Edizione	[Abridged edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Philosophical Library, , [1951]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (424 pages)
Disciplina	909.04924
Soggetto topico	Civilization - Jewish influences Jews - Civilization
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Hebraic Foundations of American Democracy: Abraham I. Katsh; The Jew in Modern Science: A. A. Roback; The Influence of the Jew on Modern Medicine: Solomon R. Kagan; The Jewish Contribution to the Exploration of the Globe: Hugo Bieber; The Jew as Soldier, Strategist and Military Adviser: William B. Ziff; The Fountainhead of Western Religion: Vergilius Ferm; Copyright Page
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910788128003321

Autore	Eisenstadt S. N (Shmuel Noah), <1923->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina	909/.04924
Collana	SUNY series in Israeli studies
Soggetto topico	Jews - Civilization Jews - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4384-0193-0 0-585-08747-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455257203321

Autore	Eisenstadt S. N (Shmuel Noah), <1923-2010>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina	909/.04924
Collana	SUNY series in Israeli studies
Soggetto topico	Jews - Civilization Jews - History
ISBN	1-4384-0193-0 0-585-08747-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910821904703321

Autore	Militarev A. I͡U
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina	909/.04924
Collana	Reference library of Jewish intellectual history
Soggetto topico	Jews - Civilization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61811-035-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CRISIS OF MODERN JEWRY -- BEING JEWISH: RELIGION OR NATIONALITY? -- JEWISH IDENTITY IN RUSSIA -- JEWS AND THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA -- "UNIVERSAL VALUES" AND THEIR BIBLICAL ROOTS -- HOW DEEP ARE THE BIBLICAL ROOTS AND HOW OLD ARE THE JEWS? -- THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE JEWISH PHENOMENON IN HISTORY -- WHY THE JEWS? -- A CHAIN OF RANDOM EVENTS OR A PATTERN OF HISTORICAL BEHAVIOR? -- THE JEWS AND THE STRATEGY OF THE SPECIES' SURVIVAL -- A CHANCE CONGRUENCE OF FACTORS OR A DESIGN OF MOTHER NATURE? -- THE MEANING OF THE HOLOCAUST? -- ANTI-SEMITISM -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1. ETYMOLOGY OF SELECTED HEBREW TERMS RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL/SPIRITUAL CULTURE -- APPENDIX 2. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ETYMOLOGY FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT WRITINGS: FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT -- APPENDIX 3 THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF WORLD LANGUAGES -- Appendix 4: The Genealogical Tree of Afrasian (Afroasiatic) Languages -- TRANSCRIPTION SIGNS AND CONVENTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF NAMES
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457492903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2020
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations, map
Disciplina	305.892/4
Collana	Jewish cultural studies Liverpool scholarship online
Soggetto topico	Jews - Identity Jews - Civilization
ISBN	1-80034-033-8 1-909821-01-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The red string: the cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol / Elly Teman -- A synagogue in Olyka: architecture and legends / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- Yiddish in the aftermath: speech community and cultural continuity in displaced persons camps / Miriam Isaacs -- 'National dignity' and 'spiritual reintegration': the discovery and presentation of Jewish folk music in Germany / Jascha Nemtsov -- 'Take down mezuzahs, remove name-plates': the emigration of objects from Germany to Palestine / Joachim Schlör -- Holocaust narratives and their impact: personal identification and communal roles / Hannah Kliger, Bea Hollander-Goldfein, and Emilie S. Passow -- Ambivalence and identity in Russian Jewish cinema / Olga Gershenson -- The delicatessen as an icon of secular Jewishness / Ted Merwin -- Hasidism versus Zionism as remembered by Carpatho-Russian Jews between the two World Wars / Ilana Rosen -- The sublimity of the Jewish type: Balzac's Belle juive as virgin Magdalene aux camélias / Judith Lewin -- As goyish as lime Jell-O?: Jack Benny and the American construction of Jewishness / Holly A. Pearse -- Jewish coding: cultural studies and Jewish American cinema / Mikel J. Koven.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466915803321