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The Maiden of Ludmir

A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

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The Maiden of Ludmir

A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe—or charismatic leader—in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden’s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden in the eastern European town of Ludmir, venerated by her followers as a master of the Kabbalah, teacher, and visionary, and accused by her detractors of being possessed by a dybbuk, or evil spirit. Deutsch traces the Maiden’s steps from Ludmir to Ottoman Palestine, where she eventually immigrated and re-established herself as a holy woman. While the Maiden’s story—including her adamant refusal to marry—recalls the lives of holy women in other traditions, it also brings to light the largely unwritten history of early-modern Jewish women. To this day, her transgressive behavior, a challenge to traditional Jewish views of gender and sexuality, continues to inspire debate and, sometimes, censorship within the Jewish community.

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Univ of California Press

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0520927974

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9780520927971

Guardians of the Gate

Angelic Vice-regency in the Late Antiquity

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

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Guardians of the Gate

Angelic Vice-regency in the Late Antiquity

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel Metatron and the Mandaean light-being Abathur.

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204

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BRILL

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9004109099

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9789004109094

Inventing America's Worst Family

Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

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Inventing America's Worst Family

Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion. In what becomes a profoundly unsettling counter-history of the United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong with the urban poor. The Ishmaels, actually white Christians, were later celebrated in the 1970s as the founders of the country's first African American Muslim community. This bizarre and fascinating saga reveals how class, race, religion, and science have shaped the nation's history and myths. This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vangua

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Univ of California Press

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0520942701

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9780520942707

The Jewish Dark Continent

Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,S An-Ski

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The Jewish Dark Continent

Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,S An-Ski

At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.

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385

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Harvard University Press

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0674062647

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9780674062641

The Maiden of Ludmir

A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

By: Nathaniel Deutsch

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A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

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A Fortress in Brooklyn

Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,Michael Casper

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A Fortress in Brooklyn

Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,Michael Casper

The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn "A rich chronicle of the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg. . . . This expert account enlightens."—Publishers Weekly “One of the most creative and iconoclastic works to have been written about Jews in the United States.”—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.

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423

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Yale University Press

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0300258372

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9780300258370

World War II

By: Nathaniel Harris

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World War II

By: Nathaniel Harris

Written in British English, In World War II, the crises leading up to the war, and the battles at sea, on land and in the air are explored. Pages focus on key events, such as: the German invasion of Poland; the Battle of Britain; the attack on Pearl Harbor; and the destruction of Hiroshima.

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106

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

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1625133510

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9781625133519

Rethinking the European Union

By: Nathaniel Copsey

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Rethinking the European Union

By: Nathaniel Copsey

The eurozone crisis has raised fundamental questions about the EU's future and has also sparked debate about the wider functions and future direction of European integration in the 21st century. This engaging book provides a broad-ranging reassessment of the whole experience of integration to date and the challenges which face Europe today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137341688

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9781137341686

Sleep and Wakefulness

By: Nathaniel Kleitman

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Sleep and Wakefulness

By: Nathaniel Kleitman

For half a century, Sleep and Wakefulness has been a valuable reference work. It discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.

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566

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University of Chicago Press

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0226440737

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9780226440736

Book's by Nathaniel Deutsch

The Maiden of Ludmir

The Maiden of Ludmir

Guardians of the Gate

Guardians of the Gate

Inventing America's Worst Family

Inventing America's Worst Family

The Jewish Dark Continent

The Jewish Dark Continent

The Maiden of Ludmir

The Maiden of Ludmir

A Fortress in Brooklyn

A Fortress in Brooklyn

World War II

World War II

Rethinking the European Union

Rethinking the European Union

Sleep and Wakefulness

Sleep and Wakefulness

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