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The Rag Race

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

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The Rag Race

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

Argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, Mendelsohn demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting. --From publisher description.

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NYU Press

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1479814385

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9781479814381

Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

The Union Army

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

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Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

The Union Army

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

Mustering In -- The Jewish Recruit -- In the Company of Jews -- Fighting Together -- Sacred Duties -- Lost and Found.

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1479812234

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The Rag Race

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

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How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

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Jews and the Civil War

A Reader

By: Jonathan D Sarna,Adam D Mendelsohn

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Jews and the Civil War

A Reader

By: Jonathan D Sarna,Adam D Mendelsohn

An “invaluable” collection of essays revealing the experience of Jewish soldiersand civilians during the Civil War: “Essential and illuminating.” —Harold Holzer, Moment Magazine At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fought alongside Christian comrades. Yet even as they stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” on the battlefield, they encountered unique challenges. In Jews and the Civil War, Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn assemble for the first time the foremost scholarship on the subject, little known even to specialists in the field. These accessible and far-ranging essays from top scholars are grouped into seven thematic sections—Jews and Slavery; Jews and Abolition; Rabbis and the March to War; Jewish Soldiers during the Civil War; The Home Front; Jews as a Class; and Aftermath—each with an introduction by the editors. Together they reappraise the war’s impact on Jews in the North and the South, offering a rich and fascinating portrait of the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians from the home front to the front lines.

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NYU Press

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0814708595

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9780814708590

Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

The Union Army

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

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Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

The Union Army

By: Adam D. Mendelsohn

Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln’s armies? The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of ethnicities, religions, and identities. Almost one Union soldier in four was born abroad, and natives and newcomers fought side-by-side, sometimes uneasily. Yet though scholars have parsed the trials and triumphs of Irish, Germans, African Americans, and others in the Union ranks, they have remained largely silent on the everyday experiences of the largest non-Christian minority to have served. In ways visible and invisible to their fellow recruits and conscripts, the experience of Jews was distinct from that of other soldiers who served in Lincoln’s armies. Adam D. Mendelsohn draws for the first time upon the vast database of verified listings of Jewish soldiers serving in the Civil War collected by The Shapell Roster, as well as letters, diaries, and newspapers, to examine the collective experience of Jewish soldiers and to recover their voices and stories. The volume examines when and why they decided to enlist, explores their encounters with fellow soldiers, and describes their efforts to create community within the ranks. This monumental undertaking rewrites much of what we think we know about Jewish soldiers during the Civil War.

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1479812242

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How to Be

Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

By: Adam Nicolson

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How to Be

Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

By: Adam Nicolson

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past. What is the nature of things? What is justice? How can I be myself? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of western philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus, in Ephesus, was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. On the Aegean island of Lesbos, the early lyric poets Sappho and Alcaeus asked themselves, “How can I be true to myself?” On Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy, where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms. The award-winning writer Adam Nicolson travels with us through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Enhanced with maps, photographs, and artwork, How to Be is an expedition into early ideas. Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and makes the fundamental questions of the ancient philosophers new again. What are the principles of the physical world? How can we be good in it? And why do we continue to ask these questions? It is an enthralling, exhilarating journey.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374610118

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9780374610111

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II

By: Adam J. Goldwyn

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Hélène Cixous and writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first century. .

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Springer Nature

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3031114736

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9783031114731

Spider-Man

Revenge of the Sinister Six

By: Adam-Troy Castro

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Spider-Man

Revenge of the Sinister Six

By: Adam-Troy Castro

Spiderman must try to save Pity from the predicament she is in at the same time stop the Sinister Six from carrying out the Gentleman's world-threatening plans.

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iBooks

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0743444639

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9780743444637

An Odyssey

A Father, a Son, and an Epic

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn,Lecturer in the Department of Classics Daniel Mendelsohn

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An Odyssey

A Father, a Son, and an Epic

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn,Lecturer in the Department of Classics Daniel Mendelsohn

When eighty-one-year-old retired research scientist Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on a transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.

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Signal Books

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0771057423

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

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Waiting for the Barbarians

Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays--each one glinting with "verve and sparkle," "acumen and passion"--on a wide range of subjects, from Avatar to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, from our inexhaustible fascination with the Titanic to Susan Sontag's Journals. Trained as a classicist, author of two internationally best-selling memoirs, Mendelsohn moves easily from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the classics continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Greek myth in the Spider-Man musical, Anne Carson's translations of Sappho) to trenchant takes on pop spectacles--none more explosively controversial than his dissection of Mad Men. Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction, from Jonathan Littell's Holocaust blockbuster The Kindly Ones to forgotten gems like the novels of Theodor Fontane. In a final section, "Private Lives," prefaced by Mendelsohn's New Yorker essay on fake memoirs, he considers the lives and work of writers as disparate as Leo Lerman, No�l Coward, and Jonathan Franzen. Waiting for the Barbarians once again demonstrates that Mendelsohn's "sweep as a cultural critic is as impressive as his depth.

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New York Review of Books

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1590176073

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9781590176078

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

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Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

By: Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn makes use of insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the plays 'Children of Herakles' and 'Suppliant Women' by Euripides are subtle and coherent exercises in political theorizing.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199278040

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The Rag Race

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Jews and the Civil War

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Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

How to Be

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Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man

An Odyssey

An Odyssey

Waiting for the Barbarians

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Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

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