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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465747803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-19-535188-6

9786610831104

1-280-83110-3

0-585-22592-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

MeddingPeter

Disciplina

909/.04924 s

306.85/089924

Soggetti

Jewish families - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Jews - History

Jewish literature

Judaism - 20th century

Electronic books.

Israel Book reviews

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 ExperiencesDaniel 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 CenturyRaphael 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

Sommario/riassunto

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, a