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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exciting, provocative, path-breaking book. It is complex, textured in historical detail, and full of literally hundreds of various scenarios and possibilities of 'what if.' Gurock has done a masterful job." -- Marc Dollinger * co-editor of American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader *"Gurock’s book is a tour de force, on the cutting edge of an emerging genre. He has mastered American political history, European military and political history, and every aspect of American Jewry over a period of about three decades, and crafted an intelligent, entertaining, imaginative, and even suspenseful narrative. I cannot think of anyone who could have duplicated this superb book." -- Marc Lee Raphael * author of The Synagogue in America: A Short History *"With imagination and erudition, courage and wit—including a suddenly stalwart Neville Chamberlain defying Hitler at Munich and a Joseph P. Kennedy (Jr.) becoming Israel's most important friend—Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and skittish American Jewry might have evolved without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles, is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to infuriate." -- David Margolick * author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink *"Hot on the trail of surprise turns and eerie parallels in this 'what if' romp through the most momentous years of 20th century history, the reader ultimately confronts the dilemmas of Jewish life today." -- Jack Wertheimer * Jewish Theological Seminary *"If [Philip] Roth and [Quentin] Tarantino could rewrite the past, why not allow the historian - in this case Yeshiva University scholar Jeffrey Gurock - to play with facts and offer, with many of the trappings of scholarship, an imagined history?" * Times Higher Education *"The Holocaust Averted shows how stimulating a counterfactual drawn from social history can be … Gurock's book takes a seemingly felicitous event as a divergence point, and draws dark conclusions." * Aeon *"Gurock's emphasis on the contrast between the postwar American Jewry of his alternative Jewry and what Jews actually experienced after 1945 perhaps offers a clue as to why he wrote this engrossing volume. The book implicitly challenges those naysayers who have emphasized the deficiencies of post-war American Jewry. When placed alongside his somber alternate history of American Jews, what is noteworthy from his perspective is their actual accomplishments. For Gurock the glass of postwar American Jewry and of American Judaism is half full, not half empty." * American Jewish History *"As magical, restorative, and nearly unconceivable it is for us, his audience, to read European Jewry back into existence, Gurock directs the readers attention elsewhere in this ambitious reimagining of twentieth-century history ... This book delivers frisson upon frisson as the world we know brushes up past its fraternal twin." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"Gurock has made a compelling contribution to the study of counterfactual history, relevant to both scholars and general reader alike." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue Ghosts in the Restored Jewish Quarter in Krakow, Poland: An Entrance into Alternate Jewish HistoryChapter 1 A World at War, 1938Chapter 2 American Jewry in the Late 1930s: A Respite for an Insecure CommunityChapter 3 Conflicting Challenges for an America at Peace, 1938–1944Chapter 4 Without the “Boss”: American Jewry’s Concerns, 1940–1944Chapter 5 The Eastern European Threat and an End to U.S. Isolationism, 1944–1945Chapter 6 Divided Allegiances: American Jews and Israel, 1944–1950Chapter 7 Suburban Jewish Cul de Sacs, 1950–1960Chapter 8 The 1960s and the Trials of Acceptance for American JewsChapter 9 Unending Dilemmas: Israelis, Arabs, the World Powers, and American JewsConclusion Alternate History and the Realities of American Jewish LifeNotes

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Book SynopsisImagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred. Jeffrey Gurock forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today's American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.Trade Review"This is an exciting, provocative, path-breaking book. It is complex, textured in historical detail, and full of literally hundreds of various scenarios and possibilities of 'what if.' Gurock has done a masterful job." -- Marc Dollinger * co-editor of American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader *"Gurock’s book is a tour de force, on the cutting edge of an emerging genre. He has mastered American political history, European military and political history, and every aspect of American Jewry over a period of about three decades, and crafted an intelligent, entertaining, imaginative, and even suspenseful narrative. I cannot think of anyone who could have duplicated this superb book." -- Marc Lee Raphael * author of The Synagogue in America: A Short History *"With imagination and erudition, courage and wit—including a suddenly stalwart Neville Chamberlain defying Hitler at Munich and a Joseph P. Kennedy (Jr.) becoming Israel's most important friend—Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and skittish American Jewry might have evolved without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles, is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to infuriate." -- David Margolick * author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink *"Hot on the trail of surprise turns and eerie parallels in this 'what if' romp through the most momentous years of 20th century history, the reader ultimately confronts the dilemmas of Jewish life today." -- Jack Wertheimer * Jewish Theological Seminary *"If [Philip] Roth and [Quentin] Tarantino could rewrite the past, why not allow the historian - in this case Yeshiva University scholar Jeffrey Gurock - to play with facts and offer, with many of the trappings of scholarship, an imagined history?" * Times Higher Education *"The Holocaust Averted shows how stimulating a counterfactual drawn from social history can be … Gurock's book takes a seemingly felicitous event as a divergence point, and draws dark conclusions." * Aeon *"Gurock's emphasis on the contrast between the postwar American Jewry of his alternative Jewry and what Jews actually experienced after 1945 perhaps offers a clue as to why he wrote this engrossing volume. The book implicitly challenges those naysayers who have emphasized the deficiencies of post-war American Jewry. When placed alongside his somber alternate history of American Jews, what is noteworthy from his perspective is their actual accomplishments. For Gurock the glass of postwar American Jewry and of American Judaism is half full, not half empty." * American Jewish History *"As magical, restorative, and nearly unconceivable it is for us, his audience, to read European Jewry back into existence, Gurock directs the readers attention elsewhere in this ambitious reimagining of twentieth-century history ... This book delivers frisson upon frisson as the world we know brushes up past its fraternal twin." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"Gurock has made a compelling contribution to the study of counterfactual history, relevant to both scholars and general reader alike." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue Ghosts in the Restored Jewish Quarter in Krakow, Poland: An Entrance into Alternate Jewish HistoryChapter 1 A World at War, 1938Chapter 2 American Jewry in the Late 1930s: A Respite for an Insecure CommunityChapter 3 Conflicting Challenges for an America at Peace, 1938–1944Chapter 4 Without the “Boss”: American Jewry’s Concerns, 1940–1944Chapter 5 The Eastern European Threat and an End to U.S. Isolationism, 1944–1945Chapter 6 Divided Allegiances: American Jews and Israel, 1944–1950Chapter 7 Suburban Jewish Cul de Sacs, 1950–1960Chapter 8 The 1960s and the Trials of Acceptance for American JewsChapter 9 Unending Dilemmas: Israelis, Arabs, the World Powers, and American JewsConclusion Alternate History and the Realities of American Jewish LifeNotes

