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Luck was on our side : Escaping from Nazi Europe, 1938-1941.
No full textThe manuscript is based on a talk given on Dec. 2, 2005, at a meeting of the World War II Legacy Club in Silver Spring, Maryland, about the Sucher family’s escape from Europe.digitizedJoseph Sucher was born in Vienna, Austria, on September 10, 1930, together with his twin sister Erica. After the Anschluss in 1938 the family managed to escape to Luxembourg and Portugal and reach the United States in June, 1941. He attended elementary schools in Milwaukee and Brooklyn, and then Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1952 and received the Ph. D. degree in physics from Columbia University in 1957. That same year Sucher became a member of the physics department of the University of Maryland in College Park
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
Incredible but true : A collection of recollections.
No full textA collection of various, all but two previously published, essays and articles which cover different aspects of Brown's life. They are organized in 4 main chapters, "From cradle to crash" (1921-1938), "Exile and Exhaustion" (1938-47), "Life and Liberty" (1947-87), and "Retired and Retried" (1987-2005). As . Brown states, his stories are "true in essence but not in form".Copies of personal photographs and school documents are also included.Curtis L. Brown was born under the name Kurt Braun in 5/31/1921 in Vienna. He lived in the eighth district at Florianigasse 43, and went to high school at Robert-Hamerling-Realgymnasium at Albertgasse as well in the eighth district. He was interned in Hungary under forced labor service (1942-1945). After liberation, he stayed at a displaced persons camp and then came to the USA.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Negotiating the German-Jewish: The uncomfortable writing of Karl Emil Franzos.
No full textThis dissertation uses published and unpublished texts by the Austrian Jewish writer, Karl Emil Franzos (1848--1904), as a springboard for investigating a host of questions concerning Jewish assimilation, acculturation, and identity in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. Expanding on Jost Hermand's notion that Franzos's writing is "uncomfortable" because it abjures the ideological extremes with which Franzos was confronted, I seek out the negotiatory aspects of his work, identifying slippages that result in a fundamental disruption of the identity categories of the Jewish and the German.In Franzos's "cultural portraits" of the ethnic groups in the East of the Austrian Empire, particularly in his "ghetto fiction," he positions himself vis-a-vis these groups as a comfortably German author, conveying to his Western readers a supposedly objective picture of the Eastern crown lands he also called home. Rather than re-inscribe Franzos within a clear West/East, German/Jewish dichotomy of his own making, as does most of the existing literature on Franzos, I argue that by their very certitude, Franzos's texts betray the liminality of his identity positions. Franzos's texts are rife with what Homi Bhabha calls "interstitial" moments, revealing him as an "in-between" figure, but this "in-between" is not located neatly in the middle of the German and the Jewish, the Western and the Eastern, as Franzos would have us believe. This middle ground is itself discomfortingly flexible, expressing a range of positions.I argue in Chapter One that Franzos's view of himself is primarily that of writer, not German or Jew, and that his writing defies simple inscription into traditional literary categories such as "Ghettoliteratur." In Chapter Two, I situate Franzos historically in the context of Bildung, a concept that played a critical role in the development of German-Jewish relations in the nineteenth century. In Chapter Three, I draw on post-colonial literary theory to investigate the ambiguous fluctuation between liberatory and colonialist rhetoric in Franzos's texts. This vacillation---which, Bhabha argues, emerges in the very act of writing---undermines the authority of the colonialist author and his text by pointing to the "partiality" of identity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2005.School code: 0130
Cynthia Ozick's sacral aesthetic.
No full textThis dissertation proposes a new way of understanding Cynthia Ozick's aesthetic project. I argue that her short stories and novels are engaged in untangling her self-styled contradiction between the creative impulse and Jewish observance. That is, while her non-fiction essays argue that story writing is akin to idol-making and studying literature akin to idolatry, her fictional narratives escape such censure because they are intended to work in the service of God, not to transgress God's commandments. In her fiction, Ozick employs narrative strategies that challenge what she has labelled the impious impulse of art. Such strategies include her characterizations, which often feature pious intellectuals, her narrative structures, which are often midrashic, and her language, which is frequently liturgical and exalted. These strategies point to Ozick's return to the Hebrew covenant.Chapter One lays out the paradox Ozick creates in several of her essays and introduces those essays and short stories that illustrate her competing claims. Chapter Two discusses the early stories "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America" as meditations on the Fifth Commandment through an investigation of parenthood and the transmission of tradition. Chapter Three examines the novellas "Bloodshed" and "Rosa" as explorations of the possibility of a post-Holocaust renewal of Jewish faith. Chapter Four reads the novels The Cannibal Gal and The Puttermesser Papers as interpretations of the key Jewish concepts of tikkun olam, the repair of the world, and arevut, the Jewish notion of social responsibility.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2005.School code: 0017
Disturbing boundaries: Developing Jewish feminist ethics with Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim.
No full textBy applying feminist criticism to the thought of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Emil Fackenheim, this project outlines the ways in which the disciplines of modern Jewish philosophy, feminist theory, and Jewish feminist ethics might be enhanced through a critical encounter with each other. This research has three complimentary objectives: First, to disrupt and challenge the disciplinary and discursive boundaries between modern Jewish thought, feminist ethics and Jewish feminism. Second, to develop the methodological and theoretical frameworks necessary to articulate a systematic feminist critique of modern Jewish philosophical thought. Finally, to develop alternative feminist and Jewish feminist ethical models that will fruitfully benefit from a dialogue with modern Jewish thought. The Jewish feminist ethical models proffered here are mutually grounded in Jewish feminist theory and activism, modern Jewish thought, feminist theory and ethics, and Jewish women's historical and contemporary experiences. Each model is voiced as an imperative and is framed as an example of a principle that is derived from the analysis of one thinker's ethics. The development of Jewish feminist ethics of relationship, alterity, and presence are respectively elicited through an interrogation of the thought of Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim. Although each of the three models is a response to a particular thinker, they are self-referential, interdependent and constructive. They are constructive in two senses. First, from a feminist perspective, although there are real problems with each thinker's ethics, there are also significant opportunities to be located in those ethics. Working towards taking the best advantage of those opportunities, the principles suggested here build on common questions and themes that avail themselves of the resources offered by each of the disciplines that participate in this conversation. Second, because these models are organized through an intentional integration of implicated disciplines and experiences, and result from the effort to pinpoint opportunities for the development of Jewish feminist ethical strategies, these responses necessarily move beyond the scope of the original modern Jewish philosophical texts that generate them.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Concordia University (Canada), 2005.School code: 0228
Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Bulawayo, 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
Lusaka Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Lusaka, Zambia, Interior 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
Mufulira Hebrew Congregation Synaagogue, Mufulira, Zambia, 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
Descendants of Caroline Frankel /
No full textFamily tree of the descendants of Caroline Frankel and Solomon Koch from the early 19th to late 20th century, with some birth and death dates and locations.digitize