The Immigrant Jew in America
Author | : National Liberal Immigration League |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : National Liberal Immigration League |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence J Epstein |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0787986224 |
"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
Author | : Abraham J. Karp |
Publisher | : Penguin Adult HC/TR |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780670344048 |
Author | : Daniel Soyer |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : 9780814330326 |
Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
Author | : Robert Seltzer |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1995-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814739571 |
How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.
Author | : Jeffrey S. Gurock |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415919227 |
Author | : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780841909342 |
Author | : Dava Pressberg |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1508140553 |
This book takes readers from Russia to America as it covers the wave of Jewish immigration that occurred from 1881 to 1914. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the injustices the Jews faced in Russia, from unfair laws to pogroms. They’ll follow Russian Jews on their journey to the United States, a land that promised freedom of religion and prosperity. The book also highlights the many challenges Russian Jews faced once they arrived, and the ways they invested in their future. Engaging text is paired with stunning photographs and primary sources to enhance the reader’s learning experience. This is a great addition to any social studies program involving immigration and migration.
Author | : Liel Leibovitz |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466860553 |
a·li·ya, n., also aliyah. pl. aliyas or aliyot. The immigration of Jews into Israel. Why would American Jews---not just materially successful in this country but perhaps for the first time in the two-thousand-year Jewish Diaspora truly socially accepted and at home---choose to leave the material comforts, safety, and peace of the United States for the uncertainty and violence of Israel? Still, aliya is a phenomenon that affects all American Jews. Understanding this phenomenon means understanding what is arguably the fundamental question of American Jewry; it is that question that Liel Leibovitz sets out to answer in Aliya. Leibovitz focuses on the stories of three generations of immigrants. Marlin and Betty Levin, searching for excitement and ideology, traveled to Palestine before Israel was even created. There, with Marlin working as a reporter and Betty volunteering with the Jewish underground movement, the two witnessed the bloody birth of the Jewish state. Two decades later, Mike Ginsberg, overcome with awe at the heroic Jews who fought for their country in the l967 war, immigrated as well and was involved in much of Israel's tumultuous history, including the Yom Kippur War. He was a member of Kibbutz Misgav Am during the famous terrorist attack on the infants' nursery there, and he helped repel numerous waves of terrorists attacks on his kibbutz. Finally, Danny and Sharon Kalker and their children left their home in Queens, New York, to move to a West Bank settlement in 2001, during one of the most unsettled phases in Israel's existence. With a keen writer's eye and unfeigned passion for his subject, Leibovitz explores the fears, hopes, and dreams of the American-Jewish immigrants to Israel and the journey they undertook, a journey that lies at the very heart of what it means to be a Jew.
Author | : Liel Leibovitz |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312315155 |
Leibovitz focuses on the stories of three generations of immigrants. Marlin and Betty Levin, searching for excitement and ideology, traveled to Palestine before Israel was even created. There, with Marlin working as a reporter and Betty volunteering with the Jewish underground movement, the two witnessed the bloody birth of the Jewish state. Two decades later, Mike Ginsberg, overcome with awe at the heroic Jews who fought for their country in the 1967 war, immigrated as well and was involved in much of Israel's tumultuous history, including the Yom Kippur War. He was a member of Kibbutz Misgav Am during the famous terrorist attach on the infants' nursery there, and he helped repel numerous waves of terrorists attacks on his kibbutz. Finally, Danny and Sharon Kalker and their children left their home in Queens, New York, to move to a West Bank settlement in 2001, during one of the most unsettled phases in Israel's existence.