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A New Promised Land : A History of Jews in America: A ...
Hasia R. Diner Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor in American Jewish History New York UniversityA History of Jews in America Hasia R. Diner Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor in American Jewish History New York ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Diner, Hasia R. A new promised land : a history of Jews in ...
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
Hasia R. DinerSeeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African-Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same ...
Jewish Americans: The Immigrant Experience
Hasia R. DinerA history of Jewish culture and communities in the United States explores how Jewish immigrants from 1654 to the early twentieth century and their descendants adjusted to their new lives and how they contributed to the nation.
A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880
Hasia R. DinerDiner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.
Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism
Preview2), Judith Kalik, 332 Hasia R. Diner, Lower East Side Memories, Gerald Sorin, 334 Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger (eds.), Remembering the Lower East Side: American Reflections, Gerald Sorin, 334 Todd M. Endelman , ...
1929: Mapping the Jewish World
Hasia DinerTaken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.
Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing
John Chaffeeby Ted steinberg Ted Steinberg is a professor of history and law at Case Western University, with a particular interest in the history of American environmental law and policy. His book Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in ...
Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
Hasia R. DinerFew subjects have been so fortunate as to inspire the passion, dedication, imagination, excitement, and scholarly acumen and range that give this book such vibrancy and power.
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
Hasia R. DinerAnnotation A history of Jews in American that is informed by the constant process of negotiation undertaken by ordinary Jews in their communities who wanted at one and the same time to be good Jews and full Americans.
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
PreviewA recent example ofthis call is found in Ted Steinberg, “Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and History,”American HistoricalReview 107.3 (2002): 798–820. See also Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (New York, ...
Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide
Guiyou HuangSYLVIA A. WATANABE (1953- ) | Gayle K. Sato ♢ BIOGRAPHY Born in Wailuku, Maui, and raised in Kailua, Oahu, Sylvia Watanabe is a third-generation Japanese American. She majored in art history at the University of Hawaii (B.A. 1980), ...
Handbook
Association of American Law Schools... Co-Chair State and Local Government Law Clayton P. Gillette, New York University Student Services Sylvia K. Novinsky, University of North Carolina Taxation Daniel N. Shaviro, New York University Teaching Methods Paula Ann Franzese, ...
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
Kim E. NielsenLongmore, Paul K., and Lauri Umansky. “Disability History: From the Margins to the Mainstream.” In Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds., The New Disability History:American Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 2001: ...
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy ...
Larry RuttmanSol Gittleman First-Generation Jewish American, Realizing the American Dream T here can be no question that the United States. 22. Tufts University professor of baseball history and baseball author Sol Gittleman, the poor man's Dustin ...
Music in Jewish History and Culture
John H. BaronBenarde, Scott R. Stars of David: Rock 'n' Jewish Stories. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2003. Billig, Michael. Rock V Roll Jews. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Friedman, Lester. The Jewish Image in American Film.
Feud in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm... Professor Guy Halsall (University of York), Editor- in-Chief Dr. Anne Knudsen ( Weekendavisen), and Professor Edward Muir (Northwestern University). In connection with the symposium, we also thank Professor Sally N. Vaughn ( University ...
Hungering for America
Hasia R. DINER"Hungering for America" tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas.
A Story of Hope: A Holocaust Story
Alexander RuckiSuzanne D. Rutland (MA (Hons) PhD, Dip Ed, OAM) is Professor in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian Jewish history, as well as writing on the Holocaust, Israel ...
Clinical Handbook for the Management of Mood Disorders
PreviewPhilip R. Muskin, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York ... New York, NY, USA Drew Ramsey, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY , ...
Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide
Marlene Steinberg–Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine “Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide by Marlene Steinberg, M.D., is a milestone in instructing professionals in ...
New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and ...
David HalleDavid Halle is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the summer travel program UCLA in New York: Cities and Cultures. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of New York's Graduate ...
Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to ...
Edmund Russell2 of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, ed. Stanely L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) . All cited in Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation in American ...
Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American ...
Daniel BernardiScholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.
Midrash on American Jewish History
Henry L. FeingoldThis book addresses itself to those issues right at the top of the American Jewish agenda, puts them into historical perspective, and interprets them with uncommonly good common sense.” — Melvin I. Urofsky, Chair, Department of History, ...
Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals ...
David N. Myers5 Yitzhak Fritz Baer: Romanticism and Return in Jewish History Ten years after the founding of the Hebrew University, an important attempt at clarifying the direction of Jewish studies in Palestine was made. In 1935, the new series of the ...
Vanished Ideology, A: Essays on the Jewish Communist ...
PreviewQuoted in Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Inter-racial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 130–32. 9. Recent publications in American Jewish historiography that consider the JPFO ...
Vanished Ideology, A: Essays on the Jewish Communist ...
PreviewSee, for example, Bat-Ami Zucker, “American Jewish Communists and Jewish Culture in the 1930s,” in Modern Judaism 14, No. 2 (May, 1994); Arthur Liebman, Jews and the Left (New York: Wiley, 1979); and Melech Epstein, The Jew and ...
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the ...
Hasia R. DinerExamines the work, culture, family life, educational achievements, and social problems of female Irish immigrants in the United States Described here are thousands of Irish women who saw in America the chance to utilize the energy, ambition ...
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