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Jews of Brooklyn by Seán Galvin (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBrandeis University Press

ISBN-101584650036

ISBN-139781584650034

eBay Product ID (ePID)1914867

Product Key Features

Book TitleJews of Brooklyn

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEthnic Studies / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Jewish, Jewish Studies

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorSeán Galvin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight44.9 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width8.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-004502

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Say 'Brooklyn' and whatever images first come to mind are due in part to the Jews who shaped the borough, as this large, complex collection definitively demonstrates. Offering historical examinations of populations shifts, synagogues and egg creams alongside personal experiences of community, in this encyclopedia the variations are a metaphor for the broad spectrum of experiences of a people in a place. . . Readers will be pulled in by an intoxicating nostalgia for this multifaceted locale's personality, even if they've never been there."-Publishers Weekly, "Say 'Brooklyn' and whatever images first come to mind are due in part to the Jews who shaped the borough, as this large, complex collection definitively demonstrates. Offering historical examinations of populations shifts, synagogues and egg creams alongside personal experiences of community, in this encyclopedia the variations are a metaphor for the broad spectrum of experiences of a people in a place. . . Readers will be pulled in by an intoxicating nostalgia for this multifaceted locale's personality, even if they've never been there."--Publishers Weekly, "Say 'Brooklyn' and whatever images first come to mind are due in part to the Jews who shaped the borough, as this large, complex collection definitively demonstrates. Offering historical examinations of populations shifts, synagogues and egg creams alongside personal experiences of community, in this encyclopedia the variations are a metaphor for the broad spectrum of experiences of a people in a place. . . Readers will be pulled in by an intoxicating nostalgia for this multifaceted locale's personality, even if they've never been there."ÑPublishers Weekly

Dewey Decimal974.7/23004924

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments* Introduction * Putting on Your Best Face: Brooklyn Jewish Studio Photography, 1881-1924 * First Synagogues: Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus and Union Temple* First Synagogues: The First 144 Years of the Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes (The Kane Street Synagogue) * The Early Years of the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn * Syrian Jewish Life * Tastes of Home in Three Brooklyn Groceries * Brooklyn as Refuge: Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust * Notes on the Celebration of Purim in Williamsburg * Holy Rolling: Making Sense of Baking Matzo * New Synagogues: Rabbi Ellen Lippmann Talks about Congregation Kolot Chayeinu * Waves upon the Sand: Jewish Immigrant Life in Brighton Beach * The New Wave from Russia * A Williamsburg Childhood in the 1930s and 1940s * Sephardic in Williamsburg * Brownsville and Irving Levine: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Activist * Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in Brownsville, 1930s-1950s * My Mother's Borough Park * A Hasidic Woman in Borough Park * Crown Heights in the 1950s * Cruising Eastern Parkway in Search of Yiddishkayt * Growing Up in Interwar Bensonhurst * The Brooklyn-American Dream * From Brownsville to Park Slope: An Interview with Simon Dinnerstein * From Flatbush to SoHo: An Interview with Ivan Karp * Mazel Tov! Klezmer Music and Simchas in Brooklyn 1910 to the Present * Klezmer Revived: Dave Tarras Plays Again * New Jewish Music in the Orthodox Community * Bad Jews: Jewish Criminals from Brooklyn * A Brooklyn Accent: Borough Park in the 1940s * Seltzer Man * Candy Stores and Egg Creams * Street Games in Brooklyn * Poultry in Motion: The Jewish Atonement Ritual of Kapores * Suits and Souls: Trying to Tell a Jew: When You See One in Crown Heights * Brooklyn Yiddish Radio, 1925-46 * Jewish Commitment and Continuity in Interwar Brooklyn * "A Home Though Away from Home": Brooklyn Jews and Interwar Children's Summer Camps * Blacks, Jews, and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn's Junior High School 258: A Cold War Story * A Tour of Jewish Coney Island Avenue * Dr. Alvin I. Schiff Talks about Jewish Education * Rabbi Robert Kaplan Talks about Changing Institutions * Radically Right: The Jewish Press * "Across the Great Divide": Alfred Kazin and Daniel Fuchs * Approximations Made with Line: An Interview with Phillip Lopate * Cyber-Spirituality: An Interview with Binyamin Jolkovsky * Thoroughly Modern Orthodox: An Interview with Rina Goldberg * Danny Kaye: Brooklyn Tummler * The Doctor and the Comedian * Scenes from a Superstar's Childhood * "That's Entertainment!" * "Play Ball!" Jewish Athletes from Brooklyn * On Wisconsin * Knish Reminiscence * Flatbush Memories in the Florida Sun * Are We There Yet? One Family's Brooklyn Diaspora * Time Line of Selected Jewish Brooklyn Events or People * Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading * List of Contributors

SynopsisFlatbush Avenue, Borough Park, Coney Island and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn Bridge, Loehman's and Lundy's, Mrs. Stahl's potato knishes, the Dodgers, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen, front stoops and back porches, Hasids and Socialists, a place, a feeling, a state of mind -- Brooklyn and American Jewry grew up together in the 20th century. From the first documented settlement of Jews in Brooklyn in the 1830s to the present day, Jewish presence -- always between a quarter to a third of Brooklyn's entire population -- has been key to the development of the borough. Jewish families and foodways, businesses, schools, and synagogues, simchas and celebrations, have been an essential component of Brooklyn life. In Jews of Brooklyn, over forty historians, folklorists, museum curators, musicians, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews with something to say about egg creams and Brooklyn accents, present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. Essays in the first section, "Coming to Brooklyn" explore the creative and often bewildering foundations of immigrant life. Juxtaposed are arrival experiences of eastern European Jews, Syrian Jews, Jews from Israel, and Holocaust survivors, and the kinds of shops, factories, synagogues, and schools they established there. "Living in Brooklyn," looks at neighborhoods, culture, and institutions from the 1930s to the present. Evocative portraits of Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Williamsburg describe street life and local characters, offering an intimate look at Jewish family life, even as they convey a sense of evolving neighborhoods and changing times. "Leaving Brooklyn / Returning to Brooklyn" features essays on famous Brooklynites such as Barbra Streisand and Danny Kaye as well as numerous personal reminiscences and family portraits of ordinary folk, making it clear that Brooklyn, for better and for worse, maintains a lasting presence in the lives of Jews born and raised there. Ilana Abramovitch's Introduction provides general historical context. The book also features a detailed timeline of Jewish immigration to and settlement in borough's neighborhoods, and of key events and turning points in the history of Jewish Brooklyn, as well as a Selected Bibliography.

LC Classification NumberF129.B7J49 2001