A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember
Title A Time to Remember PDF eBook
Author Bea Kraus
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1999
Genre Jews
ISBN

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Gender and Jewish History

Gender and Jewish History
Title Gender and Jewish History PDF eBook
Author Marion A. Kaplan
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 429
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 025322263X

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""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.

Yiddish in Israel

Yiddish in Israel
Title Yiddish in Israel PDF eBook
Author Rachel Rojanski
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 338
Release 2020-01-07
Genre History
ISBN 0253045185

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Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Author Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling and yet unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language's varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, and the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel's early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel's leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the 21st century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.

The Legacy of Albert Kahn

The Legacy of Albert Kahn
Title The Legacy of Albert Kahn PDF eBook
Author Albert Kahn
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 188
Release 1987
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780814318898

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From the Back Cover: An invaluable handbook tracing the creative genius of Albert Kahn, one of America's most distinguished architects, The Legacy of Albert Kahn presents a chronology of designs in the areas of commercial, civic, institutional, and domestic architecture. Over 280 photographs, drawings, and floor plans illustrate the highly readable text.

Ideas of Jewish History

Ideas of Jewish History
Title Ideas of Jewish History PDF eBook
Author Michael A. Meyer
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 382
Release 1987
Genre History
ISBN 9780814319512

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Acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history. Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another -- both physical and intellectual -- somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume. With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer characterizes the scope of his Ideas of Jewish History. As the only volume of readings in the area of Jewish historiography and the philosophy of Jewish history, Ideas of Jewish History acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history.

Harmony & Dissonance

Harmony & Dissonance
Title Harmony & Dissonance PDF eBook
Author Sidney M. Bolkosky
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 560
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN 9780814319338

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Analyzing one of the most vital and significant Jewish populations in the United States, Harmony and Dissonance chronicles the intellectual, cultural, and social history of the Jews of Detroit from 1914 to 1967. Sidney Bolkosky has drawn upon resources from religious and secular Jewish institutions in Detroit and supplemented them with information and interpretations from numerous oral testimonies to place this material in the context of the city of Detroit and its unique economic and social history. Thus the book includes discussions of the effects of Detroit events on the Jewish population, from Henry Ford's promise of a five dollar per day wage to the Detroit riots of 1943 and 1967. The author contends that the peculiar history of Detroit plays a determining role in the history of its Jews. Organized chronologically, Harmony and Dissonance examines the historically shifting dynamics among Jewish groups and individuals, addressing such controversial topics as assimilation, intermarriage, religious conflicts, anti-Semitism, and East European versus German Jewish identities. In pursuing the central thesis of the problematic search for Jewish identity, which runs throughout the book and ties the work together, the author has also explored the multifaceted nature of the Jewish population of Detroit, its landsmanshaften, German Jews, "establishment" organizations and their antagonists, cultural forces, and numerous Yiddish groups. This focus on identity is sharpened as the author perceives two events increasingly directing Jewish life and thought--the Holocaust and its aftermath and the founding of the state of Israel. How those events influenced the attitudes and behavior of Detroit's Jews contributes to what one Detroit patriarch called "the Detroit difference."

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Title Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Lynn Winer
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 687
Release 2021-11-02
Genre History
ISBN 0814346324

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This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.