The American Jewish Experience
Title | The American Jewish Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience |
Publisher | Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780841909342 |
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience
Title | Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Church and state |
ISBN | 9780268016562 |
This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.
Ellis Island to Ebbets Field
Title | Ellis Island to Ebbets Field PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Levine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 1993-09-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0195359003 |
In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Marty Glickman, and a host of others who became Jewish heroes and symbols of the difficult struggle for American success. From settlement houses and street corners, to Madison Square and Fenway Park, their experiences recall a time when Jewish males dominated sports like boxing and basketball, helping to smash stereotypes about Jewish weakness while instilling American Jews with a fierce pride in their strength and ability in the face of Nazi aggression, domestic anti-Semitism, and economic depression. Full of marvelous stories, anecdotes, and personalities, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field enhances our understanding of the Jewish-American experience as well as the struggles of other American minority groups.
American Jewish Desk Reference
Title | American Jewish Desk Reference PDF eBook |
Author | American Jewish Historical Society |
Publisher | Random House Reference |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This all-encompassing reference book covers virtually every subject pertaining to Jews in the United States. The sheer volume of information on the subjects and people relative to the Jewish experience in the United States is what makes this book so impressive. Arranged by subject -- from Feminism, Intermarriage and Conversion, Rituals and Celebrations, Business, Education, and Sports to Art and Entertainment -- chapters include A-Z and chronological listings of events, people, and more.Included in this book are descriptions of the many noteworthy Jewish Americans who had a profound effect on our country, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harvey Milk, Calvin Klein, Peggy Guggenheim, Mark Rothko, Woody Allen and Gloria Steinem, just to name a few. This book brings together the issues and figures of contemporary Judaism in the United States in an adult manner unlike any other reference book of its kind.
American Judaism
Title | American Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300190395 |
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Hollywood's Chosen People
Title | Hollywood's Chosen People PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Bernardi |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-09-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0814338070 |
As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews have also helped to produce some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film history. In Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, leading scholars consider the complex relationship between Jews and the film industry, as Jews have helped to construct Hollywood's vision of the American dream and American collective identity and have in turn been shaped by those representations. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with an overview of the history of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors go on to discuss topics such as early Jewish films and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of films, from representations of the Holocaust on film to screen comedy; filmmakers and writers, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and stars, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in American cinema reveals much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and contribute to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.
Tradition Transformed
Title | Tradition Transformed PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Sorin |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1997-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801854460 |
Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans.