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Hardcover:

9780805242799 | 1 edition (Schocken Books, March 13, 2012), cover price $24.95

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9780805212334 | Reprint edition (Schocken Books, April 12, 2016), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is a mixed one: do we participate, try to ignore the holiday entirely, or create our own traditions and make the season an enjoyable time? This book, the first on the subject of Jews and Christmas in the United States, portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans...read more
By Jonathan D. Sarna (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780813553795 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 24, 2012, cover price $68.00

Paperback:

9780813553801, titled "A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Jewish" | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 24, 2012, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday.

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Product Description: In the late 1870s, shaken by rapid socioeconomic change, internal crises, and the rise of antisemitism, young Jews assumed leadership, created dozens of organizations, and inspired masses of followers. These organizations helped define the nineteenth-century Jewish awakening: cultural and religious renewal, and the promotion of Jewish education...read more
By Eitan P. Fishbane (editor) and Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

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9781611681925 | Brandeis Univ, November 8, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the late 1870s, shaken by rapid socioeconomic change, internal crises, and the rise of antisemitism, young Jews assumed leadership, created dozens of organizations, and inspired masses of followers.

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A little-known chapter in the history of Jews in North America involves a wide network of Yiddish schools and camps that sought to transmit a distinctive, authentic sense of secular yiddishkayt. Over a fifty-year period at the beginning of the last century, about 1000 Yiddish cultural schools were established in the United States and Canada, along with at least 39 summer camps, sponsored by a range of organizations. Together these schools and camps comprised a vibrant, multi-faceted educational movement with lasting significance, often overlooked by historians. The founders of these institutions, Eastern Europe immigrants who sought continuity with the richness of their past, formulated new models for education. True visionaries, they were pioneering in their efforts often considered radical at the time emphasizing Yiddish language and literature, Jewish values, folklore, and traditions in various interpretations, ideology and politics. They were full of passion, seeking to touch the hearts and minds of students, creating meaningful experiences that would teach both values and facts. Many of the teachers were trained in Eastern Europe; and quite a few were also Yiddish poets, cultural critics, and artists. Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 1960 is the first comprehensive documented record of this movement. Through extensive research, Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich reveals the far-reaching contributions of these institutions. She consulted many archives in the United States and Canada, tracked down the stories of hundreds of students and the professionals and laypeople involved. She looked at communities, national sponsoring groups, curriculum and publications in a process which can be described as educational archaeology. For the author, the project was person al and professional. The daughter of a well-known Yiddish poet and a Jewish educator, she attended and later worked at a number of these schools and camps. In this groundbreaking study, personal narratives and objective reporting are integrated. Freidenreich found more than 160 communities, ranging from large cities to agrarian colonies that were host to Yiddish secular schools and camps far more than she anticipated and she discusses the birth and evolution of these institutions and their sponsoring groups, with their ideological and political differences. She also reports on their eventual decline and the legacy they left to the educational institutions that would succeed them, describing their many progressive pedagogical innovations. These Yiddish schools and camps were the first to link programs providing continuity in year-round Jewish education in the belief that true education is much more than book-learning and classroom lessons. ***********Photos bibliography appendices glossary index CD of school and camp songs

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9780841914582 | Har/com edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, April 1, 2010), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A little-known chapter in the history of Jews in North America involves a wide network of Yiddish schools and camps that sought to transmit a distinctive, authentic sense of secular yiddishkayt.

Paperback:

9780841914575 | Pap/cdr edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, April 1, 2010), cover price $35.00

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By Scott-Martin Kosofsky (editor), Jonathan D. Sarna (editor) and Ellen Smith (editor)

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9780300107876 | Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 2005, cover price $34.95

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Provides a 350 year history of the Jewish religion, discussing key events, personalities, and struggles pertaining to Jews and the Jewish religion in the United States.