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Book SynopsisIn 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.Trade Review"A most intriguing read." * Haaretz *"Between 1971 and 2009, some two million Jews left the Soviet Union, settling mainly in Israel, the U.S. and later, Germany. The focus of this study is on these immigrants and how they succeeded (or failed) to adapt to their new homes ... The essays, most by Israeli scholars, approach the subject from different perspectives, to determine what the creation of this new Jewish diaspora has meant to the three countries where most have settled, and to the immigrants themselves." * Chicago Jewish Star *"An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary Russian Jews around the world." -- David Shneer * University of Colorado *"The New Jewish Diaspora provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Jewish Studies, Russian Studies, and Diaspora and Transnationalism. The thematic breadth and the complex questions this volume poses make it particularly well-suited to serve as a textbook for courses on diasporic Russian-Jewish culture and society....The New Jewish Diaspora is a major contribution to the study of diasporic Russian-Jewish culture and society." * Journal of Jewish Identities *Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between Zvi GitelmanPart I Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone?Chapter 1 Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora Mark ToltsChapter 2 The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel Uzi RebhunChapter 3 Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine Marina SapritskyPart II Transnationalism and DiasporasChapter 4 Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU Jonathan Dekel-ChenChapter 5 Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today Hannah Pollin-GalayChapter 6 Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations Steven J. GoldPart III Political and Economic ChangeChapter 7 Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany Olena Bagno-MoldavskiChapter 8 The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity Yaacov Ro’iChapter 9 The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel Gur OferPart IV Resocialization and the Malleability of EthnicityChapter 10 Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany Eliezer Ben-RafaelChapter 11 Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany Sveta RobermanChapter 12 Inventing a “New Jew”: The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia Elena Nosenko-ShteinPart V Migration and Religious ChangeChapter 13 Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion Nelly Elias and Julia LernerChapter 14 Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online Anna ShternshisPart VI Diaspora Russian LiteratureChapter 15 Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldstein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky Mikhail KrutikovChapter 16 Poets and Poetry in Today’s Diaspora: On Being “Marginally Jewish” Stephanie SandlerChapter 17 Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers Adrian WannerAfterword: The Future of a Diaspora Zvi GitelmanNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.Trade Review"A most intriguing read." * Haaretz *"Between 1971 and 2009, some two million Jews left the Soviet Union, settling mainly in Israel, the U.S. and later, Germany. The focus of this study is on these immigrants and how they succeeded (or failed) to adapt to their new homes ... The essays, most by Israeli scholars, approach the subject from different perspectives, to determine what the creation of this new Jewish diaspora has meant to the three countries where most have settled, and to the immigrants themselves." * Chicago Jewish Star *"An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary Russian Jews around the world." -- David Shneer * University of Colorado *"The New Jewish Diaspora provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Jewish Studies, Russian Studies, and Diaspora and Transnationalism. The thematic breadth and the complex questions this volume poses make it particularly well-suited to serve as a textbook for courses on diasporic Russian-Jewish culture and society....The New Jewish Diaspora is a major contribution to the study of diasporic Russian-Jewish culture and society." * Journal of Jewish Identities *Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between Zvi GitelmanPart I Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone?Chapter 1 Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora Mark ToltsChapter 2 The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel Uzi RebhunChapter 3 Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine Marina SapritskyPart II Transnationalism and DiasporasChapter 4 Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU Jonathan Dekel-ChenChapter 5 Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today Hannah Pollin-GalayChapter 6 Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations Steven J. GoldPart III Political and Economic ChangeChapter 7 Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany Olena Bagno-MoldavskiChapter 8 The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity Yaacov Ro’iChapter 9 The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel Gur OferPart IV Resocialization and the Malleability of EthnicityChapter 10 Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany Eliezer Ben-RafaelChapter 11 Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany Sveta RobermanChapter 12 Inventing a “New Jew”: The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia Elena Nosenko-ShteinPart V Migration and Religious ChangeChapter 13 Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion Nelly Elias and Julia LernerChapter 14 Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online Anna ShternshisPart VI Diaspora Russian LiteratureChapter 15 Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldstein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky Mikhail KrutikovChapter 16 Poets and Poetry in Today’s Diaspora: On Being “Marginally Jewish” Stephanie SandlerChapter 17 Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers Adrian WannerAfterword: The Future of a Diaspora Zvi GitelmanNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisReligiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists. Trade Review"Amanda Izzo’s book is a revelation. Two intertwining stories--the Maryknoll sisters going from cold warriors to dissidents, and the YWCA as the target of anti-communist repression-- together demonstrate how faith in the power of love propelled Christian women’s political agendas on a world stage in the 20th century." -- Ann Braude * author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion *"In this crisply-written and illuminating account, Amanda Izzo tells the story of two women's associations, the Protestant YWCA and the Catholic Maryknoll sisters. Following dramatically different routes along the way, the groups' politics converged in the 1960s and 70s, becoming powerful forces for social justice at home and abroad. Izzo treats both strands of this important alliance with nuance and insight, suggesting how far creeds of Christian love took the American people – and how far we have to go." -- Jane Hunter * author of Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China *"Amanda Izzo's wonderful excavation of early twentieth century women's activism among liberal Catholics and Protestants casts new light everywhere. Izzo stresses liberalism's activist energy, Maryknoll and YWCA globalism, and, ultimately, the importance of women’s religious activism in the global human rights movement. Beautifully researched and even more beautifully written, Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism illuminates the exceptional reach of women’s activism across religions and world borders.” -- Jon Butler * Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale Univ. *"Pg. 99: Amanda Izzo's 'Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism'" by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"The Author’s Corner with Amanda Izzo" * The Way of Improvement Leads Home *"Weekly Book List, April 27, 2018" compiled by Nina Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Izzo's work contributes to the ever-expanding history of feminisms, especially at the intersection of religious commitment and social justice activism. Izzo's effective use of sources and clear writing and organization makes this text a good choice for advanced undergraduate courses exploring women and religion, social activism and world Christianity, and gender, politics, and religion." * Journal of American History *"Such an interesting book! The parallels and differences between the YMCA movement and the Maryknoll Sisters make for fascinating feminist history. Both organizations have had far wider and deeper impacts than their mere numbers would suggest. Both have shaped and empowered their members and the broader society. These groups incarnate justice and equality for women and BIPOC. This study captures their essences and displays their achievements in relief against formidable patriarchal odds." * Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Women and Christian Fellowship in the Early Twentieth Century 15 1 “Life More Abundant”: The YWCA and the Social Gospel 19 2 “By Love, Serve One Another”: Foreign Mission and the Changing Meanings of Evangelization 44 3 “Hidden and Effective Service”: The Maryknoll Sisters Enter the Mission Field 66 Part II: From the Popular Front and American Century to the New Frontier 89 4 “Dare We Be as Radical as Our Religion Demands?”: Christian Activism and the Long Red Scare 93 5 A “Fifth Column for God”: The Maryknoll Sisters at Midcentury 124 Part III: “The Ferment of Freedom” 153 6 “We Choose to Identify with the Church of the Poor”: Preferential Option in Action 159 7 “The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns”: Foreign Mission and Foreign Policy 191 Epilogue 215 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 223 Selected Bibliography 257 Index 267

