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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

By: Abraham Cahan

Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a hero from the New York's East Side.

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0486122573

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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

By: Abraham Cahan

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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

By: Abraham Cahan

Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a hero from the New York's East Side.

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The Rise of David Levinsky

By: Abraham Cahan

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The Rise of David Levinsky

By: Abraham Cahan

A young Hasidic Jew seeks his fortune in New York's Lower East Side. He turns from his religious studies to focus on the business world, where he discovers the high price of assimilation.

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0486146359

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Across the Great Divide

The Selected Essays of Abraham Coralnik

By: Abraham Coralnik

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Across the Great Divide

The Selected Essays of Abraham Coralnik

By: Abraham Coralnik

The publication of translated essays by Dr. Abraham Coralnik is an important step in enlarging our understanding of the cultural milieu of the early twentieth century in which Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe become Americanized."--Professor Eli Katz, University of California, Berkeley In 1937, when the essayist Abraham Coralnik died of a heart attack, Yiddish speakers in the United States lost one of their most articulate guides. As a columnist for the New York newspaper Der Tog (The Day) during the 1920s and 1930s, Coralnik moved effortlessly from discussions of Zionist politics to analyses of Marx and Plato to travelogues through the American heartland. As Europe exploded in anti-Semitism, and American Jewish life continued its spectacular transformation into the land of promise and confusion, Coralnik provided both insight and context for an immigrant community desperate to understand the changes taking place around it. Today, Coralnik's essays can be enjoyed not just for their perspective on two crucial decades of Jewish history, but for their timeless wisdom about culture, spirituality, philosophy and history. In Volume Two of Across the Great Divide, Coralnik illuminates the strange, sad life of the Yiddish language; the inner conflicts of writers from Montaigne to Thomas Mann; the way secular revolutionaries like Karl Marx channeled prophetic ideals; and the moral ideas animating American presidents like Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. About the Translator: Beatrice Coralnik Papo, the eldest daughter of Abraham Coralnik, was born in Berlin in 1913. Educated in Germany, Russia and France, she came to the U.S. in her early 20s. A social worker by profession, Mrs. Papo is a lifelong student of literature, and has spent the last two decades translating her father's essays. She lives in San Jose, California.

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iUniverse

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0595346235

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9780595346233

Jewish Music

Its Historical Development

By: Abraham Zebi Idelsohn

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Jewish Music

Its Historical Development

By: Abraham Zebi Idelsohn

In this landmark of musical scholarship, the leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest appearance of Semitic song 2000 years ago to the early 20th century. Liberally illustrating every type of music discussed, the book examines the music as a tonal expression of Judaism, Jewish life and the spiritual aspects of Jewish culture.

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0486271471

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An American in Hitler's Berlin

Abraham Plotkin's Diary, 1932-33

By: Abraham Plotkin

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An American in Hitler's Berlin

Abraham Plotkin's Diary, 1932-33

By: Abraham Plotkin

This is the first published edition of the diary of Abraham Plotkin, an American labor leader of immigrant Jewish origin who lived in Berlin between November 1932 and May 1933. A firsthand account of the Weimar Republic's final months and the early rise of Nazi power in Germany, Plotkin's diary focuses on the German working class, the labor movement, and the plight of German Jews. Plotkin investigated Berlin's social conditions with the help of German Social-Democratic leaders whose analyses of the situation he records alongside his own. Compared to the writings of other American observers of the Third Reich, Plotkin's diary is unique in style, scope, themes, and time span. Most accounts of Hitler's rise to power emphasize political institutions by focusing on the Nazi party's clashes with other political forces. In contrast, Plotkin is especially attentive to socioeconomic factors, providing an alternative view from the left that stems from his access to key German labor and socialist leaders. Chronologically, the diary reports on the moment when Hitler's seizure of power was not yet inevitable and when leaders on the left still believed in a different outcome of the crisis, but it also includes Plotkin's account of the complete destruction of German labor in May 1933.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252055497

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9780252055492

American Immigration Aesthetics

Bernard Malamud and Bharati Mukherjee as Immigrants

By: Markose Abraham

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American Immigration Aesthetics

