Sephardic American Voices
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Sephardic American Voices
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Author : Diane Matza
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1998-11
Sephardic American Voices written by Diane Matza and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with American literature categories.
A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture.
The American Jew
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Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The American Jew written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Religion categories.
The Jewish community in America is the largest and most influential outside Israel. In this book, Dan Cohn-Sherbok interviews members of the Jewish community in Denver and records their words. He also speaks to non-Jews who come into daily contact with the Jews. Over 100 varied voices are sampled.
Chosen Voices
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Author : Mark Slobin
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2002
Chosen Voices written by Mark Slobin and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.
"Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology, and an insider's look at a profession that is also a vocation.Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. The job of the hazzan--much more than the traditional ""messenger to God""--is deeply embedded in cultural, social, and religious symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Slobin traces the development of the American cantorate from the nebulous beginnings of the hazzan as a recognizable figure through the heyday of the superstar sacred singer in the early twentieth century to a diverse portrait of today's cantorate, which now includes women as well as men. Slobin's focus on the current nature of the profession includes careful consideration of the sacred singer's part in creating and maintaining the worship service, the recent relationship between the rabbi and the hazzan within the synagogue, and the music that contemporary cantors sing. This first paperback edition features a new preface by the author. A thirty-five-minute cassette for use with Chosen Voices is available separately from the University of Illinois Press."
Sephardi Voices
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Author : Henry Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-02
Sephardi Voices written by Henry Green and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an abrupt end to these once vibrant communities, scattering their members to the four corners of the earth. Their stories are mostly untold. Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews is a window into the experiences of these communities and their stories of survival. Through gripping first-hand accounts and stunning portrait and documentary photography, we hear on-the-ground stories of pogroms in Libya and Egypt, the burning of synagogues in Syria, the terrible Farhud in Iraq, families escaping via the great airlifts of the Magic Carpet and Operations Ezra and Nehemiah, husbands smuggled in carpets into Iran in search of wives. The authors also provide crucial historical background for these events, as well as updates on the lives of some of these Sephardi Jews who have gone on to rebuild fortunes in London and New York, write novels, and win Nobel Prizes. Sephardi Voices is at once a wide-ranging and intimate story of a large-scale catastrophe and a portrait of the vulnerability of the passage of time.
Jewish American Poetry
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Author : Jonathan N. Barron
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2000
Jewish American Poetry written by Jonathan N. Barron and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with American poetry categories.
A rich and provocative overview of Jewish American poetry.
Contemporary Sephardic Identity In The Americas
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Author : Margalit Bejarano
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-18
Contemporary Sephardic Identity In The Americas written by Margalit Bejarano and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-18 with History categories.
Offers a wide overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.
Passing Fancies In Jewish American Literature And Culture
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Author : Judith Ruderman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Passing Fancies In Jewish American Literature And Culture written by Judith Ruderman and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Passing Fancies Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today’s contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and environment, rather than essential qualities. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity—seeking, on the one hand, deep engagement with Jewish history and the experiences of the Jewish people, while holding steadfastly, on the other hand, to the understanding that identity is fluid and multivalent. Looking at a carefully chosen set of texts from American literature, Ruderman elaborates on the strategies Jews have used to "pass" from the late 19th century to the present—nose jobs, renaming, clothing changes, religious and racial reclassification, and even playing baseball. While traversing racial and religious identities has always been a feature of America’s nation of immigrants, Ruderman shows how the complexities of identity formation and deformation are critically relevant during this important cultural moment.
The Cambridge Companion To Jewish American Literature
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Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-12
The Cambridge Companion To Jewish American Literature written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-12 with History categories.
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
The Colors Of Jews
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Author : Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-06-14
The Colors Of Jews written by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-14 with Social Science categories.
Exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian Peninsula, Asia, Africa, and India. Kaye/Kantrowitz delves into the largely uncharted territory of Jews of color and argues that Jews are an increasingly multiracial people. From publisher description.
The Bloomsbury Anthology Of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
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Author : Deborah Ager
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-09-26
The Bloomsbury Anthology Of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry written by Deborah Ager and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.