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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Guide to Jewish Life in Washtenaw County
Author: A Guide to Jewish Life in Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County
Author: Jewish Life in Washtenaw County
Author: Ann Arbor Area Handbook and Guide
Author: Spear & AssociatesPublisher:
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Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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
The Annual Ann Arbor Guide
Author: Finder Binder
Author: National Guide to Funding in Religion
Author: Marrying Out
Author: Keren R. McGinityPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013151
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“Captures the telling details and the idiosyncratic trajectory of interfaith relationships and marriages in America.” —The Forward When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are “lost” to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish men and discovers what intermarriage has meant to them and their families. She finds that these husbands strive to bring up their children as Jewish without losing their heritage. Marrying Out argues that the “gendered ethnicity” of intermarried Jewish men, growing out of their religious and cultural background, enables them to raise Jewish children. McGinity’s book is a major breakthrough in understanding Jewish men’s experiences as husbands and fathers, how Christian women navigate their roles and identities while married to them, and what needs to change for American Jewry to flourish. Marrying Out is a must read for Jewish men and all the women who love them. “An important analysis of this thorny issue . . . filled with vivid vignettes about intermarried couples.” —Jewish Book World
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.