Writing A Modern Jewish History

Author : Raymond P. Scheindlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195139419
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Jewish People written by Raymond P. Scheindlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the original legends of the Bible to the peace accords of today's newspapers, this engaging, one-volume history of the Jews will fascinate and inform. 30 illustrations.

Author : Susannah Heschel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300106770
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing a Modern Jewish History written by Susannah Heschel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, an eclectic and distinguished group of writers explore the Jewish experience in the Americas and celebrate the legacy of Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), a preeminent scholar who revolutionized the study of Jewish history during his lengthy tenure at Columbia University. Baron's important ideas are reflected throughout these texts, which concern strategies for the continuous identity of a dispersed people. Featured essays discuss the meaning and significance of colonial portraits of American Jews; the history of an extraordinary group of Jews in the remote Amazon; the charitable fairs organized by Jewish women to raise money for various causes in nineteenth-century America; the place of Jews in postmodern American culture; the "Jewish unconscious" of the art critic Meyer Schapiro; and Salo Baron's influence as a historian and teacher. A group of poems by Robert Pinsky accompanies the essays. Together these writings form a dynamic interplay of ideas that encourages readers to think deeply about Jewish history and identity.

Author : Howard Morley Sachar
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Course of Modern Jewish History written by Howard Morley Sachar and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this encyclopedic history of the Jews was first published in 1958, it was hailed as one of the great works of its kind, a study that not only chronicled an assailed and enduring people, but assessed its astonishing impact on the modern world. Now this scholarly and comprehensive book has been massively revised and updated by its author, a professor of modern history at the George Washington University and one of the most respected authorities on the lives and times of the Jewish people. The new edition casts additional light on the milestones of the Jewish saga from the eighteenth century to the close of the twentieth: the Jews' emergence from the ghetto and into the heart of Western society, the debate between the voices of tradition, assimilation, and Zionism; virtual destruction during the Holocaust; and troubled rebirth in Israel. Here, too, are evocative portraits of today's disapora, from the Jews of America to the embattled communities of the former Soviet Union and the Third World.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805676
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

Author : Michael Galchinsky
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326138
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer written by Michael Galchinsky and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.

Author : Phyllis Cohen Albert
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838630952
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Modern Jewish History written by Phyllis Cohen Albert and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of essays studying Jewish communities before, during, and after their emergence into a modern, emancipated status. A fitting tribute to an outstanding sociologist and scholar.

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504026284
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Our Crowd" written by Stephen Birmingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : New York : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Tradition written by Robert Alter and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Kobrin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247302
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purchasing Power written by Rebecca Kobrin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between money and power in modern Jewish history. -- Dust jacket.

Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821128
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Jewish is Jewish History? written by Moshe Rosman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the light of post-modernist thinking.