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Book SynopsisReligiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn of the late twentieth century. Izzo argues that contrary to this view, the liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics, and that women make up a large proportion of these activists. Trade Review"Amanda Izzo’s book is a revelation. Two intertwining stories--the Maryknoll sisters going from cold warriors to dissidents, and the YWCA as the target of anti-communist repression-- together demonstrate how faith in the power of love propelled Christian women’s political agendas on a world stage in the 20th century." -- Ann Braude * author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion *"In this crisply-written and illuminating account, Amanda Izzo tells the story of two women's associations, the Protestant YWCA and the Catholic Maryknoll sisters. Following dramatically different routes along the way, the groups' politics converged in the 1960s and 70s, becoming powerful forces for social justice at home and abroad. Izzo treats both strands of this important alliance with nuance and insight, suggesting how far creeds of Christian love took the American people – and how far we have to go." -- Jane Hunter * author of Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China *"Amanda Izzo's wonderful excavation of early twentieth century women's activism among liberal Catholics and Protestants casts new light everywhere. Izzo stresses liberalism's activist energy, Maryknoll and YWCA globalism, and, ultimately, the importance of women’s religious activism in the global human rights movement. Beautifully researched and even more beautifully written, Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism illuminates the exceptional reach of women’s activism across religions and world borders.” -- Jon Butler * Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale Univ. *"Pg. 99: Amanda Izzo's 'Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism'" by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"The Author’s Corner with Amanda Izzo" * The Way of Improvement Leads Home *"Weekly Book List, April 27, 2018" compiled by Nina Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Izzo's work contributes to the ever-expanding history of feminisms, especially at the intersection of religious commitment and social justice activism. Izzo's effective use of sources and clear writing and organization makes this text a good choice for advanced undergraduate courses exploring women and religion, social activism and world Christianity, and gender, politics, and religion." * Journal of American History *"Such an interesting book! The parallels and differences between the YMCA movement and the Maryknoll Sisters make for fascinating feminist history. Both organizations have had far wider and deeper impacts than their mere numbers would suggest. Both have shaped and empowered their members and the broader society. These groups incarnate justice and equality for women and BIPOC. This study captures their essences and displays their achievements in relief against formidable patriarchal odds." * Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Women and Christian Fellowship in the Early Twentieth Century 15 1 “Life More Abundant”: The YWCA and the Social Gospel 19 2 “By Love, Serve One Another”: Foreign Mission and the Changing Meanings of Evangelization 44 3 “Hidden and Effective Service”: The Maryknoll Sisters Enter the Mission Field 66 Part II: From the Popular Front and American Century to the New Frontier 89 4 “Dare We Be as Radical as Our Religion Demands?”: Christian Activism and the Long Red Scare 93 5 A “Fifth Column for God”: The Maryknoll Sisters at Midcentury 124 Part III: “The Ferment of Freedom” 153 6 “We Choose to Identify with the Church of the Poor”: Preferential Option in Action 159 7 “The Nuns Were Not Just Nuns”: Foreign Mission and Foreign Policy 191 Epilogue 215 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 223 Selected Bibliography 257 Index 267

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Book SynopsisIn Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust texts-and that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre.Trade Review"A valuable and timely resource that speaks to the necessity of ethical reading in regard to Holocaust representation." -- Victoria Aarons * O.R. & Eva Mitchell Endowed Chair in Literature, Trinity University *"Lang's exquisitely wrought study defines and explores the challenges of reading trauma literature, shedding light on the irony that reading does not equate to understanding." -- Alan L. Berger * Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9 Part I Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35 3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58 4 The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87 Part II Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155 Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 209

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Book SynopsisIn Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself forms barriers between the author and the reader in Holocaust textsand that these barriers, or silences, are not a lack of substance, but an essential characteristic of the genre.Trade Review"A valuable and timely resource that speaks to the necessity of ethical reading in regard to Holocaust representation." -- Victoria Aarons * O.R. & Eva Mitchell Endowed Chair in Literature, Trinity University *"Lang's exquisitely wrought study defines and explores the challenges of reading trauma literature, shedding light on the irony that reading does not equate to understanding." -- Alan L. Berger * Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9 Part I Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature 2 Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35 3 Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58 4 The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87 Part II Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction 5 American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119 6 Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155 Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 199 Index 209

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Book SynopsisPart travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced. Trade Review"Daniel Walkowitz takes us on a set of journeys, which eloquently connect tourism, family, migration, and the constant remaking of Jewish history through lived life." -- Hasia R. Diner * Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University *"A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other, Walkowitz journeys into places hidden by time and all-too-familiar narratives to open possibilities for thinking, writing and remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and always richly complex Jewish past." -- Alisse Waterston * author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century *"Intimately personal and universal. Passionate in argument and crystal clear in analysis. This is the best history, memory and heritage studies offers. And the best book on Jewish heritage tourism I have ever read." -- Marcin Wodzinski * professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland *"Recommended." * Choice *"Why Don't American Jews Search for their Heritage in New York City?" by Daniel J. Walkowitz * Zócalo Public Square *"Does focus on Holocaust tourism dim the memory of vibrant prewar Jewish life?" by J.P. O'Malley * Times of Israel *"[The book] makes a significant contribution insofar as it challenges, to return to my opening remarks, the long-standing, lachrymose approach to the study of Jewish history––and not just of Jewish history but of history itself....Walkowitz has written a stimulating book that will be of interest to historians in memory, museum, and Jewish studies." * American Historical Review *"Daniel Walkowitz takes us on a set of journeys, which eloquently connect tourism, family, migration, and the constant remaking of Jewish history through lived life." -- Hasia R. Diner * Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University *"A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other, Walkowitz journeys into places hidden by time and all-too-familiar narratives to open possibilities for thinking, writing and remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and always richly complex Jewish past." -- Alisse Waterston * author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century *"Intimately personal and universal. Passionate in argument and crystal clear in analysis. This is the best history, memory and heritage studies offers. And the best book on Jewish heritage tourism I have ever read." -- Marcin Wodzinski * professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland *"Recommended." * Choice *"Why Don't American Jews Search for their Heritage in New York City?" by Daniel J. Walkowitz * Zócalo Public Square *"Does focus on Holocaust tourism dim the memory of vibrant prewar Jewish life?" by J.P. O'Malley * Times of Israel *"[The book] makes a significant contribution insofar as it challenges, to return to my opening remarks, the long-standing, lachrymose approach to the study of Jewish history––and not just of Jewish history but of history itself....Walkowitz has written a stimulating book that will be of interest to historians in memory, museum, and Jewish studies." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Note on Text Introduction Prelude The Jewish Heritage Tourism Business Interlude Part I: Looking for Bubbe 2. Mszczonów and Łódź: Heritage Entrepreneurship 3. Mostyska, Lviv, and Kiev: Double Erasures 4. London: Walking Heritage Unpacked in the Jewish Diaspora 5. New York: Immigrant Heritage in the Jewish Diaspora Part II: Going Back 6. Berlin: A Holocaust Cityscape 7. Belgrade, Budapest, and Bucharest: Postwar Nationalism and Socialism 8. Kraków and Warsaw: Troubling Paradigms Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis that focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript ""The Story of Our Master Joseph"" - a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.

