Items with the category: American Jewish Studies | Jewish Book Council

Cover of The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

Cover of The Soviet Jewish Americans

The Soviet Jewish Americans

Annelise Orleck

Cover of Imagining the American Jewish Community

Imagining the American Jewish Community

Jack Wertheimer, ed.

Cover of Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir

Benjamin Hirsch

Cover of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

Cover of Dough: A Memoir

Dough: A Memoir

Cover of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride

Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride

Cover of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer B. Lee

Cover of Growing Up At Grossinger's

Growing Up At Grossinger’s

Tania Grossinger

Cover of The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843-1914

The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843 – 1914

Cornelia Wilhelm

Cover of Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land

Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land

Edward S. Shapiro

Cover of In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World

In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World

Peter Golenbock

Cover of Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Cover of New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory

New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory

Cary Herz, photographs; Ori Z. Soltes and Mona Hernandes, essays

Cover of Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue

Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue

Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.

Essay

Destination Bat Mitzvahs

Earlier this week, Shulamit Reinharz and Barbara Vinick wrote about the history of the bat mizvah and Barbara Vinick shared her own story. Today, Shulamit…

Barbara Vinick, Shulamit Reinharz

January 13, 2012