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Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the Jewish community of Eastern Europe which sought, during the half century before World War II, to create a secular Jewish culture, the vehicle of which would be the Yiddish language. Combining the skills of an experienced historian with the talents of a natural writer, the author not only brings this exciting part of Jewish culture to life but also deals with ethnic relations and ethnic tensions in the region and addresses the broad political and cultural issues of a society on the verge of destruction. Thus a vivid image emerges that captures the feel and atmosphere of a world that has vanished forever.
Jews --- Social conditions --- Hamerow, Theodore S. --- Childhood and youth. --- Warsaw (Poland) --- Ethnic relations. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish Studies, History: 20th Century to Present, Memory Studies.
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Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture offers a much-needed addition to more traditional views advanced in the study of Judaism. Through ethnographic and autobiographical perspectives, the essays provide an appreciation of Judaism in daily activities, from domestic food preparation to worshipping; Jewish attachment to the cultures of specific communities, be they in Russia or Morocco; the impact of the Holocaust; the place of the State of Israel in Jewish life; and the role of women. Harvey E. Goldberg, a leading scholar in the anthropology of Judaism, provides an introduction to each chapter that demonstrates the links among the various themes. Ease of communication and travel has resulted in frequent contact--and at times, conflict--between Jews of similar and diverging backgrounds around the world. Visiting distinctive Jewish spaces has become a way of cultivating specific identities and senses of a Jewish past. As ritual, prayers, and attitudes toward authority undergo new constructions and interpretation, Judaism of "the book" also takes on new forms. These essays go a long way in helping us understand a contemporary and multifaceted Judaism, along with its history and texts.
Judaism --- Jewish way of life. --- Jewish life --- Jews --- Minhagim --- Commandments (Judaism) --- Religious life --- Way of life, Jewish --- Jewish ethics --- Customs and practices. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Social life and customs --- Customs and practices --- american jews. --- american reform jews. --- bat mitzvah. --- eastern europe. --- essay anthology. --- essay collection. --- gender studies. --- holocaust. --- holy book. --- holy land. --- holy places. --- israel. --- jewish history. --- jewish studies. --- judaism. --- marriage. --- north africa. --- orthodox jews. --- orthodoxy. --- reform judaism. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- russian jews. --- shrines. --- synagogue. --- tradition. --- womens roles. --- worship.
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Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.
History of North America --- History of Latin America --- Jewish religion --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Jews --- Juifs --- History --- Migrations --- Histoire --- Europe --- Latin America --- North America --- Amérique latine --- Amérique du Nord --- Emigration and immigration. --- Emigration et immigration --- Amérique latine --- Amérique du Nord --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish migrations --- Migrations, Jewish --- Jewish diaspora --- Jewish refugees --- Emigration and immigration --- Jews - North America - History. --- North America - Emigration and immigration. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- History. --- Migrations. --- Jewish Studies, History: Medieval/Early Modern, Colonial History, Refugee and Migration Studies.
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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. Imperialism in Jewish Society will be widely read and much debated.
Jews --- Judaism --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- History --- Palestine --- Aelia Capitolina. --- Ancient Judaism (book). --- Archaeology. --- Avodah Zarah. --- Bar Kokhba revolt. --- Beit She'an. --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Capernaum. --- Cathedra. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- Church Fathers. --- Early Period. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Edom. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Epigraphy. --- Euergetism. --- Exegesis. --- First Jewish–Roman War. --- Galilean. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Grandee. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hellenization. --- Herodian. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Israel. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish prayer. --- Jewish religious movements. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judaization. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Kohen. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leiden. --- Levine. --- Libanius. --- Lifshitz. --- Literature. --- Maccabean Revolt. --- Menorah (Temple). --- Mishnah. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Paganism. --- Palestinian Jews. --- Persecution. --- Pharisees. --- Piyyut. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Religion. --- Religiosity. --- Rhetoric. --- Rite. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Government. --- Samaritans. --- Scythopolis (see). --- Second Temple period. --- Second Temple. --- Sect. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Seleucid Empire. --- Seminar. --- Sepphoris. --- Shabbat. --- Synagogue. --- Syria Palaestina. --- Tax. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- Theology. --- Tiberias. --- Torah reading. --- Torah study. --- Torah. --- Tosefta. --- Tractate. --- Upper Galilee. --- Urban culture. --- Writing. --- Yohanan.
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In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.
Learning and scholarship. --- Humanities --- Academic writing. --- Universities and colleges --- Literature --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Academic disciplines --- Disciplines, Academic --- Schools --- Philosophy. --- Curricula. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Curricula --- Adjective. --- Aestheticism. --- Alan Sokal. --- Alfred Kazin. --- Amateur professionalism. --- Amateur. --- American studies. --- Anti-intellectualism. --- Aphorism. --- Art history. --- Author. --- Book review. --- C. P. Snow. --- C. S. Lewis. --- Columnist. --- Counterintuitive. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Cultural studies. --- Culture war. --- Deconstruction. --- Doublespeak. --- Edward Said. --- Essay. --- Fashionable Nonsense. --- Genre. --- George Orwell. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Harvard University. --- Headline. --- Humanities. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Intellectual. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jacques Lacan. --- James Gleick. --- Jargon. --- Jewish studies. --- Jonathan Swift. --- Joseph Addison. --- Judith Butler. --- Liberal arts education. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Mario Pei. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modern Language Association. --- Mr. --- Neologism. --- New Criticism. --- Newspeak. --- Novelist. --- Oxford University Press. --- Penis envy. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase. --- Physicist. --- Poetry. --- Political correctness. --- Politician. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Prince Hal. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychology. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Feynman. --- Robert Maynard Hutchins. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Slang. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Sokal affair. --- Sophistication. --- Stanley Fish. --- Terminology. --- The New York Times. --- The Philosopher. --- The School of Athens. --- The Two Cultures. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Usage. --- Verb. --- Vocabulary. --- Wendy Lesser. --- Wilhelm Dilthey. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writer. --- Writing.
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