Typically Jewish - 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 Typically Jewish write by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell. This book was released on 2019-03-01. Typically Jewish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and make love more often, why don’t more people join the tribe? “More deli than deity” writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters—“Worrying,” “Kvelling,” “Dying,” “Noshing,” “Laughing,” “Detecting,” “Dwelling,” and “Joining”—exploring what it means to be “typically Jewish.” While unearthing answers from rabbis, researchers, and her assembled Jury on Jewishness (Jewish friends she roped into conversation), she—and we—make a variety of discoveries. For example: Jews worry about continuity, even though Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitz prohibited even that: “All worrying is forbidden, except to worry that one is worried.” Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent of American Jews give to charity versus 63 percent of Americans as a whole. Since reciting Kaddish brought secular Jews to synagogue, the rabbis, aware of their captive audience, moved the prayer to the end of the service. Who’s Jewish? About a quarter of Nobel Prize winners, an estimated 80 percent of comedians at one point, and the winner of Nazi Germany’s Most Perfect Aryan Child Contest. Readers will enjoy learning about how Jews feel, think, act, love, and live. They’ll also schmooze as they use the book’s “Typically Jewish, Atypically Fun” discussion guide.
Feeling Jewish
Feeling Jewish - 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 Feeling Jewish write by Devorah Baum. This book was released on 2017-08-22. Feeling Jewish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to “negative” feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such “Jewish” feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.
The Chosen Few
The Chosen Few - 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 The Chosen Few write by Maristella Botticini. This book was released on 2012. The Chosen Few available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.
What Does a Jew Look Like?
What Does a Jew Look Like? - 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 What Does a Jew Look Like? write by Keith Kahn-Harris. This book was released on 2022-03. What Does a Jew Look Like? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Virtually Jewish
Virtually Jewish - 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 Virtually Jewish write by Ruth Ellen Gruber. This book was released on 2002-01-15. Virtually Jewish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author explores the phenomenon of the Jewish culture in Europe. In this book she askes in what way do non-Jews embrace and enact Jewish culture and for what reasons.
