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The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) by Judah Alharizi, 2003-08
Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales by Howard Schwartz, 1994-10-20
The Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia (Jewish Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by David Bergelson, Golda Werman, 1996-11
John and Anzia: An American Romance (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Norma Stahl Rosen, 1997-02
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Ten Classic Jewish Children's Stories by Peninnah Schram, 2000-10-01
Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Jewish Literature and Culture) by James E. Young, 1990-08-01
The Writing of Yehuda Amichai: A Thematic Approach (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) by Glenda Abramson, 1989-09
Creativity and Tradition: Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies) by Israel Ta-Shma, 2007-09-30
Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature (Jewish History, Life, and Culture) by Stephen Katz, 2010-05-01
Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature) by Daniel Boyarin, 1994-08-01
The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Stories of A.B. Yehoshua (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Abraham B. Yehoshua, 1998-10
Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

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Cijoh
Nonprofit organization created to gather information and interview people knowledgeable in the fields of Iranian jewish history, culture, science, literature, social life, politics, art, and economics.
http://www.cijoh.org/

Extractions: Sinai Temple Celebrates Jewish Iranian Artists A Program of Merging Cultures A Day of Music and Culture Featuring Short Films, Writers, Poets, Visual and Performing Arts 10:30 AM 4:00 PM at Sinai Temple Refreshments will be served Admission For Advanced Reservation and Information, call 310/481-3243 or email skreitzman@sinaitemple.org Sponsored by Sinai Temple Adult Education, Sinai Temple Atid, Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History and One Degree of Separation Making history by recording history
Noncanonical Homepage
The main jewish and Christian apocryphal and pseudepigraphal texts, Priests of the Church and Gnostic literature of Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/

Extractions: Wesley Center Home Aids to Biblical Studies Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation New Addition: Introductions and Summaries of Many Noncanonical Works The Bible is an invaluable collection of sacred ancient texts, written and assembled over several hundreds of years by numerous authors. These texts were written to particular people living at a definite time and place who shared common experiences and knowledge. By studying similar literature that precedes and follows the biblical writings chronologically, students of the Bible are better prepared to discover the intended meaning. Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature was apparently intended either to supplement or supplant existing canonical literature. Many of the apocryphal gospels offer guesses as to what occurred during the so-called "missing years" of Jesus' life during his childhood or after his resurrection. Others attempt to provide support for later theological convictions both orthodox and heretical. Whether the information found in the apocryphal literature is factually correct or not is not necessarily important. These documents give interpreters valuable insight into what some Jews and Christians believed in various places at different times. Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Old Testament Apocrypha Old Testament Pseudepigrapha New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Cornell University Program Of Jewish Studies
The program has grown out of the conviction that Judaic civilization merits its own comprehensive and thorough treatment and that proper understanding of any culture is inconceivable without adequate knowledge of the language, literature, and history of the people that created it.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/jwst/index.html
At The Cutting Edge Of Jewish Studies; The Most Recent Developments In The Field
writing. Hebrew literature in the PostImperial Age The Future of jewish Identity at the Millennium By David Aberbach, Dept. of
http://www.artsweb.mcgill.ca/programs/jewish/30yrs/literature.html

Extractions: Although pessimism does not come naturally to me, I have sustained high levels of frustration for close to two decades as Jewish studies has grown and flourished in the United States. My frustration stems from the pace and direction of that growth, specifically the almost total lack of opportunities despite strong student interest to teach the history of Jews in the U.S. (or what we provincially call American Jewish history, resolutely ignoring both Canada and the rest of the Americas).
Ode To The Circumcised Male
by Edgar J. Schoen, MD (jewish physician and circumcision advocate)
http://www.cirp.org/literature/schoen-ode

