Author: Samuel Joseph GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jews in Transition
Author: Samuel Joseph GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Jews in Transition
Author: Albert Isaac GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
America's Jews in Transition
Author: Chaim Isaac WaxmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780087722323
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Jews in transition
Author: Albert I. GordonThe Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Author: Stanley MirvisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025203X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An in-depth look at the Portuguese Jews of Jamaica and their connections to broader European and Atlantic trade networks Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis examines how Jamaica’s Jews put down roots as traders, planters, pen keepers, physicians, fishermen, and metalworkers, and reveals how their presence shaped the colony as much as settlement in the tropical West Indies transformed the lives of the island’s Jews.
Surviving Salvation
Author: Dr. Ruth K. WestheimerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814792537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Their mutual interest in the Ethiopian Jews, as well as a series of unique circumstances, led them to join forces to produce this engrossing and handsomely illustrated volume. But this is not a book about the journey of the Ethiopian Jews; rather it is a chronicle of their experiences once they reached their destination. In Ethiopia, they were united by a shared faith and a broad network of kinship ties that served as the foundation of their rural communal society. They observed a form of religion based on the Bible that included customs such as the isolation of women during menstruation, long abandoned by Jewish communities elsewhere in the world. Suddenly transplanted, they are becoming rapidly and aggressively assimilated. Thrust from isolated villages without electricity or running water into the urban bustle of modern, postindustrial society, Ethiopian Jews have seen their family relationships radically transformed.
Zionism in Transition
Author: Moshe DavisJudaism in Transition
Author: Carmel U. ChiswickPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791414
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia. Yet, the practice of these rituals has varied widely across historical and cultural contexts. In Judaism in Transition, Carmel U. Chiswick draws on her Jewish upbringing, her journey as a Jewish parent, and her perspective as an economist to consider how incentives affect the ways that mainstream American Jews have navigated and continue to manage the conflicting demands of everyday life and religious observance. Arguing that economics is a blind spot in our understanding of religion, Chiswick blends her personal experiences with economic analysis to illustrate the cost of Jewish participation—financially and, more importantly, in terms of time and effort. The history of American Jews is almost always told as a success story in the secular world. Chiswick recasts this story as one of innovation in order to maintain a distinctive Jewish culture while keeping pace with the steady march of American life. She shows how tradeoffs, often made on an individual and deeply personal level, produce the brand of Judaism which predominates in America today. Along the way, Chiswick explores salient and controversial topics—from intermarriage to immigration and from egalitarianism to connections with Israel. At once a portrait of American Jewish culture and a work that outlines how economic decisions affect religion, Judaism in Transition shows how changes in our economic environment will affect the Jewish community for decades to come.
Ashkenazic Jewry in Transition
Author: Bernard RosensweigPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206279
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The fifteenth century was one of the most tragic and fateful centuries in the history of the Jewish people. It was the century which not only sealed the fate of Sephardic Jewry in the Iberian Peninsula, but also marked the turning point in the historical development of Ashkenazic Jewry from its centre in Germany to Poland and eastern Europe. Rabbi Dr. Bernard Rosensweig utilizes the life and times and works of Rabbi Jacob Weil and his contemporaries in order to give us an intimate picture of Ashkenazic Jewry in this age of transition. Through these original sources, we are exposed to the social, cultural, economic and political structure of the Jewish community, and its relationship to the civil authority and the Church.
Shaping the Middle East
Author: Kenneth G. HolumPublisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781934309315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Presents the archaeology, art, and history of the Middle East from 400-800 C.E. including latest archaeology of Caesarea, the Persian invasion of Palestine, and the Early Islamic period. Color photographs throughout. Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, vol. 20"--Publisher's website.