Sit and shiver / by Berkoff, Steven

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Two lives / by Seth, Vikram, 1952-

Like everyone else but different : the paradoxical success of Canadian Jews / by Weinfeld, M., Schnoor, Randal F., Shames, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…The elements of Jewish diversity -- Quality, quantity, and conflict : the socio-demographic context of Jewish survival -- Building a community : migration and regional settlement -- Earning a living : from work to wealth -- The bonds of intimacy : Jewish families and relationships -- The communal foundation of Jewish life : people, neighbourhoods, and organizations -- Between high culture and daily life : from literature and art to Klezmer and Kugel -- The people of the book : Jewish education and Jewish survival -- Jews, Judaism, and the public square : the political behaviour of Canadian Jews -- A holy nation : Canadian Judaism between tradition and modernity -- Sticks, stones, and social relations : the evolving forms of anti-Semitism.…”
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The Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica : a testamentary history of a diaspora in transition / by Mirvis, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 7: The Creole Jewish Families of Jamaica -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix: Excerpts from the Wills of Selected Jamaican Jews -- Notes -- Index…”
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Wadi /

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The Jews in medieval Egypt /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Introduction to the legal arena / Oded Zinger -- Jewish economic life in medieval Egypt: Images, theories, and research / Jessica Goldberg -- Jewish family life in medieval Egypt / Miriam Frenkel -- Situating Egyptian pietism / Elisha Russ-Fishbane -- Languages and language varieties used by medieval Egyptian Jews / Esther-Miriam Wagner -- Hebrew poetry in medieval Egypt / Joseph Yahalom -- The last phase: The Jews in medieval Egypt under the Mamluks (1250-1517) / Amir Mazor.…”
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Comparative Central European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Comparative cultural studies and the study of Central European culture / Steven Totosy de Zepetnek -- A comparative view of modernism in Central European literature / Andrea Fabry -- Radnoti, Celan, and aesthetic shifts in Central European Holocaust poetry / Zsuzsanna Ozsvath -- Comparative Central European culture : gender in literature and film / Aniko Imre -- Austroslovakism in Anton Hykisch's novel about Maria Theresa / Peter Petro / Milan Kundera and the identity of Central Europe -- Politics, history, and public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 / Katherine Arens -- Comparative Central European culture : Austrian and Hungarian cinema today / Catherine Portuges -- Comparative Central European culture : Displacements and peripheralities / Roumiana Deltcheva -- Central Europe, Jewish family history, and Sunshine / Susan Rubin Suleiman.…”
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Invisible enlighteners : the Jewish merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the emancipation / by Francesconi, Federica

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Invisible Enlighteners -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Spelling, Translations, and Currency -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Network of Jewish Families in the Early Modern Period: The Road Toward Ghettoization -- Chapter 2. …”
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You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / by Antler, Joyce

Table of Contents: “…"My Yiddishe mama": the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- Molly Goldberg: "the prototype of the Jewish mother" in the twentieth century -- Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: social science uncovers the Jewish "family plot" -- From Marjorie Morningstar to Jennie Grossinger: the suburbs, the Catskills, and the Jewish mother joke -- "American mother of the year" versus monster mothers: will the real Sophie Portnoy please stand up? …”
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Marc Chagall /

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Levirate marriage and the family in ancient Judaism / by Weisberg, Dvora E.

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The Holocaust.

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One of us/ by Korda, Susan

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Rivalrous masculinities : new directions in medieval gender studies /

Table of Contents: “…Predicaments of Piousness: The Trouble with Being a Learned Jewish Family Man in Premodern Europe; FIVE. The Knight versus the Courtier; SIX. …”
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Truths and Lies in the Middle East : Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952-2012. by Rouleau, Eric

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Truths and lies in the Middle East : memoirs of a veteran journalist, 1952-2012 / by Rouleau, Eric, 1926-

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Women in the Holocaust /

Table of Contents: “…Before the war. Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock. …”

This happy land : the Jews of colonial and antebellum Charleston / by Hagy, James William

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A Semite : a memoir of Algeria / by Guénoun, Denis, 1946-

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Between dreams and history : the making of Shimon Attie's public art projects /

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