground-breaking book charts their rise and fall while pointing to signs of these communities' post-war resurgence and revival. Fourteen chapters by many of the most prominent authorities in the field, from a range of perspectives, explore questions of identity, society, and culture across several Asian locales. It is essential reading for scholars of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.