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Orange County Jew

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449073484
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Orange County Jew written by Martin Aaron Brower and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness. Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture. However, during the years following World War II, Orange County was transformed from a small rural community with citrus groves, row crops and cattle -- first into a bedroom community for neighboring Los Angeles County and then into a dynamic urban empire. As the County's population and employment base exploded, Orange County's Jewish population grew from a small enclave of Jewish shopkeepers into a vibrant Jewish community in excess of 100,000. To the surprise of many, Orange County now boasts one of the leading centers of Jewish life in the nation, complete with 30 synagogues, a grand new Jewish Community Center, one of the nation's largest Jewish day schools and one of its finest homes for the aging. In his book "Orange County Jew: A Memoir," Brower superimposes the growth of the Jewish community over the amazing development of Orange County itself, and uses as a framework the personal story of his own 36 years as a resident of Orange County and as a player among its major real estate development companies and its entrepreneurial leaders.

Orange County Jew: a Memoir

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449073506
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Orange County Jew: a Memoir written by Martin Aaron Brower and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Martin Brower moved his family from heavily Jewish Los Angeles to barely Jewish Orange County, California, in 1974, his Los Angeles friends were amazed at his bravery and his foolishness. Orange County was considered anti-Semitic and lacking in culture. However, during the years following World War II, Orange County was transformed from a small rural community with citrus groves, row crops and cattle -- first into a bedroom community for neighboring Los Angeles County and then into a dynamic urban empire. As the Countys population and employment base exploded, Orange Countys Jewish population grew from a small enclave of Jewish shopkeepers into a vibrant Jewish community in excess of 100,000. To the surprise of many, Orange County now boasts one of the leading centers of Jewish life in the nation, complete with 30 synagogues, a grand new Jewish Community Center, one of the nations largest Jewish day schools and one of its finest homes for the aging. In his book Orange County Jew: A Memoir, Brower superimposes the growth of the Jewish community over the amazing development of Orange County itself, and uses as a framework the personal story of his own 36 years as a resident of Orange County and as a player among its major real estate development companies and its entrepreneurial leaders.

Los Angeles Jew

Author : Martin Aaron Brower
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146787096X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Jew written by Martin Aaron Brower and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 80 years of this author's life, the Jewish population of the City of Los Angeles exploded from a mere 65,000 Jews to 520,000 Jews, establishing Los Angeles as the third largest Jewish population center in the world.Yet, little has been written about this transformation, with most Jewish generational novels concentrating on the New YorkJewish experience.And yet,the Los Angeles Jewish experience was completely different from that of New York. The author, a native of Los Angeles,addresses the Los Angeles Jewish experienceas a personal memoir -- sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and always engrossing.

Jewish Pioneers of Orange County

Author : Dalia Taft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Pioneers of Orange County written by Dalia Taft and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Chronology of the Early Jewish Settlers in the Orange County Area from 1875 to about 1925

Author : Joseph Wittenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Chronology of the Early Jewish Settlers in the Orange County Area from 1875 to about 1925 written by Joseph Wittenstein and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Orange County

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (872 download)

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In Jewish Texas

Author : Stanley E. Ely
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875651873
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book In Jewish Texas written by Stanley E. Ely and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You mean you're Jewish, and you're from Texas?" he decided to do more than smile and say, "Yes." The result is this funny, caustic, and nostalgic tale in the tradition of popular regionally and ethnically focused memoirs. Around the beginning of this century, Ely's parents (as young children) and grandparents immigrated to Galveston, fleeing oppression as Jews in Russia and Romania. Their arrival sets Ely's memoir in motion. Combining the stories of the author's grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends and including an abundance of family photos, the book continues until today, as Ely faces his own senior years living in New York. Though the book is not a typical "coming out" story, the reader also learns of Ely's gradual and at times reluctant acceptance of himself as a gay man. The story of Ely's family and their friends reflects the impressive growth of Dallas and its Jewish population in the first half of this century. As he narrates the building of new lives in Texas, Ely also portrays the integration of a minority segment of Jewish immigrants in America outside the great cities of the North. Of himself, the author tells of growing up in Dallas within the security of an intensely Jewish society. Then he prepares for the moment of his first departure for college in the North, and he thinks of his mother's arrival from Russia as a girl of eight. Of his own first significant step away from Texas, he says his mother "probably knew--and later I also realized--that that was the eventual crossing of an ocean for me." By now, Ely has lived in Manhattan for four decades. Yet he finds himself telling friends, "I'm going home for Passover" as he prepares for another annual trip to Texas. Once there, he takes a fresh look and concludes that Texas Jews are different from those elsewhere: they have dual citizenship, in Judaism and in Texas.