Extractions: February 1987. Sir. Before the mid-1970s, the American standard of care included neonatal circumcision, a minor surgical procedure that promoted genital hygiene and prevented later penile cancer as well as cervical cancer in female sexual partners. More recently, evidence has suggested that adequate hygiene is all that is needed and that circumcision is an unnecessary and traumatic procedure. In 1983, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology jointly agreed that routine circumcision is not necessary, and third-party payers are increasingly refusing to pay for the procedure. Whether recent evidence of a decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants can stem the anticircumcision tide is questionable. The purpose of this communication is to offer some solace to the generations of circumcised males who are now being told they have undergone an unnecessary and deforming procedure, which may also have been brutal and psychologically traumatic. To them I offer these lines: Ode to the Circumcised Male We have a new topic to heat up our passions
Jewish Group Complains Over Sale Of Hate Books Online -- August 10, 1999
http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9908/10/hate.literature/index.html

Extractions: WEB SERVICES: Web posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:09:41 PM (CNN) The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center says it has asked the German Justice Ministry to investigate whether Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com, America's two largest Internet booksellers, have illegally shipped hate literature to Germany, including "The Turner Diaries" and Adolf Hitler's " Mein Kampf The center has written to the booksellers saying they hope and expect the firms will move quickly to ensure they do not inadvertently emerge as a major "purveyor of hate" in Germany. Those letters went to the German-based Bertelsmann company, which owns 50 percent of Barnesandnoble.com, and to Amazon.com. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a Los Angeles-based international organization for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.
Jewish Studies Program At The University Of Maryland
An interdisciplinary undergraduate program in jewish studies encouraging research, offering courses on culture, language, history, philosophy and literature.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/jwst/program.html

Extractions: Lecturer: Sheila Jelen Description Jewish Studies is interdisciplinary program which encourages research and provides instruction about the rich history and culture of the Jewish people from earliest times to the present day. Dedicated to the highest standards of scholarship, the program offers a wide array of courses in Hebrew, Jewish History, Bible, Rabbinics, Jewish Philosophy, Yiddish, and Jewish literature. These courses, offered by a faculty renowned for its scholarly and teaching excellence, form one of the largest undergraduate Jewish Studies programs in North America. In addition, the Jewish Studies program supports faculty research projects and organizes frequent academic conferences and lectures in order to bring the fruits of scholarship to a wider public. History of the Jewish Studies Department The University of Maryland has offered Hebrew language instruction since the late 1940s, but a formal Jewish Studies program began in 1974 when philanthropist Joseph Meyerhoff and the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore endowed the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History. Responding to increased student interest, the University created several positions in Jewish studies. In 1980, a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a gift from Harvey Meyerhoff created the Harvey Meyerhoff Chair in Jewish History as well as the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies. The following year, Robert H. Smith endowed a third chair in Jewish Studies.
From The Field
The littleknown field of jewish Latin American literature, an essay by Stephen Sadow.
http://www.numag.neu.edu/0001/ftf.html

Extractions: By Stephen Sadow A subset of the field of Jewish studies, Latin American Jewish studies investigates the history, sociology, demographics, and cultural aspects of Jewish communities and individuals from Latin America and the Caribbean. What do you do when you are working with a literature that is obscure outside of its home culture? What do you do when members of one culture know little of another culture, and vice versa? Responding to these questions, I decided upon an approach that would take me far beyond traditional literary criticism. Through a series of "voyages of discovery" to Jewish communities in Latin America, a growing number of correspondences with writers, literary critics, psychologists, even mystics, and an enormous amount of reading, I immersed myself in the Jewish literature and culture of Latin America. These writers wrote of the strains of being in the minority, of balancing Jewish and Hispanic culture, of Jewish tradition, of optimism for the future, of Zionism, and of the Holocaust. It became my intention to enter this literary culture as a step towards truly understanding its writings. I wanted to see the world as a Jewish Latin American writer saw it. More importantly, it was my goal to become a transmitter of culture from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish.
Manna Outdoor: Food For The Jewish Outdoor Soul
The jewish outdoor site including news, discussion board, literature and classifieds.
http://mannaoutdoor.com
JEWS4U.com/A Leading Jewish Internet Site
A jewish site with history, photographs and links to shopping, literature, sports, and Israel.
http://jews4u.com/
The Bulletin Archive 19>
Biography of the immigrant author and his importance to jewishAmerican literature.
http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/20.html

