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A Kosher Christmas

'Tis the Season to be Jewish

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

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A Kosher Christmas

'Tis the Season to be Jewish

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is a mixed one: do we participate, try to ignore the holiday entirely, or create our own traditions and make the season an enjoyable time? This book, the first on the subject of Jews and Christmas in the United States, portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans. Creative and innovative in approaching the holiday season, these responses range from composing America’s most beloved Christmas songs, transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas, creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants and comedy shows on Christmas Eve, volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas Day, dressing up as Santa Claus to spread good cheer, campaigning to institute Hanukkah postal stamps, and blending holiday traditions into an interfaith hybrid celebration called “Chrismukkah” or creating a secularized holiday such as Festivus. Through these venerated traditions and alternative Christmastime rituals, Jews publicly assert and proudly proclaim their Jewish and American identities to fashion a universally shared message of joy and hope for the holiday season. See also: http://www.akosherchristmas.org

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553814

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9780813553818

Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Patterns of Jewish Survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

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Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Patterns of Jewish Survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

This book is a study of post-Holocaust Jewish survival in the Greek provinces.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838639119

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9780838639115

A Kosher Christmas

'Tis the Season to be Jewish

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

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'Tis the Season to be Jewish

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The Prophets

Two Volumes in One

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The Prophets

Two Volumes in One

By: Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Prophets is widely recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship. Heschel attempts to understand the thoughts, feelings, and impressions of each of the prophets, presenting the reader with a sense of their very being. He effectively achieves a balance between the objective supernatural and the subjective human situation, and presents a unique discussion of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk and their particular challenges and journeys. In the second part of the book, Heschel addresses such subjects as pathos, wrath, sympathy, ecstasy, psychosis, and prophetic and poetic inspiration, and in so doing offers a new contribution to the philosophy of religion. The Prophets is both scholarly and devotional, an indispensable part of an in-depth understanding of the Hebrew Bible.

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1598561812

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History from South Africa

Alternative Visions and Practices

By: Joshua Brown

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History from South Africa

Alternative Visions and Practices

By: Joshua Brown

More starkly than any other contemporary social conflict, the crisis in South Africa highlights the complexities and conflicts in race, gender, class, and nation. These original articles, most of which were written by South African authors, are from a special issue of the Radical History Review, published in Spring 1990, that mapped the development of interpretations of the South African past that depart radically from the official history. The articles range from the politics of black movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to studies of film, television, and theater as reflections of modern social conflict. History from South Africa is presented in two main sections: discussions of the historiography of South Africa from the viewpoint of those rewriting it with a radical outlook; and investigations into popular history and popular culture—the production and reception of history in the public realm. In addition, two photo essays dramatize this history visually; maps and a chronology complete the presentation. The book provides a fresh look at major issues in South African social and labor history and popular culture, and focuses on the role of historians in creating and interacting with a popular movement of resistance and social change.

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486

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Temple University Press

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0877228485

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9780877228486

Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Patterns of Jewish Survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

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Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Patterns of Jewish Survival in the Greek Provinces Before and After the Holocaust

By: Joshua Eli Plaut

This book examines the events among Greek Jewry prior to and during the Second World War, and then ventures into a neglected scholarly area of recent history - the post-Holocaust years as experienced by the Jews living in the small Jewish communities in the Greek provinces. Including untapped archival documents, as well as oral histories and photographs from his fieldwork in Greece, author Joshua Eli Plaut focuses on individuals, their stories and struggles, to describe how the smaller Jewish communities adjusted to the new realities imposed on them by the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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083863463X

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Mensch-Marks

Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi—Wisdom for Untethered Times

By: Joshua Hammerman

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Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi—Wisdom for Untethered Times

By: Joshua Hammerman

The Talmud states, "In a world that lacks humanity, be human." In a world as untethered as ours has become, simply being human, a good person, is a measure of heroism. At a time when norms of civility are being routinely overwhelmed, it may be the only measure that matters. Mensch-Marks represents Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's personal Torah scroll—the sacred text of his experiences, the life lessons he has learned along his winding, circuitous journey. Mirroring 42 steps Israel wandered in the Wilderness, Hammerman offers 42 brief essays, several of which first appeared in The New York Times Magazine, organized into categories of character, or "mensch-marks," each one a stepping stone toward spiritual maturation. These essays span most of Rabbi Hammerman's life, revealing how he has striven to be a "mensch," a human of character, through every challenge. Mensch-Marks creates a brand-new genre. It is memoir as sacred story, as how-to book; a series of personal vignettes in dialogue with one another over the span of decades, resonating with eternal ideas that span centuries. It traces the author's own personal growth while providing a road map for people of all backgrounds seeking a life of moral vision. The wisdom is shared not from a pulpit on high, but rather from an unfolding story of a fellow traveler, one who has stumbled, failed, and persevered, struggling with the questions large and small. Through it all, Rabbi Hammerman has tried to live with dignity and grace, what he calls the "nobility of normalcy." He writes, "If by sharing what I've learned, I can add a modicum of generosity, honesty and human connection in a world overflowing with cruelty, loneliness and deceit, then I'll have done my job.' The essays cover crucial moments of failure and forgiveness, loving and letting go, finding deeper meaning in one's work, and holiness in the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life. Rabbi Hammerman, ever the optimist, believes that we can turn things around, one mensch at a time.

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Simon and Schuster

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075732178X

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A Kosher Christmas

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Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

A Kosher Christmas

A Kosher Christmas

The Prophets

The Prophets

History from South Africa

History from South Africa

Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983

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