Max Lilienthal, American Rabbi

Max Lilienthal, American Rabbi

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  • Author: Max E. Lilienthal
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Jews, American
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 534


Max Lilienthal

Max Lilienthal

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  • Author: Bruce L. Ruben
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • ISBN: 9780814336670
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.


Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush

Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush

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  • Author: Ava Fran Kahn
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • ISBN: 9780814328590
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 564

In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish social and religious structures on the East Coast. California's Jewish immigrants become founders of their own social, cultural, and religious institutions. Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush examines the life of California's Jewish community through letters, diaries, memoirs, court and news reports, and photographs, as well as institutional, synagogue, and organizational records. By gathering a wealth of primary source materials-both public and private documents-and placing them in proper historical context, Ava F. Kahn re-creates the lives within California's Jewish community. Kahn takes the reader from Europe to California, from the goldfields to the developing towns and their religious and business communities, and from the founding of Jewish communities to their maturing years-most notably the instant city of San Francisco. By providing exhaustive documentation, Kahn offers an intimate portrait of Jewish life at a critical period in the history of California and the nation. Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California's Jewish community.


Triumph of Survival

Triumph of Survival

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  • Author: Berel Wein
  • Publisher: Mesorah Publications
  • ISBN: 9780899064987
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 538

World renowned historian and lecturer, Rabbi Berel Wein, paints a panoramic picture of our people in the modern era, from the Cossack pogroms to the rise of the Chassidic movement, from the Vilna Gaon to the rebirth of Torah in America.


A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

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  • Author: Norman Drachler
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • ISBN: 081434349X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 753

This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education


A Century of Ambivalence

A Century of Ambivalence

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  • Author: Zvi Y. Gitelman
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN: 9780253338112
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world's third largest Jewish community. In the intervening century the Jews of that area have been at the center of some of the most dramatic events of modern history -- two world wars, revolutions, pogroms, political liberation, repression, and the collapse of the USSR. They have gone through tumultuous upward and downward economic and social mobility and experienced great enthusiasms and profound disappointments. In startling photographs from the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and with a lively and lucid narrative, A Century of Ambivalence traces the historical experience of Jews in Russia from a period of creativity and repression in the second half of the 19th century through the paradoxes posed by the post-Soviet era. This redesigned edition, which includes more than 200 photographs and two substantial new chapters on the fate of Jews and Judaism in the former Soviet Union, is ideal for general readers and classroom use.


Who Rules the Synagogue?

Who Rules the Synagogue?

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  • Author: Zev Eleff
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190490276
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 345

'Who Rules the Synagogue?' explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis.


Jews in America

Jews in America

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  • Author: Matthew B. Schwartz
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1532644132
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

Using a readable question-and-answer format, Jews in America: The First 500 Years presents the activities of Jews in America since the beginnings of European settlement. It tells something of the story of how Jews came to the "golden land" and what they have done here--men and women, scientists and athletes, soldiers and merchants, settlers and scholars. It is indeed a remarkable story.


Clergy Education in America

Clergy Education in America

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  • Author: Larry Abbott Golemon
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0197552854
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American history, members of the clergy were nearly ever-present in public life. But men and women of the clergy are not born that way, they are made. And therefore, the matter of their education is a question of fundamental public importance. In Clergy Education in America, Larry Golemon shows not only how our conception of professionalism in religious life has changed over time, but also how the education of religious leaders have influenced American culture. Tracing the history of clergy education in America from the Early Republic through the first decades of the twentieth century, Golemon tracks how the clergy has become increasingly diversified in terms of race, gender, and class in part because of this engagement with public life. At the same time, he demonstrates that as theological education became increasingly intertwined with academia the clergy's sphere of influence shrank significantly, marking a turn away from public life and a decline in their cultural influence. Clergy Education in America offers a sweeping look at an oft-overlooked but critically important aspect of American public life.


Hanukkah in America

Hanukkah in America

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  • Author: Dianne Ashton
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 1479858951
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 353

Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural references, what ties them together is that they all celebrate a holiday that is different in America than it is any place else. For the past two hundred years, American Jews have been transforming the ancient holiday of Hanukkah from a simple occasion into something grand. Each year, as they retell its story and enact its customs, they bring their ever-changing perspectives and desires to its celebration. Providing an attractive alternative to the Christian dominated December, rabbis and lay people alike have addressed contemporary hopes by fashioning an authentically Jewish festival that blossomed in their American world. The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in American Jewish life. The holiday’s distinctive transformation from a minor festival to a major occasion that looms large in the American Jewish psyche is a marker of American Jewish life. Drawing on a varied archive of songs, plays, liturgy, sermons, and a range of illustrative material, as well as developing portraits of various communities, congregations, and rabbis, Hanukkah in America reveals how an almost forgotten festival became the most visible of American Jewish holidays.