Extractions: In the history of our people's sojourn in America, many Jewish authors have been recognized by their Gentile counterparts as literary equals. Indeed, by the middle decades of the twentieth century, American-Jewish intellectuals with the names of Alfred Kazin, Leslie Fiedler, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and others had clearly become primi inter pares ("first among equals"). Today, so accepted is the Jew in the society of American letters, the singling out of an "American-Jewish" author seems unnecessary, out-date, even obsolete. And yet, there was a definite beginning to this process of acculturation, which included the translation of a Yiddish heritage to the kultur of America. That translation may be traced, both literally and symbolically, to the person of Abraham Cahan (1860-1951). Cahan, a typical Eastern European immigrant fleeing the Russian pogroms of 1881, was to the newly arrived Jew in America what Shmuel Agnon was to the masses who settled in Palestine/Israel. A journalist, an editor, an author, a socialist leader, Cahan quickly assumed the literary leadership of a Jewish community brimming with intellectual fervor and social discontent. His first book, Yekl, A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), was praised by William Dean Howells as the harbinger of a "new New York." Having achieved distinction among the literati, Cahan would continue his furious and pointed penmanship. This culminated in two directions: as editor of the Yiddish paper, the Forward, and as author of a number of novels.
Jews In The Civil War
jewishAmerican History on the Web is an online archive of original documents, journals, books and literature on the subject of Jews in the Civil War.
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar.htm

Extractions: G-d Bless The USA! Table of Contents: Jews in the Civil War Prayer for the Jewish Soldiers in World War II Links to pages that are not on Jewish-History.com will open in a separate window. Search for : All of Jewish-history.com The Occident Wild West Palestine UNION CONFEDERATE Union Soldiers Passover Seder Confederate Soldiers Passover Seder Col. Marcus M. Spiegel of the 120th Ohio Volunteers Judah P. Benjamin, "Brains of the Confederacy" ... Col. Max Einstein of the 27th Pennsylvania Infantry , by Shalom E. Lamm Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs of Columbia, South Carolina Portrait of Abraham Lincoln , by Solomon N. Carvalho Rosanna Osterman, Heroine of Galveston Frederick Knefler, Hungarian Patriot and Union General , by Stephen Beszedits Eugenia Phillips and Gen. Butler: "Beauty and the Beast" "The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen" by Simon Wolf Rabbi Bernard Illowy, Sage of New Orleans A Black Jewish Officer of the U.S. Colored Troops Secession Sermon of Rabbi Illowy "Sketches From the Seat of War" by "A Jewish Soldier" ... April 27, 1865 , by Emma Lazarus (age 16) Isaac J. Levy, 49th Virginia Infantry
MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Literature
Extensive articles on jewish American, Hebrew, and Yiddish and Ladino literature.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/literature.htm

Extractions: var thisPageTemplate='IDX'; // > Jewish American Literature, Today and Yesterday Cynthia Ozick. Credit: Julius Ozick Philip Roth. Credit: Nancy Crampton Modern Hebrew Literature How do you say "locomotive" in biblical Hebrew? A dilemma for pioneer writers of modern Hebrew literature Israeli Literature Poetry was the predominant genre in pre-1948 Palestine, but prose fiction eventually came to dominate Israeli literature. Quiz Test your knowledge of Jewish Literature. Bibliography
Elie Wiesel Center For Judaic Studies - Boston University
Offers a broadbased curriculum in jewish history, literature, and thought, in addition to Hebrew language study.
http://www.bu.edu/religion/judaic/judst.html
Jewish-American Literature
Overview of 19th and 20th century jewish writing in Yiddish and English, and criticism of recent Holocaust literature.
http://www.jbuff.com/c021501.htm

