Jewish Family and Life

Jewish Family and Life
Author: Yosef I. Abramowitz
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1998-09-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780307440860

A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.

"Our Crowd"

Author: Stephen Birmingham
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1504026284

The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.

Once We Were Slaves

Once We Were Slaves
Author: Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197530494

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.

First American Jewish Families

First American Jewish Families
Author:
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.

Benevolence and Betrayal

Benevolence and Betrayal
Author: Alexander Stille
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2003-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312421533

This history of Italy's Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust examines the lives of five Jewish families: the Ovazzas, who propered under Mussolini and whose patriarch became a prominent fascist; the Foas, whose children included both an antifascist activist and a Fascist Party member, the DiVerolis who struggled for survival in the ghetto; the Teglios, one of whom worked with the Catholic Church to save hundreds of Jews; and the Schonheits, who were sent to Buchenwald and Ravensbruck.

The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays

The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays
Author: Malka Drucker
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Fasts and feasts
ISBN: 9780316193436

Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.

Beyond Chrismukkah

Beyond Chrismukkah
Author: Samira K. Mehta
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1469636379

The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Mehta's eye-opening look at the portrayal of interfaith families across American culture since the mid-twentieth century ranges from popular TV shows, holiday cards, and humorous guides to "Chrismukkah" to children's books, young adult fiction, and religious and secular advice manuals. Mehta argues that the emergence of multiculturalism helped generate new terms by which interfaith families felt empowered to shape their lived religious practices in ways and degrees previously unknown. They began to intertwine their religious identities without compromising their social standing. This rich portrait of families living diverse religions together at home advances the understanding of how religion functions in American society today.

Merchant Princes

Merchant Princes
Author: Leon A. Harris
Publisher: Kodansha
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"A compelling history of America's famous Jewish shopkeeping families shows how the Filenes, Gimbels, Marcuses, and others created renowned retail empires out of small pushcart beginnings, powerfully evoking the social changes that were transforming America early in the century."--

Adoption and the Jewish Family

Adoption and the Jewish Family
Author: Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780827606531

An indispensable resource to those families considering or affected by adoption, this book takes an informed look at adoption from a Jewish perspective and will prepare readers for the many unforeseen challenges that may arise.