American Jewish History – alle Bücher und Blu-ray Discs

The Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History

Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent--if perplexing--participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. Thi…

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Shari Rabin
The Jewish South

"In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to 'Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,' ushering in an era that would see Jews sett…

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Andrew Porwancher
American Maccabee

A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives---and his legacyA scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally o…

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Richard Kreitner
Fear No Pharaoh

"Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This disc…

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Richard Kreitner
Fear No Pharaoh

"The story of how American Jews engaged with questions of slavery and politics in the Civil War era"--

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Garrett Eisler
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest

A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht's forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943),A Jewis…

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Garrett Eisler
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest

A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht's forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943),A Jewis…

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Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

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Gil Ribak
Crude Creatures

Corrects the record on how Yiddish media portrayed African Americans Understandings of Black-Jewish relations have been notable for the near consensus among scholars that the Yiddish press repeatedly cond…

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Tracy Slater
Together in Manzanar

"A World War II homefront action that many Americans would like to forget." -- Kirkus Reviews"This cinematic and propulsive family saga casts a riveting spotlight on an ignominious episode …

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In my skin (Blu-ray)

Trotz seiner dunklen Hautfarbe wird der Teenager Enitan mitten in der sozialen und rassistischen Gewalt der 80er-Jahre zum gefürchteten Anführer einer zu allem bereiten Skinhead-Gang. Dabei wurde er von s…

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Wilfred M McClay, Stuart Halpern
Jewish Roots of American Liberty

For much of American history, an impassable gulf seemed to separate Jews and Christians, keeping their respective peoples and cultures far apart. But in recent decades that has begun to change.The rise of…

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The State of American Jewry

"The essays in this volume describe the current nature of American Jewry, including demography, ethnicity, gender, political and religious attitudes, and organizational structure, all of which have c…

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Jack Wertheimer
Jewish Giving

"Situating the interplay between funders and their grantees within the dynamic, and ever-changing contours of American Jewish life, Jewish Giving traces the evolving nature of Jewish philanthropy fro…

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Michael Rom
Brazilian Belonging

"Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The home of the largest Jewish com…

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Sharon Ann Musher
Promised Lands

"Drawing on the records of Hadassah Kaplan, a daughter of Mordecai Kaplan - founder of Reconstructionism -- this work shows how travel to Palestine in the Interwar period shaped a cohort of American …

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Pamela S Nadell
Antisemitism, an American Tradition

Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They…

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Liberal Jewish Anti-Zionism

To the extent Jewish historians have recalled the American Council for Judaism at all, the picture they have left has been a badly distorted one. Far from a marginal voice among midcentury American Jews, …

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Rebecca Kobrin
Credit to the Nation

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advancement of Jews in America.What are immigrants to do whe…

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Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky,
Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the military regi…

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