The Jewish role models featured in this book help kids visualize what is possible
He covered the decline of Yiddish in German lands as German Jews assimilated from the late 1700s
Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost-forgotten story of the Jews who became the "wildcatters" and oil barons in one of the world's first petroleum industries
Avreml's journey presents the fascinating ambiguity of subsuming the self in service to party discipline
Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them
Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman synced The Jewish role models featuredAgainst a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and perspectives of Jewish women have been absent from accounts of both British Jewish literature and women's writing in Britain. Drawing on new research in