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Author : Seymour Rossel
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874413663
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Journey Through Jewish History written by Seymour Rossel and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1983-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seymour Rossel
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874413359
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Journey Through Jewish History: Abraham to the sages written by Seymour Rossel and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Violette Shamash
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810164086
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Memories of Eden written by Violette Shamash and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad’s Jewish population. Shamash’s world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.
Author : Ken Spiro
Publisher : Brand Nu Words
ISBN 13 : 9781568715322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Crash Course in Jewish History written by Ken Spiro and published by Brand Nu Words. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The miracle and meaning of Jewish history."
Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197530494
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Yosef Eisen
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9781568713236
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Miraculous Journey written by Yosef Eisen and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Jewish people. Contains brief chapters on medieval Christian antisemitism, the Spanish Inquisition, and 19th-early 20th-century Russian antisemitism. Chs. 24-31 (pp. 389-535) discuss various aspects of the Holocaust.
Author : Yaffa Ganz
Publisher : Mesorah Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780899060361
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Sand and Stars written by Yaffa Ganz and published by Mesorah Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story, peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Ch
Author : Seymour Rossel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874413670
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Journey Through Jewish History: The age of faith and the age of freedom written by Seymour Rossel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874414158
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (141 download)
Download or read book A Teacher's Guide for Seymour Rossel's Journey Through Jewish History written by John Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leila Leah Bronner
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9655240479
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Journey to Heaven written by Leila Leah Bronner and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of the basic tenets of Jewish belief regarding the afterlife, resurrection, immortality, judgment, messianism, and the world to come are laid out in this fascinating and accessible volume. Beginning with the Bible’s references to Sheol and its allusions to resurrection, this survey explores immortality and bodily resurrection in Second Temple literature; the Mishnah’s discussions of olam ha-ba, or the world to come, and how to merit entry into it; and the Talmud’s depictions of paradise and hell, and the soul’s journey through these metaphysical landscapes. The book also explores the views of medieval scholars such as Maimonides and Nahmanides, Jewish mystical teachings about reincarnation, and modern views of faith and belief, as well as the evolving view of the Messiah over the course of Jewish history. This absorbing study demonstrates that the afterlife is indeed a vital part of Judaism as it reveals how generations of Jews, from biblical times to the present, have grappled with the core ideas and beliefs about the hereafter.
Author : Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451418590
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Experience written by Steven Leonard Jacobs and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987155
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Seventh Heaven written by Ilan Stavans and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
Author : Ken Spiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757324061
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)
Download or read book WorldPerfect written by Ken Spiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of an answer to the question of what would constitute a perfect world, author Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds and religions. His findings revealed six core elements: Respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and social responsibility. He then set off on a journey to find out why these were such common goals across cultural, economic, social and racial lines, and in the process, traced the history of the development of world religions, values and ethics. As a rabbi, he paid particular attention to how Judaism impacted, and was influenced by, the course of these developments. The result is a highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews. The history of religion, presented in Spiro’s highly readable style, is a fascinating and timely subject, especially in today’s volatile religious climate. Spiro divides his book into five engaging parts: Where the Quality of Mercy Was Not Strained: The World of Greece and Rome Against the Grain: The Jewish View A Father to Many Nations: Abraham and the Implications of Monotheism With Sword and Fire: The Rise of Christianity and Islam The New Promised Land: Impact of Judaism on Liberal Democracies Readers of all faiths will find that the elements of a perfect world can only be achieved by a common understanding of our mutual backgrounds and that our diverse religions are all merely branches growing from one single tree.
Author : Rebecca Abrams
Publisher : Ashmolean Museum Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9781910807033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Journey written by Rebecca Abrams and published by Ashmolean Museum Oxford. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are some of the remarkable Jewish objects in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, brought together here for the first time to tell the history of the Jewish people from Ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. Spanning 4000 years and fourteen countries, they document the astonishing diversity and adaptability of Jewish life over the centuries, and the long history of close interaction with other cultures and religions of the world."--Publisher's description.
Author : Katie Lady Magnus
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 written by Katie Lady Magnus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885" by Katie Lady Magnus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Irving Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883658826
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)
Download or read book World of Our Fathers written by Irving Howe and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683654
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book If I Am Not for Myself written by Mike Marqusee and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewish New York of the 1930s and 40s, his struggles with anti-Semitism and the twists and turns that led him from anti-fascism to militant Zionism. In the course of this deeply personal story, Marqusee refutes the claims of Israel and Zionism on Jewish loyalty and laments their impact on the Jewish diaspora. Rather, he argues for a richer, more multi-dimensional understanding of Jewish history and identity, and reclaims vital political and personal space for those castigated as "self-haters" by the Jewish establishment.
