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Beyond Jewish Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Beyond Jewish Identity

There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or more efficiently. But what does it mean to “strengthen Jewish identity”? Why do Jewish educators, policy-makers and philanthropists talk that way? What do they assume, about Jewish education or about Jewish identity, when they use formulations like “strengthen Jewish identity”? And wha...

Shout to the Lord
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Shout to the Lord

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-19
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with worship. For those who assume responsibility for making music for congregational use, the relationship between music and worship is both promising and perilous – promise in the power of musical style and collective singing to facilitate worship, peril in the possibility that the experience of the music might eclipse the worship it was written to facilitate. As a result, those committed to making music for ...

Beyond Jewish Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Beyond Jewish Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity.

A Misplaced Massacre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

A Misplaced Massacre

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly a...

Jewish Education
  • Language: en

Jewish Education

Jewish education has been dominated by two concerns: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? This book upends the conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in Jewish life?

Is Diss a System?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Is Diss a System?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-01
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross’ extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical. Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American humor in transition. Gross adapted the sounds of ethnic humor from the stage to the page and develope...

Sacred Strategies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Sacred Strategies

Sacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new way—congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary. Over a period of two years, researchers Aron, Cohen, Hoffman, and Kelman interviewed 175 synagogue leaders and a selection of congregants (ranging from intensely committed to largely inactive). They found these congregations shared six traits: sacred purpose, holistic ethos, participatory culture, meaningful engagement, innovation disposition, and reflective leadership and governance. They write for synagogue leaders eager to transform their congregations, federations and foundations interested in encouraging and s...

Station Identification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Station Identification

Examines the culture of Yiddish radio in the United States during radio's golden age.

A River and Its City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

A River and Its City

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orleans's waterfront, examining the link between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between public and private control of the river. He describes the impact of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi. Considering how the city grew distant—culturally and spatially—from the river, this book argues that urban areas provide a rich source for understanding people's connections with nature, and in turn, nature's impact on human history.

My Second-Favorite Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

My Second-Favorite Country

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-14
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"Drawing on a longitudinal study of Jewish children in the United States, this book presents Jewish children's learning about Israel as a rich case for understanding how children develop ideas and beliefs about self, community, nation, and world over the course of elementary school"--