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Birmingham's Rabbi

Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940

University of Alabama Press

Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham from 1895-1940 and was counted among the most influential religious and social leaders of that city

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Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy

University of Alabama Press

A thorough examination of the life and work of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer, an important contributor to the creation of a modern Jewish Orthodoxy during the late 1800s.

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Separation of Church and State

Dina de-Malkhuta Dina in Jewish Law

University of Alabama Press

Observes that the significance of dina de-malkhuta dina and its interpretation is vital for an understanding of modern Jewish life as well as the relationship of Diaspora Jews to the Jewish community in the state of Israel

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This Happy Land

The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston

University of Alabama Press

 This Happy Land charts the history of the Jewish community in Charleston, South Carolina, from the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in the 1690s until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

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Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828

Jewish Reformer and Intellectual

University of Alabama Press

This revealing biography of Isaac Harby sheds much light on the beginnings of Reform Judaism and the economic and cultural rise and fall of Charleston during this period.

 


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Argentina and the Jews

A History of Jewish Immigration

University of Alabama Press

Traces the shifting patterns of Jewish immigration and Argentine immigration policy

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Yiddish & English

The Story of Yiddish in America

University of Alabama Press

This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.

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A Thousand Kisses

A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters

Edited by Renata Polt
University of Alabama Press

Letters to a beloved son and his family tell the poignant story of one woman's life in Nazi-occupied Prague

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Mothers, Sisters, Resisters

Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust

University of Alabama Press

Provides an important historical record of women’s experiences during the Holocaust

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