North American Jewish Studies – serie
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13 produkter
History, Memory, and Jewish Identity
Av Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1017 kr
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This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the …
Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855–1913
“A major attack on Jewish freedoms”
Av David Fraser
Inbunden, 2018
1318 kr
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This is the first study of historical attempts by animal welfare groups to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, many for the first time, in which anti-animal cruelty groups prosecuted those engaged in …
Conversations with Colleagues
On Becoming an American Jewish Historian
Inbunden, 2018
1365 kr
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Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history- among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia - converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their …
Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi
Av Leon Waldoff
Inbunden, 2019
1365 kr
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Through the story of his Russian–Jewish parents’ arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts …
Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi
Av Leon Waldoff
Häftad, 2019
354 kr
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Through the story of his Russian–Jewish parents’ arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts …
Strange Journey
John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health
Inbunden, 2020
1322 kr
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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent “Pop Sociologist” and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley’s "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through …
Strange Journey
John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health
Häftad, 2020
285 kr
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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent “Pop Sociologist” and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley’s "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through …
Conversations with Colleagues
On Becoming an American Jewish Historian
Häftad, 2019
434 kr
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Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history—among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia—converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful …
Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica
A Bibliographical Resource for Canadian Jewish Studies
Inbunden, 2021
1545 kr
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Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively …
This Was America, 1865-1965
Unequal Citizens in the Segregated Republic
Av Gerd Korman
Inbunden, 2022
1380 kr
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By examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in Black and white “peoplehoods.” Some of the white ones, commanding the nation’s “public square,” structured a …
Jews and American Public Life
Essays on American Jewish History and Politics
Inbunden, 2022
1318 kr
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Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual …
Building Communities
A History of the Eruv in America
Av Adam Mintz
Inbunden, 2023
1225 kr
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Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and …
Building Communities
A History of the Eruv in America
Av Adam Mintz
Häftad, 2023
266 kr
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Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and …
