Imagining the American Jewish Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the American Jewish Community write by Jack Wertheimer. This book was released on 2007. Imagining the American Jewish Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities
Imagining the Jewish Future
Imagining the Jewish Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Jewish Future write by David A. Teutsch. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Imagining the Jewish Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During a time of rapid change in the American Jewish community, an outstanding group of Jewish scholars and professionals address the critical problems and future prospects of American Jewry. They discuss the sharp controversies over feminism and religious language, new data on the relationship between Israelis and American Jews, and the interaction between family and synagogue. The wide scope of topics provides an understanding of the dynamics shaping the lives of American Jews and their diverse views of the future.
Beyond Jewish Identity
Beyond Jewish Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Jewish Identity write by Jon A. Levisohn. This book was released on 2019-12-31. Beyond Jewish Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or more efficiently. But what does it mean to “strengthen Jewish identity”? Why do Jewish educators, policy-makers and philanthropists talk that way? What do they assume, about Jewish education or about Jewish identity, when they use formulations like “strengthen Jewish identity”? And what are the costs of doing so? This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity, arguing that the reification of identity has hampered much educational creativity in the pursuit of this goal, and that the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be. Second, this volume offers thoughtful responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for “identity,” suggesting new possibilities for how to think about the purposes and desired outcomes of Jewish education, potentially contributing to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life.
A Portrait of the American Jewish Community
A Portrait of the American Jewish Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Portrait of the American Jewish Community write by Norman Linzer. This book was released on 1998-05-30. A Portrait of the American Jewish Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.
Lower East Side Memories
Lower East Side Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lower East Side Memories write by Hasia R. Diner. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Lower East Side Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
