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“sarah imhoff”

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  • Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism

    by Sarah Imhoff ...
    An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others.How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman Question in Jewish Studies

    by Professor Susannah Heschel, Sarah Imhoff ...
    A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the fieldThe field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing numbers of women entering the field. These scholars have brought new perspectives from studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Yet they have also ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • The Holocaust In American Life

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    This "courageous and thought-provoking book" examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory ( Foreign Affairs).Prize–winning historian Peter Novick explores in absorbing detail the decisions that moved the Holocaust to the center of American life. He illuminates how Jewish leaders invoked its memory to muster support for Israel, and how politicians in turn used it to ... Read more

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  • American Judaism: A History

    by Jonathan D. Sarna ...
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr : On Politics, Religion, And Christian Faith

    by Richard Crouter ...
    A primer on the current "Niebuhr revival" of the political left and right, this book traces the significance of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought for secular as well as deeply Christian minds. Placed in the context of religious and cultural history, Niebuhr's theological views deepen and challenge contemporary expertise on issues of war, peace, economic, and personal security. While rejecting cynical ... Read more

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  • Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

    Surprising Differences, Conflicting Visions, and Worldview Implications--From the Early Church to Our Modern Time

    by Jonas E. Alexis ...
    The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.Alexander SolzhenitsynIn this penetrating and provocative work, Jonas E. Alexis challenges common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism and provides compelling evidence from history and theology that demonstrates the extent to which modern Judaism ... Read more

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  • Liberalism against Itself

    Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisisBy the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created ... Read more

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  • The Journey Home

    by Joyce Antler ...
    A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices. ... Read more

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  • Hannah Arendt

    Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

    by Peter Burdon ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt’s text Eichmann in Jerusalem to ... Read more

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  • Arendt and America

    by Richard H. King ...
    German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly ... Read more

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  • The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America

    Edited by Marc Lee Raphael ...
    This is the first anthology in more than half a century to offer fresh insight into the history of Jews and Judaism in America. Beginning with six chronological survey essays, the collection builds with twelve topical essays focusing on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience.The volume opens with early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in ... Read more

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