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Poster Contest and Ceremony--Russian TV (Box 120, Folder 8)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 120. Folder originally titled: Poster Contest and Ceremony - Russian TV Q+A - 2004.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
The heart beats on : Continuity and change in social work and welfare activities of German Jews under the Nazi regime, 1933-1945.
No full textAbstract of an original Hebrew publicatio
[Three stories].
No full textThree stories about the extended Finaly family in Hungary and in Bukowina.Austrian Heritage CollectionA story about medicine and the power of faith, arranged and translated by Miriam Lava from : ‘Aus dem Tagebuche eines Arztes von Dr. Sigismund Finaly’ , Druck von Kohr u. Wein , Pest 1873 (5 p.)Lava, Miriam : The “Finaly Case”, including personal memories (10 p.). Describing the ‘Affaire Finaly’ in France, 1944-1953, about two brothers whose parents perished in the Holocaust and who found refuge in a municipal children’s home in Grenoble. After the war, the boys aunts had to appeal to France’s highest court to get custody; the boys were released to Israel, where they grew up with their cousin, Miriam Lava née Rosner.Typescript : Rosner, Moshe : Memories of the Bukowina (4 p.) about growing up in Putila (Putyla, Ukraine), written in Hebrew in 1994 and translated by the author’s daughter, Miriam Lava
The Levis of Gross Bieberau : a family history / November 2004
No full textFamily tree of the Levi family of Gross Bieberau from 1764 to 2004. Included are birth and death dates and locations;
some emigration information; and aditional notes on some family members, including personal remembrances and information regarding
education and occupation. The family tree is followed by an index arranged alphabetically by last name. Also included is an
English-language translations of a book chapter entitled "The history of the Jewish community in Gross Biberau,"
which was originally published in German; reprint of an article entitled "My ancestors were Schutzjuden;" and family
members' addresses.Processed for digitizatio
The construction of the American Holocaust curriculum.
No full textRemembering the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture. The Holocaust has also become an important topic in the nation's schools. By the 1990s many states had adopted or mandated their own Holocaust curricula in addition to the dozens of organizations dedicated to Holocaust study and education in the United States. This rise in interest was accompanied by a public debate over how to represent the Holocaust properly in American life, making the Holocaust one of the most controversial historical topics of the late twentieth century. This study traced the construction of the Holocaust curriculum through historical case studies of five of the first Holocaust curricula taught in American classrooms, through which I present two major arguments. First, that Holocaust education was a grassroots movement engineered by school teachers---many of whom were not Jewish. These teachers introduced the Holocaust as way to help students navigate the moral and ethical dilemmas of the time. Certain researchers have suggested that Jewish elites pushed the Holocaust into the American consciousness, or that this interest was initiated by events in popular culture. My research will complicate both these claims. My second argument is that the intense debate over how to represent the Holocaust in the curriculum has been misinterpreted as a cultural clash over different interpretations of the event---the Jewish version vs. the "Americanized" one. This explanation is too simplistic. The controversy is better understood as a curricular debate over the teaching of history. For nearly a century, educational researchers, interest groups, and historians have argued over the role and purpose of history in the schools. Having entered into this debate, the topic of the Holocaust has made these issues more conspicuous to the general public.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2004.School code: 0246
Klezmer: Music and community in 20th century Jewish Philadelphia.
No full textThis dissertation presents an overview of the "klezmer" (Jewish professional folk instrumental) musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's 20th century Jewish community. Through interviews, manuscripts, and recordings, I construct an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia's Jewish wedding musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish life cycle and communal celebrations, from the music's heyday in the immigrant era through its midcentury decline, up to the more recent period of its revitalization.An offspring of the expansive eastern-European Jewish wedding music tradition (especially that of the southern Ukraine, the source for a large percentage of Philadelphia's Jews), Philadelphia's klezmer tradition featured music held over from immigrant days, as well as newer dances and rituals that were unique to this adopted community. Thus, Philadelphia's klezmorim (Jewish wedding musicians) honored old-country customs while functioning within an urban American musical culture.The issues I will address here include the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of "klezmer" culture, the ongoing tension between the sacred and secular in music, the complexity of hybrid ethnic musical expression, the insider-outsider dynamic in klezmer, the evolution of klezmer repertoire (and one musical medley in particular) over the course of a century, the ethnography of a nearly extinct regional musical community, including the relationship of that community to younger "klezmer revivalists", and the American transformation of a European ethnic musical tradition.In recent years, klezmer has become best known as the music of an adventurous concert presentation-focused revival. By exploring how this music and the musicians who played it functioned at celebratory occasions within a "provincial" community, I hope to shed light on the historical context of this once again vibrant tradition.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wesleyan University, 2004.School code: 0255
We are chosen: Jewish narratives in Galveston, Montreal, New York, and Buenos Aires.
