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| famous jews in history: The Jews of Chicago Irving Cutler, 1996 Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photos, this fascinating history of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish communities. 15 maps. Graphs & tables. |
| famous jews in history: The Jewish 100 Michael Shapiro, Daniel Shapiro, Nancy Hartman, 2000-10 Eminently readable, informative, and entertaining, The Jewish 100 ranks the most influential Jews of all time, with biographies of each person and the reason for his or her ranking. The influence of these men and women spans all fields--from religion and music to sports and philosophy. Illustrations. |
| famous jews in history: The Provincials Eli N. Evans, 2006-03-13 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 chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique Southern Jewish consciousness. First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author. |
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| famous jews in history: The Story of the Jews Simon Schama, 2014-03-18 In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the pbs and bbc series The Story of the Jews—simon schama details the story of the jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the new world in 1492 It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance in the face of destruction, of creativity in the face of oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life despite the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents—from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. In The Story of the Jews, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are sung, mules are packed, ships loaded with gems and spices founder at sea. And a great story unfolds. Not—as often imagined—of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone's story, too. |
| famous jews in history: Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present Rebecca Lynn Winer, Federica Francesconi, 2021-11-02 This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place. |
| famous jews in history: Genius & Anxiety Norman Lebrecht, 2019-12-03 This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution. |
| famous jews in history: My First Book of Famous Jews Julie Merberg, 2021-10-05 From Einstein and the Marx Brothers to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barbra Streisand, this thoroughly engaging board book will give the youngest members of the tribe lots of reasons to be proud of their heritage. Fun illustrations and entertaining, rhyming text provide an overview of some of the most influential, iconic Jews in recent history, providing context on how each made their mark. Parents, grandparents, and their little ones will enjoy this look at the Jewish impact on the fields of entertainment, literature, musical theater—and even super heroes! |
| famous jews in history: Wanderings Chaim Potok, 2021-05-04 A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice. |
| famous jews in history: Jewish Roots in Southern Soil Marcie Cohen Ferris, Mark I. Greenberg, 2006 A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture. |
| famous jews in history: The Jewish Confederates Robert N. Rosen, 2000 Reveals the breadth of Jewish participation in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. Rosen describes the Jewish communities in the South and explains their reasons for supporting the South. He relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, politicians, rabbis and doctors. |
| famous jews in history: Lincoln and the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna, Benjamin Shapell, 2015-03-17 One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before. Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the national scene in the United States. When he was born, in 1809, scarcely 3,000 Jews lived in the entire country. By the time of his assassination in 1865, large-scale immigration, principally from central Europe, had brought that number up to more than 150,000. Many Americans, including members of Lincoln's cabinet and many of his top generals during the Civil War, were alarmed by this development and treated Jews as second-class citizens and religious outsiders. Lincoln, this book shows, exhibited precisely the opposite tendency. He also expressed a uniquely deep knowledge of the Old Testament, employing its language and concepts in some of his most important writings. He befriended Jews from a young age, promoted Jewish equality, appointed numerous Jews to public office, had Jewish advisors and supporters starting already from the early 1850s, as well as later during his two presidential campaigns, and in response to Jewish sensitivities, even changed the way he thought and spoke about America. Through his actions and his rhetoric—replacing Christian nation, for example, with this nation under God—he embraced Jews as insiders. In this groundbreaking work, the product of meticulous research, historian Jonathan D. Sarna and collector Benjamin Shapell reveal how Lincoln's remarkable relationship with American Jews impacted both his path to the presidency and his policy decisions as president. The volume uncovers a new and previously unknown feature of Abraham Lincoln's life, one that broadened him, and, as a result, broadened America. |
