Jews in America
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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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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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Number Our Days (Touchstone Books)
by Barbara G Myerhoff Publisher Comments When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these...
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A Biblical People in the Bible Belt: The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840-1960s
by Selma S. Lewis Synopsis As both a historian and a member of the community about which she writes, Selma S. Lewis narrates the life of Jews in Memphis from the antebellum period through the civil rights movements of the 1960s. She poignantly describes the origins and development...
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Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants Across America
by Jack Glazier Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The teeming settlement, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked...
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Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich
by George Tabb Publisher Comments One of a handful of Jews in the WASPish enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, and undersized at that, George Tabb was routinely kicked around by the other kids — one blind, another one with one arm — as well as by his father. Playing Right Field...
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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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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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Mordecai
by Emily Bingham Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-332) and index....
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Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew
by Neal Karlen Publisher Comments Early in his memoir, Neal Karlen tells a rabbi, "I love Judaism. It's Jews I can't stand." What he means is that he hates the parochialism and material trappings of the young Jews he knows: Their new temples are gilded and the parking lots spill over...
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Centennial #84: Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work
by Hollace Ava Weiner Synopsis Texas Jews may be only a small proportion of the state's population, but their leaders have often shone as unlikely stars in this Bible Belt state. Grounded in the culture that gave rise to Christianity and thus sharing many of the community's values...
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Lone Stars of David (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life)
by Hollace Ava Weiner Synopsis Jewish life in the United States is too often told from an East Coast perspective. Lone Stars of David presents a different panorama, with narratives of Jews who ventured to Texas before the battle of the Alamo, who fought for the Confederacy, who herded...
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Off-White: A Memoir
by Laurie Gunst Publisher Comments "[Gunst] writes with a clarity and honesty that belie the racial paradigm that was Richmond and the South.... This is a triumph of the spirit."-Louisville Courier-Post "Poignant and emotionally wrenching at times, Gunst successfully navigates the...
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Jews in America (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by Roberta Rose Farber Publisher Comments Exploring the ongoing adaptation of the American Jewish population as it responds to the challenge of American life, this interdisciplinary collection offers a wide-ranging examination of the personal, social, religious, and political aspects of...
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Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights
by Henry Goldschmidt Publisher Comments The everyday realities of racial and religious difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights is explored in a study of the conflict between the Lubavitch Hasidic community and their Afro-Caribbean and African-American neighbors. Simultaneous....
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Jew in America My Life & a Peoples Strug
by Arthur Hertzberg Publisher Comments “ [R]iveting, important, and very readable.”...
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The Fortune Teller's Kiss (American Lives)
by Brenda Serotte Publisher Comments There was always the incantation: “Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!” And just in case that didn’t work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye—or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boy’s...
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From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture)
by Rakhmiel Peltz Publisher Comments This book attempts to correct the institutional bent of previous studies of American Yiddish, which have focused on the press, theater, cinema, and literature. In contrast, the author presents a linguistic ethnography based on several years of intensive...
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The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
by Beth S. Wenger Publisher Comments What was it like for the first Jews to arrive in the New World? How did a Bavarian immigrant's crockery business expand into one of the nation’s top department stores? How did Yiddish theater and humor influence Hollywood and mainstream entertainment...
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Observing America's Jews
by Marshall Sklare Synopsis Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history....
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