Search Results - "American Jewish"

Beyond Stereotypes : American Jews and Sports in the Twentieth Century /

Table of Contents: “…A stack of Jewish baseball cards : some thoughts on Jews and the roles they have played in the major leagues / Joseph Dorinson -- Racial attitudes toward Jews in the "Negro Leagues" : the case of Effa Manley / Rebecca Alpert -- American Jewish women on the court : seeking an identity in tennis in the early decades of the twentieth century / Linda J. …”
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Beyond Stereotypes : American Jews and Sports in the Twentieth Century /

Table of Contents: “…A stack of Jewish baseball cards : some thoughts on Jews and the roles they have played in the major leagues / Joseph Dorinson -- Racial attitudes toward Jews in the "Negro Leagues" : the case of Effa Manley / Rebecca Alpert -- American Jewish women on the court : seeking an identity in tennis in the early decades of the twentieth century / Linda J. …”
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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination by Krupnick, Mark, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Lionel Trilling and the politics of style -- Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim" -- Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe -- The two worlds of cultural criticism -- Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism -- Listmania in Humboldt's gift -- Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies -- Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true? …”
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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination by Krupnick, Mark, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Lionel Trilling and the politics of style -- Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim" -- Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe -- The two worlds of cultural criticism -- Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism -- Listmania in Humboldt's gift -- Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies -- Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true? …”
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Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America /

Table of Contents: “…Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. …”
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Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America /

Table of Contents: “…Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. …”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…1. American Jewish business : at the street level / Hasia R. …”
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The Impact of the Holocaust in America : The Jewish Role in American Life /

Table of Contents: “…From case file to testimony: reconstructing survivors' first years in America / Beth Cohen -- Survivors as teachers / Michael Berenbaum -- A Jewish perspective on the global economic revolution in a post-Holocaust world / Steven Windmueller -- Bringing the Holocaust to America / Richard Libowitz -- Imagining the Shoah in American third-generation cinema / Lawrence Baron -- Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter J. …”
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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society /

Table of Contents: “…Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Women and philanthropy in France : from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Evelyne Diebolt -- Women and philanthropy in Brazil : an overview / Leilah Landim -- The Norwegian voluntary sector and civil society in transition : women as a catalyst of deep-seated change / Per Selle -- Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia / Shurlee Swain -- Parallel power structures, invisible careers, and the changing nature of American Jewish women's philanthropy / Susan M. Chambre -- Women and philanthropy in Egypt / Amani Kandil -- An Islamic activist in interwar Egypt / Beth Baron -- Women and philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian societies : the contributions of Islamic thought and the strategy of national survival / Ghada Hashem Talhami -- Women and philanthropy in India / Pushpa Sundar -- Women and philanthropy in South Korea from a non-Western perspective / Hye Kyung Lee.…”
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The Impact of the Holocaust in America : The Jewish Role in American Life /

Table of Contents: “…From case file to testimony: reconstructing survivors' first years in America / Beth Cohen -- Survivors as teachers / Michael Berenbaum -- A Jewish perspective on the global economic revolution in a post-Holocaust world / Steven Windmueller -- Bringing the Holocaust to America / Richard Libowitz -- Imagining the Shoah in American third-generation cinema / Lawrence Baron -- Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter J. …”
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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society /

Table of Contents: “…Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Women and philanthropy in France : from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Evelyne Diebolt -- Women and philanthropy in Brazil : an overview / Leilah Landim -- The Norwegian voluntary sector and civil society in transition : women as a catalyst of deep-seated change / Per Selle -- Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia / Shurlee Swain -- Parallel power structures, invisible careers, and the changing nature of American Jewish women's philanthropy / Susan M. Chambre -- Women and philanthropy in Egypt / Amani Kandil -- An Islamic activist in interwar Egypt / Beth Baron -- Women and philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian societies : the contributions of Islamic thought and the strategy of national survival / Ghada Hashem Talhami -- Women and philanthropy in India / Pushpa Sundar -- Women and philanthropy in South Korea from a non-Western perspective / Hye Kyung Lee.…”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…1. American Jewish business : at the street level / Hasia R. …”
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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel /

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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel /

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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…The Legacy of the Kelm School of Musar on Questions of Work, Wealth, and PovertyConspicuous Charity and Jewish Unity: The Jewish Loterie in Nineteenth Century Paris; Getting Drunk, Dancing, and Beating Each Other Up: The Images of the Gentile Poor and Narratives of Jewish Difference among the Yiddish Intelligentsia, 1881-1914; Empty Hearts and Full Wallets: Poverty and Wealth in American Jewish Films, 1921-1932; Crossing Over: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the Baltimore Films of Barry Levinson; The Cost of Living Jewishly: A Matter of Money or Values?…”
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…The Legacy of the Kelm School of Musar on Questions of Work, Wealth, and PovertyConspicuous Charity and Jewish Unity: The Jewish Loterie in Nineteenth Century Paris; Getting Drunk, Dancing, and Beating Each Other Up: The Images of the Gentile Poor and Narratives of Jewish Difference among the Yiddish Intelligentsia, 1881-1914; Empty Hearts and Full Wallets: Poverty and Wealth in American Jewish Films, 1921-1932; Crossing Over: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the Baltimore Films of Barry Levinson; The Cost of Living Jewishly: A Matter of Money or Values?…”
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“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Reflections of an American Jewish Lawyer on the British Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Jewish Religious Law; Inventing Jewish History, Culture, and Genetic Identity in Modern New Mexico; "Jewish Genes": Ancient Priests and Modern Jewish Identity; Conversion in Transition: Practical, Conceptual, and Halachic Changes in Israel.…”
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“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Reflections of an American Jewish Lawyer on the British Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Jewish Religious Law; Inventing Jewish History, Culture, and Genetic Identity in Modern New Mexico; "Jewish Genes": Ancient Priests and Modern Jewish Identity; Conversion in Transition: Practical, Conceptual, and Halachic Changes in Israel.…”
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