Jews in America
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Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
by Dovid Katz  Publisher Comments Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces the origins of Yiddish back to the Europe of a thousand years...
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Studies in Jewish Civilization #17: Studies in Jewish Civilization, Volume 17: American Judaism in Popular Culture
by Leonard Greenspoon Publisher Comments The series Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Harris Center for Judaic Studies, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Volume 17 includes...
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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America
by Ruth Gay Publisher Comments Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I. For the most part, they were young, single, unskilled, uneducated, and yet filled with hope of a new life in a new land. In Unfinished People...
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Jews and the American Soul : Human Nature in the Twentieth Century (04 Edition)
by Andrew R. Heinze Publisher Comments What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So...
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Israel Through Jewish-Amer. Imagin: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
by Andrew Furman Publisher Comments Examines eight Jewish-American writers -- Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich -- who have "imagined" Israel in their work.<P>Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on...
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A time for searching :entering the mainstream, 1920-1945
by Henry L. Feingold Publisher Comments Volume IV: A Time for Searching. In A Time for Searching, Henry Feingold chronicles the turbulent period between 1920 and 1945--when Jews were poised to enter the mainstream of American life--and explores issues that would preoccupy America's Jewish...
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Jewish Learning in American Universities: The First Century
by Paul Ritterband Book News Annotation Narrates the evolution of Jewish studies as an academic discipline within the history and sociology of higher education in America from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Discusses the circumstances behind the early appointments in Judaic studies...
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A people divided :Judaism in contemporary America
by Jack Wertheimer Book News Annotation Studies American Jews as a religious group, rather than an ethnic group, discussing the history, philosophy, and vital statistics of each of the major branches--Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reconstructionist; the conflicts among rival groups...
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Classic Jewish humor in America
by Henry Spalding Publisher Comments Featured in this volume are the very best stories, anecdotes, amusing tales, jokes, and witticisms that recapture the spirit of a fun-loving people who struggled against all odds to make good in a new land....
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Sellie and Dee: A Friendship
by Estelle Leontief Publisher Comments Estelle Leontief records, with candor and rich humor, and with the perspective of age, the early years of a remarkable lifelong friendship: how two Jewish girls growing up in the Bronx in the first quarter of the century, learning to value expressiveness,...
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Better Than Gold: An Immigrant Family's First Years in Brooklyn
by Fannie Silver Publisher Comments Memoir/Jewish American culture. Published posthumously, "Better Than Gold" is a collection of 29 brief stories that recall the life of a young Jewish immigrant girl, Fannie Silver, growing into womanhood in the New York City of the early twentieth...
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Jew Vs Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
by Samuel G Freedman Publisher Comments At a time when American Jews should feel more secure and cohesive than ever, civil war is tearing apart their community. Congregations, neighborhoods, even families are taking sides in battles about Jewish identity and Jewish authenticity. The conflict...
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Promised City New Yorks Jews 1870 1914
by Moses Rischin Publisher Comments Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important...
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The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews (Modern Jewish Experience)
by Arthur A Goren Publisher Comments Arthur A. Goren's strikingly lucid and accessible essays, ranging over nearly a century of Jewish communal life, examine the ways in which American Jews grappled with issues of group survival in an open and accepting society. With the focus on Jewish...
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The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner
by Eli N Evans Publisher Comments In 33 entertaining essays, Evans explores southern politics, history, and culture; the state of Israel; and the Civil war--delineating them through the prism of his Jewish-Southern identity and reflecting upon the paradox of the Southern Jewish...
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Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to "The Goldbergs" (Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Donald Weber Publisher Comments An insightful contribution to the understanding of Jewish American culture, seen through the lens of novels, films, TV, and stand-up comedy from the first half of the 20th century....
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Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment
by J J Goldberg Book News Annotation A perceptive account of contemporary Jewish leadership in the US dispelling myths of Jewish victimhood and conspiracy while offering a portrait of the institutions, ideas, and people who wield political influence. Journalist Goldberg analyzes the Anti-...
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Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828: Jewish Reformer & Intellectual
by Gary Phillip Zola Book News Annotation Drawing on his recently discovered library and private papers as well as other primary sources, presents a new biography of the newspaper editor and publisher, playwright, educator, political and social commentator, and member of Reformed Judaism in a...
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The Jewish American Family Album (American Family Albums)
by Dorothy Hoobler Publisher Comments The American Family Album series tells the often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. Like any family album, the pages contain period photographs, memorabilia, selections from diaries, letters...
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A time for gathering :the second migration, 1820-1880
by Hasia R Diner Publisher Comments Volume II: A Time for Gathering. Between 1820 and 1880, European Jews arrived in the United States in ever greater numbers. While later Jewish immigrants would criticize their rush to assimilation, the Jews of this period created the institutions that...
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