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The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the cityJewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes their struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city. Based on the acclaimed multi-volume set City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York winner of the National Jewish Book Council 2012 Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, Jewish New York spans three centuries, tracing the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.

Jews --- History. --- New York (N.Y.) --- Hasidim. --- Jewish Book of the Year Award. --- american jews. --- american zionism. --- anti-Semitism. --- bernie sanders. --- jewish experience. --- jewish immigrants. --- jewish neighborhoods. --- jews. --- new york history. --- new york neighborhoods. --- new york synagogues. --- orthodox jews. --- ruth bader ginsburg.

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Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States-a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history-from the communities that sent formal letters of greeting to George Washington; to the three thousand Jewish men who fought for the Confederacy and the ten thousand who fought in the Union army; to the Jewish activists who devoted themselves to the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Diner portrays this history as a constant process of negotiation, undertaken by ordinary Jews who wanted at one and the same time to be Jews and full Americans. Accordingly, Diner draws on both American and Jewish sources to explain the chronology of American Jewish history, the structure of its communal institutions, and the inner dynamism that propelled it. Her work documents the major developments of American Judaism-he economic, social, cultural, and political activities of the Jews who immigrated to and settled in America, as well as their descendants-and shows how these grew out of both a Jewish and an American context. She also demonstrates how the equally compelling urges to maintain Jewishness and to assimilate gave American Jewry the particular character that it retains to this day in all its subtlety and complexity.

Jews --- History. --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- History --- Ethnic relations --- american context. --- american history. --- american jewry. --- american jews. --- american judaism. --- antisemitism. --- civil rights movement. --- comparative religion. --- confederacy. --- cultural history. --- economic perspective. --- historiography. --- jewish communities. --- jewish culture. --- jewish experience. --- jewishness. --- judaism. --- labor movement. --- nonfiction. --- political activists. --- political acts. --- religion in america. --- religious historians. --- retrospective. --- social history. --- union army. --- united states. --- Jewish communities --- American Jews --- migration --- Jewish life in America --- Jewish politics --- 20th century --- Judaism

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This volume, while not the first to explore and critique the concept of Jewish identity, makes two important interventions into contemporary understandings of American Jewish life. It is the first collection to critically examine the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity. Insofar as Jewish identity has become the most popular way to talk about the desired outcome of Jewish education, a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity is both useful and necessary. It is useful because the reification of identity has, we believe, hampered much educational creativity in the rather single-minded pursuit of this goal. It is necessary because the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures a whole set of significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be for in the first place.Second, this volume offers responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for "identity." With a selection of more critical essays, we hope that we can begin to expand, rather than replace, the array of ideas that the term "identity" is so often used to represent.As scholars of Jewish education, the authors of this book hope their work contributes to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life. The intention here is to move from critical inquiry (in Part I of the volume) to suggestive possibilities (Part II). The true measure of this effort, of course, lies in the hands of the readers, those who will advance our understanding of the complexities of American Jewish education and life-beyond Jewish identity.

Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- American Jews. --- American Zionism. --- American post-Zionism. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish education. --- Jewish experience. --- Jewish identity discourse. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish learning. --- Jewish practices. --- Jewish studies. --- Judaism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- community. --- contemporary Judaism. --- education. --- educational goals. --- educational research. --- identity discourse. --- identity politics. --- identity. --- liberal Judaism. --- multicultural. --- multiethnic Jews. --- performativity. --- religious identity. --- religious practice. --- semiotics. --- yeshiva.

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"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."--

Historiography --- Literature and history. --- History --- Truth. --- Collective memory. --- Philosophy. --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- academics. --- early modern europe. --- essay collection. --- europe. --- firsthand experience. --- historians. --- historical conventions. --- historical nonfiction. --- historical perspective. --- historical truth. --- historical. --- historiography. --- history. --- jewish experience. --- jewish studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- memory. --- neoskepticism. --- nonfiction essays. --- philosophy. --- political. --- positivism. --- poststructuralism. --- retrospective. --- truth and fiction. --- writing history. --- Literature and history --- Truth --- Collective memory --- Philosophy --- Errors, inventions, etc

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In the 1990's, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of nation-building. Cast in their modern roles in the late nineteenth century, they functioned as Others, allowing a national community to imagine itself as a site of ethnic and sexual purity. In Matti Bunzl's incisive historical and cultural analysis, the Holocaust appears as the catastrophic culmination of this violent project, an attempt to eradicate modernity's abject by-products from the body politic. As Symptoms of Modernity shows, though World War II brought an end to the genocidal persecution, the nation's exclusionary logic persisted, accounting for the ongoing marginalization of Jews and homosexuals. Not until the 1970's did individual Jews and queers begin to challenge the hegemonic subordination-a resistance that, by the 1990's, was joined by the state's attempts to ensure and affirm the continued presence of Jews and queers. Symptoms of Modernity gives an account of this radical cultural reversal, linking it to geopolitical transformations and to the supersession of the European nation-state by a postmodern polity.

Nationalism --- Gays --- Jews --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Gay people --- Gay persons --- Homosexuals --- Persons --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Austria --- Vienna (Austria) --- Wien (Austria) --- Vi︠e︡denʹ (Austria) --- Vedenʹ (Austria) --- Vena (Austria) --- Wiedëń (Austria) --- Bécs (Austria) --- Vindobona (Austria) --- Videnʹ (Austria) --- Vienne (Austria) --- Viena (Austria) --- Wienn (Austria) --- Dunaj (Austria) --- Wean (Austria) --- Wenen (Austria) --- Wina (Austria) --- Wene (Austria) --- Uigenna (Austria) --- فيينا (Austria) --- Fīyinnā (Austria) --- Vyana (Austria) --- Вена (Austria) --- Горад Вена (Austria) --- Виена (Austria) --- Beč (Austria) --- Fienna (Austria) --- Viin (Austria) --- Βιέννη (Austria) --- Вена ош (Austria) --- Vena osh (Austria) --- Vieno (Austria) --- Viene (Austria) --- Vín (Austria) --- Veen (Austria) --- 빈 (Austria) --- Венæ (Austria) --- Venæ (Austria) --- וינה (Austria) --- Ṿinah (Austria) --- Vienna (Reichsgau) --- Social policy. --- History --- Social life and customs --- Ethnic relations. --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:613.88H31 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Europa --- Homoseksualiteit, biseksualiteit --- Juifs --- Homosexuels --- Nationalisme --- Conditions sociales --- Vienne (Autriche) --- Autriche --- Relations interethniques --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Histoire --- Politique sociale --- Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Social conditions -- 20th century.. --- Gays -- Austria -- Vienna -- Social conditions -- 20th century.. --- Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Austria.. --- Vienna (Austria) -- Ethnic relations.. --- Vienna (Austria) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.. --- Austria -- History -- 1955-. --- Austria -- Social policy. --- 1990s. --- austria. --- central europe. --- cultural history. --- emancipation. --- ethnic issues. --- european history. --- geopolitical change. --- historians. --- historiography. --- history of sexuality. --- holocaust. --- jewish experience. --- judaism. --- late 20th century. --- lgbtq. --- marginalization. --- modern history. --- modernity. --- nation building. --- persecution. --- political history. --- postmodern analysis. --- public sphere. --- queer history. --- retrospective. --- sexual politics. --- vienna. --- viennese homosexuals. --- viennese jews. --- world war ii. --- wwii.