"Kaganoff spent 25 years collecting data on Jewish names, and his book on the subject is just great. He begins his study of nomenclature with Biblical names, traces Jewish names through the Babylonian and the Talmudic periods when patronymics were first used, and moves on the Second Diaspora. Permanent family names were adopted in Europe by force of local laws, and the methods by which they were chosen explains our names. . . . The book abounds with delightful information. . . . The book ends with a study of the rebirth of Hebraic names in Israel, and there again, Kaganoff is informed and inf... View More...
In this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish experience to the evolution of the societies in which they lived and worked. The book begins with one of the least known but most fascinating aspects of New Mexico Jewry--the crypto-Jews who came north to escape the Mexican Inquisition. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the story is more familiar: German merchants settling in Las Vegas and Santa Fe and then coming to Albuquerque after the railroad arrived. To these accounts the author adds considerable ... View More...
For Jews around the world the defining events of World War II and its aftermath were the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. These seminal events led to an increasingly connected and complex world for Jews, even in once-remote places such as New Mexico. The rapid expansion of organized Jewish activity in New Mexico during the postwar years brought about a heightened sense of consciousness, and the state's small Jewish population witnessed a considerable demographic growth.Building on his earlier work, A History of the Jews in New Mexico, Henry Tobias incorporates new material an... View More...
171 pages including index. Studies In American Jewish History Number 5. The Lee Max Friedman Collection Of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence Letters Of The Franks Family 1733-1748 View More...
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds.It spans the millennia and the continents—from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxfor... View More...
