Author: Peter Y. Medding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: jewry, studies, contemporary, xxii, jews, mizrahi, sephardic, vol
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195340973
ISBN-13: 9780195340976
Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are popularly believed to have originated in Spain or Portugal, the majority of Mizrahi Jews today are actually the descendants of Jews from Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. They constitute a growing proportion of Israeli Jewry and continue to revitalize Jewish culture in places as varied as France, Latin America, and
Author: Jonathan Frankel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, jewry, contemporary, jews, communism, decisions, times, volume, dire
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2005-05-19
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195182243
ISBN-13: 9780195182248
The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume’s contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and Germany.
Author: Eli Lederhendler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, jewry, contemporary, burden, history, catholics, xxi, volume, jews
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-03-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195304918
ISBN-13: 9780195304916
Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council’s efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 and 2005, with an emphasis on how this relationship has emerged from the shadow of the Holocaust.
Author: Marshall Sklare
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: jewry, american, understanding
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0878554548
ISBN-13: 9780878554546
Author: Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: jewry, british, modern
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 019820759X
ISBN-13: 9780198207597
An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half, this book examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation.
Author: Scott A. Shay
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Keywords: jewry, american, energize, groove, getting
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932687858
ISBN-13: 9781932687859
In this provocative book, Scott Shay takes on the major obstacles facing American Jewry today. He examines the current state and future prospects of American Jewry and finds a Jewish community that is dangerously adrift and on an overall downward trajectory, due to a community-wide lack of shared purpose, focus, and mutual concern. To counter this downward spiral, the author presents a platform of ten practical and achievable mini-manifestos that can reinvigorate American Jewry as a whole. Casting away conventional wisdom and political correctness, this book carefully brings to bear extensive
Author: David B. Ruderman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: history, cultural, new, jewry, modern
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-05-02
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691144648
ISBN-13: 9780691144641
Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements in the early modern period were linked to one another in fascinating ways, he shows how Jews were communicating with each other and were more aware of their economic, social, and religious connections than ever before. Ruderman explores five crucial and powe
