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Acculturation, ethnic conflict and equity theory: The American Jewish consumer.
No full textThe purpose of these studies is two-fold. First, over twenty years has elapsed since the last study of American Jewish Consumers (Hirschman 1981). After two decades, these studies were undertaken not necessarily to validate what has already been written, but to expand the realm of knowledge in regards to a growing ethnic group in the United States. Second, these studies explore the role of Equity Theory, combined with acculturation and past history of ethnic conflict in the consumer purchase decision. There has been very little in the Marketing literature that explores these constructs either together or separately.Studies One and Three hypothesized that American Jewish Consumers would look differently at both leisure travel to Germany and in regards to purchasing automobiles produced by German companies. Acculturation and closeness to World War II, specifically the Holocaust, were tested as possible moderating variables.Study Two examined specific acculturation dimensions of Jews living in the United States and whether or not American Jews as a specific ethnic group were more or less apt to rely on Word of Mouth, and were more or less Brand Loyal than American Non-Jews for making an automobile purchase decision. Of interest was whether or not level of acculturation played a role in the purchase decision.Results showed that American Jewish Consumers view the decision to both purchase German automobiles and travel to Germany differently from Non-Jewish Americans living in the United States. This finding is very much in line with the small, but expanding line of consumer animosity studies found in recent Marketing literature.Additionally, results show that while there is no significant difference between American Jewish Consumers and Non-Jewish American Consumers in the use of Word of Mouth and Brand Loyalty, the study does yield results that suggest there is a difference along these two dimensions of purchase behavior among American Jewish Consumers based on level of acculturation.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2005.School code: 0225
My lives from the stork to cyberspace 1916-2005
No full textdigitizedRuth Eckstein was born in Nuremberg, Germany on May 11, 1916. She moved to Paris, France in 1934, where she got married one year later to George Eckstein, her husband for 60 years. They immigrated to the United States in 1939, where she completed her art studies.Ruth Eckstein, a prize winning painter and printmaker, has received national and international recognition as an abstract modernist painter and master printmaker. Her work is represented in numerous prestigious public collections in Europe and throughout the United States.Ruth Eckstei
AHC Interview with Edith Friedlander.
No full textEdith Friedlander, née Kaeufler, was born on Aug. 1, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. She went to Albertgymnasium, a high school for girls in the 8th district of Vienna. Because the family held Czech citizenship, it was easier for them to leave Austria for Prague immediately after the Anschluss of 1938. In 1940, Edith’s father, Karl Kaeufler, died and in May 1942 she and her mother Elisabeth were deported to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, where Elisabeth Kaeufler was killed. In 1944 Edith Friedlander was sent for slave labor in the weapon industry to the Oederan concentration camp, before brought back to Theresienstadt. When she was liberated she moved to Prague and eventually immigrated to the US in May 1947. In New York, Edith Friedlander got married and worked as an editor for a publish company.Austrian Heritage CollectionJune 28, 200
Addendum to the Joseph Braunstein Collection /
No full textCollection of short articles written by friends about how Joseph Braunstein influenced their lives.Contributions by Aubort, Marc; Baldwin, Dagmar; Barry, Nancy P.; Marunas, Carol; Mowrey, Tom; Musgrave, Michael; Poor, Harris ; Poor, La Vonne ; Ritt, Morey; Saunders, Nicholas; Schauffler, Nancy; Spencer, Ruth Albert; Violand-Hobi, Heidi E.Joseph Braunstein, affectionately known as Sassobruno (Italian for brown stone), was born on February 9, 1892 in Vienna, Austria. He began his study of the violin as a child, and became an avid chamber music player as a teenager. He went on to study under the auspices of Guido Adler and Arnold Schonberg at the University of Vienna, but WWI interrupted his studies. After serving in the military from 1915-1918, he returned to his academic pursuits and received his doctorate in Music and History from Vienna University in 1920. From 1919 to 1925, Braunstein performed as a violinist and violist in several orchestras, among them the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Staatsoper, where he had the honor of working with famous conductors such as Richard Strauss, Felix Weingarten, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwangler and Otto Klemperer.Braunstein was also a prolific author and published several monographs as well as hundreds of articles in newspapers, magazines. From 1928-1938 he wrote for the official “Radio-Wien” and lectured extensively. He has supplied record liner notes for Vox, Vanguard, RCA, Book of the Month Club, Decca Records, and was the program note annotator for inter alia the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.In addition to his love of music, Braunstein was an avid mountaineer and loved the Alpine regions of his native Austria. In fact, he was never able to attend performances at Bayreuth because of scheduling conflicts with his mountaineering expeditions. He climbed over 60 peaks in Europe above the 13,000 ft elevation mark, among them Mount Blanc and Matterhorn. He also published articles on mountaineering in Alpine Club magazines, such as the Oesterreiche Bergzeitung, and contributed to the Der Grosse Brockhaus encyclopedia’s entry on Alpinismus.In 1940 Mr. Braunstein fled the Nazis with his wife Emma (nee Gross). Their first stop was Italy, from whence they continued on to New York, were they settled in 1940. Joseph became the reference librarian at the music division of the New York Public Library, and in the 1950s he began teaching music history at Julliard School, the Mannes School for Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. In 1961 he began a 20-year association with Frederic Waldman, the founder of the chamber orchestra Musica Aeterna, assembling programs that often included rarely heard works. His wife Emma, who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, died in 1966.Braunstein passed away in 1996 at the age of 104.See also the Joseph Braunstein Collection, AR 25072
Harry Margolis Hall, Harare, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Progressive Synagogue House, Harare, Zimbabwe, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
A short walk through the twentieth century : 1920-1991.
