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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Who's who in American Jewry
Author: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Author: Dara HornPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393531570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
Who's who in American Jewry
Author: Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
Author: Wolfgang BehnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414357
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
Who's who in Technology
Author: The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
Author: Lawrence BaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611682083
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An imprint of University of New England.
Biography Almanac
Author: Walford's Guide to Reference Material
Author: Albert John WalfordPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853655640
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
How and where to Look it Up
Author: Robert W. MurpheyPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
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Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Reference works and their use; Basic tipes of reference sources; Specific sources of information.
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