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Author | : Philip Brooks |
Publisher | : Scholastic Library Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Real-life stories of struggle, achievement, victory, and sometimes loss that are an ideal companion for history, social science, language and geography studies. The Extroardinary People series is the perfect starter for students who want to know more about the people who shaped their world, focusing on the unique histories of people from every culture, and every walk of life.
Author | : Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300190395 |
Download American Judaism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Author | : Pamela Nadell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039365124X |
Download America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
Author | : American Jewish Historical Society |
Publisher | : Random House Reference |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This all-encompassing reference book covers virtually every subject pertaining to Jews in the United States. The sheer volume of information on the subjects and people relative to the Jewish experience in the United States is what makes this book so impressive. Arranged by subject -- from Feminism, Intermarriage and Conversion, Rituals and Celebrations, Business, Education, and Sports to Art and Entertainment -- chapters include A-Z and chronological listings of events, people, and more.Included in this book are descriptions of the many noteworthy Jewish Americans who had a profound effect on our country, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harvey Milk, Calvin Klein, Peggy Guggenheim, Mark Rothko, Woody Allen and Gloria Steinem, just to name a few. This book brings together the issues and figures of contemporary Judaism in the United States in an adult manner unlike any other reference book of its kind.
Author | : Philip Brooks |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780613544702 |
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Presents short biographies of more than sixty Jewish Americans who have flourished in careers including law, finance, entertainment, writing, politics, and science.
Author | : Laura Arnold Leibman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197530494 |
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An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Alan M. Dershowitz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0684848988 |
Download The Vanishing American Jew Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
Author | : Norman H. Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Jewish Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0827609752 |
Download American Jewish History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This JPS Guide chronicles the extraordinary history of American Jewry. Finkelstein tells the dramatic 350-year story of the people and events that shaped the lives of today's American Jews. Divided into six time periods, American Jewish History describes Jewish life from the time of the early settlers, to the period of massive immigration that flooded the cities, to the incredible growth of Jews in positions of influence in business, politics, and the arts. This is a story of a people who affected not only the lives of Jews in the U.S. today, but also the course of American history itself. There are over 70 black and white photographs, maps, and charts and more than 120 feature boxes and biographies throughout, as well as timelines, notes, a bibliography, and index. Finkelstein has made the saga of American Jewry much more than a compilation of historical facts. This is wonderfully stimulating journey--a worthwhile adventure for readers of all ages.
Author | : David Kaufman |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611683157 |
Download Jewhooing the Sixties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity
Author | : Beth S. Wenger |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385521391 |
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Recounts the story of Jews in America, from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day, examining the contributions of the Jewish people to American culture, politics, and society.