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Author: Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.700kg
ISBN: 9783034327589
ISBN 10: 3034327587
Pages: 434
Publication Date: 13 July 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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«Written in a pleasant way and offering not only a huge amount of information but also an interesting approach with sociological and psychological accents, the book of Juditz Tydor Baumel-Schwartz [...] is an important contribution to the understanding of the way how the second generation of Jewish people who emigrated into USA in the last part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th one have become part of the new state and its life keeping some of its customs, loosing or winning new wishes, learning or teaching their new neighbours.» (Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Astra Salvensis, VI/2018)
Written in a pleasant way and offering not only a huge amount of information but also an interesting approach with sociological and psychological accents, the book of Juditz Tydor Baumel-Schwartz [...] is an important contribution to the understanding of the way how the second generation of Jewish people who emigrated into USA in the last part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th one have become part of the new state and its life keeping some of its customs, loosing or winning new wishes, learning or teaching their new neighbours. (Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Astra Salvensis, VI/2018)
Author Information
Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Schulman School of Basic Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to Gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, Memory, State of Israel, The United States, and Commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 1998), The Bergson Boys and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy (Syracuse UP 2005), Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the making of Collective Israeli Memory (University Press of Wisconsin, 2010), Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain 1938-1945 (Purdue University Press, 2012), Identity, Heroism and Religion in the Lives of Contemporary Jewish Women, (Peter Lang, 2013), and My Name is Freida Sima: The American-Jewish Women's Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina (Peter Lang, 2016).
