Modern Jewish Experience – serie
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71 produkter
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
Häftad, 2010
300 kr
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The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry, it also reshaped Jews' …
History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918
Häftad, 1992
225 kr
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"William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship—and for Habsburg scholarship in particular—through his book. Scholars are in his debt." —History of European Ideas" . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg history." —American Historical Review" . . . …
Howard Fast
Life and Literature in the Left Lane
Av Gerald Sorin
Inbunden, 2012
486 kr
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Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in …
Anne Frank Unbound
Media, Imagination, Memory
Av Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler
Häftad, 2012
361 kr
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As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart …
House at Ujazdowskie 16
Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2013
326 kr
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In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish …
Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Av Mel Scult
Inbunden, 2013
514 kr
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Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God. …
Marrying Out
Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood
Häftad, 2014
309 kr
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When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of …
Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia
Inbunden, 2015
467 kr
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In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová examines the challenges Slovak Jews faced as government officials, …
Reframing Holocaust Testimony
Av Noah Shenker
Inbunden, 2015
927 kr
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Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educate and commemorate. Noah Shenker calls attention to the ways that audiovisual testimonies of the Holocaust have been mediated by the institutional …
Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Av Mel Scult
Häftad, 2015
328 kr
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Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God. …
Reframing Holocaust Testimony
Av Noah Shenker
Häftad, 2015
338 kr
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Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educate and commemorate. Noah Shenker calls attention to the ways that audiovisual testimonies of the Holocaust have been mediated by the institutional …
Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France
Rebuilding Family and Nation
Inbunden, 2015
509 kr
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At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and …
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Inbunden, 2016
582 kr
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This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia. The book shows that …
Taking Stock
Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
Av Michal Kravel-Tovi, Deborah Dash Moore
Inbunden, 2016
956 kr
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Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the …
Taking Stock
Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
Av Michal Kravel-Tovi, Deborah Dash Moore
Häftad, 2016
384 kr
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Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the …
Taking Stock
Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
Av Michal Kravel-Tovi, Deborah Dash Moore
E-bok, 2016
101 kr
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Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the …
Orientalizing the Jew
Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Julie Kalman
Inbunden, 2017
927 kr
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Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence, novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of …
Orientalizing the Jew
Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Julie Kalman
Häftad, 2017
280 kr
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Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence, novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of …
Colonialism and the Jews
Av Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1042 kr
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish …
Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power
Av Andrew Sloin
Inbunden, 2017
1042 kr
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Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers' clubs and union …
Colonialism and the Jews
Av Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
453 kr
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish …
Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power
Av Andrew Sloin
Häftad, 2017
424 kr
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Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers' clubs and union …
Jewish Family
Identity and Self-Formation at Home
Av Alex Pomson, Randal F. Schnoor
Inbunden, 2018
900 kr
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In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their …
Jewish Family
Identity and Self-Formation at Home
Av Alex Pomson, Randal F. Schnoor
Häftad, 2018
328 kr
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In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their …
Jewish Refugee in New York
Rivke Zilberg's Journal
Inbunden, 2019
971 kr
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Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of …
Jewish Refugee in New York
Rivke Zilberg's Journal
Häftad, 2019
297 kr
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Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of …
Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties
Av Anat Plocker
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
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In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period. Plocker offers a new …
Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland
Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties
Av Anat Plocker
Inbunden, 2022
927 kr
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In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period. Plocker offers a new …
"Jewish Marshall Plan"
The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France
Inbunden, 2022
984 kr
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While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure …
"Jewish Marshall Plan"
The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
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While the role the United States played in France's liberation from Nazi Germany is widely celebrated, it is less well known that American Jewish individuals and organizations mobilized to reconstruct Jewish life in France after the Holocaust. In A "Jewish Marshall Plan," Laura Hobson Faure …
