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Jews of Brooklyn / edited by Ilana Abramovitch & Seán Galvin.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks F129.B7 J49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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