The New Zealand Jewish Community

The New Zealand Jewish Community
Author: Stephen I. Levine
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780739100035

Part of a large study of diaspora Jews worldwide in comparison with those in Israel, based on Daniel Elazer's People and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of World Jewry (1989). Levine (politics, Victoria U. of Wellington) does not, therefore, offer either a history of Jews in New Zealand nor an anecdotal account of their experience, but an analysis that follows Elazer's data, approach, and arrangement so it can be compared with analogous studies of other countries. The topics are Jewish commitment, organizational structure, religion, education, culture, welfare and defense, Israel and world Jewry, constitutional documents, and future prospects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Jewish Lives in New Zealand

Jewish Lives in New Zealand
Author: Leonard Bell
Publisher: Godwit Pub.
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9781869621735

The census tells us that 8000 New Zealanders actively identify as Jewish and it is estimated that the broader population is probably around 25,000. There has never been an authoritative history of this country's Jewish population and yet people of Jewish descent (both secular and religious) have played vital roles in all aspects of our society throughout its history. Auckland alone has had five Jewish mayors. Jews have been prominent in New Zealand's business, cultural, intellectual, political, medical, intellectual life and more since the 1840s, and successive waves of immigration have added to the tapestry of New Zealand Jewry. This significant book covers key sectors of activity with specialist writers assigned to each. Richly illustrated, it slots another important piece into the jigsaw of our history.

Season of the Jew

Season of the Jew
Author: Maurice Shadbolt
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1990
Genre: Māori (New Zealand people)
ISBN: 9780879237530

A New Zealand Maori leads his people leads his people in a revolt against the colonial power.

Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora [3 volumes]

Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora [3 volumes]
Author: M. Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1542
Release: 2008-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1851098747

This three-volume work is a cornerstone resource on the evolution and dynamics of the Jewish Diaspora as it played out around the world—from its beginnings to the present. Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture is the definitive resource on one of world history's most curious phenomenons, encompassing the communities, cultures, ethnicities, and experiences created by the Diaspora in every region of the world where Jews live or Jewish ancestry exists. The encyclopedia is organized in three volumes. The first includes 100 essays on the Jewish Diaspora experience, with coverage ranging from ethnography and demography to philosophy, history, music, and business. The second and third volumes feature hundreds of articles and essays on Diaspora regions, countries, cities, and other locations. With an editorial board of renowned Jewish scholars, and with an extraordinarily accomplished team of contributors, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora captures the full scope of its subject like no other reference work before it.

Jewish Communities of the World

Jewish Communities of the World
Author: Anthony Lerman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349105325

This fourth edition attempts to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Jewish life and institutions in 98 national communities worldwide. Entries include a brief historical outline and sections on legal status, communal organizations, religious life, education and welfare.

American Jewish Year Book 2019

American Jewish Year Book 2019
Author: Arnold Dashefsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783030403706

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "National Affairs" and "Jewish Communal Affairs" and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population. Future major review chapters will include such topics as Jewish Education in America, American Jewish Philanthropy, Israel/Diaspora Relations, American Jewish Demography, American Jewish History, LGBT Issues in American Jewry, American Jews and National Elections, Orthodox Judaism in the US, Conservative Judaism in the US, Reform Judaism in the US, Jewish Involvement in the Labor Movement, Perspectives in American Jewish Sociology, Recent Trends in American Judaism, Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, American Jewish Museums, Anti-Semitism in America, and Inter-Religious Dialogue in America. Part II-V of each volume will continue the tradition of listing Jewish Federations, national Jewish organizations, Jewish periodicals, and obituaries. But to this list are added lists of Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, and Jewish honorees (both those honored through awards by Jewish organizations and by receiving honors, such as Presidential Medals of Freedom and Academy Awards, from the secular world). We expand the Year Book tradition of bringing academic research to the Jewish communal world by adding lists of academic journals, articles in academic journals on Jewish topics, Jewish websites, and books on American and Canadian Jews. Finally, we add a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community.

Facing the Past

Facing the Past
Author: Ann Beaglehole
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1927131502

In her first book, A Small Price to Pay, Ann Beaglehole traced the experiences of European refugees to New Zealand in the 1930s. In Facing the Past she focuses on the lives of a younger generation – the children of those wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their parents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them were painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversity. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very different ideals and expectations of their parents. As one of them comments I was getting two messages... the 'always remember,' message and the 'start from now' message. Based on a wide range of interviews as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is a fascinating account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and 1960s.

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes
Author: Frank Felsenstein
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801861796

This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages

The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia

The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia
Author: Mordecai Schreiber
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589797256

First published in 1957, this one-volume source for everything Jewish has delighted and instructed several generations in the English-speaking Jewish world. Fully updated through 2007, it provides snapshots and in-depth entries on every important Jewish personality, place, concept, event and value in Israel, the United States, and all other parts of the world.