Bernard Malamud and Bharati Mukherjee as Immigrants

By: Markose Abraham

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AESTHETICS (Bernard Malamud & Bharati Mukherjee as Immigrants) is a well-researched Doctoral study of the dynamics of immigration into America in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. As immigrant writers both Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)-a second generation East European (Russian) Jew and Bharati Mukherjee (b 1940)-a first generation South Asian (Indian) Hindu have proven to the outer world their capabilities as excellent storytellers in their novels & short stories. Together, about 15 novels and 50 short stories are discussed. In America the Jews and the Indians have resisted the domination of the majority community. Resistance has tightened the internal cohesion of the two ethnic groups. Suffering has chastened the Jews after their experience of the four thousand year history. Similarly, the long tradition and history of spirituality and adaptability in Hinduism has moulded the Hindu Indian to survive adversity. The human element in man/woman with its struggles between fulfillment and non-fulfillment makes them feel a mutual responsibility. Delineating life's losers and victims with deep concern and compassion the two writers seek 'redemption' in this world itself- in an ethical uprightness. The terminal point marks the emergence of a new set of values equipped for a second quest - this time one of heroism. The contours of a real, new, better life are visible. It leads to a definition and evaluation of the world -on one's own terms.

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AuthorHouse

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1456782444

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The Jewish World In Modern Times

A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

By: Abraham J Edelheit,Hershel Edelheit

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The Jewish World In Modern Times

A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

By: Abraham J Edelheit,Hershel Edelheit

The momentous events of modern Jewish history have led to a proliferation of books and articles on Jewish life over the last 350 years. Placing modern Jewish history into both universal and local contexts, this selected, annotated bibliography organizes and categorizes the best of this vast array of written material. The authors have included all English-language books of major importance on world Jewry and on individual Jewish communities, plus books most readily available to researchers and readers, and a select number of pamphlets and articles. The resulting bibliography is also a guide to recent Jewish historiography and research methods.

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Routledge

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1000302776

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9781000302776

Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

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Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

By: Abraham J. Karp

Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358226

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9780817358228

A History of the Jewish People

By: Abraham Malamat

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A History of the Jewish People

By: Abraham Malamat

First published in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1969. First English translation by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1976.

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Harvard University Press

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0674397312

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9780674397316

Vilna My Vilna

Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz

By: Abraham Karpinowitz

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Vilna My Vilna

Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz

By: Abraham Karpinowitz

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes. This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs of Karpinowitz’s childhood growing up in his father’s Vilna Yiddish theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving the particular language of Vilna’s lower classes. In this graceful translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish, capturing Karpinowitz’s unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world for English-language readers.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653522

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9780815653523

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

By: Roza Leikin,Abraham Berman,Boris Koichu

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Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

By: Roza Leikin,Abraham Berman,Boris Koichu

This book breaks through in the field of mathematical creativity and giftedness. It suggests directions for closing the gap between research in the field of mathematics education and research in the field of creativity and giftedness. It also outlines a research agenda for further research and development in the field.

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BRILL

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9087909357

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9789087909352

History Of The Holocaust

A Handbook And Dictionary

By: Abraham Edelheit

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History Of The Holocaust

A Handbook And Dictionary

By: Abraham Edelheit

This two-part volume combines an accessible overview of contemporary Jewish history with a unique dictionary of Holocaust terms. In addition to assessing the Holocaust specifically, Part 1 of the book discusses the history of European Jewry, anti-Semitism, the rise and fall of Nazism and fascism, World War II, and the postwar implications of the Ho

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Routledge

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0429962282

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9780429962288

Book's by Abraham Cahan

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

The Rise of David Levinsky

The Rise of David Levinsky

Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide

Jewish Music

Jewish Music

An American in Hitler's Berlin

An American in Hitler's Berlin

American Immigration Aesthetics

American Immigration Aesthetics

The Jewish World In Modern Times

The Jewish World In Modern Times

Jewish Continuity in America

Jewish Continuity in America

A History of the Jewish People

A History of the Jewish People

Vilna My Vilna

Vilna My Vilna

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

History Of The Holocaust

History Of The Holocaust

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