Harvard Judaica

Author : Charles Berlin
Publisher : Judaica Division of the Harvard College Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Judaica written by Charles Berlin and published by Judaica Division of the Harvard College Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard's Judaica Collection is one of the world's great Judaica collections, and is the largest collection of Israeli and Israel-related publications outside of Israel. This book traces the history of the collection from Harvard's founding, with special emphasis on the accelerated growth in the past four decades.

Author : David Werner Amram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy written by David Werner Amram and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674275799
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heathen written by Kathryn Gin Lum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Purported heathens have also contributed to the ongoing significance of the concept, promoting solidarity through their opposition to white American Christianity. Gin Lum looks to figures like Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo and Ihanktonwan Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá, who proudly claimed the label of “heathen” for themselves. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.

Author : Elisheva Carlebach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674052544
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaces of Time written by Elisheva Carlebach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.

Author : Harvard University. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Judaica Videotapes in the Harvard College Library written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milton Steinberg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156106986
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Judaism written by Milton Steinberg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1947 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, essential guide to the beliefs, ideals and practices that form the historic Jewish faith.

Author : Luba Kadison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Stage, Off Stage written by Luba Kadison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, Joseph Buloff was a dominant figure in the Yiddish theatre. In On Stage, Off Stage, his wife and partner, Luba Kadison Buloff, has written an account of their careers. Covering a 60 year period - from the early 1920s to the early 1980s - their story mirrors the history of the Yiddish theatre in the 20th century.

Author : Deborah Marcus Melamed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Pillars written by Deborah Marcus Melamed and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harvard College Library. Judaica Department
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : [Judaica Department, Harvard College Library]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Judaica Bookplates written by Harvard College Library. Judaica Department and published by Cambridge, Mass. : [Judaica Department, Harvard College Library]. This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nitza Rosovsky
Publisher : Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe written by Nitza Rosovsky and published by Museum. This book was released on 1986 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to an exhibition at the Harvard Semitic Museum on the occasion of Harvard's 350th anniversary, September 1986. Discusses the proposed quota for Jewish students at Harvard in 1922, when the Jewish student body had reached 22%. Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell (also vice-president of the Immigrant Restrictive League) feared that the influx of "undesirable" Jewish students would prevent others from applying, undermine the university's American tradition, and heighten antisemitism. Describes reactions of alumni, students, and the press. Although an investigating committee affirmed the traditional policy of non-discrimination, an unofficial quota was adopted in 1925 and lasted until the 1950s. Regarding Radcliffe, there is evidence of tacit restrictions on Jewish admissions, but relations between Jewish and Gentile students were good. Includes excerpts from memoirs, and reprints of articles about social prejudice against Jews.