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.

Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews

Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0814340482

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Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo
A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo

Author: Stefan Reif

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1136117784

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Explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two centres. Also shows the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history.

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: 476

ISBN-13: 311049714X

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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.

Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments
Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments

Author: Steven Bayme

Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780881257380

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Steven Bayme examines the challenges facing American Jewry, the Contemprary significance of Israel and Jewish peoplehood, and the claims of Jewish tradition in the modern world.

Toleration within Judaism
Toleration within Judaism

Author: Martin Goodman

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1837649464

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Although Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on those with whom they disagree on religious matters, or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, at other times they have recognized differences of practice and belief and developed ways of handling them. The evidence presented in this book of such toleration over the centuries has important implications for writing both the history of Judaism and the history of religions more generally.