Jews in America
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Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square
by Alan Mittleman  Publisher Comments A study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denominational institutions. The volume explores how the various branches of the organized Jewish community seek to influence public affairs. Over the...
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Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne
by Andrew F Smith Publisher Comments Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability. He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America. A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to...
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry #08: A New Jewry?: America Since the Second World War
by Peter Y Medding Publisher Comments This eighth volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II....
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Welcome to the Family!: Opening Doors to the Jewish Experience
by Lois Sussma Shenker Publisher Comments Welcome to the Family is a practical handbook written especially for those seeking straightforward explanations that will increase the reader’s knowledge and comfort level when interacting with Jewish people and attending Jewish events. Welcome to...
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Jewish Communities in the Modern World #4: The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
by Hasia R Diner Publisher Comments A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans....
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Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue
by Sidney Schwarz Publisher Comments In this illuminating look at Judaism's future, Rabbi Sidney Schwarz offers a penetrating analysis of the American Jewish community, challenging American synagogues to respond to a generation of seekers and satisfy the spiritual hunger of the "new...
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The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments This second volume of the "Jewish Role in American Life" continues the Casden Institute's ongoing examination of the contemporary American Jewish community and its contributions to life and culture in the United States. Focusing again on five key areas...
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Staying Alive a Family Memoir
by Janet Reibstein Synopsis They were three promising sisters, Mary, Fannie and Regina - young women during the post-war depression. In a tragic twist of fate, all three were to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Fannie died first and then Mary. Told by Janet, Regina's daughter, this...
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
by Jennifer Anne Moses Publisher Comments Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS...
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Jew Boy a Memoir
by Alan Kaufman Synopsis Kaufman relates his experience growing up in the Bronx under the complex shadow of his mother, a Holocaust survivor. Physically abused by a woman scarred by horrifying experiences, Kaufman must deal with his mother's demons as he struggles with his...
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A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the ...
by Stefan Kanfer Publisher Comments The story of the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the great resorts....
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Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas (Focus on American History)
by Henry Ii Cohen Publisher Comments More than 10,000 Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, arrived in Galveston in the early twentieth century. Rabbi Cohen greeted many of the new arrivals in Yiddish, then helped them find jobs through a network that extended throughout the Southwest and...
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Lake Effect
by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of "Tough Jews" and "The Avengers" comes this elegiac memoir that examines the nature of friendship and how it survives even as it's destined to change....
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Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration
by Maxim D Shrayer Book News Annotation This memoir recounts the story of Shrayer, who immigrated to the US from Moscow in 1987, focusing on the period he and his family spent in Vienna and Italy on the way to the US, as well as his romantic relationships there. There is no index. Shrayer...
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A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
by Alana Newhouse Publisher Comments This extraordinary volume features the finest photographic account of Jewish life in America. The premiere national Jewish newspaper, "Forward," has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a landscape of Jews in the 20th century and beyond....
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Shalom Y'All: Images of Jewish Life in the American South
by Vicki Fox Publisher Comments The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautTing. Ben and Betty Lee Lamensdorf's farmland in Cary, Mississippi, where cotton, wheat, and pecans are harvested. The New Americans Social Club, a group of Holocaust...
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Peddler's Grandson : Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi (99 Edition)
by Edward Cohen 
Publisher Comments As a young child in Mississippi, Edward Cohen thought everyone was Jewish until he began school during the explosive civil rights era. Painfully funny, "The Peddler's Grandson" shows so much of what is different between people, and yet, in the end...
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told
by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of...
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Matzo Balls for Breakfast: And Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish
by Alan King Publisher Comments Alan King -- the beloved comic, actor, producer, author, philanthropist, and storyteller extraordinaire -- has compiled a wonderfully readable book about growing up Jewish, with totally original contributions by famous people. Combining warmhearted humor...
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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews
by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments In this brilliant memoir, Howard Jacobson describes his journey to his ancestral home in Lithuania to discover his Jewish roots -- with stops along the way in the Catskills, Manhattan, Tucson, Los Angeles, Eilat, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa, and Sefat...
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