Book Description
A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.
Author : Jael Miriam Silliman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781584653059
A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.
Author : Jael Silliman
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780857429919
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames offers a personal and social history of the author's foremothers -- Baghdadi Jews who lived most of their lives in the Jewish community in Calcutta. Jael Silliman begins with a portrait of Farha, her maternal great-greandmother, who dwelled almost entirely within the Baghdadi Jewish community no matter where she and her husband traveled on business (Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore). Next is her maternal grandmother, Miriam (Mary), who was much more Anglicized than Farha and deeply influenced by British colonial practices. The third portrait, of Silliman's mother, Flower, reveals a woman in a double transition: her own and India's. Flower grew up in colonial India, witnessed India's struggle for independence, and lived her middle years in an independent India. The final sketch is of Silliman herself. Born in Calcutta in 1955 in the waning Jewish community, Silliman grew up in a cosmopolitan and Indian world, rather than a Baghdadi Jewish one. Silliman's own travels have taken her to the US, where, as a teacher and scholar, her primary identification is with the "South Asian intellectual and professional diaspora." These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls "Jewish Asia" over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers -- from the food they ate and the clothes they wore to the social and political relationships they forged -- bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women.
Author : Jael Miriam Silliman
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788170461982
An invaluable cultural document shaped from a personal exploration, through the lives of four generations of Baghdadi Jewish women, of a social and cultural history of Baghdadi Jews in Calcutta, India. The author discovers, how, despite being widely dispersed across Asia, they dwelled in travelling , creating a moving geography of Baghdadi Jewish culture. We see how they negotiate multiple identities, including that of emergent nationalism, and how they perceive and shape their Jewishness and their gender in response to changing cultural and political contexts. This book also traces the trajectory of a Jewish presence in one of the most hospitable cities of the diaspora. These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls Jewish Asia over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers from the social and political relationships they forged to the food they ate and the clothes they wore bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women. Jael Silliman is an Assistant Professor in the Women Studies Department at the University of Iowa. Her publications include the co-editorship of Dangerous Intersection: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development and the forthcoming Sex, Race and Surveillance: Feminist Perspectives from the US, as well as numerous articles in the area of gender and economic development, and third world women s movements.
Author : Malka Drucker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0425289745
From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews socially as well as spiritually. Here are profiles of twenty-one individuals who have enriched America and the lives of Americans through their achievements in such areas as science, sports, film making, and civil rights. An inspiring journey through more than two centuries of American Jewish history.
Author : Richard Meyer
Publisher : Jewish Museum Under Auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 9780300141153
"This volume includes an incisive essay by art historian Richard Meyer, a beautifully illustrated dossier with discussions of the ten Jewish subjects and images of related prints and source photographs, and a timeline detailing the history of the series. Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered offers a rare opportunity to explore at length a discrete group of works in the artist's vast oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Diane Tickton Schuster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532659075
Portraits of Jewish Learning brings together colorful accounts of the ways that Jewish students today are having meaningful learning experiences in day school classrooms, Hebrew programs, synagogue-based schools, and high school and college courses that push students out of their comfort zone. Whether the students are second graders engaged in text analysis, sixth graders solving complex “mystery puzzles” about Jewish values, or teens encountering “counter-narratives” about Israel’s history, these stories—informed by careful and disciplined inquiry—prompt readers to reflect on questions of what Jewish learning is, what we can discover by studying experiences of learning at close range and over time, and how Jewish education can respond to the needs and interests of Jewish learners who seek a Judaism that is relevant in today’s world. The work of researchers and practitioners who are changing the landscape of contemporary Jewish education, these portraits are designed to encourage critical discussion among educational leaders, clergy, policymakers, philanthropists, and parents, as well as teachers and those aspiring to work in Jewish education. They invite us to think about the many ways that today’s Jewish education can be enriched by experimentation and innovation.
Author : Diane Tickton Schuster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666731579
What do we mean by “adult Jewish learning”? Where is contemporary adult Jewish learning taking place? What kinds of learning matter to adult Jewish learners in the twenty-first century? Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning boldly tackles these questions through the exploration of various learners’ experiences in diverse circumstances: couples exploring a Jewish museum, actors co-creating a Jewish-themed play, social justice activists consolidating their Jewish values and identities, Jewish preschool educators visiting Israel, Jewish and non-Jewish staff at a Jewish social service agency studying traditional texts together, Latinx converts seeking to understand “how to be a good Jew,” members of a Torah study group producing their own commentaries, Jewish community leaders coming to terms with the challenges of Jewish pluralism. Using the social science methodology of portraiture, the authors provide nuanced detail about the wide range of participants, settings, subject matter, and ways of meaning making that characterize adult Jewish learning today. Viewing these narratives side by side enables readers to think “outside the frame” about programming, curricula, pedagogies, and contexts that encourage meaningful adult learning. This book will capture the imagination of educational leaders, clergy, policymakers, philanthropists, teachers, and adult learners, and will spark conversation about how to enrich the field of adult Jewish learning overall.
Author : Samuel C Heilman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295974712
A collection of 14 papers that suggest how educators can develop and implement AIDS education programs in public schools, and provide for the fair treatment of students infected with the virus. They consider urban and rural high schools, AIDS/HIV education in teacher training, student support groups, and criteria for evaluating an AIDS curriculum. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Edward Wagenknecht
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781910170878