No full textdigitizedArnost Reiser was born July 5, 1920 in Prague, Czech Republic. After surviving the Holocaust in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, he returned to Czechoslovakia after the war. He and his wife Ruth left for Denmark in 1960 and eventually immigrated to the United States
Franz Rosenzweig and scripture.
No full textThis dissertation centers on the writings of the German-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator Franz Rosenzweig (1886--1929), arguing that Rosenzweig's works mobilize sacred language as the cornerstone of a new kind of philosophy. It demonstrates that a heretofore overlooked theme of scripture pervades Rosenzweig's mature work, namely, The Star of Redemption, a commentary on the poetry of the medieval Hebrew philosopher Jehuda Halevi, and a translation of the Bible into German. This theme unites Rosenzweig's evolving attempt to renegotiate the relationship between modern readers and ancient, authoritative texts and traditions. Rosenzweig's early concept of sacred scripture, which deployed specific biblical passages to demonstrate the universal theological condition of humanity, gave way in his later writing to a claim that scripture is uniquely Jewish. This turn in his thinking proved critical to his effort to create a new, non-territorial "home" for German Jews in language and text, an alternative to the solutions to the "Jewish question" proposed by Zionism, on the one hand, and by assimilationism, on the other.More broadly, the dissertation aims not only to revise the scholarly understanding of Rosenzweig's critical contribution to Jewish thought, but also to make a historical claim that the religious crisis in Weimar Germany precipitated a new interest in sacred language and scripture, of which Rosenzweig's work is one significant exemplar. My dissertation situates Rosenzweig's turn to language in general and scripture in particular within the context of the perceived "crisis of historicism" that gripped the German intellectual community of the early twentieth century. As many religious thinkers realized toward the beginning of the twentieth century, a century of scholarship---and a devastating war---had slowly come to dismantle the most fundamental verities of religious life, such as the assumption of the divine authorship of the Bible and the faith that its narratives corresponded to actual historical events. I show that Rosenzweig's effort to revitalize the Bible and Jewish classical texts paralleled the work of innovative Protestant religious thinkers. My study attends to this historical context while also suggesting implications of contemporary theological significance.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.School code: 0212
AHC Interview with Clara Mermelstein
No full textClara Mermelstein was born as Klara Kressel in Vienna on May 13, 1929. Clara had two siblings, Henry and the older sister Dora. They lived in the second district of Vienna. After the Nazis' rise to power in Austria, the family had to leave the country. They fled to Belgium in May 1940 and then to Southern France in 1942, where she was arrested and interned first into the camp St. Cyprien and then in Les Milles. Clara's parents and her sister were deported to Auschwitz where they perished in fall 1942. Clara and Henry could escape and survived with the aid of the OSE, a French Jewish organisation for children. Clara came to the United States in 1946 and became a teacher. She retired on Long Island, New York
The forgetting of being.
No full textTypescript with Peter Paz's memoirs, edited by Beverly PimsleurdigitizedPeter Paz was born Peter Sigmund Goldmann in Berlin in 1937 to Dorothea Goldmann and Leon Rubenfeld. It is unclear whether Leon Rubenfeld knew about his son. Peter was placed in the Jewish orphanage in Pankow and later brought to his grandparents' home in Rosswein. His mother Dorothea was arrested in early 1944, presumably for political reasons, and later transferred from the prison in Hirschberg to Ravensbrueck, where she died in December 1944. Peter was interned in a concentration camp, and liberated at the end of the war when he was seven years old. Orphaned, he was sent to a displaced person’s camp in Marseille, France, and then to the Kibbutz Afek in Israel where he remained for the next 26 years. In 1963 Peter came to New York with the Anna Sokolov Dance Company and performed with them for a season, leaving to study on a full scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.He returned to Israel in 1964 with the Martha Graham Dance Company. During that time, he became interested in photography and eventually left dance to become a photographer. After working in news and film, he became almost exclusively an international corporate photographer, working for Exxon, BP, McCormick, Otis and Aeorspatial, among others. He was married and divorced with one child. In 1990, he moved from New York to France with Beverly Pimsleur, his companion for the last twenty years of his life. He died, after a long illness, on October 21, 2001 in Nice