| famous jews in history: De Night in de Front from Chreesmas Milt Gross, Dead Writers Club, Ian Tinny, De Night in de Front from Chreesmas is a picture book which was written and illustrated by the Jewish-American humorist Milt Gross. The verse story parodies the famous 19th century poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (also known as The Night Before Christmas). The action takes place on the evening of December 24 in a New York City apartment building where the Jewish Feitelbaum family, and several other people, live. The night ends up being a terrible one for all of the building's occupants. Mr. Feitelbaum, the story's narrator, is an immigrant from Eastern Europe and a native speaker of Yiddish. His English is somewhat faulty and heavily accented. The poem is written phonetically in order to reflect Mr. Feitelbaum's pronunciation. Its opening lines are, Twas de night befurr Chreesmas und hall troo de houze Not a critchure was slipping - not ivvin de souze. It is Christmas Eve. In the Feitelbaum family's apartment, stockings are hanging in front of the fireplace, along with the rest of the laundry that has been hung up to dry there. When he hears a loud buzzing at the doorbell, Mr. Feitelbaum rushes to open the door. He finds an extremely short man whose nose looks like a big pickle, whose belly is huge and whose legs are short and bandy. Mr. Feitelbaum also fancies that he can hear the sound of reindeer dancing on the roof, a noise which he fears will bother his upstairs neighbors. Thinking that the little man is Santa Claus, Mr. Feitelbaum cries out in excitement, telling the rest of his family to come and see the man. Although the man remains silent when Mr. Feitelbaum asks him about his reindeer, Mr. Feitelbaum invites the little man into his apartment. The little man then explains that he is not really Santa Claus. He is the apartment building's elevator operator and, as is customary at Christmas, he has come to ask for a tip. Mr. Feitelbaum chases the little man away. Later that same evening, after Mr. Feitelbaum has had his sleep disrupted by hordes of insects and spiders, a man playing Santa Claus gets stuck in a stovepipe. An explosion follows when Mr. Feitelbaum's son Looy turns on the heat. The explosion does serious damage to the apartment of the Feitelbaums' downstairs neighbor Mr. McCoddy, who, unfortunately, is holding a wedding party in his apartment when the explosion happens. It is an extremely bad end to an extremely bad night. Mr. Feitelbaum concludes his tale by saying that he would not wish such an evening on his worst enemy. |
| famous jews in history: The Chosen Few Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, 2012 Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process. |
| famous jews in history: Jews of Brooklyn Ilana Abramovitch, Seán Galvin, 2002 Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map. |
| famous jews in history: Legacy Harry Ostrer MD, 2012-08-10 Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics. In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights that genetics has provided about the histories of contemporary Jewish people. Much of the book is told through the lives of scientific pioneers. We meet Russian immigrant Maurice Fishberg; Australian Joseph Jacobs, the leading Jewish anthropologist in fin-de-siècle Europe; Chaim Sheba, a colorful Israeli geneticist and surgeon general of the Israeli Army; and Arthur Mourant, one of the foremost cataloguers of blood groups in the 20th century. As Ostrer describes their work and the work of others, he shows that to look over the genetics of Jewish groups, and to see the history of the Diaspora woven there, is truly a marvel. Here is what happened as the Jews migrated to new places and saw their numbers wax and wane, as they gained and lost adherents and thrived or were buffeted by famine, disease, wars, and persecution. Many of these groups--from North Africa, the Middle East, India--are little-known, and by telling their stories, Ostrer brings them to the forefront at a time when assimilation is literally changing the face of world Jewry. A fascinating blend of history, science, and biography, Legacy offers readers an entirely fresh perspective on the Jewish people and their history. It is as well a cutting-edge portrait of population genetics, a field which may soon take its place as a pillar of group identity alongside shared spirituality, shared social values, and a shared cultural legacy. |
| famous jews in history: The Jews of Long Island Brad Kolodny, 2022-03-01 In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst to Sag Harbor. Including peddlers, farmers, and factory workers struggling to make a living, as well as successful merchants and even wealthy industrialists like the Guggenheims, Brad Kolodny spent six years researching how, when, and why Jewish families settled and thrived there. Archival material, including census records, newspaper accounts, never-before-published photos, and personal family histories illuminate Jewish life and experiences during these formative years. With over 4,400 names of people who lived in Nassau and Suffolk counties prior to the end of World War I, The Jews of Long Island is a fascinating history of those who laid the foundation for what has become the fourth largest Jewish community in the United States today. |
| famous jews in history: A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People Elie Barnavi, Miriam Eliav-Feldon, 1992 The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People is both an authoritative reference work and a sumptuous gift volume. |
| famous jews in history: A Jew's Best Friend? Phillip Isaac Ackerman-Lieberman, Rakefet Zalashik, 2013 The dog has captured the Jewish imagination from antiquity to the contemporary period, with the image of the dog often used to characterize and demean Jewish populations in medieval Christendom. This book discusses the cultural manifestations of the relationship between dogs and Jews, from ancient times onwards. |
| famous jews in history: The Origin of the Jews Steven Weitzman, 2019-04-02 The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be. He sheds new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers—and the religious and political agendas that have made finding answers so elusive. Introducing many approaches and theories, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and divisive topic. |
