The Hanukkah Anthology
Philip Goodman;Philip Goodman
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Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relev...
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The Hanukkah Anthology
2018
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Hanukkah Anthology delves into the stories and messages of Hanukkah as they have unfolded in Jewish literature over the past two thousand years: biblical intimations of the festival, postbiblical writings, selections from the Talmud and midrashim, excerpts from medieval books, home liturgies, laws and customs, observances in different nations , stories and poems, art, and recipes. This timeless volume features many works by prominent authors, including Herman Wouk, Judah L. Magnes, Chaim Potok, Heinrich Heine, Emma Lazarus, Howard Fast, Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant, I. L. Peretz, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Hanukkah--Literary collectionsContent provider:
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Stories of Khmelnytsky : Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Amelia M. Glaser;Amelia M. Glaser
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack...
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Stories of Khmelnytsky : Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
2015
In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish , Russian, and Polish literature , that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish , Polish, and Russian national identity.
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Cossack-Polish War, 1648-1657--Literature and the war - Zaporozhians in literature - Cossacks in literature - Slavic literature--History and criticism - Jewish literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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Salo Baron : The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America
Rebecca Kobrin;Rebecca Kobrin
In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor...
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Salo Baron : The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America
2022
In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History , Literature , and Institutions—marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in the twentieth century, the author of many books including the eighteen-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews . He also created a program and a discipline, mentoring hundreds of scholars, establishing major institutions including the first academic center to study Israel in the United States, building Columbia's Judaica collection, intervening as a public intellectual, and exerting an unparalleled influence on what it meant to study the Jewish past.This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States. From a variety of perspectives, they reflect on his contributions to the study of Jewish history , literature , and culture, as well as his scholarship, activism, and mentorship. Among many distinguished contributors, David Sorkin engages with Baron's arguments on Jewish emancipation; Francesca Trivellato puts him in conversation with economic history ; David Engel examines his use of anti-Semitism as an analytical category; Deborah Lipstadt explores his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann; and Robert Chazan and Jane Gerber, both once Baron's doctoral students, offer personal and intellectual reminiscences. Together, they testify to Baron's singular legacy in shaping Jewish studies in America.
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Jewish historians--United States--Biography - Judaism--History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States - Jews--History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United StatesContent provider:
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Contention, Controversy, and Change : Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volume I
Eric Levine;Simcha Fishbane;Eric Levine;Simcha Fishbane
Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish histo...
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Contention, Controversy, and Change : Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volume I
2016; Vol. 00001
Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional movements and change in Jewish history . These scholars demonstrate that social change throughout Jewish life has assumed many different manifestations, and can occur in revolutionary and dramatic ways as well as in more common gradual and evolutionary processes. In the first volume, the essays revolve around two themes: “Mobilizations and Contentious Politics,” and “Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change.” The second volume is devoted to “Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice.” Taken together, these two volumes present scholarship rich with both historical and contemporary relevance, of interest to academics and students in Jewish studies and the social sciences, communal leaders and policy makers, and anyone intrigued by the Jewish experience.
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Jews--Social life and customs - Jews--History--1945- - Jews--Social conditions - Jews--IdentityContent provider:
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Studies in Jewish and World Folklore
Haim Schwarzbaum;Haim Schwarzbaum
Studies in Jewish and World Folklore
2015; Vol. 00003
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Folklore - Jews--FolkloreContent provider:
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The Essential Hayim Greenberg : Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Hayim Greenberg;Mark A. Raider;Hayim Greenberg;Mark A. Raider
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim G...
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The Essential Hayim Greenberg : Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
2016
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg's contributions to modern Jewish thought have largely fallen from view. In The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism, the first collection of Greenberg's writings since 1968, Mark A. Raider reestablishes Greenberg as a prominent Jewish thinker and Zionist activist who challenged the prevailing orthodoxies of American Jewry and the Zionist movement. This collection of thoroughly annotated essays, spanning the 1920s to the early 1950s, includes Greenberg's meditations on socialism and ethics, profiles of polarizing twentieth-century figures (among them Trotsky, Lenin, and Gandhi), and several essays investigating the compatibility of socialism and communism. Greenberg always circles back, however, to the recurring question of how Jews might situate themselves in modernity, both before and after the Holocaust, and how Labor Zionist ideology might reshape the imbalances of Jewish economic life. Alongside his role as an American Zionist leader, Greenberg maintained a lifelong commitment to the vitality of the Jewish diaspora. Rather than promoting Jewish autonomy and statehood, he argued for fidelity to the Jewish spirit. This volume not only seeks to restore Greenberg to his previous stature in the field of Judaic studies but also to return a vital and authentic voice, long quieted, to the continuing debate over what it means to be Jewish . The Essential Hayim Greenberg provides an accessible text for scholars, historians, and students of Jewish studies, religion, and theology.
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Zionists--United States--Intellectual life - Labor Zionism--United States--InfluenceContent provider:
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Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Marvin J. Heller;Marvin J. Heller
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects ...
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Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
2013; Vol. 00037
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects of the early Hebrew book often treated in a cursory manner. The essays encompass book arts, printing-places and printers, and unusual book varia.
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Printing, Hebrew--History - Hebrew imprints--HistoryContent provider:
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Neubauer, John;Cornis-Pope, Marcel;Neubauer, John;Cornis-Pope, Marcel
2006; Vol. 00020
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East European literature--History and criticism - Literature and history--Europe, EasternContent provider:
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A Religious History of the American People
Ahlstrom, Sydney E.;Ahlstrom, Sydney E.
