Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Author: Daniel Soyer

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0814344518

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Study of a vital immigrant institution and the formation of American ethnic identity. 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 and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, 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.

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

Author: Israel Bartal

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-06-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0812200810

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In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.

Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881
Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881

Author: John Doyle Klier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-17

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780521023818

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John Klier examines Russian public opinion on the 'Jewish Question' in the Russian Empire during a period of sweeping social and political reform. He studies the manner in which public opinion influenced, and was influenced by state policy towards the Jews, and traces the roots of modern antisemitism throughout Eastern Europe.

The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History
The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

Author: Antony Polonsky

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 1789624835

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A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.

The Jews in Poland and Russia
The Jews in Poland and Russia

Author: Antony Polonsky

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1789627818

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A comprehensive survey-socio-political, economic, and religious-of Jewish life in Poland and Russia. Wherever possible, contemporary Jewish writings are used to illustrate how Jews felt and reacted to new situations and ideas.

The Jews of the Soviet Union
The Jews of the Soviet Union

Author: Benjamin Pinkus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521389266

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This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.

A People Apart
A People Apart

Author: David Vital

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-07-26

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13: 9780199246816

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This history of the Jews in Europe examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust.

Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe
Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe

Author: Mordechai Zalkin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3110711621

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The heroes of Beyond the Glory are not the famous rabbis, the heads of the yeshivas, or Hasidic righteous, but rather the "second circle" rabbis - the community rabbis in 19th century Eastern Europe, the backbone of the rabbinical world of the time,those who knew the world of their community members closely and were required to answer a wide range of questions, both daily and existential. Who were these rabbis? What were their training processes? How did they win their positions? Did they win "tenure," or was the threat of dismissal constantly hovering above their heads? How were their working conditions and their financial situation? Were they considered as spiritual shepherds and social leaders of the community? What was their relationship with the local rabbinic scholars and the economic elite? How did they navigate between their duties as halachic rulers and their desire to engage in studying and teaching? This book attempts to answer these questions, and many others, based on examining the world of over a thousand community rabbis.

The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic

Author: Stanford J. Shaw

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1349122351

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This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.