Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History – serie
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Unusual Relationship
Evangelical Christians and Jews
Av Yaakov Ariel
Inbunden, 2013
627 kr
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Itis generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little incommon. Yet special alliances developedbetween the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicalsviewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed torecognize their true savior. …
Jewish Radical Feminism
Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement
Av Joyce Antler
Häftad, 2020
309 kr
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Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American PublishersFifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other Jewish women were undeniably instrumental …
Unclean Lips
Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
Av Josh Lambert
Inbunden, 2013
640 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled …
Hanukkah in America
A History
Inbunden, 2013
415 kr
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Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and …
Jewish Radical Feminism
Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement
Av Joyce Antler
Inbunden, 2018
1153 kr
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Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American PublishersFifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other Jewish women were undeniably instrumental …
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Inbunden, 2009
1037 kr
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Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesRecipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural HistoryIt has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European …
1929
Mapping the Jewish World
Av Hasia R. Diner, Gennady Estraikh
Inbunden, 2013
965 kr
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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and CollectionsThe year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the …
1929
Mapping the Jewish World
Av Hasia R. Diner, Gennady Estraikh
Häftad, 2013
418 kr
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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and CollectionsThe year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the …
Jews and Booze
Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition
Av Marni Davis
Inbunden, 2012
877 kr
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Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book CouncilTraces American Jews' complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibitionFrom kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical …
We Remember with Reverence and Love
American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Häftad, 2010
438 kr
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Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesRecipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Humanities-Intellectual & Cultural HistoryIt has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European …
Is Diss a System?
A Milt Gross Comic Reader
Inbunden, 2009
532 kr
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Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work …
All Together Different
Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Av Daniel Katz
Inbunden, 2011
877 kr
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In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were …
Jewish Radicals
A Documentary Reader
Av Tony Michels
Inbunden, 2012
965 kr
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Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Cover Design Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical …
Jewish Radicals
A Documentary Reader
Av Tony Michels
Häftad, 2012
425 kr
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Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Cover Design Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical …
Dust to Dust
A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York
Av Allan Amanik
Inbunden, 2019
542 kr
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A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the livingDust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and …
Rag Race
How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Häftad, 2016
366 kr
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Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyFinalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureWinner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 …
Jews Across the Americas
A Sourcebook, 1492–Present
Av Adriana M. Brodsky, Laura Arnold Leibman
Inbunden, 2023
1153 kr
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An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, theCaribbean, Canada, and the United StatesJews Across the Americas is a groundbreaking sourcebook capturing the historical diversity and culturalbreadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, …
Jews Across the Americas
A Sourcebook, 1492–Present
Av Adriana M. Brodsky, Laura Arnold Leibman
Häftad, 2023
352 kr
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An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, theCaribbean, Canada, and the United StatesJews Across the Americas is a groundbreaking sourcebook capturing the historical diversity and culturalbreadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, …
Forged in America
How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
Av Hasia R. Diner, Miriam Nyhan Grey
Inbunden, 2023
1037 kr
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Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival of Irish and Jewish immigrants in the …
Forged in America
How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
Av Hasia R. Diner, Miriam Nyhan Grey
Häftad, 2023
338 kr
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Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival of Irish and Jewish immigrants in the …
Black Power, Jewish Politics
Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2024
1158 kr
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Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. It shows how, …
Black Power, Jewish Politics
Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
Häftad, 2024
380 kr
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Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. It shows how, …
Threshold of Dissent
A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Inbunden, 2024
397 kr
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Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American JewsThroughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to …
Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
Av Dianne Ashton, Melissa R. Klapper
Inbunden, 2024
381 kr
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A vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate SouthEmma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a culture that offered women few options other than marriage. She was …
Mortuary of Books
The Rescue of Jewish Culture After the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2019
486 kr
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Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established …
Rag Race
How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Inbunden, 2014
1255 kr
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Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyFinalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureWinner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 …
Hollywood's Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Inbunden, 2017
428 kr
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Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish StudiesTells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930sIn April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film to confront the …
Rosenberg by Any Other Name
A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
Inbunden, 2018
373 kr
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Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyA groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a nameOur thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who …
All Together Different
Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Av Daniel Katz
Häftad, 2013
438 kr
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In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the overwhelming majority of whom were …
Cotton Capitalists
American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era
Inbunden, 2017
542 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyA vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United …