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Book Synopsis Guide to the YIVO Archives by : Yivo Institute For Jewish Research
Download or read book Guide to the YIVO Archives written by Yivo Institute For Jewish Research and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YIVO, founded in 1925 in Wilno (Vilnius), is a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language, and culture. During the 1920s and early 1930s a network of YIVO affiliates was established across Europe and the Americas including one in New York, which became the institute's new home when YIVO was reestablished in 1940 by members of its board who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. This is the first repository-level finding aid to the archives (over 1,400 collections) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. It includes a brief history of the institute and archives, descriptive entries on each collection, a detailed index of key words and subject headings, and information on the archive's basic services.
Book Synopsis Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 by : Daniel Soyer
Download or read book Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 written by Daniel Soyer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
Book Synopsis Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area by : Estelle M. Guzik
Download or read book Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area written by Estelle M. Guzik and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections by :
Download or read book National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Book Synopsis Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA Sp-2005-4110) by : Boris Chertok
Download or read book Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA Sp-2005-4110) written by Boris Chertok and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's 60-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes (volumes two through four are forthcoming), academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, and General Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy: Sources in the United States and Canada by : Arthur Kurzweil
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy: Sources in the United States and Canada written by Arthur Kurzweil and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a projected three-volume guide for helping the Jewish family historian find source material (vols. 2 and 3 will focus on non-North American sources and topical issues). After a section of articles on immigration and naturalization, descriptions of institutional resources are arranged by
Download or read book Shtetl Routes written by Emil Majuk and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Łódź Ghetto written by Isaiah Trunk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his comprehensive examination of the Lódz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they invaded Poland in 1939. Lódz had been home to nearly a quarter million Jews. When the Soviet military arrived in January 1945, they found 877 living Jews and the remains of a vast industrial enterprise that had employed masses of enslaved Jewish laborers. Based on an exhaustive study of primary sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, and Russian, Isaiah Trunk, a former resident of Lódz, reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning; forced labor; diseases and mortality; crime and deportations; living conditions; political, social, and cultural life; and resistance. Included are translations of the 141 documents that Trunk reproduced in his volume.
Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Haym Soloveitchik
Download or read book Collected Essays written by Haym Soloveitchik and published by Jewish Cultural Studies. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history and takes issue with a number of reigning views. His insistence that proper understanding requires substantive, in-depth analysis of the sources leads him to a searching analysis of oft-cited halakhic texts of Ashkenaz, frequently with conclusions that differ from the current consensus. Medieval Jewish historians cannot, he argues, avoid engaging in detailed textual criticism, and texts must always be interpreted in the context of the legal culture of their time. Historians who shirk these tasks risk reinforcing a version that supports their own preconceptions, and retrojecting later notions on to an earlier age. These basic methodological points underlie every topic discussed. In Part I, devoted to the cultural origins of Ashkenaz and its lasting impact, Professor Soloveitchik questions the scholarly consensus that the roots of Ashkenaz lie deep in Palestinian soil. He challenges the widespread notion that it was immemorial custom (minhag kadmon) that primarily governed Early Ashkenaz, the culture that emerged in the Rhineland in the late tenth century and which was ended by the ravages of the First Crusade (1096). He similarly rejects the theory that it was only towards the middle of the eleventh century that the Babylonian Talmud came to be regarded as fully authoritative. On the basis of an in-depth analysis of the literature of the time, he shows that the scholars of Early Ashkenaz displayed an astonishing command of the complex corpus of the Babylonian Talmud and viewed it at all times as the touchstone of the permissible and the forbidden. The section concludes with his own radical proposal as to the source of Ashkenazi culture and the stamp it left upon the Jews of northern Europe for close to a millennium. The second part of the volume treats the issue of martyrdom as perceived and practised by Jews under Islam and Christianity. In one of the longer essays, Soloveitchik claims that Maimonides' problematic Iggeret ha-Shemad is a work of rhetoric, not halakhah - a conclusion that has generated much criticism from other scholars, to whom he replies one by one. This is followed by a comprehensive study of kiddush ha-shem in Ashkenaz, which draws him into an analysis of whether aggadic sources were used by the Tosafists in halakhic arguments, as some historians claim; whether there was any halakhic validation of the widespread phenomenon of voluntary martyrdom; and, indeed, whether halakhic considerations played any part in such tragic life-and-death issues. The book concludes with two essays on Mishneh torah which argue that that famed code must also be viewed as a work of art which sustains, as masterpieces do, multiple conflicting interpretations.
