"Miriam's Kitchen" is a wonderful melange of memory and mirth, culture and food--a Jewish "Like Water for Chocolate". At the core is the author's mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor who passionately carries out the traditions she learned as a girl. "Miriam's Kitchen" is an exhilaratingly sensuous book that makes you hunger for things of ...
A hip, hilarious, and provocative collection of original essays by young Jewish women writers, including Aimee Bender, Daphne Merkin, Dara Horn, Tova Mirvis, Rebecca Goldstein, and Molly Jong-Fast, exploring all the things that their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public. 320 ppo.
Rosenthal explores a people who, while consciously living in a war zone, contribute to one of the most vibrant civic societies anywhere. It is the story of ordinary people living in an extraordinary place.
This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created ...
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds and daily lives of these Hasidic girls. ...
An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-1945. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal ...
This study of Holocaust denial literature is based on interviews with some of the more famous deniers of the Holocaust. The editors evaluate their methods against those by which historians write or rewrite history.
An historian of Jewish life explores the Jewish experience on New York City's Lower East Side--and how this experience became part of a cherished, shared "memory" of the past--even for those who had never lived there.
This volume tells the story of "rebel" Hasidim, serious questioners who long for greater personal and intellectual freedom than their communities allow. In so doing, it forces a reexamination of the history of these communities.
Acclaimed medical writer Sherwin B. Nuland writes about his growing up in the East Bronx in the 1940s, and about his father, Meyer Nudelman, a deeply disappointed and angry man. Sherwin managed to escape his family's malevolent grip by getting accepted at Yale Medical School, but the subsequent depression was debilitating--and, ever since, Nuland ...
Sabar once looked at his [immigrant] father with shame, scornful of the alien who still bore scars on his back from childhood bloodlettings. This book, he writes, is a chance to make amends.--"New York Times Sunday Book Review."
This work by an anthropologist at Hebrew University examines the passages of life within the contexts of contemporary and ancient Judaism. Drawing on sacred texts and rituals, the author examines rites of passage including circumcision, naming, marriage, death, and mourning, tracing the customs associated with each rite to its origins. He further ...
In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she ...
A theoretical analysis and review of data on the widespread tendency among certain influential, Jewish-dominated intellectual movements to develop radical critiques of the gentile culture that are compatible with the continuity of Jewish identification.
In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with ...
In a virtuoso display of first rate, on-the-scene journalism, Johnathan Kaufman provides us with the stories of five families and the heartbreaking courage that is is a requirement for "being Jewish in Eastern Europe" today. Seldom have a people's religious identity seemed at once so vibrant and so imperiled. A testimony to the tenacity of hope ...
Sixty-one of the most accomplished Jews in America speak intimately--most for the first time--about how they feel about being Jewish, the influence of their heritage, the weight and pride of their history, the burdens and pleasures of observance, and the moments they've felt most Jewish (or not).
This collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers, and their daughters, offers a view of the daily lives of women who lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent era. Personal events such as childbirth and marriage are interwoven with memories of upheavals and wars.
Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it "Hotel Cuba." But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed in Cuba. The beloved island ceased to be a hotel ...
This title presents the acclaimed Israeli opinion-maker's bold statement about the future of Jewish society in the world.Burg, who comes from a traditional Zionist background, makes the surprising, bold and well-argued claim that Jews need to overcome their sense of victimhood and move on from the Holocaust if they want to live in peace in the ...
The current revival of anti-Semitism in Europe and the demonization of Jews in parts of the Muslim world give special importance to the exposure of the myths and lies that for centuries led people to regard Jews as the dangerous "other" and that led to violence and persecution. This provocative anthology presents 90 documents that focus on the ...
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