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After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters written in Russian and Yiddish among his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from 1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington, Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations-first theirs, now hers.

Jewish women --- Families. --- Miller, Elisa Brodinsky --- Family. --- Biography. --- Eastern Europe. --- Family/career conflict. --- Generational legacies. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish women. --- Judaism. --- Memoir. --- Modern Russia. --- Russian Far East. --- Russian Ukraine. --- Seattle. --- Shtetl life. --- Tillie Olsen. --- Ukrainian Jews. --- Washington. --- Yiddish. --- career. --- family history. --- genealogy. --- gulag. --- history. --- introspection. --- investigative journalism. --- journalism. --- marriage. --- motherhood. --- personal narrative. --- research. --- travel. --- womanhood. --- writing.

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A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. In particular, the Bolshevik government eliminated the requirement that most Jews reside in the Pale of Settlement in what had been Russia’s western borderlands. Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. This ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. There is the Siberian settler of Viktor Fink’s Jews in the Taiga, the folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the fragmented, bickering family of Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zemlenyaners, whose insular lives are disrupted by the march of technological, political, and social change. There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits, the pogrom survivor, the émigré who repatriates to the USSR. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape.

Jews in literature. --- Jews in motion pictures. --- Jews in popular culture --- Jews --- Russian literature --- Wandering Jew in literature. --- Yiddish literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish literature --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- History. --- Jewish authors --- Birobidzhan. --- Bolshevik Revolution. --- Cinema. --- David Bergelson. --- Dovid Bergelson. --- Isaac Babel. --- Jewish Culture. --- Jews in the Soviet Union. --- Literature. --- Moyshe Kulbak. --- Pogroms. --- Russian Jewish. --- Shtetl. --- Soviet Jewry. --- Soviet Yiddish. --- Soviet. --- Stalin. --- Wandering Jew. --- Yiddish.

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This text investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a KrakØw convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions.

Young women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Christian converts from Judaism --- Conflict of generations --- Religious life --- History. --- Education --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Conversion to Christianity --- Felician Sisters. --- Kraków (Poland) --- 1869 Habsburg compulsory education law. --- A Murder in Lemburg. --- Anna Kluger. --- Austrian history. --- Beit Yaakov schools. --- Confessions of the Shtetl. --- Daniel Unowsky. --- Debora Lewkowicz. --- Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia. --- Eastern European Jewish history. --- Ellie Schainker. --- Felician Sisters' convent. --- Galician Jewry. --- Habsburg monarchy. --- Hasidic women. --- Hasidism. --- Iris Parush. --- Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia. --- Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. --- Jewish feminism. --- Joshua Shanes. --- Michael Stanislawski. --- Michalina Araten. --- Orthodox Jewish society. --- Paula Hyman. --- Polonized identity. --- Reading Jewish Women. --- Sarah Schenirer. --- The Plunder. --- Viennese Supreme Court. --- abductions by the Church. --- church abductions. --- formal Jewish education for women. --- gender studies. --- ideological indoctrination.

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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that they disavow.Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years.Timely and accessible, American Shtetl unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Jews --- Politics and government. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- Teitelbaum, Joel. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- 1900-2099 --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- History --- History --- Social life and customs. --- History --- History --- Aaron Teitelbaum. --- Activism. --- African Americans. --- Alfred Kazin. --- American Jewish Congress. --- American Jews. --- Anti-Defamation League. --- Black Power. --- Black separatism. --- Brown v. Board of Education. --- Chavrusa. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Christian nationalism. --- Christian right. --- City on a Hill. --- Communitarianism. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Der Yid. --- Desegregation. --- Dissenter. --- Dissident. --- Donald Trump. --- Establishment Clause. --- Gabbai. --- Gentile. --- George Pataki. --- HaKirya. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Hasid (term). --- Hugo Black. --- Illiberal democracy. --- Individual and group rights. --- International relations. --- Jay Sekulow. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Joel (prophet). --- Joel Teitelbaum. --- John Winthrop. --- Judaism. --- Kislev. --- Kollel. --- Land grant. --- Liberal elite. --- Liberalism. --- Libertarian Party (United States). --- Matzo. --- Misery (novel). --- Misnagdim. --- Mitzvah. --- Moral Majority. --- Moses. --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar). --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel). --- Nazi Germany. --- New International Economic Order. --- Niddah. --- Nuclear arms race. --- Of Education. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Passover. --- Pennsylvania Dutch. --- Person of color. --- Peter Cole. --- Poetry. --- Polygamy. --- Rabbi. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States. --- Rajneesh. --- Rajneeshpuram. --- Reagan Era. --- Rebbe. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Ritual purification. --- Satmar (Hasidic dynasty). --- Secularism. --- Separation of church and state. --- Separatism. --- Shabbat. --- Sheitel. --- Shtadlan. --- Shtetl. --- Society of the United States. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supervisor. --- Tichel. --- Upsherin. --- Utopia. --- V. --- Vaad. --- Voting bloc. --- Wallace v. Jaffree. --- War. --- White flight. --- Women in Judaism. --- World War II. --- Yiddish.