The Jewish Experience,9780785811282

The Jewish Experience

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ISBN13: 9780785811282
ISBN10: 0785811281
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
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Summary

Over 3,000 years of Jewish culture, history and thought are brought to life in The Jewish Experience. Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations, it includes short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs, and other first-person accounts.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
General Introduction xv
Part One: Living on the Edge
Introduction
3(1)
Jewish Business
4(11)
Jerome Weidman
A Capitalist Triumph
15(7)
Abraham Cahan
The Goldwater Story
22(3)
Howard Simons
Tel Aviv, 1939
25(3)
Arthur Koestler
Between Two Worlds
28(3)
Itsik Feffer
Part Two: Growing Up
Introduction
31(1)
Father and Son
32(8)
Henry Roth
Mottel Gets a Job
40(4)
Sholem Aleichem
A Writer's Beginning
44(4)
I. L. Peretz
The Three-Star Canadian Bar Mitzvah
48(5)
Mordechai Richler
Sex and Money in Netwark
53(5)
Philip Roth
Marriage in Medieval Cairo
58(1)
S. D. Goitein
The Story of a Marriage
59(5)
Solomon Maimon
Jack and Sadie
64(3)
Jack Benny
An Intellecutal Couple Starts Out
67(6)
Diana Trilling
Part Three: Maturing and Dying
Introduction
73(1)
The Rattle of a Simple Man
73(5)
I. L. Peretz
The Struggle for Survival
78(2)
Mendele Mokher Seforim
Why Do Jews Like Chinese Food?
80(5)
Ivan Kalmar
Why I Did Not Become a Professor
85(4)
Bernard Berenson
Dying and Burial
89(3)
Bernard Malamud
The Laws of Mourning
92(1)
The Shulchan Orech
Sitting Shiva
92(10)
Mordechai Richler
A Good Mother Remembered
102(5)
S.D. Goitein
Part Four: Divine Intoxication
Introduction
107(1)
The Essentials of Biblical Judaism
108(3)
Deuteronomy
Isaiah
Job
Psalms
The Exile from Eden
111(3)
Robert Graves
Raphael Patai
The Day of Atonement
114(2)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Talmudic Angelology
116(1)
The Babylonian Talmud
Kabbalah
117(3)
The Zohar
Making a Golem
120(1)
Gershom Scholem
Sectarian Conflict
121(1)
Abraham Ibn Daud
Wisdom Derives from Many Sources
122(1)
Jacob Anatoli
The Messiah Has Come!
122(2)
Nathan of Gaza
The Essentials of Hasidism
124(5)
Martin Buber
The Sayings of Rabbi Nachman
129(2)
Nachman of Bratislava
Reform Judaism
131(2)
Isaac Mayer Wise
Neo-Orthodoxy
133(1)
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Creative Life-Force Among Jews
134(2)
Franz Rosenzweig
Transactional Theology
136(1)
Martin Buber
The Meaning of the Covenant
137(4)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Part Five: Victims and Martyrs
Introduction
141(1)
The Poets' Laments
142(3)
Chaim Nachman Bialik
Perets Markish
Abraham Sutzkever
A Novelist's Insight
145(3)
Aharon Appelfeld
Auschwitz
148(4)
Primo Levi
The Final Solution
152(3)
Leni Yahl
The Elimination of Hungarian Jewry
155(5)
Hannah Arendt
Jewish Collaborators with the Germans
160(7)
Raul Hilberg
Decline and Fall in Lodz
167(7)
I. J. Singer
Exile from Alexandria
174(4)
Andre Aciman
The Martyrdom of Colonel Marcus
178(4)
Dan Kurzman
1492
182(7)
Henry Kamen
Masada
189(6)
Josephus Flavius