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9780300101973 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides a 350 year history of the Jewish religion, discussing key events, personalities, and struggles pertaining to Jews and the Jewish religion in the United States.
9789990057065 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $0.02

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9780300109764 | Yale Univ Pr, October 10, 2005, cover price $23.00

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Product Description: Moshe Davis was a preeminent scholar of contemporary Jewish history and the founding head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A recognized leader in the field of bicultural American/Jewish studies, he was a mentor to educators and academics in both Israel and North America and an active colleague of American Christian scholars involved in interfaith study and dialogue...read more
By Moshe Davis (editor) and Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

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9780814330340 | Wayne State Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Moshe Davis was a preeminent scholar of contemporary Jewish history and the founding head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

By Robert A. Licht (editor), Alan Mittleman (editor) and Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

Hardcover:

9780742521216 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $111.00

Paperback:

9780742521223 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $44.00

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Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The book also explores how the contemporary sociological and political characteristics of American Jews bear on their understanding of the public dimensions of American religion. In addition to a descriptive and analytic approach. the volume is also critical and polemical. Its contributors attack and defend prevailing views, raise critical questions about the political and intellectual positions favored by American Jews, and propose new syntheses. This book captures the current mood of the Jewish community: both committed to the separation of church and state and perplexed about its scope and application. It provides the necessary background for a principled reconsideration of the problem of religion in the public square.
By Robert Licht (editor), Alan Mittleman (editor) and Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

Hardcover:

9780742521230 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $111.00

Paperback:

9780742521247 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life.

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Product Description: Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in colonial America, created outstanding works for leading members of the New York elite, and the objects made in his workshop have long been regarded as among the most important American statements of the Rococo style...read more

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9780300090574 | Yale Univ Art Gallery, October 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in colonial America, created outstanding works for leading members of the New York elite, and the objects made in his workshop have long been regarded as among the most important American statements of the Rococo style.

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Product Description: In April 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that Jews "live in extraordinary times, when American women have transformed their status in Judaism, creating one of the most dramatic cultural shifts in centuries of Jewish history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Pamela S. Nadell (editor) and Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

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9781584651239 | Univ Pr of New England, July 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In April 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that Jews "live in extraordinary times, when American women have transformed their status in Judaism, creating one of the most dramatic cultural shifts in centuries of Jewish history.

Paperback:

9781584651246 | Brandeis Univ, June 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

By Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

Hardcover:

9780252022937 | Univ of Illinois Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $49.95

Paperback:

9780252066474 | Univ of Illinois Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $24.00

The American Jewish Experience presents a range of the liveliest, most informative writing on Jews in America from Colonial times to the present. This revised and expanded edition of the popular reader contains nine new selections and continues to explore traditional areas as well as topics of current interest-such as Jewish women in American society and Jews in American popular culture. Each selection is preceded by a headnote that provides the essay's historical context and contemporary relevance, and extensively annotated bibliographies follow each section.
By Jonathan D. Sarna (editor)

Hardcover:

9780841913943, titled "The American Jewish Experience" | 2 rev exp edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, September 1, 1997), cover price $45.00
9780841909342, titled "The American Jewish Experience" | Holmes & Meier Pub, April 1, 1986, cover price $37.95

Paperback:

9780841913769, titled "The American Jewish Experience" | 2 sub edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $26.00
9789990041859, titled "The American Jewish Experience" | 2 edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $0.02
9780841909359 | Holmes & Meier Pub, April 1, 1986, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: The American Jewish Experience presents a range of the liveliest, most informative writing on Jews in America from Colonial times to the present.

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Product Description: This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780268016548 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.

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The essays collected here investigate Rabbi Silver's Zionist political leadership, his impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the Jewish State.
By Mark A. Raider (editor), Jonathan D. Sarna (editor) and Ronald W. Zweig (editor)

Hardcover:

9780714648248 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $206.00

Paperback:

9780714643779 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: The essays collected here investigate Rabbi Silver's Zionist political leadership, his impact on American Judaism, ideological orientation and relations with the leaders of the Palestine Jewish community, World Zionist Organization and the Jewish State.

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Product Description: A Double Bond examines the constitutional framework of American Jewry. The essays by Hannah Kliger and Nitza Druyan illuminate key parts of American Jewish history through their analysis of the constitutional documents of major Jewish institutions...read more

Hardcover:

9780819185860 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 1, 1992, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: A Double Bond examines the constitutional framework of American Jewry.

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