American Jewry and the Re-invention of the East European Jewish Past
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9783110499445
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9783110499445
Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415919227
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 3110499436
The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.
Author : Eliyana R. Adler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0814341675
Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0521196086
In the United States, Jews have bridged minority and majority cultures - their history illustrates the diversity of the American experience.
Author : Christian Wiese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1441180214
American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come together in this volume to present new research on how immigration from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe, yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins.
Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780415919227
Author : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691168512
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."
Author : Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern
Publisher :
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691160740
Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community.