Jews in America
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Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
by Liel Leibovitz  Publisher Comments “The vital bond between American Jews and Israel comes from more than religious obligation or checkbook philanthropy. It is a deeply human story, lived out by those Americans who left the Golden Land to build and sustain and defend the Jewish state....
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The Jews of Boston
by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston is now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. The stunning work combines illuminating essays by distinguished...
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We Are Many: Reflections on American Jewish History and Identity (Modern Jewish History)
by Edward S Shapiro Publisher Comments The topics of Edward Shapiro's book span the gamut of the American Jewish experience: from the politics of American Jews, the nature of American Jewish identity, relations between Jews and blacks, and Jews and American capitalism. He discusses writer...
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Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream
by Judith S Goldstein Publisher Comments Examines the little-known story of how Great Neck, New York, was transformed from a Gentile community to one in which Jews were the majority, in a rich narrative that illustrates the allure of suburbia, Jewish identity in America, and the American dream...
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The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
by Shuly Rubin Schwartz Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought "The first book to study the evolution of the role and the women who have filled it, The Rabbi's Wife not only honors many unsung heroines but provides a significant contribution to...
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Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
by Sherwin B Nuland Publisher Comments He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm...As we make our way together, my father ? I called him Daddy when I was...
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American Judaism: A History
by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores the ways in which Judaism adapted in this new context....
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King of the Jews :arnold Rothstein
by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style. Known by many names — A. R...
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A New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America
by Hasia R Diner Publisher Comments "An excellent Afikoman gift for the teen or young adult at the seder... Diner...writes in a clear style that pulls together that diverse entity known as the American Jewish community."--The Chicago Jewish Star An engaging chronicle of Jewish life in...
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The Jew Store
by Stella Suberman Publisher Comments The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in the small town of Concordia, Tennessee-a town consisting of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware store, one beauty parlor, one barber shop, one...
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The New American Judaism: The Way Forward on Challenging Issues from Intermarriage to Jewish Identity
by Arthur Blecher Publisher Comments Popular Washington, D.C. rabbi and psychotherapist Arthur Blecher believes that the American Jewish community is actually flourishing amidst fears of dying out. He shows us that intermarriage strengthens Judaism--a concept that many Jews...
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Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
by Hasia R Diner Publisher Comments Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that...
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Mordecai
by Emily Bingham Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-332) and index....
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Dear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman
by Leona Tamarkin Publisher Comments Leona Tamarkin recounts her ordeal as a Jewish refugee during the First World War and her life as a young immigrant in America after 1920. Tamarkin's narrative rings with determination, will to live, and boldness, even within confoning circumstances...
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American Jewish Desk Reference: The Ultimate One-Volume Reference to the Jewish Experience in America
by American Jewish Hist Publisher Comments From the Foremost Archive of the American Jewish Experience, the First All-Encompassing Reference to Jewish Life in the United States, from 1654 to the Present This authoritative reference of nearly 900 entries covers all aspects of America's lively and...
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The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology
by Arnold M Eisen Publisher Comments Eisen analyzes the attempts of American Jewish thinkers to adapt the notion of closeness to the context of the new country. He traces the reinterpretations of "second-generation" American Jews and examines the "third generation" (1955 to the present)....
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A Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect on Why Israel Matters to Them
by Jeffrey K. Salkin Publisher Comments This inspirational book features the insights of top scholars, professionals, politicians, authors, and community and religious leaders covering the entiredenominational spectrum of Jewish life in America today....
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Jews in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
by Judith Levin Cantor Publisher Comments Since the earliest days of the British fur trade, Jewish pioneers have made Michigan their home. This text captures the struggles and triumphs of Michigan's Jews as they worked to establish farms, businesses and synagogues, sparking commercial and...
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Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish
by Alan King Publisher Comments This rewarding book, which you'll want to pass on to family and friends, is the first of its kind. Until King undertook this project, no celebrity had ever before assembled a book about growing up Jewish that presents totally new writing by famous people,...
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In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains"
by Phil Brown Publisher Comments With selections from Isaac Bashevis Singer, Allegra Goodman, Moss Hart, Tania Grossinger, and many others, here's a tribute to the legendary Jewish resort area A vacation spot since the end of the nineteenth century, the Catskill Mountains of New York's...
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