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Author: Jack Moline
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the book for readers who have suffered through those peculiar rites of passage, including Hebrew school, youth group, and the obligatory summer in Israel. Black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Myrna Frommer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780151001323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reminiscences of 100 people combine to create a portrait of Jewish-American life.
Author: Emil Draitser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0520942256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"—even in casual conversation—he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.
Author: Ori Z. Soltes
Publisher:
Published: 2021-12-29
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789389136814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* A comprehensive historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish custom* The essays and over 150 images in the book explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics, as well as became integrated into the larger society of India* Includes the memoir of growing up Jewish in India by Siona Benjamin, and an analysis of her trans-cultural artGrowing Up Jewish in India offers an historical account of the primary Jewish communities of India, their synagogues, and unique Indian Jewish customs. It offers an investigation both within Jewish India and beyond its borders, tracing how Jews arrived in the vast subcontinent at different times from different places and have both inhabited dispersed locations within the larger Indian world, and ultimately created their own diaspora within the larger Jewish diaspora by relocating to other countries, particularly Israel and the United States. The text and its rich complement of over 150 images explore how Indian Jews retained their unique characteristics as Jews, became well-integrated into the larger society of India as Indians, and have continued to offer a synthesis of cultural qualities wherever they reside. Among the outcomes of these developments is the unique art of Siona Benjamin, who grew up in the Bene Israel community of Mumbai and then moved to the US, and whose art reflects Indian and Jewish influences as well as concepts like Tikkun olam (Hebrew for 'repairing the world'). In combining discussions of the Indian Jewish communities with Benjamin's own story and an analysis of her artistic output - and in introducing these narratives within the larger story of Jews across eastern Asia - this volume offers a unique verbal and visual portrait of a significant slice of Indian and Jewish culture and tradition. It would be of interest to Jews and non-Jews, Indian and non-Indian alike, as well as to history enthusiasts and the general reader interested in art and culture.
Author: Dolly Beil
Publisher: BPS Books
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1927483174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA colorful memoir of Jewish life in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Dolly Beil spent the first part of her life in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao (Qingdao), Mukden (Shenyang), Harbin, and Tientsin (Tianjin). Her father, owner of a jewellery store and a businessman, descended from the prominent family of Solomon Guterman, who owned an estate in Irkutsk, Russia. Her mother was one of three daughters of Grigory Lazarovich Gershevich, who built the first hotel in the northern city of Harbin, located on Pacific Road. The year of Dolly's birth -- 1927 -- meant that she and her family, part of the country's small Jewish community, would live through events that would change China, and them, forever: The Japanese occupation Liberation by Americans at the end of World War II Civil war between Nationalist and Communist forces The flight of foreign nationals from an increasingly closed society Beil's entertaining stories will draw you into an unusual blend of European and Asian life in the country of her early joys and sorrows: China, the country that she loves so much to this very day. Includes seventy black and white photos.
Author: Rachel Biale
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781942134633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative memoir of kibbutz life that reveal a piece of Israel's early story that should not be forgotten.
Author: Lisa Cooper
Publisher: Urim Publications
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9655242161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. The book weaves personal tragedy and the little-known history of the period together as Pearl finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows.
Author: Elaine Fantle Shimberg
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974194080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000-03-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780807028070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[Wuthnow] provides a unique window into the religious psyche of ordinary Americans. --Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times Memories of religious experiences remain in our minds like few others. In Growing Up Religious, Robert Wuthnow-"the most informed and insightful commentator on American religion today" (Harvey Cox)-follows the lives of ordinary people to see how their childhood experiences inform both their adult sense of spirituality and their relation to issues of faith and tradition.
Author: Miriam Grossman
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780873064385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sensitive explanation of the body's changes and how Jewish tradition views related matters, such as modesty.