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Book SynopsisKadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales.Trade ReviewThe balance between situating the poems in their original framework and making them speak eloquently to today's reader is the major challenge of translating Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein has given us a comprehensive sample of one of the most important Yiddish women poets that is, as I can attest, an excellent introduction to Yiddish poetry for college students. Paper Bridges is a major contribution to the still relatively small library of Yiddish poetry in English translation and a reliable introduction to the poetics of Yiddish.""- Polin Review

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the experiences of religious women who participated in a midrasha at Bar-Ilan University, this book explores the spreading practice of intensive Judaic studies among women in the religious Zionist community.

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Book SynopsisPresents an examination of young survivors of the Holocaust and their role in the creation of the state of Israel. This book argues that Zionism was successful in filling a positive function for young displaced persons in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It is suitable for scholars of Jewish studies, European history, and Israel studies.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of Jewish magic in late antiquity and the early Islamic period—the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.

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Book SynopsisAn intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

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Book SynopsisMigration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. This book covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished Jewish refugees into Western Europe.

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Book SynopsisThrough the ages, theology in Judaism has played roles of varying importance. But the role of theology is minor compared with that of law and observance. This book is devoted to a study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400 B.C.) to Judah I, the Prince (ca. 200 A.D.). Its focus on law represents a realistic approach to the history of applied Judaism.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing.

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Book SynopsisArgues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust. Namely, what are the boundaries?

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to do Jewish, revealing that American Jews have, and continue to, turn to humor as a cultural touchstone. Caplan frames the book around four generations of Jewish Americans from the Silent Generation to Millennials, highlighting a shift from the utilization of Jewish-specific markers to American-specific markers. Jewish humor operates as a system of meaning-making for many Jewish Americans. By mapping humor onto both the generational identity of those making it and the use of Judaism within it, new insights about the development of American Judaism emerge. Caplan''s explication is innovative and insightful, engaging with scholarly discourse across Jewish studies and Jewish American history; it includes the work of Joseph Heller, Larry David, Woody Allen, Seinfeld, the Coen brothers f

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to do Jewish, revealing that American Jews have, and continue to, turn to humor as a cultural touchstone. Caplan frames the book around four generations of Jewish Americans from the Silent Generation to Millennials, highlighting a shift from the utilization of Jewish-specific markers to American-specific markers. Jewish humor operates as a system of meaning-making for many Jewish Americans. By mapping humor onto both the generational identity of those making it and the use of Judaism within it, new insights about the development of American Judaism emerge. Caplan''s explication is innovative and insightful, engaging with scholarly discourse across Jewish studies and Jewish American history; it includes the work of Joseph Heller, Larry David, Woody Allen, Seinfeld, the Coen brothers f

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Book SynopsisThrough thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the ‘negation of the diaspora’ as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day.

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Book SynopsisSepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish history and legend from Adam to the destruction of the Second Temple, this is the first known text since the canonical histories written by Flavius Josephus in Greek and later translated by Christian scholars into Latin. Sepher Yosippon has been cited and referred to by scholars, poets, and authors as the authentic source for ancient Israel for over a millennium, until overshadowed by the twentieth-century Hebrew translations of Josephus. It is based on Pseudo Hegesippus''s fourth-century anti-Jewish summary of Josephus''s Jewish War. However, the anonymous author [a.k.a. Joseph ben Gurion Hacohen] also consulted with the Latin versions of Josephus''s works available to him. At the same time, he included a wealth of Second Temple literature as well as Roman and Christian sources. This book contains Steven

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Book SynopsisExplores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel’s cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film’s particular form of ‘magic’ may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.Trade ReviewHidden Light analyzes the ‘Judaic turn’ in Israeli cinema during the 2000s in riveting and rigorous detail. But that is only one of this book’s many impressive achievements. Chyutin grapples with nothing less than film theory’s links to religious and mystical concepts, building new bridges between film studies, Jewish studies, and religious studies." - Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness"Hidden Light is an act of reclamation. Moving beyond a seeming dichotomy between a text-driven legal tradition and the visual poetics of cinema, Chyutin brilliantly illustrates how the recent wave of religiously inflected Israeli cinema is deeply rooted in Jewish traditions of longing, prayer, and transcendence." - Shayna Weiss, associate director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University"Hidden Light is essential for anyone interested in contemporary Israeli cinema. Bringing deep theoretical and historical knowledge to bear on the ‘Judaic turn,’ Chyutin presents new ways of thinking about religion on-screen and ideas of spiritual transcendence endemic to the concept of ‘the cinematic’ since the art form’s birth." - Kyle Stevens, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory"Dan Chyutin’s timely study brings the ‘Judaic turn’ to bear upon a rich and engaging analysis of Israeli cinema. It does so by paying attention to cinematic appeals to the Judaic New Age, or what some scholars have recently termed the ‘Jew Age.’ Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema is an important contribution that, through its Jew Age analyses, brings into question simplistic binary thinking regarding the Israeli secular-religious divide in favor of a more complex reading of Judaism’s relationship to Israeli notions of identity." - Brian Ogren, Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and Religion Department Chair, Rice University"Hidden Light makes a singular contribution to the study of Israeli cinema, exploring and delineating one of the most important developments in Israeli cinema over the past three decades: the emergence of religious-themed Israeli films. Chyutin’s analysis of films is meticulous and enlightening, as he expands and challenges our perceptions of the Israeli cinematic canon." - Eran Kaplan, author of Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen"Film scholars will find merit." - Publisher's Weekly

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Book SynopsisConsiders the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. Each of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated to a different country. The case studies provide new insights into Holocaust memory and memory politics.

