Edited by Deborah Dash Moore (10 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, grey cloth covers with blue lettering, x, 334 pp. Articles are "The Eastern European Era in Jewish History," Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Swislocz: Portrait of a Jewish Community in Eastern Europe," Abraham Ain, "A Kheyder in Tyszowce (Tishevits)," Yekhiel Shtern, "The Discovery of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Literature," Dan Miron, "The Struggle of the Vaad Arba Arazot for the Jewish Right of Religious Worship in Breslau in the Seventeenth Century," Bernhard Brilling, "The Jews in the Cities of the Republic of Poland," Jacob Lestchinsky, "The Economic Background of Jewish Emigration from Galicia to the United States," Raphael Mahler, "Jewish and Non-Jewish Criminality in Poland, 1932-1937," Liebman Hersch, "Religious, Educational and Cultural Problmes in the Eastern European Ghettos under German Occupation," Isaiah Trunk, "Was There an 'Other Germany' During the Nazi Period?" Philip Friedman, "The Bearing of Emancipation on Jewish Survival," Horace M. Kallen, "The Russian Roots of the American Jewish Labor Movement," Ezra Mendelsohn, "Jewish Social Conditions as Seen by the Muckrakers," Rudolf Glanz, "Un-American America and the Jewish Daily Forward," Tamara K. Hareven.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket condition Fine. 14 scholarly essays on identity and culture. 358 pages, index. Part of the Studies in Jewish Culture and Society series published by the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, x, 358 pp., index Preface by David Ruderman. Introduction by Moore and Troen. Articles are "The Contruction of a Secular Jewish Identity: European and American Influences in Israeli Education," Troen, "Producing the Future: The Impressario Culture of American Zionsim before 1948," Jeffrey Schandler, "Moroccan Jewry and the Shaping of Israel's Sacred Geography," Yoram Bilu, "Identity, Ritual, and Pilgrimage: The Meetings of the Israel Exploration Society," Micahel Feige, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Clothing, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience," Jenna Weissman Joselit, "Sculpting an American Jewish Hero: The Monuments, Myths, and Legends of Haym Salomon," Beth S. Wenger, "Imagining Europe: The Popular arts of American Jewish Ethnography," Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, "The Shoah as Israel's Political Trope," Ne'eman Arad, "'O am Other': The Holocaust Survivor's Point of View in Yehudit Hendel's Short Story 'They Are other,'" Nurith Gertz, "'A Drastically Bifurcated Legacy:" Homeland and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Jewish American Literature," Tresa Grauer, "The Impact of Statehood on the Hebrew Literary Imagination: Haim Hazaz and the Zionist Narrative," Arnold Band, "Becoming Ethnic, Becoming American : Different Patterns and Configurations of the Assimilation of Eastern European Jwews, 1890-1940," Ewa Morawska, "Strangers No Longer: Jews and Postwar American Political Culture," Ira Katznelson, "Changiong Places, Changing Cultures: Divergent Jewish Political Cultures," Daniel J. Elazar, "Epilogue: On Living in Two Cultures," Elazar.…

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 478 pp., b/w photos, glossary, contributors Preface by Moore. Articles are - "In Memoriam Lucjan Dobroszyncki (1925-1995)," Coming of Age in the Thirties: Max Weinreich, Edward Sapir, and Jewish Social Science," Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "The World of My Parents," Dina Abramowicz, "Mother, Mother Tongue, and Motherland: The Family in Jewish American Fiction," Anita Norich, "Radical Literary Criticism in Yiddish: The Example of 'Di Zukunft,' 1892-1918," Steven Cassedy, "Yiddish in Form and Socialist in Content: The Observance of Sholem Aleichem's Eighteith Birthday in the Soviet Union," Zachary Baker, "Who was 'L. Zeitlin' of the Society for Jewish Folk Music?" Paula Eisenstein Baker, "On the Creatores and Consumers of Orthodox Popular Music in Brooklyn," Mark Kligman, "Time Travel through Photographs: A Family History," David Gavril, "Seeds of Community: The Role of the Reconstructionist Movement in Creating Havurot in America," Peter Margolis, "Yishuv, Diaspora, and Holocaust: Myth and Reality," Yechaim Weitz, "A Friend in Need: The Jewish Labor Committee and Refugees from the German-Speaking Lands, 1933-1945," Jack Jacobs, "American Jewish Socialists' Attitude to Zionism and Palestine in the 1920s," Yaacov Goldstein, "Kibbutz Buchewald: The Establishmnet of the First Hakhsharah in Postwar Germany," Judith Tydor Baumel.…

