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American Jewry

By: Eli Lederhendler

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American Jewry

By: Eli Lederhendler

In the United States, Jews have bridged minority and majority cultures - their history illustrates the diversity of the American experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196086

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9780521196086

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920

From Caste to Class

By: Eli Lederhendler

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Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920

From Caste to Class

By: Eli Lederhendler

Down and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.

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052151360X

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9780521513609

Jewish Responses to Modernity

New Voices in America and Eastern Europe

By: Eli Lederhendler

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Jewish Responses to Modernity

New Voices in America and Eastern Europe

By: Eli Lederhendler

Facing the dizzying array of changes commonly referred to as modernity, Jews in 19th-century Eastern Europe and early 20th-century America reflected the crises and opportunities of the modern world most eloquently in their speech, culture, and literature. Relying on those spoken and written words as eyewitnesses, Eli Lederhendler illustrates how the self- perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America. He focuses on a wide range of subjects to provide an overview of this clash between old and new and to reveal ways in which cultural conflicts were reconciled. How, for instance, was messianic language adapted to serve nationalistic goals? What did America signify to Jewish thinkers at the turn of the century? What do Jewish user's guides to the New World tell us about Jewish secular culture and its perspective on sex, love, marriage, etiquette, and health? More generally, what do Jewish letters and literature tell us about how communities adapt to radically new environments? Jewish Responses to Modernity highlights the manner in which codes and symbols are passed from one generation to the next, reinforcing a group's sense of self and helping to define its relations with other. The book clearly demonstrates the importance of language as a vehicle for minority-group self-expression in the past and in the present.

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NYU Press

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0814751385

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9780814751381

New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

By: Eli Lederhendler

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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

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The first book-length study of Jewish culture and ethnicity in New York City after World War II. Here is an intriguing look at the cause and effect of New York City politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s and the inner life of one of the city's largest ethnic religious groups. The New York Jewish mystique has always been tied to the , fabric and fortunes of the city, as has the community's social aspirations, political inclinations, and its very notion of "Jewishness" itself. All this, points out Eli Lederhendler, came into question as the life of the city changed. Insightfully and meticulously he explores the decline of secular Jewish ethnic culture, the growth of Jewish religious factions, and the rise of a more assertive ethnocentrism. Using memoirs, essays, news items, and data on suburbanization, religion, and race relations, the book analyzes the decline of the metropolis in the 1960s, increasing clashes between Jews and African Americans. and postwar transiency of neighborhood-based ethnic awareness.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815607113

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9780815607113

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia

By: Eli Lederhendler

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The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia

By: Eli Lederhendler

It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life. In the case of the Jews of Russia, the pogroms of 1881 have been regarded as the watershed event which triggered the political awakening of Jewish intellectuals. Here Lederhendler explores previously neglected antecedents to this turning point in the history of the Jewish people in the first scholarly work to examine concretely the transition of a Jewish community from traditional to post-traditional politics.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195058917

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9780195058918

American Jewry

By: Eli Lederhendler

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American Jewry

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In the United States, Jews have bridged minority and majority cultures - their history illustrates the diversity of the American experience.

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Jewish Responses to Modernity

New Voices in America and Eastern Europe

By: Eli Lederhendler

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New Voices in America and Eastern Europe

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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

By: Eli Lederhendler

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Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade

Setting the Record Straight

By: Eli Faber

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Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade

Setting the Record Straight

By: Eli Faber

Lays to rest the controversial myth of Jewish involvement in the slave trade In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned slaves on a large scale, well in excess of their own proportion in the population. In this groundbreaking book, likely to stand as the definitive word on the subject, Eli Faber cuts through this cloud of mystification to recapture an important chapter in both Jewish and African diasporic history. Focusing on the British empire, Faber assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. His unprecedented original research utilizes shipping and tax records, stock-transfer ledgers, censuses, slave registers, and synagogue records. These materials reveal, once and for all, the minimal nature of Jews' involvement in the subjugation of Africans in the Americas. A crucial corrective, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade lays to rest one of the most contested historical controversies of our time.

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NYU Press

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0814728790

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9780814728796

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XVII: Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel

By: Eli Lederhendler

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Volume XVII: Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel

By: Eli Lederhendler

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America and Israel.

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Oxford University Press

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0195348966

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9780195348965

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia

By: Eli Lederhendler

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Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia

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Book's by Eli Lederhendler

American Jewry

American Jewry

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920

Jewish Responses to Modernity

Jewish Responses to Modernity

New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

American Jewry

American Jewry

Jewish Responses to Modernity

Jewish Responses to Modernity

New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970

Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade

Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

The Road to Modern Jewish Politics

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