Takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past.
Takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jew...
The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). For the first time, the book studies these prosecutions, brought in the name of "humanity", that reveal, an underlying, unrelenting, and inescapable antisemitism.
The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish meth...
Through thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced in becoming accepted academics, sixteen scholars of American Jewish history retell the story of how the study of Judaism rose from being long dismissed as an amateurish enterprise not worthy of serious consideration in the world of ideas to a respected field in communication with all humanities scholars.
Through thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced in becoming accepted academics, sixteen scholars of American Jewish history r...
Through the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author of this book reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism.
Through the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author of this book reveals the experience of the Jewish c...