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, viii, 338 pp., contributors, glossary Articles are - "Politics and Messianism in Traditional Jewish Society: A Reconsideration," Eli Lederhendler, "Reflections on Eastern European Jewish Politics in the Twentieth Century," Ezra Mendelsohn," "Rabbis and Politics, Rabbis in Politics: Different Models within Interwar Polish Jewry," Gershon Baco, "Jewish Communal Politics in Transition: The Vilna Kehile, 1919-1920," Samuel Kassow, "Growing Up Bundist," Victor Erlich, "Change and Continuity: Photographs of Jewish Children in Interwar Eastern Europe," Roberta Newman, "A Memoir of the Great War, 1914-1924 (In memory of my beloved brother, Morris)," Lillian Gorenstein, "The Dilemma of Rescue and Redemption: Mass Immigration to Israel in the First Year of Statehood," Dali Ofer, "Sholem Aleichem and America," Khone Shmeruk, "Of Plays and Politics: Sholem Aleichem's First Visit to America," Nina Warnke, "Sholem Aleichem's Funeral (New York, 1916): The Making of a National Pageant," Ellen Kellman, "Reading Sholem Aleichim from Left to Right," Jeffrey Shandler. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th Printing. 291 + viii pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally or mildly shelf worn. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges. Shimon Attie (Jacket Illustration) (illustrator).…

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, viii, 367 pp., contributors Articles are - "Between Science and Faith: Sixty Years of the YIVO Institute," Dan Miron, "Jewish Migration and Community in Postwar Los Angeles," Deborah Dash Moore, "Street Corner Jews: The Boys of Brownsville," Gerald Sorkin, "Green Bagels: An Essay on Food, Nostalgia, and the Carnivalesque," Jack Kugelmass, "A Brief Account of a Long Way Home," Steve Stern, "Ashkenaz on the Mississippi," Janet Hadda, "In the Twilight of Tradition: Trying the Myths in Jewish-American Short Stories," Janet Handler Burstein, "The Introduction of Bat Mitzvah in Conservative Judaism in Postwar America," Paula E. Hyman, "Engendering the Cantoratre," Mark Slobin, "The New Pluralism and the Politics of Community Relations,"Arthur A. Goren, "Photo Essay: Jewish Life in the Netherlands in the Eighties," Jenny E. Wesly, "Observant Participation: The Ethnography of Jews on the Lower East Side," Jonathan Boyarin, "Making Davening Meaningful: Worship in the Havurah Movement," Chava Weissler, "From the Pages of the Victory Bulletin: The Syrian Jews of Brooklyn During World War II," Marianna Sanua, "A Jewish Teacher in Czarist Russia: Episodes from a Life," Hirsz Abramowicz. …

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Large quartos in dust jacket, xxxii, 880 pp., b/w photos + 881-1770 pp., annotated bibliography and guide to archivl sources, notes on editors and contributors, classified list of biographical entries, index Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Clean, very good bindings, Volume II DJ has creases, upper edge tears. Nameplate on endpapers Two volumes. Includes an alphabetcial List of Entries, Reader's Guide, Appendices, Notes etc. Illustrated throughout with photographs; 2 Volume Set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1991. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 76.3. Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World. Published by Susquehanna University Press, Pennsylvania.…