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Book SynopsisThough long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, this book maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century.Trade ReviewGod Hates Fags is an excellent way to become immersed in the issues and rhetorical arguments of a sub-cultural world of American religious and political disourse. -- Richard Hughes Seager * American Studies Journal *God Hates Fags is an exciting, even exceptional, book, and it will contribute to an important and necessary conversation between queer studies and African American literary and cultural studies. -- Christopher Nealon,author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before StonewallLooks specifically at texts and spectacles about religious violence and hatred. -- Julie Novkov,University at Albany, SUNYMichael Cobb raises questions of both ethics and effectiveness that are deeply urgent. If you, too, want to know how the rhetorics of violence that swirl around queer people work, then read this book. -- Janet R. Jakobsen,co-author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious ToleranceI am moved by it, as by his practiced rhetorical sensibility. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *[Cobb] begins not only in the middle of still fresh news (Matthew Shepard, Fred Phelps, Colorados Amendment 2, and the marriage debates), but in the middle of ordinary assumptions about rhetoric and our east elision of sexuality with race. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Last Safe Group to Hate 1 The Language of National Security: A Queer Theory of Religious Language 2 James Baldwin and His Queer, Religious Words 3 Like a Prayer 4 Rights as Wrongs Conclusion: Our Aberrant Future NotesIndex About the Author

