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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 909/.04924 s; 306.85/089924
• Soggetto topico: Jewish families - History - 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews - History; Jewish literature; Judaism - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Israel Book reviews
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MeddingPeter
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Coping with life and death
• ISBN: 0-19-535188-6; 9786610831104; 1-280-83110-3; 0-585-22592-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465747803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in contemporary Jewry ; ; 14.