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East End Jews
Publication Date: April 2025
Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection of urban sketches and enrich our understanding of the Jewish East End.
Carrying a Big Schtick
Publication Date: May 2024
Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.
Hadha Baladuna
Publication Date: June 2022
This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
Sing This at My Funeral
Publication Date: July 2019
Students, scholars, and general readers of memoirs will enjoy this deeply personal reflection on family and grief.
Whitechapel Noise
Publication Date: May 2018
It is a must-read for Jewish and Anglo-Jewish historians and those interested in Yiddish, London, and migration studies.
The Forerunners
Publication Date: February 2018
He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Publication Date: February 2018
Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.
From New Zion to Old Zion
Publication Date: February 2018
From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine), and America-Holy Land studies a well-researched portrait of Aliyah.
For Our Soul
Publication Date: February 2018
Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, For Our Soul describes the ongoing process of adjustment and absorption that the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, known as Falasha or Beta Israel, experienced in Israel.
Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910
Publication Date: February 2018
Only in New Jersey, close to markets and supporters in New York and Philadelphia, were colonization efforts combined with agro-industrial enterprises; consequently, these colonies were able to survive for as long as one generation.
Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939
Publication Date: February 2018
to education; and to social action Issues that created conflict and friction are analyzed in detail.
Survival and Regeneration
Publication Date: December 2017
They are not as numerous or politically powerful as their black neighbors, but the story of these native peoples leaves no doubt about their importance to Detroit and of the city's effect on them.
From East to West
Publication Date: December 2017
In the present book I propose to discuss such a movement of an earlier period, that from Eastern Europe to the countries of the West, from its inception at the beginning of the seventeenth century to the dissolution of the old Polish commonwealth. Since this book deals with the history...
American Aliya
Publication Date: December 2017
Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.
Representation and Citizenship
Publication Date: October 2016
The audience for this book includes, but is not limited to, students and scholars in citizenship studies, history, law, political science, and social science, especially those interested in issues of patriotism and multiculturalism.
Transnational Traditions
Publication Date: November 2014
No other single work in the field systematically focuses on this subject, nor covers the range of themes explored in this volume.
Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear
Publication Date: June 2011
Scholars of Jewish studies and those interested in American and European history will appreciate this landmark volume.
"Look for Me All Around You"
Publication Date: October 2005
This anthology of writers, with accompanying discussions about their works placed in the context of their own time, will be of interest to anyone examining the Harlem Renaissance and the larger Black and Caribbean contribution to cultural and political thinking.
History of the Finns in Michigan
Publication Date: June 2001
Holmio combines firsthand experience and personal contact with the first generation of Finnish immigrants with research in Finnish-language sources to create an important and compelling story of an immigrant group and its role in the development of Michigan.
