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Book Synopsis From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall by : Luise Hirsch
Download or read book From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall written by Luise Hirsch and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education. This compelling book tells the story of Russian and German Jews who became the first female professionals in modern history. Hirsch details their childhoods, their schooling, and their experiences at German universities.
Book Synopsis Germany's Covert War in the Middle East by : Curt Prüfer
Download or read book Germany's Covert War in the Middle East written by Curt Prüfer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of the fragile Ottoman-German alliance from the perspective of a participant. Much like fellow soldier-scholar T.E. Lawrence, Prufer and his colleagues tried to steal the loyalties of the Muslim subjects of the opposing sides. The book explores these episodes of sabotage, subversion and subterfuge - from managing spies to preparing for the attack on the Suez Canal in 1915 - and in the process sheds light onto the ways World War I played out across the Middle East. Complemented throughout by in-depth and meticulously researched footnotes, this primary source collection is an invaluable addition to the extant corpus of late Ottoman and World War I historical documents.
Book Synopsis New under the Sun by : Dr. Netta Cohen
Download or read book New under the Sun written by Dr. Netta Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of—and responses to—Palestine’s climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers’ Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists’ claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine’s climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism’s spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.
Book Synopsis Jewish and Hebrew Education in Ottoman Palestine through the Lens of Transnational History by : Talia Tadmor-Shimony
Download or read book Jewish and Hebrew Education in Ottoman Palestine through the Lens of Transnational History written by Talia Tadmor-Shimony and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses transnational history to explain the formation of modern schools in a territory that lacks modern education. The emergence of modern Jewish education in Ottoman Palestine resulted from European actors and networks' infiltration of educational concepts due to several unique elements. One of them was the activity of transnational networks and actors. The other factor is the important place of education in shaping reality in the Jewish and Hebrew discourse. The area of Ottoman Palestine was almost devoid of modern education, so it is possible to examine the ways of transferring educational concepts. Historians can diagnose the starting point and locate the actors’ biographies and journeys. The book discusses and discovers several themes, such as molding five portraits of modern Jewish and Hebrew education graduates and the function of the school as a medical site due to the shortage of public health policy.
Book Synopsis A History of Feminist and Gender Economics by : Giandomenica Becchio
Download or read book A History of Feminist and Gender Economics written by Giandomenica Becchio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a historical exploration of the genesis of feminist economics and gender economics, as well as their theoretical and methodological differences. Its narrative also serves to embed both within a broader cultural context. Although both feminist economics and gender neoclassical economics belong to the cultural process related to the central role of the political economy in promoting women’s emancipation and empowerment, they differ in many aspects. Feminist economics, mainly influenced by women’s studies and feminism, rejected neoclassical economics, while gender neoclassical economics, mainly influenced by home economics and the new home economics, adopted the neoclassical economics’ approach to gender issues. The book includes diverse case studies, which also highlight the continuity between the story of women’s emancipation and the more recent developments of feminist and gender studies. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and academia in the fields of feminist economics, gender studies, and the history of economic thought.
Download or read book Rabbi Moses written by Jacob Neusner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Jacob Neusner surveys the presentation of the prophets by the rabbis, beginning with Moses.
Book Synopsis Essays in the Judaic Background of Mark 11:12–14, 20–21; 15:23; Luke 1:37; John 19:28–30; and Acts 11:28 by : Roger David Aus
Download or read book Essays in the Judaic Background of Mark 11:12–14, 20–21; 15:23; Luke 1:37; John 19:28–30; and Acts 11:28 written by Roger David Aus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five essays deal with the influence of Judaic haggadah or lore, especially in the form of “creative historiography” or “imaginative dramatization,” on four enigmatic passages in the Gospels, and one in Acts.
Book Synopsis Simon Peter's Denial and Jesus' Commissioning Him as His Successor in John 21:15-19 by : Roger David Aus
Download or read book Simon Peter's Denial and Jesus' Commissioning Him as His Successor in John 21:15-19 written by Roger David Aus and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses early Jewish sources to analyze the significance of Day of Atonement and High Priest imagery in the narrative of Simon Peter’s threefold denial of Jesus. It then describes the influence of other early Jewish sources on Jesus’ commissioning Simon Peter as his own successor in John 21:15-19.
