This volume is a comprehensive encyclopedia of leaders and officials of governments, international organizations, political parties, and military institutions. Based on years of research in archives and institutions around the world, and particularly authoritative on Asia and the Pacific, this bilingual (Japanese / English) compilation will be a resource for researchers, journalists, and government officials worldwide.
This volume is a comprehensive encyclopedia of leaders and officials of governments, international organizations, political parties, and military inst...
Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the 20th century. Examining the intellectual influences that prompted Kaplan to reject fundamental Orthodox precepts, Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter ask a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs?
Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the 20th centu...
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society--in this case, a team--"chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices?
Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He considers the defensive strategies American Jewish leaders have employed in response to sports'...
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sport...
Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America. This first volume considers Jewish involvement in the War of Independence and in the American Revolution, the New York Jewish community of the time and Dutch and English Jews of the period.
Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America. This first volume considers Jewish involve...
Part of an eight volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume contains articles on Jewish life from 1920 to the present. Its entries include studies of the economy and migration in postwar America, the impact of Holocaust survivors on American Society and the reaction to gender stereotypes within American Culture.
Part of an eight volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume contains articles on Jewish li...
Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the Holocaust and policies towards the displaced.
Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume incorporates studies of the pe...
Part of an eight volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this final volume volume comprises articles which take a look at the political movement for the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people. The 21 articles cover subjects such as the historical emergence of Zionism, attitudes towards the Zionist and Anti-Zionist movements in America, and the developments of trusteeship for the Palestine.
Part of an eight volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this final volume volume comprises article...
In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment in Soviet politics and literature from 1945 to 1991. Of special interest to researchers will be chapters on some of the major research sources for historical study, including census materials, memorial books, archives and recently released documents.
In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment ...
Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and women coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration. His absorbing narrative portrays the varied lifestyles of Orthodox Jews and exposes the historical tensions that have pitted the pious against the majority of their co-religionists who have disregarded Orthodox teachings and practice. Exploring Orthodox reactions to alternative...
Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and exa...
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century. It shows convincingly that New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds.
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new mi...
