Western States Jewish History
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Total Pages: 874
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Jewish Life in the American West
Author: Ava Fran Kahn
Publisher: Heyday
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781890771775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPuts aside many stereotypes and examines the less-told story of the migration of Jews to Californiaand the West from the mid-19th century to the 1920's
The Chosen Few
Author: Maristella Botticini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0691144877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.
Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 412
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Author: Harriet Rochlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780618001965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Jews of the American West
Author: Moses Rischin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780814321713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of nine original essays, the editors and other leading American historians bring dramatically new perspectives to bear on our understanding of the West, its Jews, and other Americans, both old and new. Whether comparing the history of the Jews of the West with the Jewish experience in the older regions of the country or bringing attention to the uniquely local aspects of the western experience, the contributors to this landmark volume perceive the West as an increasingly important and vital presence in the nation's history. The agrarians of Utah's Clarion and the cureseekers of Denver, no less than the boomers of Tucson, have been representative Americans, Jews, and westerners. Essays on the role of intermarriage, the shared encounter of immigrants and migrants, and the response to the founding of the State of Israel by western pioneer families, tell us much about the interaction of the West with our American world nation.
Jewish Gold Country
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467104817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma on January 24, 1848, initiated one of the largest migrations in US history. Between 1849 and 1855, hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in Northern California hoping to find gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The rapid population growth and economic prosperity led to boomtowns, banks, and railroads, making California eligible for statehood in 1850. An international cast of gold-seekers, merchants, and tradespeople arrived by land and through the port of San Francisco, which was transformed from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. Jewish pioneers, many of whom had been merchants in Europe, opened stores and businesses in small towns and mining camps in and around the Mother Lode. They established benevolent societies and cemeteries, founded synagogues and companies, held public office and positions of influence, and contributed greatly to the multicultural fabric of the Gold Country.
Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Author: Katalin Franciska Rac
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1683403975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together into one narrative the histories of communities and individuals separated by time and space, such as the descendants of Portuguese converts, Moroccan immigrants to Brazil, and U.S.-based creators of Yiddish movies. Through its transnational focus and close attention paid to local circumstances, this volume offers new insights into the multicultural pasts of the Americas’ Jewish populations and of the different regions that make up North, Central, and South America. Contributors: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio | Elisa Kriza | Raanan Rein | Adriana M. Brodsky | Lucas de Mattos Moura Fernandes | Katalin Franciska Rac | Zachary M Baker | Neil Weijer | Hilit Surowitz-Israel | Isabel Rosa Gritti | Tamar Herzog | Jose C Moya | Sandra McGee Deutsch | Dana Rabin Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Songs of Sonderling
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
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Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781682830796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling?s unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator, an artistic soul. From his early career at the Hamburg Temple and German Army service in World War I, to his wandering years in the Eastern United States and founding of the Society for Jewish Culture?Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles, Sonderling cultivated a unique aesthetic vision of Judaism, a ?five-sense appeal.? Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest document and analyze Sonderling?s experience and expression of Judaism through music. Rabbi Sonderling?s vision yielded liturgical commissions from exiled Viennese Jewish composers who arrived in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these musical settings, activities at the Fairfax Temple, and involvement with the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College?Jewish Institute of Religion, Sonderling made an indelible mark on the city?s Jewish community and the wider musical world. Songs of Sonderling focuses on the commissions Sonderling made from 1938 to 1945: Ernst Toch?s Cantata of the Bitter Herbs, Arnold Schoenberg?s Kol Nidre, Erich Wolfgang Korngold?s A Passover Psalm and Prayer, and Eric Zeisl?s Requiem Ebraico. Through musical analyses and an examination of Sonderling?s career in Los Angeles, Friedmann and Guest contribute to the study of Jewish liturgical music, to Jewish history in the American West, to Jewish identity in the twentieth century, and to Jewish diaspora writ large.
