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Belonging and betrayal : how Jews made the art world modern / by Dellheim, Charles,1952-Author(DLC)n 82051393 ; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry.(DLC)n 86007251 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-630) and index.The old masters' new masters -- Was modernism Jewish? -- In the middle -- To have and have not."This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Exploring how, against the odds, outsiders on the margins of European high culture, suddenly became the Old Masters' new masters and the modernists' champions"--.
Subjects: Art, European; Jews in the professions.; Art and society;
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Jews and money : the myths and the reality / by Krefetz, Gerald.(CARDINAL)158315;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Jewish capitalists and financiers; Jews in the professions; Jews;
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The colonial American Jew, 1492-1776 / by Marcus, Jacob Rader,1896-1995.(CARDINAL)141342;
Includes bibliographical references.v. I. Preface -- PART I: Introduction -- PART II: SPAIN, SOUTH AMERICA, MEXICO, AND THE WEST INDIAN ISLANDS: Marranos and New Christians in the Spanish Americas, 1492-1800 -- New Christians and Jews in Brazil, 1500-1800 -- Jews in the French West Indies 1654-1800 -- The British West Indies, 1654-1831 -- St. Eustatius, the Virgin Islands, Tobago, and the Guianas -- The Jews of Curacao -- Summary -- PART III: THE SETTLEMENT IN NEW NETHERLAND: New Netherland -- PART IV: THE SETTLEMENT IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: Whence, why, who, when, where -- New England and New York -- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware -- Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas -- Georgia -- The Gulf Coast, the Illinois country, and Canada -- PART V: THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL STATUS OF THE JEW IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: Political rights in New York -- Political rights in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut -- Political rights in Rhode Island -- Political rights in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware -- Political rights in Maryland and Virginia -- Political rights in North and South Carolina -- Political rights in Georgia and Quebec -- Naturalization -- England, the colonies, and the Jews -- Summary of rights and disabilities.v. II. PART VI: THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF THE JEWS IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: Background fro the North American economy -- Agriculture, ranching, crafts, and professions -- Jewish businessmen -- Types of merchants -- Physical mobility and relocation -- Agents, brokers, factors, partners, and the family in business -- The merchant: suppliers, stocks, and customers -- Jews as merchant-shippers -- Overseas trade -- Privateering, insurance, an finance -- Industry -- The slave trade -- Army supply -- The Western trade -- The Western movement -- Hazards to success --Smuggling and criminality -- Religion and friendship in business -- Success and wealth -- Class structure, economic mobility, influence, and status -- Summary and evaluation of the Jew's role in the colonial American economy -- PART VII: RELIGION, SOCIAL WELFARE, AND JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE LIFE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN JEW: The religious life -- The synagogues of New York, Newport, and Montreal -- The synagogues of Pennsylvania and the South -- Synagogue art and architecture -- The synagogue and its administration: I -- The synagogue and its administration: II -- The salaried officials --Belief and piety -- Liturgy, preaching, and the holidays -- The life cycle ceremonies -- Dissension -- Kinship and social life -- Changes in traditional Judaism -- Charity -- Jewish education -- Jewish culture and knowledge -- The teaching of Hebrew to non-Jews.v. III. PART VIII: THE JEW IN THE LARGER AMERICAN COMMUNITY: Rejection -- Acceptance -- Why Gentiles accept Jews -- Why Jews accept America -- Secular America -- Jewish participation in the activities of the general community -- Acculturation and deculturation -- Specific cases of acculturation -- Patriotism, military service, and the coming of the Revolution -- The Jew as rebel -- Whigs, Loyalists, and Neutrals -- Jews as Whig soldiers, 1775-1776 -- The Jewish merchant in the early years of the Revolution -- Summary -- PART IX: Biographical note -- Key to abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects: Jews; Jews; Jews;
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Nazi medicine ; The cross and the star [videorecording] by Michalczyk, John J.,1941-(CARDINAL)716150; Stevens, Emily.; Yannatos, Claire.; Etoile Productions.; First Run/Icarus Films.(CARDINAL)218451;
