Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Jewish Repository
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Jewish Repository
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Jewish Repository, Or Monthly Communications Respecting the Jews and the Proceedings of the London Society
Author: The Jewish Repository
Author: Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum
Author: Victor TcherikoverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
World of Our Fathers
Author: Irving HowePublisher:
ISBN: 9780883658826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.
Sacred Trash
Author: Adina HoffmanPublisher: Schocken
ISBN: 080521223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITERATURE Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. This tale of buried communal treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other modern heroes responsible for the collection’s rescue with explorations of the medieval documents themselves—letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion-conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and mysterious magical charms. Presenting a panoramic view of almost a thousand years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole bring contemporary readers into the heart of this little-known trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed “the Living Sea Scrolls.” Part biography, part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed in the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
The Biblical Repository
Author: Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The Jewish Division in the Reference Depatment of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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