Imagining The American Jewish Community
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Imagining The American Jewish Community
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Author : Jack Wertheimer
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2007
Imagining The American Jewish Community written by Jack Wertheimer and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities
Envisioning Israel
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Author : Allon Gal
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1996
Envisioning Israel written by Allon Gal and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Explores how North American Jews have envisioned Israel From the late 19th century to the present.
Imagining The Jewish Future
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Author : David A. Teutsch
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Imagining The Jewish Future written by David A. Teutsch and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.
During a time of rapid change in the American Jewish community, an outstanding group of Jewish scholars and professionals address the critical problems and future prospects of American Jewry. They discuss the sharp controversies over feminism and religious language, new data on the relationship between Israelis and American Jews, and the interaction between family and synagogue. The wide scope of topics provides an understanding of the dynamics shaping the lives of American Jews and their diverse views of the future.
Beyond Jewish Identity
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Author : Jon A. Levisohn
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2019-12-31
Beyond Jewish Identity written by Jon A. Levisohn and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-31 with Religion categories.
There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or more efficiently. But what does it mean to “strengthen Jewish identity”? Why do Jewish educators, policy-makers and philanthropists talk that way? What do they assume, about Jewish education or about Jewish identity, when they use formulations like “strengthen Jewish identity”? And what are the costs of doing so? This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity, arguing that the reification of identity has hampered much educational creativity in the pursuit of this goal, and that the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be. Second, this volume offers thoughtful responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for “identity,” suggesting new possibilities for how to think about the purposes and desired outcomes of Jewish education, potentially contributing to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life.
Imagining Russian Jewry
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Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Imagining Russian Jewry written by Steven J. Zipperstein and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Social Science categories.
This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.
Lower East Side Memories
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Author : Hasia R. Diner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Lower East Side Memories written by Hasia R. Diner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with History categories.
Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
Learning And Community
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Author : Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2009-07-15
Learning And Community written by Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Religion categories.
Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.
Tradition Transformed
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Author : Gerald Sorin
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1997-04-18
Tradition Transformed written by Gerald Sorin and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-18 with History categories.
Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.
A Portrait Of The American Jewish Community
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Author : Norman Linzer
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1998-05-30
A Portrait Of The American Jewish Community written by Norman Linzer and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-30 with Social Science categories.
This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.
The Making Of An American Jewish Community
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Author : Isaac M. Fein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Making Of An American Jewish Community written by Isaac M. Fein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Jews categories.