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Book Synopsis2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAt the funeral of Matthew Shepardthe young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gaythe Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like Matt Shepard rots in Hell, Fags Die God Laughs, and God Hates Fags. In counter-protest, activists launched an angel action, dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creating a visible barrier so one would not have to see the hateful signs.Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Cobb focuses on how queers have assumed religious rhetoric strategically to respond to the violence done against them, alternating close readings of writings by James Baldwin, TennessTrade ReviewGod Hates Fags is an excellent way to become immersed in the issues and rhetorical arguments of a sub-cultural world of American religious and political disourse. -- Richard Hughes Seager * American Studies Journal *God Hates Fags is an exciting, even exceptional, book, and it will contribute to an important and necessary conversation between queer studies and African American literary and cultural studies. -- Christopher Nealon,author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before StonewallLooks specifically at texts and spectacles about religious violence and hatred. -- Julie Novkov,University at Albany, SUNYMichael Cobb raises questions of both ethics and effectiveness that are deeply urgent. If you, too, want to know how the rhetorics of violence that swirl around queer people work, then read this book. -- Janet R. Jakobsen,co-author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious ToleranceI am moved by it, as by his practiced rhetorical sensibility. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *[Cobb] begins not only in the middle of still fresh news (Matthew Shepard, Fred Phelps, Colorados Amendment 2, and the marriage debates), but in the middle of ordinary assumptions about rhetoric and our east elision of sexuality with race. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Last Safe Group to Hate 1 The Language of National Security: A Queer Theory of Religious Language 2 James Baldwin and His Queer, Religious Words 3 Like a Prayer 4 Rights as Wrongs Conclusion: Our Aberrant Future NotesIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisExamines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from Eastern Europe''s pogroms, children's literature provides diverse and complicated responses to the challenge of representing difficultcollective pasts.In reading the work of various prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester, Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine changes our understanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives of both suffering and nostalgia graft future citizens into ideals of American liberal democracy, and into religious communities that can be understood according to recognizable notions of reTrade ReviewExhibits an impressive command of multiple disciplines to offer a compelling of reading of Jewish and African American childrens literatures. . . . Eichler-Levine's close readings of youth literatures and reader responses are always clear and often delightful as she deftly works at the crossroads, providing new signposts for navigating vexing questions at the intersections of religion, citizenship, trauma, and redemption. -- Liora Gubkin,author of You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover RitualJodi Eichler-Levines insightful book illuminates the importance of fear and suffering in shaping African American and Jewish childrens literature. Her book gives a cogent understanding of how each community's difficult historical narratives coupled with their religious and social lives have helped to prepare children to engage an American civic life that has been hostile at times to their ethnic groups. -- Anthea Butler,University of PennsylvaniaThis rich and rewarding study invites fresh thought about the political religiosity of stories for children and the potential of contemporary children's literature to help forge a new politics of American childhood. -- Amy Fish * Children's Literature *Whats so exciting about Suffer the Little Children is that it brings a deeply grounded religious studies perspective to bear on contemporary American childrens literature in ways that enrich both the study of literature and our understanding of childhoods role in U.S. Judeo-Christian cultures. By focusing on American childrens books by and about Jews and African Americans and the core tropes that interweave through these textsfrom the idea of 'chosenness' to the haunting spectre of genocideEichler-Levine gives new meaning to the idea of the `sacralized child. Suffer the Little Children sheds new light on the relationships between race, religion, citizenship, and childhood. It also reminds us once more of why childrens literature provides such a revealing lens for analyzing American culture. -- Julia Mickenberg * Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the U.S. *In this startling analysis of children's literature written by African Americans, Jews, and African American Jews, Eichler-Levine (religion/Jewish studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) claims that 'redemptive' stories about victimization are a necessary part of these works in order to gain acceptance. * Choice *Eichler-Levine exhibits mastery of this genre in a scholarly, comprehensive book that brings a literate, impassioned, interrogative analytical lens to familiar and lesser known children's books. * Catholic Library World *Jodi Eichler-Levine sets out to make the connections between African American and Jewish childrens literature, a potentially fruitful area of study because of the two groups shared inheritance of similar Biblical stories. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Eichler-Levine's appreciation for the art and transcendent possibility of children's books will inspire other scholars of religion, American history, and literature to pick up childhood favorites. In so doing,Suffer the Little Childrenpromises to spark a broader investigation of the wide-ranging contributions Jewish writers have made to this understudied literary tradition. * American Jewish History *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Wild Things and Chosen Children A Word about Language 1 Remembering the Way into Membership Part I: Crossing and Dwelling:After lives of Moses and Miriam 2 The Unbearable Lightness of Exodus 3 Dwelling in Chosen Nostalgia Part II: Binding and Unbinding:Hauntings of Isaac and Jephthah's Daughter4 Bound to Violence: Lynching, the Holocaust, and the Limits of Representation 5 Unbound in Fantasy: Reading Monstrosity and the Supernatural Conclusion: The Abrahamic Bargain Appendix: Children's Books Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the British empire, this book assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves.Trade ReviewFor anyone in search of ammunition to refute farfetched claims about Jewish culpability for the enslavement of Africans in America, this is the place to look. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times *The only way to set the record straight is to do what those making the claim [of Jewish domination of the slave trade and widespread slave ownership] have failed to do, namely sift through the entire body of evidence, with a view to determining the scale and nature of the Jewish contribution. This is precisely what Faber does. -- Howard Temperley * Times Literary Supplement *Extremely thorough . . . convincing. * Journal of American History *A well-researched study that neither allocates blame nor exonerates the participants in the peculiar institution, but puts to rest a pernicious anti-Semitic libel of recent coinage. * Kirkus Reviews *Stunning. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisEvery December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St Patrick's Cathedral in honour of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing - and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform. This book examines this juxtaposition of religion and politics.Trade Review"Professor Galvez presents the social and anthropological theoretical framework for all these developments clearly and succinctly, making this book a valuable addition to academic studies on Latinos in the United States and an excellent college text. But all readers will find the individual immigrant stories and the organizational travails thoroughly engaging and the journeys of faith inspiring." * American Catholic Studies *"Galvez' book is a fascinating and valuable study of the intersection between contemporary religious practice and national identity among New York City's Mexican immigrant community." -- Paul Kahan * Religious Studies Review *"Gálvezs rich ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants in New York City highlights their devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe not only as a religious practice but as a means to create community and public life in the United States. Given the ongoing and increasing presence of Mexicans immigrants in the Northeast, Guadalupe in New York is an important study that social scientists, educators, religious workers, and public servants should read to understand the persistent and complex role that Guadalupe devotion plays in the lives of Mexicans in the United States." -- Joseph M. Palacios,Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgetown University"Portrays the dilemmas of being a recent Mexican immigrant in New York City today. This book analyzes how the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe provides a means for immigrants to articulate their aspirations for belonging and, ultimately, citizenship in the United States. Written with vivid grace, this book is a pleasure to read and should be required reading for all concerned with these issues." -- Renato Rosaldo,Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Stanford University"Galvezs findings offer much to consider for students of religious, ethnic, and transnational identities." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 On Citizenship, Membership, and the Right to Have Rights 3 Los Comites Guadalupanos and Asociacion Tepeyac: Their Formation and Context 4 Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Image and Its Circulation 5 El Viacrucis del Inmigrante and Other Public Processions 6 La Antorcha Guadalupana/The Guadalupan Torch Run: Messengers for a People Divided by the Border 7 Conclusion: Citizenship for Immigrants Appendix: A Note on Methodology and the Use of Pseudonyms Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis title offers a view of the entirety of modern Hebrew literature, from Berdichevski and Agnon to Shammas and Habiby, shedding light on the moments of rupture and reversal which have undermined efforts to construct a hegemonic Zionist narrative.Trade Review"[Hever] offers an alternative reading of the historiography of Hebrew literature and of major narratives in it." * Reference & Research Book News *"In this vigorously argued and controversial study, Hannan Hever applies the insights of post-colonial theory to the case of modern Hebrew literature, which began as the writing of an imagined national community in Eastern Europe and went on to become a majority literature in Israel. Hever's erudition and conceptual powers are never less than impressive." -- Alan Mintz,Brandeis University"Since the late eighties, Hever's critical project has outlined for me not only the way I read modern Hebrew literature but also the way I read my own writing against that literature. This book not only offers a brilliant, insightful, and unsettling contemplation on the role of literary canonization and minority discourse in the construction of national imagination, but, above all, an appositional voice whose critical stance is bound to inform the work of a new generation of Hebrew scholars." -- Anton Shammas,University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisDraws on oral histories and interviews with approximately 100 women across several cities to provide an overview of women's historical contributions and their varied experiences of the NOI, including both its continuing community under Farrakhan and its offshoot into Sunni Islam under Imam W D Mohammed.Trade Review"A fascinating and well researched book that expands our knowledge about Islam in the United States. Its analysis of the interactions between the Nation of Islam and mainstream Islam is a model for the scholarship on African American Islam. Anyone who wishes to understand the complex religious identities of contemporary African-American Muslim women should read this book." -- Richard Brent Turner,author of Islam in the African-American Experience Second Edition"Will add handsomely to the growing body of scholarship on the important topic of Islam in America, with particular reference to Islam in the black American community. The authors have provided us a useful and fascinating glimpse into an extremely interesting and undertheorized subject." -- Sherman A. Jackson,author of Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection"This text emerges to provide some transparency for readers about these womens lives and the lives of those who left the Nation to follow Warith Deen Mohammed. Women are in the foreground, but not without the persistent and sometimes overriding presence of the men that they marry, contend with, and serve. The co-authors actually have different strengthsKarim is an insider while Gibson is the outsider. The resultant collaboration provides readers with varying lenses into this community of women." * Choice *"Women of the Nationwill prove an essential resource for any scholar or teacher interested in the experiences and contributions of black women to both Islam and black nationalism in American history." * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. "Our Nation": Women and the NOI, Pre-1975 2. "Thank God It Changed!": Women's Transition to Sunni Islam, 1975-80 3. Resurrecting the Nation: Women in Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam 4. Women in the Nation of Islam and the Warith Deen Mohammed Community: Crafting a Dialogue Conclusion Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisOffers a portrait of Jewish life. The authors argue that there is a new generation of Jews. In this book, the authors take us around the world and find Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive, not