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Author: Petra van der Zande Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9657542502 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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The amazing life story of Harry Klafter, a Dutch Jewish boy who manages to escape Westerbork transit camp on the eve of his deportation in 1944. He finds his way to British Mandate Palestine in 1946, joins the Haganah in 1948 and fights for his new homeland. In Israel, Harry Klafter becomes Zvi Eyal. This book chronicles his life in Israel until now, when Zvi is 90 years old.
Author: Petra van der Zande Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9657542502 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
The amazing life story of Harry Klafter, a Dutch Jewish boy who manages to escape Westerbork transit camp on the eve of his deportation in 1944. He finds his way to British Mandate Palestine in 1946, joins the Haganah in 1948 and fights for his new homeland. In Israel, Harry Klafter becomes Zvi Eyal. This book chronicles his life in Israel until now, when Zvi is 90 years old.
Author: Petra van der Zande Publisher: Gefen Books ISBN: 9789657023303 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Zvi Eyal was born Harry Klafter in Utrecht, the Netherlands. As a teenager, he was imprisoned in Westerbork, the Nazi transit camp whose purpose was to prepare Jews for extermination by creating a virtual reality, depicting a quasi-normalcy made possible by the victims' denial of the facts on the ground. Zvi finished high school in defiance of the ongoing extermination of Dutch Jewry. On the eve of his transport to Auschwitz he miraculously escaped, and with the courageous help of three Dutch families survived the war. The saga of his illegal aliyah to Palestine, participation in the War of Independence, the family he built, and the distinguished career he led in surgery exemplifies the ingathering of the Jewish people in its exaltation and glory. Zvi's tenacity and drive, coupled with the hospitality and humanity of those who opened their doors and their hearts during the years of fury, are testaments of hope in mankind's ability to overcome evil and seek a better tomorrow.
Author: Arthur Hertzberg Publisher: HarperOne ISBN: 9780062517104 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 480
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"I became an American by refusing to assimilate, writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and confidante to the powerful has advocated that a true Jew is not an ethnic Jew who makes central his support for Israel or his fight against anti-Semitism, but rather a person deeply tied to the religion and its principles. Hertzberg traces his own self-discovery, confronting the choices he has made and offering a history of American Jews and their struggle for identity. Undaunted by controversy, Hertzberg has been the moral conscience of American Jews, taking a stand on all the great issues of our time, from the creation of Israel through the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam War and the highly fractious world of Jews today both here and abroad. Hertzberg is not willing to cede the great tradition either to religious fundamentalists or to the completely secularized. His life is a window onto the forces that have buffeted and strengthened Jews in our times, and his compelling story is an important portrait of the history and culture of the twentieth century, including his dealings with such luminaries as Golda Meir, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry Kissinger. This book reflects the richness of the extraordinarily active life of a man of deep knowledge and integrity. Learned in many areas, genuinely interested in other religions, Hertzberg expresses his own faith with a passion and honesty that give his story a singular strength. Written in a clear, engaging style, A Jew in America is a triumph of the human spirit.
Author: Ruth Pearl Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing ISBN: 9781683361213 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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A rich collection of reflections on what it means to be Jewish. Includes personal essays, statements of theology, life stories and historical reflections. Will inspire Jewish people of all backgrounds to reflect upon and take pride in their identity.
Author: William David Davies Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521219297 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 766
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Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
Author: Angelos Dalachanis Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004375740 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 615
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In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.
Author: Francine Friedman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004471057 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 968
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A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.
Author: Don Seeman Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813548438 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 246
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"Little by little, an egg will come to walk upon its own leg." Ethiopian-Israelis fondly quote this bit of Amharic folk wisdom, reflecting upon the slow, difficult history that allowed them to fulfill their destiny far from the Horn of Africa where they were born. But today, along with those Ethiopians who have been recognized as Jews by the State of Israel, many who are called "Feres Mura," the descendants of Ethiopian Jews whose families converted to Christianity but have now reasserted their Jewish identity, still await full acceptance in Israel. Since the 1990s, they have sought homecoming through Israel's "Law of Return," but have been met with reticence and suspicion on a variety of fronts. One People, One Blood expertly documents this tenuous relationship and the challenges facing the Feres Mura. Distilling more than ten years of ethnographic research, Don Seeman depicts the rich culture of the group, as well as their social and cultural vulnerability, and addresses the problems that arise when immigration officials, religious leaders, or academic scholars try to determine the legitimacy of Jewish identity or Jewish religious experience.
Author: Petra van der Zande
Author: Petra van der Zande
Author: Petra van der Zande
Author: Daniel C. Tabor
Author: Arthur Hertzberg
Author: Ruth Pearl
Author: William David Davies
Author: Angelos Dalachanis
Author: Aaron Koller
Author: Francine Friedman
Author: Don Seeman