| famous jews in history: "Our Crowd" Stephen Birmingham, 2015-12-01 The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions. |
| famous jews in history: Great Jews in Sports Robert Slater, 2003-01-01 Filled with facts, trivia, photographs, and statistics, an updated reference furnishes concise portraits of more than 150 important Jewish athletes, including Sandy Koufax, Kerry Strug, Daniel Mendoza, Esther Roth, and many others. |
| famous jews in history: A Short History of the Jewish People Raymond P. Scheindlin, 2000 From the original legends of the Bible to the peace accords of today's newspapers, this engaging, one-volume history of the Jews will fascinate and inform. 30 illustrations. |
| famous jews in history: When Basketball Was Jewish Douglas Stark, 2017-09-01 In the 2015–16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league was largely confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers; and Omri Casspi, a player for the Sacramento Kings. Basketball, however, was once referred to as a Jewish sport. Shortly after the game was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it spread throughout the country and became particularly popular among Jewish immigrant children in northeastern cities because it could easily be played in an urban setting. Many of basketball’s early stars were Jewish, including Shikey Gotthoffer, Sonny Hertzberg, Nat Holman, Red Klotz, Dolph Schayes, Moe Spahn, and Max Zaslofsky. In this oral history collection, Douglas Stark chronicles Jewish basketball throughout the twentieth century, focusing on 1900 to 1960. As told by the prominent voices of twenty people who played, coached, and refereed it, these conversations shed light on what it means to be a Jew and on how the game evolved from its humble origins to the sport enjoyed worldwide by billions of fans today. The game’s development, changes in style, rise in popularity, and national emergence after World War II are narrated by men reliving their youth, when basketball was a game they played for the love of it. When Basketball Was Jewish reveals, as no previous book has, the evolving role of Jews in basketball and illuminates their contributions to American Jewish history as well as basketball history. |
| famous jews in history: Jews and Power Ruth R. Wisse, 2008-12-24 Part of the Jewish Encounter series Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets. Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace. And then she draws a persuasive parallel to the United States today, as it struggles to figure out how a liberal democracy can face off against enemies who view Western morality as weakness. This deeply provocative book is sure to stir debate both inside and outside the Jewish world. Wisse's narrative offers a compelling argument that is rich with history and bristling with contemporary urgency. |
| famous jews in history: The Chosen Wars Steven R. Weisman, 2019-08-20 “An important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American history” (New York Journal of Books), Steven R. Weisman tells the dramatic story of the personalities that fought each other and shaped this ancient religion in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The struggles that produced a redefinition of Judaism illuminate the larger American experience and the efforts by all Americans to reconcile their faith with modern demands. The narrative begins with the arrival of the first Jews in New Amsterdam and plays out over the nineteenth century as a massive immigration takes place at the dawn of the twentieth century. First there was the practical matter of earning a living. Many immigrants had to work on the Sabbath or traveled as peddlers to places where they could not keep kosher. Doctrine was put aside or adjusted. To take their places as equals, American Jews rejected their identity as a separate nation within America. Judaism became an American religion. These profound changes did not come without argument. Steven R. Weisman’s “lucid and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) The Chosen Wars tells the stories of the colorful rabbis and activists—including Isaac Mayer Wise, Mordecai Noah, David Einhorn, Rebecca Gratz, and Isaac Lesser—who defined American Judaism and whose disputes divided it into the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox branches that remain today. “Only rarely does an author succeed in writing a book that reframes how we perceive our own history. The Chosen Wars is...fascinating and provocative” (Jewish Journal). |
| famous jews in history: Jewish Women in Historical Perspective Judith Reesa Baskin, 1998 This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages. |
| famous jews in history: Trials of the Diaspora Anthony Julius, 2012-02-09 The first ever comprehensive history of anti-Semitism in England, from medieval murder and expulsion through to contemporary forms of anti-Zionism in the 21st century. |
| famous jews in history: What Did They Think of the Jews? Allan Gould, 1997 An inquiry into the evolution of Jewish education for women, from biblical times to the 20th century, this title analyzes classic Jewish literature, as well as Jewish and general world history, to dispel the myth that Torah study is for men alone. |
| famous jews in history: A History of the Jews in the Modern World Howard M. Sachar, 2007-12-18 The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in “higher” literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment. As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world history—among them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a master’s hand in describing and deciphering the Jews’ unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movements—fascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust. A distillation of the author’s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike. |
