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Jews of Brooklyn / edited by Ilana Abramovitch & Seán Galvin.

Van Pelt Library F129.B7 J49 2002
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Abramovitch, Ilana.
Galvin, Seán.
Series:
Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jews--New York (State)--New York--History.
Jews.
New York (State)--New York.
History.
Jews--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
Physical Description:
viii, 355 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.
Place of Publication:
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, [2002]
Summary:
Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.
Contents:
Putting on Your Best Face: Brooklyn Jewish Studio Photography, 1881-1924
First Synagogues: Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus and Union Temple
First Synagogues: The First 144 Years of the Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes (The Kane Street Synagogue)
The Early Years of the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn
Syrian Jewish Life
Tastes of Home in Three Brooklyn Groceries
Brooklyn as Refuge: Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
Notes on the Celebration of Purim in Williamsburg
Holy Rolling: Making Sense of Baking Matzo
New Synagogues: Rabbi Ellen Lippmann Talks about Congregation Kolot Chayeinu
Waves upon the Sand: Jewish Immigrant Life in Brighton Beach
The New Wave from Russia
A Williamsburg Childhood in the 1930s and 1940s
Sephardic in Williamsburg
Brownsville and Irving Levine: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Activist
Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in Brownsville, 1930s-1950s
My Mother's Borough Park
A Hasidic Woman in Borough Park
Crown Heights in the 1950s
Cruising Eastern Parkway in Search of Yiddishkayt
Growing Up in Interwar Bensonhurst
The Brooklyn-American Dream
From Brownsville to Park Slope: An Interview with Simon Dinnerstein
From Flatbush to SoHo: An Interview with Ivan Karp
Mazel Tov! Klezmer Music and Simchas in Brooklyn 1910 to the Present
Klezmer Revived: Dave Tarras Plays Again
New Jewish Music in the Orthodox Community
Bad Jews: Jewish Criminals from Brooklyn
A Brooklyn Accent: Borough Park in the 1940s
Seltzer Man
Candy Stores and Egg Creams
Street Games in Brooklyn
Poultry in Motion: The Jewish Atonement Ritual of Kapores
Suits and Souls: Trying to Tell a Jew: When You See One in Crown Heights
Brooklyn Yiddish Radio, 1925-46
Jewish Commitment and Continuity in Interwar Brooklyn
"A Home Though Away from Home": Brooklyn Jews and Interwar Children's Summer Camps
Blacks, Jews, and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn's Junior High School 258: A Cold War Story
A Tour of Jewish Coney Island Avenue
Dr. Alvin I. Schiff Talks about Jewish Education
Rabbi Robert Kaplan Talks about Changing Institutions
Radically Right: The Jewish Press
"Across the Great Divide": Alfred Kazin and Daniel Fuchs
Approximations Made with Line: An Interview with Phillip Lopate
Cyber-Spirituality: An Interview with Binyamin Jolkovsky
Thoroughly Modern Orthodox: An Interview with Rina Goldberg
Danny Kaye: Brooklyn Tummler
The Doctor and the Comedian
Scenes from a Superstar's Childhood
"That's Entertainment!"
"Play Ball!" Jewish Athletes from Brooklyn
On Wisconsin
Knish Reminiscence
Flatbush Memories in the Florida Sun
Are We There Yet? One Family's Brooklyn Diaspora
Time Line of Selected Jewish Brooklyn Events or People.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-351).
ISBN:
1584650036
OCLC:
47705974

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