Book Synopsis Distinguished Jews of America by : Jacob Pfeffer
Download or read book Distinguished Jews of America written by Jacob Pfeffer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuning in written by Lisa Aiken and published by Devora Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational true stories collected by the author that reveal the spiritual frequencies that help us keep in sync with the Divine.
Download or read book The Pleasant Way written by Avrohom Pam and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torah thoughts based on and adapted from the teaching of Rabbi Abraham Pam.
Author :Sidney Sorkin Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :502 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Bridges to an American City by : Sidney Sorkin
Download or read book Bridges to an American City written by Sidney Sorkin and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landsmanshaften, organizations named after their old world origins, were a significant part of the immigrant experience. The Chicago segment was part of a universal manifestation from 1880-1980, which included European and Asian immigrants. These voluntary associations, both independent and secular, served each ethnic group with a wide variety of critical services during a stressful time of alienation and adjustment. For some, these societies became a refuge of comfort and security. For many others, perhaps the majority, the societies became a bridge into the mainstream of America.
Book Synopsis Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York by : Hannah Kliger
Download or read book Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York written by Hannah Kliger and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating portrait of family and community life among Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, prepared in the 1930s through the WPA Federal Writers' Project, is published here in English for the first time. The WPA Yiddish Writers' Group, headed by I.E. Rontch, conducted an ambitious study of some 2,500 landsmanshaftn, associations of Jewish immigrants from the same hometown that played an important role in helping newcomers adjust to life in America. The results of the survey, an incomparable source for the study of Jewish immigration history, were disseminated in two Yiddish volumes in 1938 and 1939; however, the project ended before this abridged English version could be published.
Book Synopsis The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry by : Efroim Oshry
Download or read book The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry written by Efroim Oshry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1 (pp. 1-173), "The Kovno Ghetto, 1941-1944", is a history and memoir by Oshry, a former student at the Slobodka Yeshiva. Figured prominently are many great Torah scholars, as well as simple Jews (including children) whose spiritual resistance to the Nazis included devotion to religious practice to the point of martyrdom. Oshry, a rabbi, survived until liberation in a hidden bunker for 38 days. Pt. 2 (pp. 178-291), "The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry: The Cities and Towns of Jewish Lithuania", provides short histories of 47 communities, with a focus on their outstanding religious personalities and institutions, and an account of the destruction of each of these communities and almost all of their inhabitants during the Holocaust.
Author :Frédérique Apffel-Marglin Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 :9781433163371 Total Pages :270 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (633 download)
Book Synopsis Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi by : Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Download or read book Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi written by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reconsideration of spirituality as a lived experience in the lives of the contributors. The authors speak both as well-informed scholars and as individuals who experienced the lived spirituality they give voice to. The authors do not place themselves above and outside of what they are writing about but within that world. They speak of living psychospiritual traditions of healing both the self and the world; of traditions that have not disembedded the self from the wider world. Those traditions are from indigenous North and South America (5 essays), a Buddhist/Shakta from Bengal, an Indo-Persian Islamic psychoanalyst, and a mystical Jewish feminist rabbi. The book also includes a historical essay about the extermination of the Renaissance worldview of Anima Mundi. "This book is a remarkable collection of essays on a topic of immense importance for our times. Bringing years of experience and expertise, the authors illustrate brilliantly the healing dimensions of the living world. Apffel-Marglin and Varese are to be congratulated on this singular achievement." --Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology "We have seen the de-sacralization of nature by a reductionistic materialist view which is taking us to the brink of self-destruction. This book brings forth an array of multicultural and 21st century post-materialistic science perspectives, which reveal that spirit is indeed embedded in matter, and that we are surrounded by visible and invisible non-human subjects. We need more than ever to listen to the many voices of nature and spirit. The recuperation of animistic worldviews along with the development of non-reductionistic science is to be derived from direct experience of the sentient interrelatedness of the natural world. In this regard, this book represents an important and timely contribution." --Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD, anthropologist, author of Vegetalismo, Shamanism Among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon, among other books; Director of Wasiwaska, Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness, Florianópolis, Brazil
Download or read book Rav Pam written by Shimon Finkelman and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
