Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• "Hannah Kliger has provided an important service to historians . . . " --Journal of American Ethnic History " . . . Hannah Kliger has provided a valua... Lees meer

Yiddish Paris

Nick Underwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western... Lees meer

Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry

Olga Litvak

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• "Olga Litvak has written a book of astonishing originality and intellectual force. . . . In vivid prose, she takes the reader on a journey through the... Lees meer

Reframing Holocaust Testimony

Noah Shenker

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educ... Lees meer

The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia

Andrew Sloin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin'... Lees meer

Jewish Refugee in New York

Kadya Molodovsky

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new ... Lees meer

Howard Fast

Gerald Sorin

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger m... Lees meer

Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

Rebecca Kobrin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East and Austral... Lees meer

The House at Ujazdowskie 16

Karen Auerbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives ... Lees meer

Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Mel Scult

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establi... Lees meer

The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman

Todd M Endelman

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-fr... Lees meer

Jewish Family

Alex Pomson, Randal F Schnoor

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish... Lees meer

Kiev, Jewish Metropolis

Natan M Meir

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Populated by urbane Jewish merchants and professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for ... Lees meer

Reframing Holocaust Testimony

Noah Shenker

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educ... Lees meer

Colonialism and the Jews

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience... Lees meer

The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman

Todd M Endelman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-fr... Lees meer

Home After Fascism

Anna Koch

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews ... Lees meer

The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Mel Scult

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establi... Lees meer

Judaism's Encounter with American Sports

Jeffrey S Gurock

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports t... Lees meer

Remembering the Lower East Side

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• For more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognized and scrutinized as the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish nei... Lees meer

Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia

Rebekah Klein-Pejsová

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from def... Lees meer

The Chosen People in America

Arnold M Eisen

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• "This is a book of extraordinary quality and importance. In tracing the encounter of Jews (the chosen people) and America (the chosen nation) . . Eise... Lees meer

Orientalizing the Jew

Julie Kalman

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their hom... Lees meer

Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

Jeffrey Veidlinger

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Jewish Experience
• In the midst of the violent, revolutionary turmoil that accompanied the last decade of tsarist rule in the Russian Empire, many Jews came to reject wh... Lees meer