If Only You Could Bottle It : Memoirs of a Radical Son / Jack Nusan Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Jack Nusan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish sociologists--United States--Biography.

Jewish sociologists.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Rabbis--United States--Biography.

Rabbis.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s ,to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we follow Porter as he recounts his personal journey from a DP camp in Linz, Austria to an idyllic childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended yeshiva under Reb Twersk. Porter masterfully details his radicalism in the politically- and sociologically- turbulent 1960s which would later influence his academic work on genocide, Holocaust studies, and international human rights. Constantly re-inventing himself, readers are treated to engaging anecdotes as they navigate through Porter's highs, lows, and in-betweens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Praise for Jack Nusan Porter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part One: 1946–1963—Coming to America

1. From Maniewicze to Milwaukee—the Making of a Writer/Activist

2. Milwaukee in the 1940s and 1950s / Diary, 1959

3. LA in the 1950s and 1960s

4. Habonim/Dror, 1956–1964

5. Israel, 1962–1963 / Diary, 1963

6. Golda and Me

Part Two: 1963–1971—The Radical Years

7. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: Becoming an Activist/Intellectual, 1963–1967; the Milwaukee Riots and Father Groppi; the Beginning of the Counterculture for Me; Hippies, Acid Trips, and Communes

8. Activism Continued, 1967–1971: The 1968 Chicago Convention Riot; the Chicago 8 Trial; My Relationship to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krasner, and Lee Weiner; the Black Student Sit-In at NYU; the Founding of the Radical Jewish Student Movement; the 1960s (Civil Rights, Hippies, Grass, Acid, the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War, Vietnam, Woodstock)

9. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League

10. Northwestern: The Making of a Sociologist

11. Academic Follies

12. Reunions

Part Three: 1971–1991—The Transitional Years

13. My Grove Press Days

14. My Nazi-Hunting Days

15. My Native American Days and Nights (Sun Dances, Sweat Lodges, Dealing with Death)

16. Marriage and Settling Down / The Almuly Family / A Jittery Decade, the 1970s—the First Half of the Radical Decade; the Second Half— We Grow Up, Settle Down, and Get Married

17. The Death of a Father

18. The Founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars / Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and Other Zones of Conflict

19. A Jew at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute

20. No Tenure: The Switch to Real Estate: Hello, Harold Brown and Other Billionaires

21. The Landlord: Dealing with Weirdoes (Crazy Tenants), Wise Guys (Italian, Russian, African American), and Community Organizers (Chuck Turner, Mel King, Ray Flynn)

Part Four: 1991–2020—The Stabilizing Years

22. The Death of My Mother

23. Running for Office—Skakes, Fitzie, and Other Kennedys

24. The New Yorker Article

25. The Lost, Confused, and Yet Somehow Productive Years of 1990–2010 (Divorce, Stress—the Mallory-Weiss Syndrome—Death of Second Wife, Alienation from Family yet Traveling the World Lecturing on Genocide and Its Prevention)

26. Rabbi in Paradise (“Key West Rabbi”)

27. Finding Love Again, with Raya, 2011–2017

28. Back to Harvard and Stability, 2011–2020—Renewed Productivity, Especially with Help from World-Famed Designer and Cousin Allen Porter, Support from My Mentor and Genocide Guide Greg Stanton, and Spiritual and Communal Support from My Sephardic Shul)

29. Toward the Future / Miracles / Mormons / and Mahayana Meditation / Finding Peace and Love Again

Photographs

Glossary of Terms

Appendix

Sources and Permissions

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

1-64469-901-X

OCLC:

1312737023