Book Synopsis International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War by : Jaclyn Granick
Download or read book International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War written by Jaclyn Granick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were caught in the crossfire of warring empires in a disaster of stupendous, unprecedented proportions. In response, American Jews developed a new model of humanitarian relief for their suffering brethren abroad, wandering into American foreign policy as they navigated a wartime political landscape. The effort continued into peacetime, touching every interwar Jewish community in these troubled regions through long-term refugee, child welfare, public health, and poverty alleviation projects. Against the backdrop of war, revolution, and reconstruction, this is the story of American Jews who went abroad in solidarity to rescue and rebuild Jewish lives in Jewish homelands. As they constructed a new form of humanitarianism and re-drew the map of modern philanthropy, they rebuilt the Jewish Diaspora itself in the image of the modern social welfare state.
Book Synopsis Women in the History of Science by : Hannah Wills
Download or read book Women in the History of Science written by Hannah Wills and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture. While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.
Book Synopsis Jewish Wielun - a Polish Shtetl by : Philip Jolly
Download or read book Jewish Wielun - a Polish Shtetl written by Philip Jolly and published by Philip Jolly. This book was released on 2010 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a condensed version in English of the Memorial Book of the town of Wielun, aiming to give a description and history of the Jewish community of the Polish town of Wielun.
Download or read book Culture Front written by Benjamin Nathans and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe," has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of Culture Front. This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. The articles collected here explore how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and more. The book puts culture at the forefront of analysis, treating verbal artistry itself as a kind of frontier through which Jews and Slavs imagined, experienced, and negotiated with themselves and each other. The four sections investigate the distinctive themes of that frontier: violence and civility; popular culture; politics and aesthetics; and memory. The result is a fresh exploration of ideas and movements that helped change the landscape of modern Jewish history.
Download or read book Cooking Jewish written by Judy Kancigor and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the finest in Jewish home cookery, a delectable assortment of traditional and nontraditional dishes includes nearly six hundred recipes representing all aspects of Jewish culture, including tempting dishes for holiday celebrations, regional specialties, old family favorites, and innovative new renditions of classics. Simultaneous.
Download or read book The Shtetl written by Steven T. Katz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series.
Book Synopsis The Belarusian Shtetl by : Irina Kopchenova
Download or read book The Belarusian Shtetl written by Irina Kopchenova and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Since 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, The Belarusian Shtetl creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus"--
Book Synopsis THE LONESOME TRAVELLER by : Jerry Gray
Download or read book THE LONESOME TRAVELLER written by Jerry Gray and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of banjo-playing Jerry Gray and his leadership of Canada's first folk-song group, The Travellers, beginning in 1953 and lasting over 60 years performing concerts across Canada and around the world in such locations as Toronto, Moscow, London and Nashville. The Travellers were part of the early '60's folk song boom and did concerts with Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte, Judy Collins. Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie and many others. Jerry's memoir spans over 70 years, revisits the early years singing in coffee houses and on picket lines, and takes you on a journey of 186 concerts across Canada in 1967, Canada's Centennial Year.He has received Lifetime Awards from musicians' unions, labor groups and government agencies. in Canada and the US. His most prestigious award was being asked to conduct The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in concert in Toronto in 1913, as they sang the Canadian version of This Land Is Your Land, written by The Travellers in 1954, the only Canadian to be so-honoured. In 2019, he was given a Lifetime Award by the Mariposa Folk Festival which he helped start in 1961. You will enjoy this journey with Jerry Gray.
Book Synopsis Love and Liberation by : Ralph David Fertig
Download or read book Love and Liberation written by Ralph David Fertig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two millennia of poverty, isolation, religious fundamentalism within their community, and subjugation from without, Jews across Europe joined the legions of Napoleon to tear down the ghetto walls. This epic romance, told through the eyes of idealists, entrepreneurs, puritans, prostitutes, tyrants, and fools documents their struggle, their entry into the mainstream, and the nascence of Reform Judaism. ..".a wealth of interesting historical accounts...Fertig is a fresh voice in Jewish historical fiction." --"The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles" ""Love and Liberation" is an inspiring and beautiful book." --UCLA Historian Stanley Wolpert "("Love and Liberation") is a beautifully woven tapestry of warm blooded people and cold blooded history." --Actor Edward Asner "Fertig has created a magnificent work." --Allen Freehling, Rabbi Emeritus of University Synagogue, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations
