Journey Through Jewish History
Author | : Seymour Rossel |
Publisher | : Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1983-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874413663 |
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Author | : Seymour Rossel |
Publisher | : Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1983-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874413663 |
Author | : Violette Shamash |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810164086 |
According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad’s Jewish population. Shamash’s world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.
Author | : Seymour Rossel |
Publisher | : Behrman House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874413359 |
Author | : Sarah Abrevaya Stein |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0374716153 |
Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist. "A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people." --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree. In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family’s correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers. With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.
Author | : Yosef Eisen |
Publisher | : Taschen |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781568713236 |
A history of the Jewish people. Contains brief chapters on medieval Christian antisemitism, the Spanish Inquisition, and 19th-early 20th-century Russian antisemitism. Chs. 24-31 (pp. 389-535) discuss various aspects of the Holocaust.
Author | : Ken Spiro |
Publisher | : Brand Nu Words |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9781568715322 |
"The miracle and meaning of Jewish history."
Author | : Yale Strom |
Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cooking |
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Author | : Yaffa Ganz |
Publisher | : Mesorah Publications |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780899060361 |
There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story, peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Ch
Author | : Rebecca Abrams |
Publisher | : Ashmolean Museum Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781910807033 |
"These are some of the remarkable Jewish objects in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, brought together here for the first time to tell the history of the Jewish people from Ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. Spanning 4000 years and fourteen countries, they document the astonishing diversity and adaptability of Jewish life over the centuries, and the long history of close interaction with other cultures and religions of the world."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822987155 |
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus’s arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul’s explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.