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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780364023099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Brooklyn Jewish Center Review, Vol. 23: November, 1941 Question: Does our press furnish too much news that is likely to prove valuable to the Axis powers? Mrs. Roosevelt's answer was that we cannot have censorship of the press or of the radio in peace - time, but that I doubt if anything that is really important gets out. She add ed: I regret to tell you that there are many people in this country who send information in other ways. Question: What do you suggest as an equitable peace after the war to avoid a third world conflict? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ilana Abramovitch
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781584650034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.
Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0300258372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn "A rich chronicle of the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg. . . . This expert account enlightens."—Publishers Weekly “One of the most creative and iconoclastic works to have been written about Jews in the United States.”—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.
Author: Brooklyn Jewish Center (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780231050630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique book combines a brief, comprehensive history of women in the American newspaper business over the last one hundred years with a sharp assessment of their present status. Kay Mills describes how today's women journalists have reached their present positions and argues that the increased presence of women reporters is having an important impact on the kind of news that appears in daily papers.
Author: Ayala Fader
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-07-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1400830990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing distinctions between the religious and the secular. In this innovative book, Fader demonstrates that contemporary Hasidic femininity requires women and girls to engage with the secular world around them, protecting Hasidic men and boys who study the Torah. Even as Hasidic religious observance has become more stringent, Hasidic girls have unexpectedly become more fluent in secular modernity. They are fluent Yiddish speakers but switch to English as they grow older; they are increasingly modest but also fashionable; they read fiction and play games like those of mainstream American children but theirs have Orthodox Jewish messages; and they attend private Hasidic schools that freely adapt from North American public and parochial models. Investigating how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern, Mitzvah Girls offers exciting new insights into cultural production and change in nonliberal religious communities.
Author: Beth S. Wenger
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780815606178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicling the experience of New York City's Jewish families during the Great Depression, this work tells the story of a generation of immigrants and their children as they faced an uncertain future in America.