| famous jews in history: A History of Judaism Martin Goodman, 2019-11-19 Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other. In this magisterial and elegantly written book, Martin Goodman takes readers from Judaism's origins in the polytheistic world of the second and first millennia BCE to the temple cult at the time of Jesus. He tells the stories of the rabbis, mystics, and messiahs of the medieval and early modern periods and guides us through the many varieties of Judaism today. Goodman's compelling narrative spans the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, and America to North Africa, China, and India. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are based, and masterfully weaves together the different threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate that run throughout its history.-- |
| famous jews in history: Merchant Princes Leon A. Harris, 1994 A compelling history of America's famous Jewish shopkeeping families shows how the Filenes, Gimbels, Marcuses, and others created renowned retail empires out of small pushcart beginnings, powerfully evoking the social changes that were transforming America early in the century.-- |
| famous jews in history: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn, 2021-09-07 Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the righteous Gentile Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of Never forget, is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity. Now including a reading group guide. |
| famous jews in history: The Economic History of European Jews Michael Toch, 2012-09-28 The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”. |
| famous jews in history: Encyclopaedia Britannica Hugh Chisholm, 1910 This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style. |
| famous jews in history: The International Jew Henry Ford, 1920 |
| famous jews in history: Black Power, Jewish Politics Marc Dollinger, 2024-04-02 Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a foreword by Jews of Color Initiative founder Ilana Kaufman that all reflect on Blacks, Jews, race, white supremacy, and the civil rights movement-- |
| famous jews in history: The Jews in America Max I. Dimont, 2014-06-10 “A wondrous tale of American Judaism” from the Colonial Era to the twentiethcentury, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History (Kirkus Reviews). Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various waves of immigration that brought people and families from Germany, Russia, and beyond; recounts the cultural achievements of those who escaped oppression in their native lands; and discusses the movement away from Orthodoxy and the attitudes of American Jews—both religious and secular—toward Israel. From the author of Jews, God, and History, which has sold more than one million copies and was called “unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” by the LosAngeles Times, this is a compelling account by an author who was himself an immigrant, raised in Helsinki, Finland, before arriving at Ellis Island in 1929 and going on to serve in army intelligence in World War II. |
| famous jews in history: The American Jewish Experience Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience, 1986 |
| famous jews in history: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean Edward Kritzler, 2009-11-03 In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-sea adventures–including encounters with Captain Morgan and other legendary pirates–Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean reveals a hidden chapter in Jewish history as well as the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery. |
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Galicia Resources at the Center for Jewish History - CJH
Jewish family history research information for Galicia can be found in the Poland and Ukraine Research Guides on the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute website. An excellent …
RUSSIAN JEWISH HISTORY
importance of earlier developments and began his work, The Jews of the Soviet Union; the History of a National Minority,3 with a review of Jewish life in Russian lands before 1917. That …
Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
“famous Jews in science” genre. Rather, the title signals the belief that the history of the absorption and practice of science within various medieval Jewish cultures constitutes a …
Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881–1882
Anti-Jewish pogroms rocked the Russian Empire in 1881 –2, plunging both the Jewish community and the imperial authorities into crisis. Focusing on a wide range of responses to the pogroms, …
Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions
THERE ARE MANY MORE questions than answers concerning Jewish resistance during World War II. Most discussions of the subject evince myriad forms of the same queries: Why did the …
Famous Jews In History (Download Only) - netsec.csuci.edu
Famous Jews in History: A Journey Through Time and Achievement Famous Jews in history: A diverse and impressive array of individuals, spanning millennia and across continents, have shaped history through their contributions to philosophy, science, literature, art, and more. Their stories offer a rich tapestry of human experience, resilience ...
SPONSORED CONTENT 1,700 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANY
The history of Jews in the territory of modern-day Germany begins with a brief mention in an edict issued by Emperor Constantine in the year 321 CE regarding the city of Cologne. Jews in the Roman colony, like their upper-class pagan neighbors, could now be compelled to serve on the municipal council or curia, which bore
How Hebrews Became Jews - Smithsonian Institution
Although the origin of the Hebrews has been disguised and distorted, its "mystic ties" often surface in atavism, such as the so-called "Jewish" child with dark skin or wooly hair even if it is blond, brown or even red.
