Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Guide to Jewish Life in Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County
Author: Guide to Jewish Life in Washtenaw County
Author: Jewish Life in Washtenaw County
Author: Newcomer's Guide to Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County
Author: Ice Glen
Author: Joan AckermannPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822221753
Category : Berkshire Hills (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: Based on a true story, SAVAGES takes place in 1902, a few years after the United States invaded the Philippines to free them from Spanish colonial rule. But American troops now find themselves fighting a long, costly war against the peop
Ann Arbor Area Handbook and Guide
Author: Spear & AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Passport as Home
Author: Andrei S. MarkovitsPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life’s work. As we follow his quest to find a home, we encounter his engagement with the important political, social, and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. We also learn about his musical preferences, from classical to rock; his love of team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and American football; and his devotion to dogs and their rescue. Above all, the book analyzes the travails of emigration the author experienced twice, moving from Romania to Vienna and then from Vienna to New York. Markovits’s Candide-like travels through the ups and downs of post-1945 Europe and America offer a panoramic view of key currents that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. By shedding light on the cultural similarities and differences between both continents, the book shows why America fascinated Europeans like Markovits and offered them a home that Europe never did: academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity and religious tolerance. America for Markovits was indeed the “beacon on the hill,” despite the ugliness of its racism, the prominence of its everyday bigotry, the severity of its growing economic inequality, and the presence of other aspects that mar this worthy experiment’s daily existence.
The Annual Ann Arbor Guide
Author: Where to Turn
Author: Kathryn FlynnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Radical Judaism
Author: Arthur GreenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300152337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred. In doing so, he rethinks such concepts as God, the origins and meaning of existence, human nature, and revelation to construct a new Judaism for the twenty-first century.