Reconstructing the Old Country
Reconstructing the Old Country

Author: Eliyana R. Adler

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0814341675

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Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past
American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past

Author: Markus Krah

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3110499436

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The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.

American Jewry
American Jewry

Author: Eli Lederhendler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0521196086

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In the United States, Jews have bridged minority and majority cultures - their history illustrates the diversity of the American experience.

American Jewry
American Jewry

Author: Christian Wiese

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1441180214

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American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come together in this volume to present new research on how immigration from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe, yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins.

The Golden Age Shtetl
The Golden Age Shtetl

Author: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0691168512

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Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."

The Golden Age Shtetl
The Golden Age Shtetl

Author: Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9780691160740

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Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community.