Part Six: Hoping and Coping
Introduction
195(1)
The Alexandrian Sage
196(3)
Philo Judaeus
Medieval Merchants
199(1)
Norman A. Stillman
The Jewish Town
199(9)
Der Nister
Government and Law in the Shtetl
208(4)
Diane K.
David G. Roskies
Shtetl Derivatives
212(1)
Maurice Samuel
The Lower East Side
213(7)
Irving Howe
A Reconstituted Life
220(6)
I. B. Singer
I Never Prayed with My Father
226(2)
Franz Kafka
The Return to Zion
228(6)
S. Y. Agnon
Seventy Years Later
234(5)
Amos Oz
The Geniza World
239(5)
Ammiel Alcalay
The Orientals
244(9)
Tom Segev
Part Seven: Women
Introduction
253(1)
The Talmudic Rabbis Give Sex Lessons
254(1)
Daniel Boyarin
Sex, Marriage, and Birth Control
255(4)
Chaim Bermant
A Jewish Businesswoman in the Seventeenth Century
259(4)
Gluckel of Hameln
A Hasidic Baby Girl
263(3)
Esther Singer Kreitman
Under Hitler's Shadow
266(2)
Anne Frank
The New American
268(8)
Mary Antin
The Market
276(6)
Adele Wiseman
The Activist
282(3)
Henrietta Szold
A Neo-Orthodox Feminist
285(9)
Blu Greenberg
The Hollywood Image of American Jewish Women
294(9)
Letty Cotton Pogrebin
A New York Princess in Nazi-Land
303(8)
Erica Mann Jong
Part Eight: Striking Back
Introduction
311(1)
Are the Jews Genetically Superior?
312(1)
Raphael Patai
Judaism versus Medieval Christianity and Islam
313(3)
Maimonides
The Perpetual Superiority of Israel
316(2)
Judah Halevi
A Jewish Prince in Medieval Baghdad
318(1)
Benjamin of Tudela
The Great American Retailers
319(5)
Leon Harris
Hollywood Moguls
324(7)
Irving Lazar
Chicago Jew Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
331(4)
Malcolm Bradbury
Warsaw, April 1943: Germans versus Jews
335(10)
S. B. Beit Zvi
The Romantic Image of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
345(1)
Sholem Asch
Victory
346(8)
Yael Dayan
Elation
354(2)
Saul Friedlander
Jerusalem the Golden
356(4)
Amos Elon
The Clan
360(4)
George Weidenfeld
Stalin's Jews
364(12)
Arkady Vaksberg
Part Nine: Icons
Introduction
376(1)
Moses
377(2)
The Haggadah
Solomon
379(1)
The Haggadah
Akiba
380(7)
The Haggadah
Maimonides
387(4)
Moses Ben Maimon
Dreyfus
391(5)
Alfred Dreyfus
Emile Zola
Einstein
396(10)
Isaiah Berlin
Ronald Clark
Brandeis
406(3)
Louis D. Brandeis
Frankfurter
409(6)
Robert A. Burt
Herzl
415(7)
Theodore Herzl
Weizmann
422(5)
Chaim Weizmann
Ben-Gurion
427(3)
David Ben-Gurion
Ahad Ha'Am
430(4)
Asher Ginzberg
Part Ten: Alternative Intimations
Introduction
434(2)
Demonology
436(3)
S. Ansky
The Satmar Rebbe
439(3)
Israel Rubin
Black Hats on the West Bank
442(7)
Robert I. Friedman
Monastic Zionism
449(5)
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
New Age Judaism
454(1)
Lawrence Kushner
The Fascist Turn
455(5)
Barry Chamish
Sociology
460(1)
Emile Durkheim
Social Anthropology
461(7)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Psychoanalytic Theory
468(4)
Sigmund Freud
Spinoza's Rationalism
472(3)
Yirmiyahu Yovel
The Rise and Fall of Yiddish
475(2)
Benjamin Harshav
Reconstructionism
477(2)
Mordechai Kaplan
Epilogue: The Coming of the Messiah 479(2)
Franz Kafka
Author Index 481(2)
Copyright Acknowledgments 483(5)
Illustration Credits 488

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