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Memories of Jewish Life

Author : Augusto Segre
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080321863X
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Jewish Life written by Augusto Segre and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical memoir, translated for the first time into English, noted Jewish historian, author, translator, and activist Augusto Segre not only recounts his rich life experiences but also evokes the changing world of Italian Jewry in the twentieth century. Raised in the traditional Jewish community of Casale Monferrato in the former ghetto, Segre depicts the changes wrought on his people by emancipation, fascism, world wars, and the Holocaust. Segre was a vocal opponent of Italian fascism and a combatant in Italy s partisan war against the Nazis. With the help of Italian peasants, he and his family spent eighteen months evading German and Italian fascist soldiers during the German occupation of Italy. Segre also was an ardent Zionist who helped refugees escape to Israel and ultimately immigrated himself in 1979. He spent three months in Israel in 1948, chronicling Israel s War of Independence. With an ethnographic eye, Segre interweaves his own memories with those of his rabbi father and uses newspapers, public documents, and letters to reveal the shared emotions and moods of a people and the impact the greatest events in European and Jewish history had on them all. The trend of Italian Jews toward assimilation was evident in Segre s time, and an awareness of it pervades this work. Memories of Jewish Life provides a rare glimpse into a traditional, religious and vibrant working-class Jewish community that no longer exists.

Memories of Eden

Author : Violette Shamash
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810164086
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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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.

They Called Me Mayer July

Author : Mayer Kirshenblatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249615
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book They Called Me Mayer July written by Mayer Kirshenblatt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reccounts his youth as a Jewish child in Poland before the second World War.

Lower East Side Memories

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691095455
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Lower East Side Memories written by Hasia R. Diner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.

Reflections

Author : Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881259650
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Reflections written by Ronald H. Isaacs and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memories of Two Generations

Author : Alexander Z. Gurwitz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319034
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Two Generations written by Alexander Z. Gurwitz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States. In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world. As a boy, he studied in traditional yeshivas and earned a living as a Hebrew language teacher and kosher butcher. Widely travelled, Gurwitz recalls with wit and insight daily life in European shtetls, providing perceptive and informative comments about Jewish religion, history, politics, and social customs. Among the book’s most notable features is his first-hand, insider’s account of the yearly Jewish holiday cycle as it was observed in the nineteenth century, described as he experienced it as a child. Gurwitz’s account of his arrival in Texas forms a cornerstone record of the Galveston Immigration Movement; this memoir represents the only complete narrative of that migration from an immigrant’s point of view. Gurwitz’s descriptions about the development of a thriving Orthodox community in San Antonio provide an important and unique primary source about a facet of American Jewish life that is not widely known. Gurwitz wrote his memoir in his preferred Yiddish, and this translation into English by Rabbi Amram Prero captures the lyrical style of the original. Scholar and author Bryan Edward Stone’s special introduction and illuminating footnotes round out a superb edition that offers much to experts and general readers alike.

Jewish Memory And the Cosmopolitan Order

Author : Natan Sznaider
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745647952
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Memory And the Cosmopolitan Order written by Natan Sznaider and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were both a nation and cosmopolitan, they lived in a constant tension between particularism and universalism. And it is precisely this tension, which Sznaider seeks to capture in his innovative conception of ‘rooted cosmopolitanism', that is increasingly the destiny of all peoples today. The book pays special attention to Jewish intellectuals who played an important role in advancing universal ideas out of their particular identities. The central figure in this respect is Hannah Arendt and her concern to build a better world out of the ashes of the Jewish catastrophe. The book demonstrates how particular Jewish affairs are connected to current concerns about cosmopolitan politics like human rights, genocide, international law and politics. Jewish identity and universalist human rights were born together, developed together and are still fundamentally connected. This book will appeal both to readers interested in Jewish history and memory and to anyone concerned with current debates about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the modern world.

Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families

Author : Marsha Rehms Staff
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0822574497
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Grandparent's Memory Book for Jewish Families written by Marsha Rehms Staff and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINGLE PAPERBACK, PART OF THE JEWISH IDENTITY SET

In the Shadow of the Shtetl

Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011523
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Shtetl written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.

Zakhor

Author : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9780295975191
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Zakhor written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by UBS Publishers' Distributors. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the nature of Jewish historical memory which traditionally concentrated on the religious meaning of history rather than on the events themselves. Medieval Jewish historians focused either on the ancient past or on recent persecutions, tending to identify them with biblical patterns of oppression. For example, the Hebrew chronicles of the Crusader massacres show awareness of a deterioration in Christian-Jewish relations, using the "binding of Isaac" as a pattern for Jewish martyrdom. Although the chronicles were forgotten, the memory of the persecutions was preserved in halakhic and liturgical works. The expulsion from Spain in 1492 stimulated a minor resurgence in Jewish historiography. However, the kabbalistic myth proved more influential than history. Modern Jewish historiography is based on the secular concept of historical science and, especially since the Holocaust, cannot take the place of group memory.--Publisher description.

Jews, Germans, Memory

Author : Y. Michal Bodemann
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472105847
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Germans, Memory written by Y. Michal Bodemann and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources

Carved Memories

Author : David Noevich Goberman
Publisher : New York : Rizzoli
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Carved Memories written by David Noevich Goberman and published by New York : Rizzoli. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition organized by The Brooklyn Museum of Art, this book is an essential contribution to the history of Jewish art and culture."--BOOK JACKET.

From Ashes to Life

Author : Lucille Eichengreen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Ashes to Life written by Lucille Eichengreen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing yet inspirational account of the author's experiences in Nazi Germany and Poland during the time of the Holocaust.

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

Author : Daniela Flesler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253050146
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Work of Jewish Spain written by Daniela Flesler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.

Shuva

Author : Yehuda Kurtzer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682320
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Shuva written by Yehuda Kurtzer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a roadmap for revitalizing the connection between the Jewish people and the Jewish past

The Book of Memories

Author : Ana María Shua
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826319487
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Memories written by Ana María Shua and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

After Mussolini

Author : Guri Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912676903
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book After Mussolini written by Guri Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Mussolini explores the genesis of the 'myth of the good Italian.' This myth was deliberately promoted by the Italian Foreign Ministry, which aimed to obtain a non-punitive peace treaty by distancing the nation from German guilt. Through in-depth research, the book illustrates how Italian Jews, in their efforts to reintegrate in the country after the Second World War, contributed to shaping and legitimizing a representation of Fascist persecutions which drastically downplayed Italian responsibilities in the Holocaust. In addition, the book focuses on community reconstruction and social reintegration, and it is the first comprehensive history of post-war Italian Jewry between 1945 and 1961. *** "...a thoroughly researched, sophisticated volume of great value for advanced students. Highly recommended." - M. A. Meyer, emeritus, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Choice, February 2013, Vol. 50, No. 6. *** "Guri Schwarz is an Italian Jewish historian, academician and, since 2005, a member and coordinator of the scientific board of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation of Milan. This book is a scholarly work that contributes to a more realistic view of life in Italy; it will provide greater knowledge of the historical facts for Jewish readers in particular. - Nira G. Wolfe, Independent researcher; Head Librarian, Hebrew Theological College (retired), Skokie, IL