something to be hidden but a part of one's identity to be proud of. They focus on new elements of Jewish life.Trade Review"New Jews makes the provocative argument that the Israel-Diaspora dichotomy no longer exists. In a series of engaging ethnographies of Jewish communities in America, Russia and Israel, Aviv and Shneer reveal a new generation of Jews embarked on a renaissance liberated from old ideologies and committed to creating homes where they live. A celebration of pluralism, this sure-to-be controversial book finds Jewish unity not in slogans but in the common search for new identities." -- David Biale,author of Cultures of the Jews: A New History"Offers a new way to look at contemporary Jewry, not just its present complicated realities, but the history behind the recent departures. Well researched, deeply contextualized, and written in a sprightly manner, New Jews demonstrates that Jews at the beginning of the twenty-first century have created new spaces, new places, and new faces in which to live and by which to present themselves." -- Hasia R. Diner,author of The Jews of the United States, 1654-2000"New Jews is a thoughtful, persuasive case for why the Diaspora matters." * Secular Culture *"Examining locations as diverse as New York, San Francisco and Moscow, Aviv and probe what makes Jews feel at home." * Lilith *"This is a wide-ranging work . . . there is a definite shift afoot in thinking about matters of Jewish identity, and this is a worthwhile and useful effort toward articulating new directions." * Central Conference of American Rabbis Newsletter *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: From Diaspora Jews to New Jews1 Let My People Stay: Moscow's Jews after the Exodus 2 Encounters with Ghosts: Youth Tourism and the Diaspora Business 3 Temples of American Identity: Jewish Museums in Los Angeles 4 Castro, Chelsea, and Tel Aviv: Queer Jews at Home 5 Our Kind of Town: New York is a Center of the Jewish Universe Epilogue: The End of the Jews Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisExamines the workplace spirituality movement, and explores how it is both shaping and being shaped by American business culture. This book analyzes the enhanced benefits and support that workplace spirituality offers to employees, while exposing the conflicts it engenders, including diversity, religious freedom, and discrimination issues.Trade ReviewLake Lambert III...offers a thoughtful, engagingly written, and well informed introduction to the recent upsurge in religious expression on the job...will make for rewarding reading for scholars of the post-World War II American business history. -- Bethany Moreton * Enterprise and Society *Lambert does a very good job of summarizing the historical factors which have brought us to this present situation, and also of describing the various ways that spirituality is currently expressed in the workplace. -- Len MacRae * Studies in Religion *Faith at work is emerging as an exciting and challenging new movement in corporate America. While there are hundreds of popular books written on the subject, Lamberts Spirituality, Inc. is an excellent contribution to the small but growing book shelf of scholarly reflections on the movement. -- David W. Miller,author of God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work MovementProvides an exceptional treatment of a much neglected dimension of religious life in America. Drawing on theology, management studies, history, cultural studies and sociology, Lambert provides a powerful description of contemporary efforts to weave religious significance from the strands of our workaday lives. Anyone who is interested in popular religion in America, the meaning of work, and the challenge of meaning in the contemporary context will surely applaud the arrival of this book. -- Graham Reside,executive director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the ProfessionsIn this deeply researched book, Lambert argues that millennials enjoy pondering spirituality and religion, even aloud and in public. * Harvard Business Review *How we got from Calvinism and the Bible-based idea of vocation to the widespread and vaguely spiritual workplace of today is clearly told by Lambert in Spirituality, Inc. * Wall Street Journal *Lambert is evenhanded in his analysis...[he] frames the topic so broadly and contextualizes it so historically and intellectually that I rethought the contours of the entire field. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Finding Meaning in Business 2 The Genealogy of Corporate Spirituality 3 The Making of a "Christian Company" 4 Jesus as a Management Guru 5 The Spiritual Education of a Manager 6 Team Chaplains, Life Coaches, and Whistling Referees 7 The Future of Workplace Spirituality Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Cover DesignJewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical opinion, from anarchism to social democracy, Communism to socialist-Zionism. Rank-and-file activists, organizational leaders, intellectuals, and commentators, from within the Jewish community and beyond, all have their say. Their stories crisscross the Atlantic, spanning from the United States to Europe and British-ruled Palestine.The documents illuminate in fascinating detail the efforts of large numbers of Jews to refashion themselves as they confronted major problems of the twentieth century: poverty, anti-semitism, the meaning of American national identity, war, and totalitarianism. In this comprehensive sourcebook, the story of Jewish radicals over sevTrade ReviewFrom America's leading historian of Yiddish-speaking radicalism comes this rich anthology of contemporary Jewish-American voices from the 1880s through the 1940s. Among the diverse experiences and points of view reflected here, Michels convincingly identifies three dominant threadssocialist awakening as a rite-of-passage, the agony and ecstasy of political struggle, and Yiddish-based education as a labor-centered project with an uncertain agenda for national emancipation. -- Leon Fink,editor of Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the AmericasMichels has assembled a fine collection of primary sources, one that successfully illuminates the experiences of Jewish radicals and uncovers many unknown and remote voices. This book will appeal to both lay readers and a scholarly audience. -- Evan C. Rothera * Yearbook of German-American Studies *This book will stimulate the mind and gladden the heart of anyone who cares about the history of American Jews or the American left and the always close, if eternally tempestuous relationship between them. Tony Michels has assembled a feast of documents and is an expert guide to their meaning and context. -- Michael Kazin,author of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a NationHe has made an important contribution to out understanding of one significant aspect of American Jewish history * The Jewish Chronicles *Whether devoured in big chunks, or savored in small bites, Jewish Radicals is a fun and fortifying read. * Jewish Currents *[Michels] has made an important contribution to our understanding of [a] significant aspect of American Jewish history. * Buffalo Jewish Review *Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Jewish-Socialist Nexus Tony MichelsPart I: AwakeningsAbraham BisnoEmma GoldmanAlexander BittelmanLucy Robins LangPaul JacobsPart II: In Struggle Di nyu-yorker yidishe folkstsaytungDovid EdelshtatBernard VaynshteynDi arbeter tsaytungWomen's Societies Alexander BerkmanAbraham ShiplacoffIsadore WisotskyRose Pastor StokesAbraham CahanLouis WaldmanLouis MichelJusticeSam DarcyUpton SinclairThe NationWomen's Circle, Branch 417Isadore BernickFrank CrosswaithJennie CohenJ. B. S. HardmanPart III: Life of the Mind Ida Van EttenEducation SocietiesPauline NewmanBernard G. RichardsPhillip DavisNew York TimesA. FaynmanB. SheyferOswald Garrison VillardUnited Jewish Workers' Cultural SocietyInternational Ladies' Garment Workers' UnionN. GlassUnited Council of Yiddish Women's Reading Circles of DetroitNathan AusubelPart IV: The Russian Revolution New York TimesLouis WaldmanKatherina MarysonNew York TimesMoissaye J. OlginWorkers' (Communist) Party; Roger Baldwin and Earl BrowderNokhum KhaninMax GranichVanguardPaul JacobsThe New InternationalJewish LifePart V: The Question of Zionism Jacob MilchDer yidisher kemferRandolph BourneHerts BurginThe ForvertsDi morgn frayhaytHayim GreenbergSamuel WeissBezalel ShermanArthur RosenbergErnest MandelAlbert GlotzerAlexander Bittelman Recommended Reading Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisArgues that, for supporters of Israel, there is good news and bad news - and that at the core, we are fundamentally misunderstanding the new relationship between American Jews and Israel.Trade Review"The New American Zionism offers an important challenge to the widely accepted belief that the relationship between American Jews and Israel has entered a time of crisis . . . . Sasson's corrective to recent scholarship on distancing from Israel helps to explain the enduring centrality that Israel holds in American Jewish life across generational cohorts . . . . Thanks to this study, the distancing hypothesis now has an alternate interpretation of American Jewish attitudes toward Israel." -- Noam Pianko * H-Net *"Theodore Sasson's new book - The New American Zionism - is a serious book. That is to say that in a field filled with the ignorant, the manipulative, and the charlatanic, Sasson offers a fact-based and measured analysis of the uneasy relationship between American Jews and Israel. That the release of this book did not make huge waves in the world of punditry is therefore just as unsurprising as it is unfortunate: Sasson doesn't hyperventilate a catchy theory of doom, and doesn't project a new era of flourishing relations. He paints an accurate, if complicated, picture of a changing relationship - changing for good and for bad and, at times, in ways yet to be decided." -- Shmuel Rosner * Jewish Journal *"Offers bad news for Israel's critics by providing good news about American Jews' relationship with Israel. Sasson's thoughtful, subtle, compelling analysis of American Jewish public opinions provides a rich and readable look at the multidimensional and ever-evolving ties Jews have with the Jewish State." -- Gil Troy,author of Why I am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today"Theodore Sasson challenges the often facile and sensational claims of the 'distancing' of American Jews from Israel in this well written, deeply researched and original book. He persuasively argues that a new and vital pluralism distinguishes the current relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish state, contesting the fashionable prophets of despair with a view of how passionately and directly American Jews actually engage with Israel . . . . An essential study of a highly contested and emotional issue and an important contribution to the field of Diaspora-homeland studies." -- Ilan Troen,Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University"The New American Zionism emerges out of a decade-long debate among observers of American Jews, about whether Jewish attachments to Israel are waning. Sasson has quickly established himself as a skeptic of claims of distancing, and here he makes his strongest case yet, mounting an array of evidence that triangulates multiple methods and multiple data sources. Importantly, he treats thequestion of American Jewish engagement with Israel not simply as a matter of personal identities and feelings of attachment but of institutionalized collective behavior, shifting the terrain of the debate from social psychology to sociology." * Social Forces *"The New American Zionismis neither defense, nor lament, nor celebration, nor critique Readers can decide their own politics for themselves. This, along with the crisp prose, good opening primer on the history of the relationship, and rich focus-group data that bring in real peoples voices, make the book especially accessible to newcomers to the topic and well suited for undergraduate classes" * Social Forces *"How disconnected are American Jews from the State of Israel? Many have engaged with alarm the claims by commentators like Peter Beinart, who point to a waning enthusiasm young American Jews feel toward Israel. But is this an accurate picture? In his groundbreaking studyThe New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson analyzes several key but neglected indicators of American Jewish attitudes to add greater nuance to this question. Not only does he examine the fundamental problem raised by Beinart and others, he challenges the framework by which much scholarship has engaged with this loaded topic." * American Jewish History *"Sassons well-documented report may be a partial antidote to the recent Pew Report showing decreased religious affiliation among Jews. Despite the drop in centralized funding, overall giving to Israel has increased, and engagement by Americans with Israel is alive and well." * Publishers Weekly *"[] Theodore Sassons historical narrative,The New American Zionsimoffers a provocative multivocal rendition of the current discussions of the future of Israels longstanding, if sometimes vexed, relationship with United States Jewry" * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Mobilization 2. Advocacy and Activism 3. Fundraising and Philanthropy 4. Tourism and Immigration 5. Attitudes and Attachment 6. Direct Engagement Appendix: List of Organizations Glossary of Hebrew Terms Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis text provides an illustrated world history of the Yiddish theatre covering five continents and more than 300 years.Trade ReviewI recommend Vagabond Stars to all who are interested in Yiddish theater, its development, and its role in Yiddish culture. The reader will find in it an ocean of information. What makes Sandrow’s work distinctive is the unusual blend of impeccable scholarship and hilarious backstage anecdote. The vividness of the book is enhanced by a collection of 125 rate illustrations—pictures of actors, scenes from plays and films, posters, newspaper cartoons, and other memorabilia. What a marvelous story it is—a hundred years of incredible vitality. Sandrow has chronicled it with fullness and deep affection. An admirable feat of scholarship on a marvelous and –alas—vanishing world. I know of no comparable work, so well written, in the field. There is great warmth here, and humor, and much that is touching—obviously a labor of love.