I Shall Not Die!

Author : Hart N. Hasten
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652293022
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book I Shall Not Die! written by Hart N. Hasten and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He came penniless to the United States after surviving the Holocaust Hart Hasten rose to the top levels of finance and industry. He became an integral part of his community at large, not only giving of his wealth but also his time and knowledge. He supported the Indiana University, United Jewish Communities, and many more, and founded The Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis. He has been living in Indianapolis, Indiana since 1964, and visits Israel several times per year. Two of his three children, and their families, live in Israel. The book I Shall Not Die! is the personal memoir of Holocaust survivor, Hart N. Hasten. Looking back from the perspective of age seventy, the author presents an amazing account of escape and rescue from Nazi occupied Poland and his formative years in the DP camps of Europe. The saga continues as Hasten arrives in America and achieves extraordinary success in business and attains a position of international leadership in Jewish affairs. The book's central core is an intimate account of Hasten's twenty-five year friendship with revered Israeli political leader and Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. Hasten serves up a fascinating series of personal portraits, anecdotes and insights culled from his close relationships with Israeli and Jewish luminaries including Ariel Sharon, Elie Wiesel and Benjamin Netanyahu. Through it all, Hasten articulates the driving force and commitment to Jewish strength and independence that have defined him as a world recognized leader, as a serious and observant Jew and as a man.

Free as a Jew

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Wicked Son
ISBN 13 : 1642939714
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Free as a Jew written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Wicked Son. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation. They need adults with the confidence to teach their importance. Ruth tried to take on that challenge as dangers to freedom mounted and shifted sides on the political spectrum. At the high point of her teaching at Harvard University, she witnessed the unraveling of standards of honesty and truth until the academy she left was no longer the one she had entered.

Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine

Author : Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph. D.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578540368
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine written by Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph. D. and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine is a manifesto of feminine light, truth & POWER. Because... the time has come for women to stop eating the poisonous bitter apples of old patriarchal lies! Rabbi Tamara Kolton was the senior rabbi at an unusual atheistic temple. But there came a time when she was keeping a secret. This is a story of self-discovery and the deep healing that every woman needs in her life. It is also the story of the most misunderstood woman in history: Eve. Yes, Eve of the garden, the snake and the damn apple. We are taught that Eve was a sinner. But that is not true. Eve is the Mother of Spiritual Bravery. For thousands of years, women have been shamed and silenced. But we are waking up as a collective and refusing to be silent anymore. What do you truly yearn for deep down in your gut? What would you do if you had the audacity to act on your own behalf? Your yearnings, your urges to transform your life and take those big, even terrifying leaps, actually are a call to bravery and spiritual fulfillment from your true spiritual mother, the radical, beautiful, Eve. We are going to answer the call. In this book, Rabbi Tamara Kolton will guide you on a healing journey in which you will tenderly be asked to love your shame and fear away and step onto a path of spiritual healing and bravery. Through magnificent exercises and gorgeous memoir, you will: Journey deep inside the myth of the Garden of Eden and experience Eve for who she REALLY is. Discover God in the feminine and how this fierce, feminine and nourishing energy can truly transform your life and heal our world. Connect with feminine LIGHT, TRUTH & POWER! Because Eve was no sinner. Eve was a spiritual badass. You can be too. This book will show you how.

Orange County

Author : Various artists
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Orange County written by Various artists and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Orange County '98

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Orange County '98 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peddler's Grandson

Author : Edward Cohen
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385335911
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Peddler's Grandson written by Edward Cohen and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing “Dixie”in his segregated school and saying sh’ma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir, Cohen tells a story as universal as it is particular, at once a deeply personal account of growing up an outsider and a vibrant family story of three generations of American Jews. To Edward Cohen, it seemed the entire world was Jewish. Then he went to school, where he was the only child who didn’t bow his head during Christian prayers, the only child not invited to dance class. As the polite ‘50s segued into the racially explosive ‘60s, Jackson, Mississippi, would never be the same. And Edward would escape to the University of Miami in search of a new identity. There, he thought he would find other Jews and finally gain the acceptance he never had. But once again he found himself an outsider — this time as a southerner. A stirring memoir for anyone who’s ever felt a loss of identity or pressure to conform, The Peddler’s Grandson is sure to touch readers everywhere who have grappled with who they are.

