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Series
Very short introductions volume 526
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Artisan, a division of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Some people seek. Jews question. And to answer their questions comes The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, a bible of Judaism that, in its deeply knowing and highly entertaining way, reflects the diverse and at times irascible tribe who identify as Jewish, or Jewish, or, in the case of future converts and/or spouses, Jewcurious. Here is a popcultural guide to all the many, many aspects and delights of "being Jewish," created by the hosts of the most popular...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus's arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul's exploration of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab world, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos...
Author
Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish life. Relations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Since Israel's founding seventy years ago, particularly as memory of the Holocaust and of Israel's early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. Most explanations...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin,...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Klavan left the faith of his childhood behind to live most of his life as an agnostic. But his lifelong quest for truth-- in his life and in his work-- was leading him to a place he never expected. Here, he tells about his troubled childhood, growing up to become an alienated writer. Fighting to ignore the insistent call of God, Klaven found that the call of God existed in the stories he loved to read and the stories he loved to write.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book concerns a cohort of ultra-orthodox Jews based in the greater New York area who, while retaining membership and close familial and other ties with their strictly observant communities, seek out secular knowledge about the world on the down low (so to speak), both online and via in-person encounters. Ayala Fader conducted her ethnographic research in these rarified social circles for years, developing relationships of trust with the mostly...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Traces the discovery by Frank's aunt's daughter-in-law of numerous family correspondences and keepsakes and what they revealed about the Frank family and the forces that shaped the famous young diarist.
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