No full textJewish Americans have been incredibly adept in public relations, and this study traces the ways in which Jewish narratives were used in the twentieth century to perform cultural work for the community. We Are Chosen begins with the premise that established Jews in Galveston, Montreal, New York, and Buenos Aires defined Jewishness in attractive terms in the early 1900s for political expediency, to challenge negative perceptions by non-Jews and promote esteem among Jews, and that these terms continue to inform conceptions of Jewish identity. Geographically, the project looks beyond (as well as in) New York, focuses on three dominant tropes (giving, mobility, and assimilation), and examines how and why these themes effectively translate religious election ("chosenness") in the secular sphere. Jewish narratives and their ennobling rhetorics are often taken as a matter of course, even in the field of Jewish American Studies, but should be understood as products of a particular historical moment. As vehicles for positive public relations, Jewish narratives mask voices deemed unattractive or potentially threatening. Drawing from essays, organizational reports, periodical and historical writings, and works of Jewish American literature, individual chapters put dominant and protesting voices in conversation with one another and explore why some images are deemed "good for the Jews" and others are considered self-hating. Examining the history of Jews in other places does not detract from the importance of New York to Jewish American history or memory, but insists that there are more complex and dynamic stories that include, but are not limited to, New York and its mythic Lower East Side.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.School code: 0118
Painting the town red: Jewish visual artists, Yiddish culture, and Progressive politics in New York, 1917--1939.
No full textThis dissertation explores the links between Yiddish culture, fine art, and political activism in the modern world. It follows a core group of artist-activists in New York from the 1910s to the late 1930s, which was a period of revolutionary change in the art world and of increased polarization in the American political landscape. At the same time, American Jewish immigrants were developing a greater sense of comfort in their adopted land, which, paradoxically, sometimes inspired them to be more openly critical as well. This confluence of factors provided the background for Yiddish-speaking artists in New York to develop a vibrant subculture within prevailing Jewish immigrant and fine arts circles. Secular, bilingual, cosmopolitan, and idealistic, from the early 1910s to the eve of World War II these artists formed organizations that questioned their role in society and challenged the status quo in America.This study is partly institutional history and partly a group portrait. The subjects begin here as neophyte artists, still immersed in their immigrant Jewish community. They then depart, sometimes physically and sometimes ideologically, to forge aesthetic and social ties with other interest groups. Finally, they return as mature artists and activists to address the concerns of a more acculturated but still uniquely Jewish public. Organizational records, personal papers, and contemporaneous periodicals in Yiddish and English are used to describe the educational, cultural, and political institutions in which the artists participated. These materials, combined with personal interviews, also highlight the intricate personal connections that transformed this professional cohort into a dynamic and tight-knit subculture. Lessons drawn from this investigation may also be applied to other ethnic and political fringe groups in 20 th century America, making it a useful case study as well. Although this is not a work of art history, some of the artists' visual work is analyzed, since their subject matter and aesthetic style often reflect the ideological convictions that drew them together. Ultimately, the dissertation argues that this colorful and profoundly involved group provided an alternative route to acculturation within American society for Jews who did not wish to follow more establishment models.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2004.School code: 0315
Israel Kalk and offsprings of the Jewish refugees in Italy : The children of Milan and their long periods of internment from 1939-1943.
No full textIsrael Kalk helped Jewish refugees from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland Ukraine, Russia and the Baltic States who had arrived in Italy. After the war Kalk organized meetings and conferences with Jewish survivors in Italy and in Israel.This is a translation of an article, published in Storia in Lombardia, a. ix, n. 2, 1990.The original Italian language publication is available in the LBI Library, call number DS 135 I 83 V64
When did the Jews arrive in Spain? 1344-1600
No full textEnglish translation of Haim Beinart's "Cuando llegaron los judios a Espana?" by John GrossmannSpanish original available in LBI library (DS 135 S7 B43