Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Biennial session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: National Conference of Jewish Charities (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Biennial session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: Biennial Session
Author: Proceedings at the Annual Session
Author: National Conference of Jewish Social Service (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service at the annual session
Author: National Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
No Small Matter
Author: Anat HelmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197577326
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology, and law. In other academic fields, however, young children in particular have received less attention, perhaps because they rarely leave written documentation. The interdisciplinary symposium in this volume seeks to overcome this challenge by delving into different facets of Jewish childhood in history, literature, and film. No Small Matter visits five continents and studies Jewish children from the 19th century through the present. It includes essays on the demographic patterns of Jewish reproduction; on the evolution of bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies; on the role children played in the project of Hebrew revival; on their immigrant experiences in the United States; on novels for young Jewish readers written in Hebrew and Yiddish; and on Jewish themes in films featuring children. Several contributions focus on children who survived the Holocaust or the children of survivors in a variety of settings ranging from Europe, North Africa, and Israel to the summer bungalow colonies of the Catskill Mountains. In addition to the symposium, this volume also features essays on a transformative Yiddish poem by a Soviet Jewish author and on the cultural legacy of Lenny Bruce.
Mishpachah
Author: Leonard J. GreenspoonPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612494692
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing roles of males and females in society at large have contributed to differing expectations as to their roles within the family. The relative increase in the number of adopted children, from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds, and more recently, the shifting reality of assisted reproductive technologies and the possibility of cloning human embryos, all raise significant moral and theological questions that require serious consideration. Through the studies brought together in this volume, more than a dozen scholars look at the Jewish family in wide variety of social, historical, religious, and geographical contexts. In the process, they explore both diverse and common features in the past and present, and they chart possible courses for Jewish families in the future.
That Pride of Race and Character
Author: Caroline E. LightPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479854530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,” declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through so many ages of trial and vicissitude.” In That Pride of Race and Character, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of benevolence and charity and explores its southern roots. Light provides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and nativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge network of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those considered “their own” while also proving themselves to be exemplary white citizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from various southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders and their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of “fitting in” in a place and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the southern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region’s racial mores and left behind a rich legacy.
Biennial Report of the Board of Control of the State Charitable Institutions of Kansas
Author: Kansas. Board of Control of State Charitable InstitutionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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