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The Jdc at 100
Author | : Linda G. Levi |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814342353 |
It will appeal to readers with a more general interest in Jewish studies and refugee studies, Holocaust museum professionals, and those engaged in Jewish and other relief and resettlement programs.
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Author | : Daniel Soyer |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814344518 |
Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity. Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
Organizing Rescue
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.
The Displaced Persons Analytical Bibliography
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Refugees |
ISBN | : |
Report on the Activities of the American Jewish JDC
Author | : American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
History Of The Holocaust
Author | : Abraham Edelheit |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429962282 |
This two-part volume combines an accessible overview of contemporary Jewish history with a unique dictionary of Holocaust terms. In addition to assessing the Holocaust specifically, Part 1 of the book discusses the history of European Jewry, anti-Semitism, the rise and fall of Nazism and fascism, World War II, and the postwar implications of the Ho