In the shadow of the reich: Nazi medicine (54 min.) -- The cross and the star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust (55 min.) -- A window into the camps (10 min.)[1st work] produced, directed & written by John J. Michalczyk ; videographers, Paul Goudreau ... [et al.] ; editors, Stephen Mahan, Paul Goudreau, Robert Marshall ; narrator, Donald Winning. [2nd work] executive producer/director/script, John J. Michalczyk ; producer, Claire Yannatos ; videographers, Paul Goudreau ... [et al.] ; narrator, Chris Clausen ; music, Ken Meltz, Beth Watson. [3rd work] produced by John J. Michalczyk & Emily Stevens ; camera, Paul Goudreau, Jan Pelech ; editor, Emily Stevens."'Nazi medicine' studies the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. 'The cross and the star' finds disturbing echoes of anti-Semitism in the ... Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors--all of which may have helped the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism."--Container.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary videos.; Atrocities; Christianity and other religions; Eugenics; Euthanasia; Genocide; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human experimentation in medicine; Judaism; Nazis; Nazis; Nazis; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Ask the rabbi : the who, what, when, where, why, and how of being Jewish / by Isaacs, Ronald H.(CARDINAL)764710;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.God -- Prayer -- Bible -- Jewish holidays -- Circumcision -- Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah -- Marriage -- Keeping kosher -- Women's issues -- Sex -- Death and dying -- Medical ethics -- Jewish belief -- Hasidim -- Jewish denominations -- Rabbis and cantors -- Origins -- Black Jews -- Jewish professions -- What others think of the Jews -- Jews and Christians -- Jews and ritual -- Israel -- Ritual garments -- Holy objects -- Anti-Semitic documents and statements -- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews -- Language -- Jews and cults -- Kabbalah -- Classic Jewish books -- Jewish renewal.From the mundane to the perplexing, Rabbi Ron Isaacs answers all your questions about the Jewish faith in a manner that is warm, wise and witty. Isaacs brings his many years of experience as a rabbi and scholar to create a family-friendly resource that you and your children can use again and again to answer questions as they arise in your day-to-day lives.
Subjects: Bible.; Mishnah; Rabbinical literature; Midrash.; Jewish ethics.; Judaism.;
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The woman who split the atom : Lise Meitner / by Moss, Marissa,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)769728;
Includes bibliographical references (page 231-250) and index.Dreams of the impossible -- Education at last! -- A professor with no profession -- A partnership better than marriage -- The new science of radioactivity -- Out of the dark -- War and science -- Back in the lab -- After the war -- A professor at last -- "Jewish" physics and "Aryan" physics -- Hitler takes power -- Boycott the Jews! -- A talk with Hitler about science -- To go or to stay -- The Nazification of science -- Can it get worse? -- The new radioactive physics -- The Jewess must go -- Passport problems -- How to smuggle a scientist -- Success or failure? -- A narrow escape -- A brilliant enough physicist? -- An atomic mystery -- The atom splits! -- The impossible is possible! -- The power of nuclear fission -- A letter from Einstein -- The race for the bomb -- A lab of one's own -- Another physicist escapes -- The German nuclear program -- What to do with Nazi scientists? -- The mother of the bomb -- The Americans did what? -- The nobel prize for nuclear fission goes to -- After the war: working for nuclear peace -- A prize of her own."As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom. While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement, the committee refused to give her any credit. Suddenly, the race to build the atomic bomb was on-although Meitner was horrified to be associated with such a weapon. "A physicist who never lost her humanity," Meitner wanted only to figure out how the world works, and advocated for pacifism while others called for war. The book includes an afterword, author's note, timeline, select terms of physics, glossary of scientists mentioned, endnotes, select bibliography, index, and Marissa Moss' celebrated drawings throughout. The Woman Who Split the Atom is a fascinating look at Meitner's fierce passion, integrity, and her life-long struggle to have her contributions to physics recognized." --Ages 10 to 14
Subjects: Biographies.; Young adult literature.; Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.; Physicists; Women physicists; Nuclear fission.;
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The third daughter : a novel / by Carner, Talia,author.(CARDINAL)486110;
Includes bibliographical references.The late 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she's entered a waking nightmare. Her new "husband" does indeed bring her to America: Buenos Aires, a vibrant, growing city in which prostitution is not only legal but deeply embedded in the culture. And now Batya is one of thousands of women tricked and sold into the oldest profession in the world. As the years pass, Batya forms deep bonds with her "sisters" in the brothel as well as some men who are both kind and cruel. Through it all, she holds onto one dream: to bring her family to America, where they will be safe from the anti-Semitism that plagues Russia."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jews; Pogroms; Prostitution; Jewish women; Human trafficking; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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When twilight breaks / by Sundin, Sarah,author.(CARDINAL)340444;
"Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country - or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed - and wake up the folks back home. In another part of the city, American graduate student Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German. Disillusioned with the chaos in the world due to the Great Depression, he is impressed with the prosperity and order of German society. But when the brutality of the regime hits close, he discovers a far better way to use his contacts within the Nazi party - to feed information to the shrewd reporter he can't get off his mind."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Christian fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Jews; Journalists; Antisemitism; Citizenship; Liberty; Order;