Jewish cultural heritage in Europe - European Parliament
Historically, the majority of Jews in pre-war Europe lived in eastern and central parts of the continent. It is there that the Holocaust left its deepest scars.
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture is a comprehensive and engaging overview of Jewish life, from its origins in the ancient Near East to its impact on contemporary popular culture.
The “Golden Age” of Jewish-Muslim Relations: Myth and Reality
In the nineteenth century there was nearly universal consensus that Jews in the Islamic Middle Ages—taking al-Andalus , or Muslim Spain , as the model—lived in a “Golden Age” of Jewish-Muslim harmony, 1 an interfaith utopia of tolerance
ENGLISH JEWISH HISTORY
English antisemitism-these historians have created a very different history than that found in standard works of the old school, such Cecil Roth's History of the Jews in England or Vivian Lipman's Social History of the Jews in England, 1850-1950.5.
Jewish Difference in the Austrian Context. Introduction - JSTOR
Jews initiated and supported many of the best-known ideas and movements in modern Austrian culture even as they faced antisemitic words, deeds and attitudes, repeated episodes of expulsion and violence and their eventual destruction in the Holocaust. satisfying explanations for this paradox may continue to elude us, but further research on the h...
the kuzari and the shaping of jewish identity, 1167–1900
By surveying the activities of readers, commentators, copyists, and printers for more than 700 years, Adam Shear examines the ways that the Kuzari became a classic of Jewish thought.
Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust - SAGE Journals
Though persecution of Jews has a history of at least two millennia, the late-19th and early-20th century witnessed a high-water mark in hatred against Jews, especially in western Christian societies (Pauley, 1992; Katz, 1980; Byrnes, 1950;
Romania: Jewish Family History Research Guide - CJH
Jews were present in the region under the Roman Empire, but subsequent invasions and wars severely disrupted their existence. The Jewish population increased significantly after 1800, primarily due to immigration. These resources at the Center for Jewish History contain further historical details:
Mexico: Jewish Family History Research Guide - CJH
Jews first arrived in Mexico in the 16th century from Spain and Portugal, accompanying early explorers to the Americas. Their arrival took place in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, and almost all were “conversos”—Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity, but secretly practiced Judaism.
Galicia Resources at the Center for Jewish History - CJH
Jewish family history research information for Galicia can be found in the Poland and Ukraine Research Guides on the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute website. An excellent resource for family history research is the Galicia Special Interest Group (SIG) on the jewishgen website, www.jewishgen.org/Galicia. The SIG is run by Gesher ...
Jewish Social History in the Nineteenth And Early ... - eScholarship
What particularly impressed me from the start was the fact that Hans Rogger treated Jewish history as an integral part of the history of the Tsarist Empire and that his main interest was the relationship between majority and minority, the questions of emancipation and anti-Semitism under the specific conditions of a remarkably delayed process of...
RUSSIAN JEWISH HISTORY
importance of earlier developments and began his work, The Jews of the Soviet Union; the History of a National Minority,3 with a review of Jewish life in Russian lands before 1917. That short summary offered the reader the broadest outline of Jewish experiences there especially since 1881, a date
Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
“famous Jews in science” genre. Rather, the title signals the belief that the history of the absorption and practice of science within various medieval Jewish cultures constitutes a clearly identifiable object of fruitful historical investigation. Differences in local conditions
Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions
THERE ARE MANY MORE questions than answers concerning Jewish resistance during World War II. Most discussions of the subject evince myriad forms of the same queries: Why did the Jews go like sheep to their slaughter? Why did they not stand up to the Germans? Why did they refuse to fight? Behind each of these questions are unexamined assumptions.
By Blake McKelvey social institutions were respected. In the
THE JEWS OF ROCHESTER: A CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR HISTORY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY By Blake McKelvey Although the Jews of Rochester have frequently received generous praise from the local press and have sometimes at-tracted wistful expressions of envy from fellow believers else-where,1 their history has nevertheless followed a course fairly
Revealing Jews: Culture and Visibility in Modern Central Europe
This essay reviews three recent books from the disciplines of history, art history, and German studies that inject new meaning into age- old questions about why Jewish difference mattered in the creation of modern culture in Central Europe. Each foregrounds the centrality of the dynamic of visibility/invisibility that formed a crucial source of
The Origins of Scottish Jewry - JSTOR
6 Jan 2018 · Scotland had, in the seventeenth century, its own Marrano Jews, few in number as they may have been. The first of these teachers is also the earliest known immigrant described as a Jew.
