Coping with life and death : Jewish families in the twentieth century / edited by Peter Y. Medding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medding, Peter.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 14.

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish families--History--20th century.

Jewish families.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Book reviews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--History--Book reviews.

Jews.

Jewish literature--Book reviews.

Jewish literature.

Judaism--20th century--Book reviews.

Judaism.

Israel--Book reviews.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xiv, 361 p.

Other Title:

At head of title: Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Place of Publication:

New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, history, literature, the arts, religion, education, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features current scholarship in the form of symposia, articles, and book reviews by distinguished experts of Jewish studies from colleges and universities across the globe. Each volume also includes a list of recent dissertations. Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century will appeal to all students and scholars of the sociocultural history of the Jewish people, especially those interested in the nature of Jewish intermarriage and/or family life, the changing fate of the Orthodox Jewish family, the varied but widespread Americanization of the Jewish family, and similar concerns.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Symposium: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century

The Place of Ethnic Identity in the Development of Personal Identity: A Challenge for the Jewish Family

Marriage, Americanization and American Jewish Culture, 1900-1920

Making Fragmentation Familiar: Barry Levinson's Avalon

The Economics of Contemporary American Jewish Family Life

Children of Intermarriage: How "Jewish"?

What Happened to the Extended Jewish Family? Jewish Homes for the Aged in Eastern Europe

Cohesion and Rupture: The Jewish Family in East European Ghettos During the Holocaust

The "Family-Community" Model in Haredi Society

We Are All One Bereaved Family": Personal Loss and Collective Mourning in Israeli Society

Essays

Evangelists in a Strange Land: American Missionaries in Israel, 1948-1967

Balfour's Mission to Palestine: Science, Strategy and Vision in the Inauguration of the Hebrew University

Review Essays

Vichy and the Jews: A Past That is Not Past

Mastering the Middle East: Israel in a Regional Context

Examining the Oslo Process: A First Cut

Book Reviews

Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide

Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Wartime System of Labor Service in Hungary: Varieties of Experiences

Daniel Carpi, Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia

Richard J. Golsan (ed.), Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs

Lawerence D. Kritzman (ed.), Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "The Jewish Question" in France

Lucien Lazare, Rescue as Resistance: How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France (trans. Jeffrey M. Green)

Gerald E. Markle, Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler.

Erik Markusen and David Kopf, The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the 20th Century

Raphael Posner (trans.), The Diary of Aaron Wilf: The Blood Soaked Saga of Skole

Shimon Redlich, War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR

Réne Rémond, Le "Fichier juif": Rapport de la commission présidée par René Rémand au Premier ministre

Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany

Tzvetan Todorov, A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944(trans. Mary Byrd Kelly)

Richard H. Weisberg, Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France

History and the Social Sciences

Esther Benbassa, Hayahadut ha'otomanit bein hitma'aravut leziyonut 1908-1920 (Ottoman Jewry Between Westernisation and Zionism)

Samuel C. Heilman, Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century

Dagmar Herzog, Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden

Wilma Abeles Iggers, The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

Maria Klanska, Aus dem Schtetl in die Welt, 1772-1938: Ostjudische Autobiographien in deutscher Sprache

Tony Kushner (ed.), The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness

Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine

Jacob Rader Marcus (ed.), The Jew in the American World: A Source Book

Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940

Jehuda Reinharz, Gideon Shimoni and Yosef Salmon (eds.), Leumiyut vepolitikah yehudit: perspektivot hadashot

Alan Silverstein, Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930.

Lance J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism

Language, Literature and the Arts

Isaac Babel, 1920 Diary (ed. Carol J. Avins, trans. H.T. Willets)

John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

Romy Golan, Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars

Anthony Julius, T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form

Norman L. Kleeblatt (ed.), Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities

Gila Ramras-Rauch, Aharon Appelfeld: The Holocaust and Beyond

Michael Rogin, Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot

Aby M. Warburg, Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America (trans. Michael P. Steinberg)

Religion, Thought and Education

Jeffrey Cohen (ed.), Dear Chief Rabbi: From the Correspondence of Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, On Matters of Jewish Law, Ethics and Contemporary Issues, 1980-1990

Daniel H. Frank (ed.), Commandment and Community: New Essays in Jewish Legal and Political Philosophy

Steven L. Jacobs, Rethinking Jewish Faith: The Child of a Survivor Responds

Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman)

John-Paul Sartre and Benny Levy, Hope Now (trans. Adrian van der Hoven)

Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno (eds.), The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 (trans. Manfred R. Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson)

Zvi Zohar, Masoret utemurah: hitmodedut hakhmei yisrael bemizrayim uvesuriyah 'im etgarei hamodernizaziyah, 1880-1920 (Tradition and Change: Halakhic Responses of Middle Eastern Rabbis to Legal and Technological Change [Egypt and Syria, 1880-1920])

Zionism, Israel and the Middle East

Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen], Through Secret Channels: The Road to Oslo

Yossi Beilin, Laga'at bashalom (Touching Peace).

Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel

Rachel Elboim-Dror, Hamahar shel etmol (Yesterday's Tomorrow)

Ziva Flamhaft, Israel on the Road to Peace: Accepting the Unacceptable

Joseph Heller, The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror, 1940-1949

Ruth Kark, American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832-1914

Michael Keren, Professionals Against Populism: The Peres Government and Democracy

Shulamit Laskov, Trumpeldor: sipur hayav (Trumpeldor: The Story of His Life)

David W. Lesch (ed.), The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment

David Makovsky, Making Peace with the PLO: The Rabin Government's Road to the Oslo Accord

Yazid Sayigh and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The Cold War and the Middle East

Gabriel Sheffer (ed.), U.S.-Israeli Relations at the Crossroads

Gideon Shimoni, The Zionist Ideology, YOSEF GORNY,

Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations

Contents for Volume XV

Note on Editorial Policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0195351886

9780195351880

OCLC:

935227394