Extractions: Commentary by Dr. Gerhard Falk Jewish-American Literature Jewish-American literature is now only about one century old if we include that literature which was written in Yiddish by immigrants between 1885 and 1935. Yiddish, however, is hardly used in America at the beginning of the 21st century so that anything foreign except some of the works of Goethe and Voltaire has no influence on the American Jew simply because he cannot read it. Yiddish writers were commonly radicals and secularists. From the time of the first volume of Yiddish poetry published in America in 1877 to the end of the Yiddish era in about 1975, Jewish-American writers always exhibited a strong interest in radical and hence secular ideas. Yiddish writers expressed themselves in poetry, in the theater, in novels, in newspapers and in intellectual books, papers and pamphlets. Throughout these five media ran, for the most part, a secular attitude most visible in the novel. The first Jewish novels written in America were written by immigrants. This was true not because there were no Jews here before the last two decades of the nineteenth century, but because those Jews who had come here before 1881 were very few, had arrived in the 17th century from Spain and Portugal and in the nineteenth century from Germany and had rapidly assimilated into the majority American culture. However, 1881 marked a major turning point in Jewish history. On March 1 of that year the Russian Czar, Alexander II, was assassinated. When
The Skirball Department Of Hebrew And Judaic Studies At NYU
Encompasses Hebrew language and literature as well as medieval and modern jewish history and culture.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/hebrew/
Books And Websites About The Holocaust For Young Adults
Eleven works of jewish Holocaust literature, annotated and presented for younger readers.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/jubo/holocaust.html

Extractions: In the United States, many school systems have a "snow day" closing schools on Yom Kippur, a Jewish High Holy day so families can attend services together. April has been declared "National Holocaust Month" and students study this time in history during that month so as "Never to Forget." Steven Spielberg made an Oscar winning film based upon Thomas Keneally's book, Schindler's List . And what does this mean to us? It means that our everyday lives exist with a certain kind of ease that I am sure none of the Holocaust victims would deny us; it is as this kind of life they had prior to World War II. But, what they would want is for us to remember the nightmare of the Holocaust, because it can happen again. And each one of us, by knowing and remembering, will be ready so that the next time maniacal prejudicial attacks against Jews or any other people begins, such slaughter cannot happen again. There are many ways and many reasons to study and learn about the Holocaust. Everybody takes something different from the experience. The below listed websites and book summaries are just a few that I hope will not only help you to remember the Holocaust, but give you courage to speak out and stand up if another situation occurs. And it is occurring...
Melton Center For Jewish Studies - Ohio State University
Offers courses for all levels in Hebrew language, literature, cognate Semitic languages, Yiddish, jewish history, Rabbinics, and jewish philosophy.
http://melton-center.ohio-state.edu/
Stanford University Taube Center For Jewish Studies
Offers courses and symposia on jewish history, literature, language, religion and politics. Students may create individually designed majors in jewish studies.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/jewishstudies/

Extractions: Jewish Studies at Stanford The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford oversees numerous academic activities pertaining to the study of the Jewish experience. Ten faculty Members, including three with endowed professorships, teach courses on the full expanse of Jewish history, literature, language, religion and politics. Hundreds of undergraduates take advantage of these courses each year They also have the opportunity to minor in or create their own individually designed major in Jewish Studies. Many graduate students enroll in full-time doctoral studies. The Taube Center for Jewish Studies also offers four annual endowed lectures and many other opportunities for faculty, students and the public to participate in a wide range of symposia, colloquia, conferences, and other special events. Address: Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Center For Judaic Studies
Offers an interdisciplinary program exploring the evolution of jewish civilization and its expression in history, literature, philosophy and religion.
http://www.du.edu/cjs/

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