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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Jewish Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Jewish Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devorah Baum
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231342
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Feeling Jewish written by Devorah Baum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to “negative” feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such “Jewish” feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.
Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299142337
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain written by Norman Roth and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Muslim and Christian neighbors. This stable situation began to change in the 1390s, and through the next century hundreds of thousands of Jews converted to Christianity. Norman Roth argues here with detailed documentation that, contrary to popular myth, the conversos were sincere converts who hated (and were hated by) the remaining Jewish community. Roth examines in depth the reasons for the Inquisition against the conversos, and the eventual expulsion of all Jews from Spain. “With scrupulous scholarship based on a profound knowledge of the Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish sources, Roth sets out to shatter all existing preconceptions about late medieval society in Spain.”—Henry Kamen, Journal of Ecclesiastical History “Scholarly, detailed, researched, and innovative. . . . As the result of Roth’s writing, we shall need to rethink our knowledge and understanding of this period.”—Murray Levine, Jewish Spectator “The fruit of many years of study, investigation, and reflection, guaranteed by the solid intellectual trajectory of its author, an expert in Jewish studies. . . . A contribution that will be particularly valuable for the study of Spanish medievalism.”—Miguel Angel Motis Dolader, Annuario de Estudios Medievales
Author : David Baddiel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008490767
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Jews Don’t Count written by David Baddiel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Edition of the UK Bestseller How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘This is a brave and necessary book.’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ‘a masterpiece.’ STEPHEN FRY
Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814721222
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book We Remember with Reverence and Love written by Hasia R. Diner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In a compelling work sure to draw fire from academics and pundits alike, Hasia R. Diner shows this assumption of silence to be categorically false.
Author : Elliot Gertel
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761826248
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Over the Top Judaism written by Elliot Gertel and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the Top Judaism offers criticism of scores of television episodes and films, mainly between 1980 and 2002, that highlight the beliefs and practices of Judaism, real or perceived. Author Elliot Gertel examines parallels and precedents in both media, and organizes the works topically, concluding with the most promising efforts. Chapters on classic television episodes cite interviews with writers and producers from Gertel's rare oral histories.
Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376083
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Netanyahus written by Joshua Cohen and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 "Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever." —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
Author : Edwin Goldberg
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881236349
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)
Download or read book CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Spring 2023 written by Edwin Goldberg and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of CCAR Journal considers various scholarly issues, including a study of Bava M’tzia 59b, a discussion of Jacob Neusner and Reform Judaism, and an analysis of Joseph and Aseneth's marriage. Another article addresses equity riders in rabbinic employment contracts. The issue also contains new book reviews and poems. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Author : Carole S Kessner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476357X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals written by Carole S Kessner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community within the Jewish world in these troubled times. What unified these men and women was their commitment and allegiance to the Jewish people. Here we find Hayim Greenberg, Henry Hurwitz, Marie Syrkin, Maurice Samuel, Ben Halperin, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ludwig Lewisohn, Milton Steinberg, Will Herberg, A. M. Klein, and Mordecai Kaplan, and many others. Divided into 3 sections--Opinion Makers, Men of Letters, and Spiritual Leaders--the book will be of particular interest to students and others interested in Jewish studies, American intellectual history, as well as history of the 30s and 40s.
Author : Seth Forman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081472809X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Blacks in the Jewish Mind written by Seth Forman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews? In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways which have threatened their own cultural vitality. Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.
Author : Amram Tropper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317247078
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Ancient Jewish History written by Amram Tropper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these insights, a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method and makes a case for the new one, illustrating how to write anew ancient Jewish history. At the heart of the traditional historical method lie three fundamental presumptions. The traditional historical method regularly presumes that multiple versions of a text or tradition are equally authentic; it presumes that many ancient Jewish sources are the products of largely immanent forces of cloistered Jewish communities; and, barring any local grounds for suspicion, it presumes that most ancient Jewish texts faithfully reflect their sources and reliably recount events. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History unfurls the failings of this approach; it promotes the new historical method which circumvents the flawed traditional presumptions while plotting anew the limits of rational argumentation in historical inquiry. This crucial reappraisal is a must-read for students of Jewish and Roman history alike, and a fascinating case-study in how historians should approach their ancient sources.
Author : Elizabeth E. Eppler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429724403
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book International Bibliography Of Jewish Affairs, 1976-1977 written by Elizabeth E. Eppler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography, a project of is intended as an aid to research on and cultural aspects of contemporary ship between Jews and the non-Jewish material published in 1976 and 1977. the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the historical, social, political, Jewish life and on the relationworld. The present volume covers The Bibliography includes primarily nonfiction works published outside Israel by both Jewish and non-Jewish authors; it excludes belles lettres (with the exception of documentary novels and memoirs) and religious studies. Entries are arranged by subject, with cross-references wherever applicable; a cumulative index of names and a list of periodicals are provided at the end of the volume.
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412818148
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Modern Hebrew Literature in English Translation written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Jacobs
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535213
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Maven in Blue Jeans written by Steven L. Jacobs and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of academic essays have been written in tribute to Professor Zev Garber, and are divided to reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history and biblical interpretation.
Author : George C. Denniston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475740115
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Flesh and Blood written by George C. Denniston and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who owns your sex organs? Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain cultures have placed constraints over the individual's ownership of his or her sex organs and actively regulate and restrict the individual's access and use of those organs. In other cultures, the question of ownership of the sex organs is more decisively answered. In any culture where circumcision to any degree of either the male or female is practiced, permitted, encouraged, or even merely tolerated, it is clear that the individual is not considered to own his own sex organs. In the United States today, the medical establishment has created an is considered acceptable and desirable that anyone for environment where it any reason can authorize or execute the amputation of the foreskin from a male child's penis.
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231512449
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Judaism in America written by Marc Lee Raphael and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews have been a religious and cultural presence in America since the colonial era, and the community of Jews in the United States today—some six million people—continues to make a significant contribution to the American religious landscape. Emphasizing developments in American Judaism in the last quarter century among active participants in Jewish worship, this book provides both a look back into the 350-year history of Judaic life and a well-crafted portrait of a multifaceted tradition today. Combining extensive research into synagogue archival records and secondary sources as well as interviews and observations of worship services at more than a hundred Jewish congregations across the country, Raphael's study distinguishes itself as both a history of the Judaic tradition and a witness to the vitality and variety of contemporary American Judaic life. Beginning with a chapter on beliefs, festivals, and life-cycle events, both traditional and non-traditional, and an explanation of the enormous variation in practice, Raphael then explores Jewish history in America, from the arrival of the first Jews to the present, highlighting the emergence and development of the four branches: Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform. After documenting the considerable variety among the branches, the book addresses issues of some controversy, notably spirituality, conversion, homosexuality, Jewish education, synagogue architecture, and the relationship to Israel. Raphael turns next to a discussion of eight American Jews whose thoughts and/or activities made a huge impact on American Judaism. The final chapter focuses on the return to tradition in every branch of Judaism and examines prospects for the future.
