Jews in Minnesota

Jews in Minnesota
Author: Hyman Berman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2009-07-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0873517385

Although never more than a small percentage of the Minnesota's population, Jews have made a remarkable contribution to the state in business, politics, and education.

Jewish Community of North Minneapolis

Jewish Community of North Minneapolis
Author: Rhoda Lewin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2001-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1439611084

The stories of the Jewish community of North Minneapolis are an important part of the rich and diverse mosaic of North Minneapolis history. By 1936, there were more than 16,000 Jew in Minneapolis, and 70 percent of them lived on the North Side. The Jewish Community of North Minneapolis presents an intriguing record of the earliest beginnings of Jewish communities in the city. Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the cultural, economic, political, and social history of this community, from the late 1800s to the present day. The Jews in North Minneapolis enjoyed a busy social and cultural life with their landsmanschaften, and shopped together at the kosher butcher shops and fish markets, grocery stores and bakeries, clothing stores, barber shops, restaurants, and other small businesses that had sprung up along Sixth Avenue North and then Plymouth Avenue. Including vintage images and tales of the community-Hebrew schools, synagogues, and social groups-this collection uncovers the challenges and triumphs of the Jewish community.

Augie’s Secrets

Augie’s Secrets
Author: Neal Karlen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0873518977

“Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls.” Star Tribune “Deliciously snappy.” American Jewish World “Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie’s straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie’s.” MinnPost “Augie’s Secrets is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich.” Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920–1936

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe
Author: Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 458
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 1452909776

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception,' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world.

The Jews of Capitol Hill

The Jews of Capitol Hill
Author: Kurt F. Stone
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2010-12-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0810877384

This volume includes entries on every Jewish member of Congress. Each entry identifies the member's political party and the years of service, provides a biographical sketch, often numbering several pages, and includes references for further study. This is the most comprehensive and extensive resource on the legacy of Jewish representation and influence in the United States Congress.

The Jews in Minnesota

The Jews in Minnesota
Author: W. Gunther Plaut
Publisher: New York, American Jewish Historical Society
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1959
Genre: Jews
ISBN:

The Black Russian

The Black Russian
Author: Vladimir Alexandrov
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802193765

The “altogether astonishing” true story of a black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century (Booklist, starred review). The Black Russian tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a man born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. But when his father was murdered, Frederick left the South to work as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and—in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time—went to Russia. Because he found no color line there, Frederick settled in Moscow, becoming a rich and famous owner of variety theaters and restaurants. When the Bolshevik Revolution ruined him, he barely escaped to Constantinople, where he made another fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs as the “Sultan of Jazz.” Though Frederick reached extraordinary heights, the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and Frederick’s own extravagance brought his life to a sad close, landing him in debtor’s prison, where he died a forgotten man in 1928. “In his assiduously researched, prodigiously descriptive, fluently analytical” narrative (Booklist, starred review), Alexandrov delivers “a tale . . . so colourful and improbable that it reads more like a novel than a work of historical biography.” (The Literary Review). “[An] extraordinary story . . . [interpreted] with great sensitivity.” —The New York Review of Books

Light from the Yellow Star

Light from the Yellow Star
Author: Robert O. Fisch
Publisher: Yellow Star Foundation.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780964489608

A biographical account that uses the author's abstract paintings to tell about his childhood in Budapest & his Holocaust death camp experiences.

A Rainbow Thread

A Rainbow Thread
Author: Noam Sienna
Publisher: Print-O-Craft Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780990515562

For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In reality, queerness and queer Judaism have been a constant subplot of Jewish history, if only we care to look. Spanning almost two millennia and containing translations from more than a dozen languages, Noam Sienna's new book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts From the First Century to 1969, collects for the first time more than a hundred sources on the intersection of Jewish and queer identities. Covering poetry, drama, literature, law, midrash, and memoir, this anthology suggests that Jewish texts are not just obstacles to be overcome in the creation of queer Jewish life, but also potential resources waiting to be excavated. Through an unprecedented examination of the histories of gender and sexuality over two millennia of Jewish life around the world, this book inspires and challenges its readers to create a better future through a purposeful reflection on our past.