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Learning on the Left

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684580118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Learning on the Left written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the university have made exceptional contributions to myriad disciplines, but they have played a surprising formidable role in American politics. Stephen J. Whitfield makes the case for the pertinence of Brandeis University in understanding the vicissitudes of American liberalism since the mid-twentieth century. Founded to serve as a refuge for qualified professors and students haunted by academic antisemitism, Brandeis University attracted those who generally envisioned the republic as worthy of betterment. Whether as liberals or as radicals, figures associated with the university typically adopted a critical stance toward American society and sometimes acted upon their reformist or militant beliefs. This volume is not an institutional history, but instead shows how one university, over the course of seven decades, employed and taught remarkable men and women who belong in our accounts of the evolution of American politics, especially on the left. In vivid prose, Whitfield invites readers to appreciate a singular case of the linkage of political influence with the fate of a particular university in modern America.

Bark

Author : Michael Wojtech
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781684580316
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Bark written by Michael Wojtech and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detailed information and illustrations covering each phase of a tree's lifecycle, this indispensable guidebook explains how to identify trees by their bark alone--no more need to wait for leaf season. Chapters on the structure and ecology of tree bark, descriptions of bark appearance, an easy-to-use identification key, and supplemental information on non-bark characteristics--all enhanced by more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and maps--will show you how to distinguish the textures, shapes, and colors of bark to recognize various tree species, and also understand why these traits evolved. Whether you're a professional naturalist or a parent leading a family hike, this new edition of Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast is your essential guide to the region's 67 native and naturalized tree species.

Inside Jewish Day Schools

Author : Alex Pomson
Publisher : Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati
ISBN 13 : 9781684580699
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Inside Jewish Day Schools written by Alex Pomson and published by Mandel-Brandeis Jewish Educati. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect guide to those wishing to understand the contemporary Jewish day school. This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what happens day to day, as well as what the schools mean to their studenets, families, and communities. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations are not well understood, nor is much information available about how day schools function. Inside Jewish Day Schools proves a vital guide to understanding both these distinctions and the everyday operations of these contemporary schools.

Other People's Money

Author : Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Publisher : Binker North
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Other People's Money written by Louis Dembitz Brandeis and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1914 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great monopoly in this country is money. So long as that exists, our old variety and individual energy of development are out of the question. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.

The Rani of Jhansi

Author : Harleen Singh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316092992
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Rani of Jhansi written by Harleen Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter, wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of colonialism and nationalism.

Black Genders and Sexualities

Author : S. McGlotten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137077956
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Black Genders and Sexualities written by S. McGlotten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences as shaped by gender and sex.

Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781611681925
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America written by Eitan P. Fishbane and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology that explores religious and social revival in American Judaism in the 19th century

Louis D. Brandeis

Author : Jeffrey Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300160445
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Louis D. Brandeis written by Jeffrey Rosen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism.

Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution

Author : Edward A. Purcell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300078046
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution written by Edward A. Purcell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, and particularly between the 1930s and 1950s, ideas about the nature of constitutional government, the legitimacy of judicial lawmaking, and the proper role of the federal courts evolved and shifted. This book focuses on Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion in the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which resulted in a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts. Distinguished legal historian Edward A. Purcell, Jr., shows how the Erie case provides a window on the legal, political, and ideological battles over the federal courts in the New Deal era. Purcell also offers an in-depth study of Brandeis's constitutional jurisprudence and evolving legal views. Examining the social origins and intended significance of the Erie decision, Purcell concludes that the case was a product of early twentieth-century progressivism. The author explores Brandeis's personal values and political purposes and argues that the justice was an exemplar of neither "judicial restraint" nor "neutral principles," despite his later reputation. In an analysis of the continual reconceptions of both Brandeis and Erie by new generations of judges and scholars in the twentieth century, Purcell also illuminates how individual perspectives and social pressures combined to drive the law's evolution.

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court

Author : David G. Dalin
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512600148
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court written by David G. Dalin and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan. David Dalin discusses the relationship that these Jewish justices have had with the presidents who appointed them, and given the judges' Jewish background, investigates the antisemitism some of the justices encountered in their ascent within the legal profession before their appointment, as well as the role that antisemitism played in the attendant political debates and Senate confirmation battles. Other topics and themes include the changing role of Jews within the American legal profession and the views and judicial opinions of each of the justices on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the death penalty, the right to privacy, gender equality, and the rights of criminal defendants, among other issues.

Believing

Author : Anita Hill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593298314
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Believing written by Anita Hill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart. We once thought gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's cultural and endemic, and happens to our acquaintances, colleagues, friends and family members, and it can be physical, emotional and verbal. Women of color experience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street harassment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinary people are particularly vulnerable. Anita Hill draws on her years as a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate, and on the experiences of the thousands of individuals who have told her their stories, to trace the pipeline of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured, clear, blunt terms, she demonstrates the impact it has on every aspect of our lives, including our physical and mental wellbeing, housing stability, political participation, economy and community safety, and how our descriptive language undermines progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands that our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediately.

Jews and Diaspora Nationalism

Author : Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683629
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Diaspora Nationalism written by Simon Rabinovitch and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum

עברית בהקשר

Author : Vardit Ringvald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611689181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book עברית בהקשר written by Vardit Ringvald and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the Hebrew language

Israel

Author : Anita Shapira
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 161168353X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Israel written by Anita Shapira and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the history of the Middle East

Ethics at Work

Author : Daniel Terris
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684609
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Ethics at Work written by Daniel Terris and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating assessment of the ethics program at Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest defense contractors.

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Author : Hillel Cohen
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611688124
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 written by Hillel Cohen and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists today. The murderous violence inflicted on Jews caused a fractious - and now traumatized - community of Zionists, non-Zionists, Ashkenazim, and Mizrachim to coalesce around a unified national consciousness arrayed against an implacable Arab enemy. While the Jews unified, Arabs came to grasp the national essence of the conflict, realizing that Jews of all stripes viewed the land as belonging to the Jewish people. Through memory and historiography, in a manner both associative and highly calculated, Cohen traces the horrific events of August 23 to September 1 in painstaking detail. He extends his geographic and chronological reach and uses a non-linear reconstruction of events to call for a thorough reconsideration of cause and effect. Sifting through Arab and Hebrew sources - many rarely, if ever, examined before - Cohen reflects on the attitudes and perceptions of Jews and Arabs who experienced the events and, most significantly, on the memories they bequeathed to later generations. The result is a multifaceted and revealing examination of a formative series of episodes that will intrigue historians, political scientists, and others interested in understanding the essence - and the very beginning - of what has been an intractable conflict.

Making Shabbat

Author : Joseph Reimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684580972
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Making Shabbat written by Joseph Reimer and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and engaging treatment of the experience of Jewish summer camps. This book tells the story of how Jewish camps have emerged as creators of positive spiritual experiences for Jewish youth in North America. When Jewish camps began at the dawn of the twentieth century, their leaders had little interest in creating Jewish spiritual experiences for their campers. Yet over the course of the past century, Jewish camps have gradually moved into providing primal Jewish experiences that diverse campers can enjoy, parents appreciate, and alumni fondly recall. Making Shabbat Real explores how Shabbat at camp became the focal point for these primal Jewish experiences, providing an interesting perspective on changing approaches to Jewish education and identity in North America.