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Author: Hyman Berman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2009-07-24
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0873517385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough never more than a small percentage of the Minnesota's population, Jews have made a remarkable contribution to the state in business, politics, and education.
Author: W. Gunther Plaut
Publisher: New York, American Jewish Historical Society
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Iric Nathanson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0873518055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlavored with contemporary newspaper quotations and illustrated with period images, this political history inspires greater understanding of a preeminent American city.
Author: Rhoda Lewin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738532172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German Jews who began coming to Minneapolis in the 1850s quickly entered society as doctors, lawyers, professors, merchants, and leaders in clothing and cigar manufacturing. In 1878 they founded Shaarai Tov, now Temple Israel--one of the ten largest Reform congregations in the U.S. today. They also enjoyed a busy social and cultural life, and both husbands and wives involved themselves in social service and welfare organizations. Including historic and present-day photographs and tales of the community--schools, synagogues, organizations, and outdoor activities--this collection uncovers the challenges and triumphs of Reform Jews in Minneapolis.
Author: Howard Mortman
Publisher: Cherry Orchard Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781644693452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exhaustive investigation that examines the tradition of prayers in government written in approachable prose, When Rabbis Bless Congress uniquely tells the story of over 400 rabbis giving over 600 prayers since the Civil War days--who they are and what they say.
Author: Daniel M. Horwitz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-04
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 0827612869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M. Horwitz's insightful introductions and commentary accompany readings in the Talmud and Zohar and writings by Ba'al Shem Tov, Rav Kook, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and others. Horwitz's introduction describes five major types of Jewish mysticism and includes a brief chronology of their development, with a timeline. He begins with biblical prophecy and proceeds through the early mystical movements up through current beliefs. Chapters on key subjects characterize mystical expression through the ages, such as Creation and deveikut ("cleaving to God"); the role of Torah; the erotic; inclinations toward good and evil; magic; prayer and ritual; and more. Later chapters deal with Hasidism, the great mystical revival, and twentieth-century mystics, including Abraham Isaac Kook, Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. A final chapter addresses today's controversies concerning mysticism's place within Judaism and its potential for enriching the Jewish religion.
Author: Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1510733450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe green building movement has produced hundreds of “how-to” books and websites that are filled with tips about green building and what homeowners should do to go green. While helpful and informative, when it comes to making actual purchasing and installation decisions, these books do not make it any easier for a homeowner to prioritize against a budget. Here, Schifman shares her knowledge and experience for others to use in their journey toward a greener way of living. Whether the reader is building a new home or doing a minor remodel, a homeowner needs a framework by which to guide their decisions. These decisions are based on values, and the author posits that there are really only three reasons to go green: For Our Health: By building more sustainably, we reduce our exposure to harmful chemicals and toxins. For Our Wealth: By building a more durable home and being more efficient with resources like water and electricity, we reduce our monthly utility bills and ongoing maintenance expenses. For Our Soul: Collectively doing the right thing for our planet does make a difference—and that is soul-nourishing. Learn the logistics of choosing windows, insulation, appliances, and lighting. Find out about FSC certified wood and about using reclaimed materials. Here is everything you need to make your home sustainable.
Author: Dale Glasser
Publisher: PT Mizan Publika
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Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807409640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing To Learn and To Do: The Temple Management Manual, a 700+ page joint publication of the URJ Ida and Howard Wilkoff Department of Synagogue Management and the National Association of Temple Administrators designed to help demystify the enormously complex task of governing and administering a congregation in the 21st century. For ease of use The Temple Management Manual is fully indexed and tabbed in an updatable three-ring binder. It also includes a CD-ROM containing 22 useful forms.
Author: Judith Brin Ingber
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0814333303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance. In Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar Judith Brin Ingber collects wide-ranging essays and many remarkable photographs to explore the evolution of Jewish dance through two thousand years of Diaspora, in communities of amazing variety and amid changing traditions. Ingber and other eminent scholars consider dancers individually and in community, defining Jewish dance broadly to encompass religious ritual, community folk dance, and choreographed performance. Taken together, this wide range of expression illustrates the vitality, necessity, and continuity of dance in Judaism. This volume combines dancers' own views of their art with scholarly examinations of Jewish dance conducted in Europe, Israel, other Middle East areas, Africa, and the Americas. In seven parts, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance considers Jewish dance artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; the dance of different Jewish communities, including Hasidic, Yemenite, Kurdish, Ethiopian, and European Jews in many epochs; historical and current Israeli folk dance; and the contrast between Israeli and American modern and post-modern theater dance. Along the way, contributors see dance in ancient texts like the Song of Songs, the Talmud, and Renaissance-era illuminated manuscripts, and plumb oral histories, Holocaust sources, and their own unique views of the subject. A selection of 182 illustrations, including photos, paintings, and film stills, round out this lively volume. Many of the illustrations come from private collections and have never before been published, and they represent such varied sources as a program booklet from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and archival photos from the Israel Government Press Office. Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance threads together unique source material and scholarly examinations by authors from Europe, Israel, and America trained in sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, Jewish studies, dance studies, as well as art, theater, and dance criticism. Enthusiasts of dance and performance art and a wide range of university students will enjoy this significant volume.
Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR Press
Publisher: CCAR Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780881231069
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