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Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York
"Hannah Kliger has provided an important service to historians . . . " —Journal of American Ethnic History" . . . Hannah Kliger has provided a valuable primary source for studying …
Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France
At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in …
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein …
Jewish Family
In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish …
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious …
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin's story follows the arc of …
Uprooting the Diaspora
In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish …
Orthodox Jews in America
Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and …
Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry
"Olga Litvak has written a book of astonishing originality and intellectual force. . . . In vivid prose, she takes the reader on a journey through the Russian-Jewish literary …
Jewish Life in Germany
"It is the best group portrait of German Jewry that we have." —Washington Post Book World" . . . weaves a fascinating social tapestry of German Jewry from 1780 to 1945. . . . …
The House at Ujazdowskie 16
In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While …
The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was …