My Word Is My Bond

Author : Paul Weinberg
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595446256
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book My Word Is My Bond written by Paul Weinberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This personal memoir combines the story of a remarkable family, the history of turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants, Jewish cultural values, and the phenomenon of anti-Semitism."--Publisher's web site

Confessions of a Secular Jew

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780765808264
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Secular Jew written by Eugene Goodheart and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world. The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a progressive secular Yiddish education which identified Jewish struggles against oppression with working class struggles against exploitation. In the vanguard was the Soviet Union. Goodheart's heroes were Moses, Bar Kochbah, Judah Maccabee, Karl Marx and that strange honorary Jew, Joseph Stalin, whose anti-Semitism would later become known to the world. Confessions of a Secular Jew is the story of Goodheart's disillusionment with the naive, even false, progressivism of that education. At the same time, it is an attempt to rescue and come to grips with the positive remains of that education and heritage. In the introduction to the new Transaction edition of his memoir, Goodheart addresses the themes of social justice, Zionism, chosenness, messianism, and alienation from a secular Jewish perspective. higher education at Columbia College in the early fifties and beyond to his varied career as university teacher and literary critic. The memoir provides memorable characterizations of writers whom he knew, among them Lionel Trilling (his teacher), Saul Bellow, Richard Wright (whom he met in Paris), Hannah Arendt, and Philip Rahv,

This Is Not a Love Story

Author : Judy Brown
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316400718
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book This Is Not a Love Story written by Judy Brown and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when her "crazy" brother Nachum returns home after a year in Israel living with relatives. Though supposedly "cured," he is still prone to retreating into his own mind or erupting in wordless rages. The adults' inability to make him better -- or even to give his affliction a name -- forces Judy to ask larger questions: If God could perform miracles for her sainted ancestors, why can't He cure Nachum? And what of the other stories her family treasured? Judy starts to negotiate with God, swinging from holy tenets to absurdly hilarious conclusions faster than a Talmudic scholar: she goes on a fast to nab coveted earrings; she fights with her siblings at the dinner table for the ultimate badge of honor ("Who will survive the next Holocaust?"); and she adamantly defends her family's reputation when, scandalously, her parents are accused of having fallen in love -- -which is absolutely not what pious people do. For all its brutal honesty about this insular community, This Is Not a Love Story is ultimately a story of a family like so many others, whose fierce love for each other and devotion to their faith pulled them through the darkest time in their lives.

My Father's People

Author : Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128084
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book My Father's People written by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Rubin's people on his father's side were odd, inscrutable, and remarkable. In contrast to his mother's family, who were "normal, good people devoid of mystery," the ways of the Rubins both puzzled and attracted him. In My Father's People, Rubin tells "as best I can about them all -- my father, his three brothers, and his three sisters." It is a searching, sensitive story of Americanization, assimilation, and the displacement -- and survival -- of a religious heritage. Born between 1888 and 1902 in Charleston, South Carolina, their father an immigrant Russian Jew, the Rubin children suffered dire poverty, humiliation, and separation when their parents became incapacitated. Three of the boys were sent to the Hebrew Orphans' Home in Atlanta for several years. Yet the sons all managed to build long, productive, even notable lives and livelihoods, becoming, variously, a newspaper editor, Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, businessman, and -- in the case of Rubin's father -- a far-famed long-range weather prognosticator. Private people, reticent to discuss their painful early years, the Rubins were not easily knowable. Still, the author draws a strikingly candid portrait of each, using memories, stories, keen insight, and broad empathy -- fascinating character studies full of individual propensities and peculiarities that together reveal the wider family resemblance. Although the Rubins were mostly nonreligious as adults, their family's rabbinical tradition and their experience as southern Jews were key to their vocational fervor and the lives they made for themselves. "They were Americans, and they were Jews," Rubin concludes. "These were enough." Told with Louis Rubin's signature eloquence and wit, My Father's People is a testimony to the courage of immigrant southern Jews and their gifts to their chosen country.