Items with the category: American Jewish Studies | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Party's Never Over

Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Party’s Never Over

Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, Jules Shell

Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

Stephanie Deutsch

Cover of The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Cover of Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture

Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture

Jeffrey Shandler

Cover of Call it English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

Call it English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature

Hana Wirth-Nesher

Cover of The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy

The “Bergson Boys” and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy

Judith Tydor Baumel

Cover of All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Century in Sports From Famed Washington Post Columnist

All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Century in Sports From Famed Washington Post Columnist

Cover of Nana Lena's Kitchen: Recipes for Life

Nana Lena’s Kitchen: Recipes for Life

Cover of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

Eric J. Sundquist

Cover of Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players

Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players

Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz

Cover of Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing Since the 1980's

Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing Since the 1980’s

Janet Handler Burstein

Cover of The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir

The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir

Essay

Jewish People and Books

Earlier this week, Yehuda Kurtzer wrote about a recent Commentary article by Jack Wertheimer and the transmission of memory. He has been blogging here all week…

Yehuda Kurtzer

June 8, 2012

Essay

The Future of the Past

Yehuda Kurtzer is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past. He will blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In a recent…

Yehuda Kurtzer

June 4, 2012

Cover of Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jewish Immigrants

Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jewish Immigrants

Cover of Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction

Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction

Melvin Jules Bukiet; David G. Roskies, eds.