Author: Joseph MarcusPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110838680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919-1939
Author: Joseph MarcusPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110838680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The Americanization of the Jews
Author: Robert SeltzerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814739571
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...
Author: Isaac LandmanClassified and Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Immigration and Acculturation of Jews from Central Europe to the USA Since 1933
Author: Henry FriedlanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Jewish Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Jewish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Ethnicity and Beyond
Author: Eli LederhendlerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199842353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish "ethnicity." In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity, Jews are often considered to belong socially to the "majority," whereas "otherness" is reserved for "minorities." But these group labels and their meanings have changed over time. This volume analyzes how "ethnic," "ethnicity," and "identity" have been applied to Jews, past and present, individually and collectively. Most of the symposium papers on the ethnicity of Jewish people and the social groups they form draw heavily on the case of American Jews, while others offer wider geographical perspectives. Contributors address ex-Soviet Jews in Philadelphia, comparing them to a similar population in Tel Aviv; Communism and ethnicity; intermarriage and group blending; American Jewish dialogue; and German Jewish migration in the interwar decades. Leading academics, employing a variety of social scientific methods and historical paradigms, propose to enhance the clarity of definitions used to relate "ethnic identity" to the Jews. They point to ethnic experience in a variety of different social manifestations: language use in social context, marital behavior across generations, spatial and occupational differentiation in relation to other members of society, and new immigrant communities as sub-ethnic units within larger Jewish populations. They also ponder the relevance of individual experience and preference as compared to the weight of larger socializing factors. Taken as a whole, this work offers revisionist views on the utility of terms like "Jewish ethnicity" that were given wider scope by scholars in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.
Jewish Social Studies
Author: The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945
Author: Otto Dov KulkaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Presented for the first time in English, the huge archive of secret Nazi reports reveals what life was like for German Jews and the extent to which the German population supported their social exclusion and the measures that led to their annihilation.
New York Jews and Great Depression
Author: Beth S. WengerPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Chronicling the experience of New York City's Jewish families during the Great Depression, this work tells the story of a generation of immigrants and their children as they faced an uncertain future in America.