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Book SynopsisIn an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.

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Book SynopsisColonel John Henry Patterson was an Irish-born soldier, lion hunter, bridge builder, East African game warden, author, man-about-town, and Zionist. This biography traces Patterson's life from his days as a British socialite to his command of the Jewish Legion of volunteers who helped drive the Turks out of Palestine.

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Book SynopsisBetter than any other single work, Daniel enables us to understand the significance of the transition Buber made from his early mysticism to the philosophy of dialogue. The book is written in the form of five dialogues, in each of which Daniel and his friends explore a crucial philosophical problem.Trade ReviewA thoroughly satisfying aesthetic experience, of great literary and philosophical worth and its publication in English is an important event. Highly recommended. A profound and inimitable work of great poetic beauty. Daniel reveals to us another side, as yet all but unknown, of the genius of Martin Buber.

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Book SynopsisFirst published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviours, shot through with a dark humour.Trade ReviewWho knew that a century before Lena Dunham’s Girls, a Yiddish writer named Miriam Karpilove was already telling the world, in mordant, sometimes hilarious prose, what it was like to be a young Jewish woman in New York City? In Jessica Kirzane’s expert translation, Karpilove’s novel is revealed as a brilliant critique of the political cant of its time, with ‘free love’ meaning, more often than not, protection for men and increased vulnerability for women. A lost treasure of modern Yiddish literature, Diary of a Lonely Girl will be a revelation to anyone who cares about immigrants’ experiences, women’s rights, and the roles of Jews in American radicalism. Jessica Kirzane's translation of Karpilove’s extraordinary novel, Diary of a Lonely Girl, opens up anew the life of a young Jewish woman in the early years of the last century. Here the complexities of desire, the challenges of free love and its simultaneous backlash could not be more relevant! TEACH this book, share it with your reading group, tell your friends about it! Kirzane has given new life to this heretofore little known classic! Both hilarious and sobering, Karpilove’s Diary breaks the mold of the serialized romance novel to bring us something unique: a sophisticated, insightful, and witty heroine who holds her own against bloviating suitors and prying landladies, never giving up her dreams of equality, freedom, and fulfillment in love. This is absolutely an original and needed book. So little Yiddish literature by women has been translated, especially literature by Yiddish women writers in the U.S. Many readers, scholars, students and teachers who cannot access the text in the original Yiddish will be delighted to have this translation with its thorough bio-critical introduction. The novel challenges many stereotypes and expectations about immigrant writing and thus offers a fresh and provocative take on the lives and preoccupations of early twentieth century immigrant Jews. Love, sexuality, and politics all merge in this brilliantly written novel of early twentieth-century immigrant life told from the perspective of a woman.

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Book SynopsisSix candid interviews introduce readers to a class of Muslim women rarely acknowledged in the West. The book aims to shed light on the status, conflicts and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. They tell of the conflicts and compromises with family and community.

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