Journey Through Jewish History
Author: Seymour Rossel
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 1983-07
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780874413663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Seymour Rossel
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 1983-07
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780874413663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Seymour Rossel
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780874413359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yosef Eisen
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9781568713236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the Jewish people. Contains brief chapters on medieval Christian antisemitism, the Spanish Inquisition, and 19th-early 20th-century Russian antisemitism. Chs. 24-31 (pp. 389-535) discuss various aspects of the Holocaust.
Author: Violette Shamash
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0810164086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir—an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad’s Jewish population. Shamash’s world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.
Author: Ken Spiro
Publisher: Brand Nu Words
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781568715322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The miracle and meaning of Jewish history."
Author: Yale Strom
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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Author: Yaffa Ganz
Publisher: Mesorah Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780899060361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is no more exciting story anywhere than the Jewish People's march through the menaces of history. It's a gripping, absorbing story, peopled by great names and arch-villains, full of courage and cowardice, and leavened with the conviction that the Ch
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0822987155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from 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 explorations of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab World, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aires, to “Indian Jews,” and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of “secret Jews,” and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial “seventh heaven,” which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans’s ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical.
Author: Rebecca Abrams
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781910807033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"These are some of the remarkable Jewish objects in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, brought together here for the first time to tell the history of the Jewish people from Ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. Spanning 4000 years and fourteen countries, they document the astonishing diversity and adaptability of Jewish life over the centuries, and the long history of close interaction with other cultures and religions of the world."--Publisher's description.
Author: Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1451418590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.