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Education in the United States: a documentary history. by Cohen, Sol.(CARDINAL)198349;
Vol. 1 -- Preface -- Book One: The planting, 1607-1789 -- Introduction -- European heritage -- The Renaissance -- The Reformations -- The age of science -- The age of enlightenment -- The Reformation -- England -- The Renaissance -- England -- The age of science -- England -- School-teaching, schools, manuals and books -- England -- Apprenticeship and the relief of the poor -- England -- Colonials -- The Southern colonies -- The Middle Atlantic colonies -- The New England colonies -- Provincials -- The great awakening -- "English" schools, private schoolmasters and tutors -- Benjamin Franklin and the new education -- The academy movement -- Schoolbooks and schoolteachers -- Schoolbooks -- Schoolteachers --Negroes, Indians, and German immigrants -- The Negro -- The Indian -- The German immigrant.Vol. 2 -- The colleges -- Colonial beginnings -- The great awakening -- Student life -- Republicans -- Education for the new nation -- The states and education -- The national government and education -- Book Two: The shaping of American education, 1789-1895 -- Introduction -- European influences -- The Continent -- England -- The Prussian example -- European views on American education -- Schools for the poor -- Assimilation of the immigrant -- The South -- The West -- The East -- The religious question -- Protestants -- The religious question -- Catholics -- The religious question -- Jews -- Educational alternatives -- The high school.Vol. 3 -- The profession of education -- Old-time schools and teachers -- The normal school -- Books on teaching -- 19th century schoolbooks -- Beginnings of professionalization -- Higher education -- The old-time college -- The college reform movement -- The emerging university -- Education of women -- Adult education -- The minorities -- Negroes -- The South -- Negroes -- Reconstruction -- Negroes -- The North -- Indians -- The evolution of equal educational opportunity for Negroes, Indians, and Chinese in California (1860-1890) -- The new education -- Pestalozzianism or "object training" -- The kindergarten -- Francis W. Parker and the Quincy methods -- G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Manual training -- Herbartianism -- The educational establishment speaks.Vol. 4 -- Book Three: The transformation of American education 1895-1973 -- Introduction -- Ideas from abroad -- The continent -- European views on American education -- Education for urban industrial America, 1895-1918 -- The urban experience -- The immigrant experience -- New theory -- New practices -- The Federal government and education -- The Progressive era, 1919-1929 -- Americanization -- The motion pictures -- Psychology, mental hygiene and social work -- Progressive education -- theory -- Progressive education -- practice -- The high school -- A new orientation for education, 1930-1950 -- The depression -- The Federal government and education -- The elementary school -- The high school -- Second thoughts.Vol. 5 -- The profession of education -- Teacher training -- The teacher -- Critics -- Academic freedom -- Higher education -- The colleges and universities -- Adult education -- The junior colleges -- The radicalized university -- Academic freedom -- The minorities -- Catholics -- Jews -- Chicanos -- Indians -- Japanese -- Blacks -- The Supreme Court as national school board -- the religious issue -- The Supreme Court as national school board -- the racial issue -- Re-appraisal, 1951-1971 -- The critics -- The defenders -- Problems -- Innovations -- The Federal government and education -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subjects: Education;
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Bernard Malamud : novels and stories of the 1960s / by Malamud, Bernard,author.(CARDINAL)140841; Davis, Philip(Philip Maurice),editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)770404;
A new life -- The fixer -- Source of The fixer -- Pictures of Fidelman: an exhibition.Ten stories: Idiots first -- Suppose a wedding (a scene of a play) -- The Jewbird -- Life is better than death -- Black is my favorite color -- The German refugee -- A choice of profession -- Man in the drawer -- My son the murderer -- An exorcism.Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America's most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America's Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the Pacific Northwest (based on the author's experiences at Oregon State), in which native New Yorker Seymour Levin finds himself confronted not only with a new landscape but with erotic intrigue, university politics, and an appointment that isn't quite what he had expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisoned in prerevolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of the ritual murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The novel-instories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969) follows the comic misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a failed American painter in Italy. In the ten unforgettable stories concluding the collection, Malamud shows himself to be an heir to the tradition of Hawthorne, Chekhov, and Kafka, and at his best--"Idiots First," "The Jewbird," "The German Refugee"--their equal.
Subjects: Fiction.; College teachers; Jews; Short stories, American.;
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