Writing a Modern Jewish History

Writing a Modern Jewish History
Title Writing a Modern Jewish History PDF eBook
Author Susannah Heschel
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 156
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780300106770

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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.

"Our Crowd"

Title "Our Crowd" PDF eBook
Author Stephen Birmingham
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 396
Release 2015-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 1504026284

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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.

Defenses of the Imagination

Defenses of the Imagination
Title Defenses of the Imagination PDF eBook
Author Robert Alter
Publisher Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
Pages 288
Release 1977
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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A Short History of the Jewish People

A Short History of the Jewish People
Title A Short History of the Jewish People PDF eBook
Author Raymond P. Scheindlin
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 292
Release 2000
Genre History
ISBN 9780195139419

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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.

The Faith of Fallen Jews

The Faith of Fallen Jews
Title The Faith of Fallen Jews PDF eBook
Author David N. Myers
Publisher UPNE
Pages 377
Release 2013-12-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1611684137

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From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud's Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) earned recognition as perhaps the greatest Jewish historian of his day, whose scholarship blended vast erudition, unfettered creativity, and lyrical beauty. This volume charts his intellectual trajectory by bringing together a mix of classic and lesser-known essays from the whole of his career. The essays in this collection, representative of the range of his writing, acquaint the reader with his research on early modern Spanish Jewry and the experience of crypto-Jews, varied reflections on Jewish history and memory, and Yerushalmi-s enduring interest in the political history of the Jews. Also included are a number of little-known autobiographical recollections, as well as his only published work of fiction.

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany
Title Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany PDF eBook
Author Leslie Morris
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 266
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780803239401

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This anthology features a diverse and compelling array of writings from prominent Jewish authors in Germany today. The writers included here-Katja Behrens, MaximøBiller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann-did not experience the Holocaust firsthand, though their works continually explore the meaning of it as it is remembered and forgotten in contemporary Germany. From different perspectives these authors offer incisive reflections on German-Jewish relations today. They wrestle in particular with the strangeness of living in a country where unencumbered relationships between Germans and Jews are rare. Also surfacing in their writings are the many foundations and challenges to modern Jewish identity in Germany, including the vicissitudes of gender roles, and the experience of emigration, intergenerational conflict, and sexuality. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany not only features a set of engaging stories but also encourages a deeper understanding of the experiences of Jews in Germany today.

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Title I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture PDF eBook
Author Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 147
Release 2015-07-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0295805676

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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.