Stories From Jewish Portland

Author : Polina Olsen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233470
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Stories from Jewish Portland written by Polina Olsen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories of Jewish Portland, whose roots stretch back to the Gold Rush, whose heart is 'the old neighborhood' of South Portland and the memories of its residents, whose identity is alive and well in synagogues and community institutions. Portland author Polina Olsen recounts the history of this richly layered community through a collection of letters, interviews, and stories drawn from her series "Looking Back," published in The Jewish Review. In this expanded collection, explore the lives of early settlers brought by opportunity and New York's Industrial Removal Office, walk the streets of the old neighborhood, alive with basketball games and junk peddlers, and learn the proud history of institutions like the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, which continue the cultural traditions of Jewish Portland.

Author : Polina Olsen
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781609494711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Portland in the 1960s written by Polina Olsen and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of disenchanted and disenfranchised individuals seeking social and political revolution. Barefoot and bell-bottomed, they hung out in Portland's bohemian underground and devised a better world. What began in coffee shop conversations found its voice in the Willamette Bridge newspaper, KBOO radio station and the Portland State University student strike, resulting in social, artistic and political change in the Rose City. Through these stories from the counterculture, author Polina Olsen brings to life the beat-snapping Caffe Espresso, the incense and black light posters of the Psychedelic Supermarket and the spontaneous concerts and communal soups in Lair Park.

Author : Eric Flamm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087934860
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Portland Zionists Unite! and Other Stories written by Eric Flamm and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These raw, interlocking short stories-set in Israel, Portland, and Thailand-explore the complex reality of modern Israel, its recent history, and what it represents to its citizens and foreign-born Jews. With a range of different narrators-three Israel Defense Force soldiers, a hawkish retiree, a synagogue executive director, and a young video game fan-each story viscerally speaks to the contrasts between Israel's founding mythology and current political realities. Each narrator's perspective is different, but collectively the voices engage with a growing concern in US Jewish communal life: how to countenance an Israel that increasingly doesn't reflect the values of American Jews.

Author : Natan M. Meir
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222079
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kiev, Jewish Metropolis written by Natan M. Meir and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The readmission of some categories of Jews into Kiev in 1859 brought about a rapid rise of the Jewish community in the city. Kiev had a symbolical significance as "the mother of the Russian cities" and was an important religious center, so the massive migration of Jews in it provoked anxiety among the Christians. The authorities and to some extent voluntary associations of Kiev tried to maintain a segregation between the Jews and non-Jews; while attacking Jews for their "isolation", they opposed also Jewish cultural assimilation. Describes the pogrom of 1881 and the bloody pogrom of October 1905. Argues that the pogroms of 1881 in Kiev and elsewhere took place mainly in the areas of new Jewish settlement. The pogromists in Kiev called not so much to "beat the Jews" as to expel them from the city. Dismisses the view that the perpetrators of the pogrom were vagabond workers from central Russia: the role of the locals in the riot was significant. The 1905 pogrom was a by-product of the revolution, in which many Jews took part. The authorities not only were reluctant to stop it (as it was also in 1881), but even encouraged the rioters for violence. Christian neighbors nearly always refused to hide or to protect Jews. Dozens were killed in what the nationalists regarded as a symbolic reconquest of Kiev from "seditionist Jews". Describes also the Beilis case in Kiev, which can be regarded that an anti-Jewish campaign launched by the all-Russian right rather than by Kiev antisemites. The pogroms shattered the hopes of most Jews for peaceful coexistence with non-Jews, but did not stop the Jewish migration to Kiev and their acculturation.

Author : Polina Olsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978718312
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Immigrants' Children written by Polina Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, thousands of Eastern European Jews and Italians settled in a Portland, Oregon neighborhood known as South Portland. Since first writing "A Walking Tour of Historic Jewish Portland" author Polina Olsen has conducted numerous tape-recorded interviews with people who grew up in the community. Now, Olsen has collected and edited their memories in a new book, "The Immigrants' Children, an Oral History of Portland, Oregon's Early Jewish & Italian Neighborhood. An organized effort to disperse Eastern European Jews around the country, the end of the railroad line and failed homesteading attempts were among the reasons immigrants ended up in Portland. In Olsen's book, people describe how their parents and grandparents left or often fled Europe and their day-to-day life once they settled. They recall seven synagogues within walking distance, the neighborhood Roma (Gypsies), Yiddish movie theaters, boarding houses and ethnic markets. In the Working chapter, people reminisce about junk peddlers, shopkeepers, and wine making during Prohibition. Several people remembered political organizations such as the local branch of ICOR, a Soviet attempt to create a Jewish homeland in Siberia. Although a 1960's urban renewal project destroyed much of the neighborhood, those who lived there remember it fondly. "The Immigrants' Children, An Oral History of Portland, Oregon's Early Jewish & Italian Neighborhood," tells their story in their own words.

Author : Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639015436
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Eminent Oregonians: Three Who Matter written by Jane Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned author Jane Kirkpatrick gives us the life of the suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway. Oregon columnist and publisher Steve Forrester gives us Richard Neuberger, whose election to the U.S. Senate changed Oregon and national politics. Acclaimed journalist R. Gregory Nokes gives us the abolitionist Jesse Applegate. Based largely on primary sources, the authors present compelling, three-dimensional views of adventurous, consequential and sometimes heart-breaking lives.

Author : Jesse Katz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307407128
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Opposite Field written by Jesse Katz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is one of the most remarkable, ambitious, and utterly original memoirs of this generation, a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of death and failure and heartbreak, of Los Angeles and Portland and Nicaragua and Mexico, and the shifting sands of place and meaning that can make up a culture, or a community, or a home. Faced with the collapse of his son’s Little League program–consisting mostly of Latino kids in the largely Asian suburb of Monterey Park, California–Jesse Katz finds himself thrust into the role of baseball commissioner for La Loma Park. Under its lights the yearnings and conflicts of a complex immigrant community are played out amid surprising moments of grace. Each day–and night–becomes a test of Jesse’s judgment and adaptability, and of his capacity to make this peculiar pocket of L.A.’s Eastside his home. While Jesse soothes egos, brokers disputes, chases down delinquent coaches and missing equipment, and applies popsicles to bruises, he forms unlikely alliances, commits unanticipated errors, and receives the gift of unexpected wisdom. But there’s no less drama in Jesse’s complicated personal life as he grapples with a stepson who seems destined for trouble, comforts his mother (a legendary Oregon politician) when she’s stricken with cancer, and receives hard lessons in finding–and holding on to–the love of a good woman. Through it all, Jesse’s emotional mainstay is his beloved son, Max, who quietly bests his father’s brightest hopes. Over nine springs and summers with Max at La Loma, Jesse learns nothing less than what it takes to be a father, a son, a husband, a coach, and, ultimately, a man. This is an epic book, a funny book, a sexy book, a rapturously evocative and achingly poignant book. Above all it is true, in that it happened, but also in a way that transcends mere facts and cuts to the quick of what it means to be alive.

Author : Bonnie Frumkin Morales
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250089204
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kachka written by Bonnie Frumkin Morales and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients. “With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly update and modernize Russian cuisine while steadfastly holding to its traditions and spirit. Thank you comrade!” —Alton Brown From bright pickles to pillowy dumplings, ingenious vodka infusions to traditional homestyle dishes, and varied zakuski to satisfying sweets, Kachka the cookbook covers the vivid world of Russian cuisine. More than 100 recipes show how easy it is to eat, drink, and open your heart in Soviet-inspired style, from the celebrated restaurant that is changing how America thinks about Russian food. The recipes in this book set a communal table with nostalgic Eastern European dishes like Caucasus-inspired meatballs, Porcini Barley Soup, and Cauliflower Schnitzel, and give new and exciting twists to current food trends like pickling, fermentation, and bone broths. Kachka’s recipes and narratives show how Russia’s storied tradition of smoked fish, cultured dairy, and a shot of vodka can be celebratory, elegant, and as easy as meat and potatoes. The food is clear and inviting, rooted in the past yet not at all afraid to play around and wear its punk rock heart on its sleeve.

Author :
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 043910839X
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gershon's Monster written by and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his sins threaten the lives of his beloved twin children, a Jewish man finally repents of his wicked ways.

Author : Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714861X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Historic Cemeteries of Portland, Oregon written by Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portland's historic cemeteries are some of the most beautiful and overlooked cultural treasures in the city. Full of fascinating secrets and eerie tales, these greenspaces are also the perfect spots for walking, biking and birding. Explore twenty-five burial grounds with public art in the form of remarkable tombstones that vary as much as the Portlanders they commemorate, including suffragists, spiritualists, Romani kings, politicians and murderers. From a photographer who captured the golden age of Broadway musicals to a celebrity orangutan, Portland's graves are full of surprises. Come along with cemetery sleuths Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis as they share their insights into the Rose City's remarkable past.