American Jewish Year Book 5674 October 2, 1913, To September 20, 1914
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.12.2020
Herausgeber
Herbert FriedenwaldVerlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
654
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/3.8 cm
Gewicht
1046 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5430-357-9
An uncommon contemporary portrait of the American Jewish community between October 1913 and September 1914. A living record, sharply observed. Compiled as an annual yearbook collection by Herbert Friedenwald, this edition functions as a Jewish historical reference and a concise Jewish history anthology of one formative year in the 1913-1914 United States. It assembles contemporary records and commentary, including administrative reports, community bulletins, statistical overviews and cultural notes, that illuminate Jewish religious life, communal institutions and the everyday texture of American Jewish experience. Because it preserves contemporaneous documentation, it has proven invaluable to students of Jewish cultural studies and to scholars and researchers tracing patterns of migration, institutional development and belief. At the same time it remains surprisingly readable: casual readers looking into family background or curious about period life will find clear, direct material; for family historians it functions as a practical genealogy resource book and a complementary resource to holdings in the American Jewish Archives. Of clear historical and literary significance, the Year Book preserves contemporary voices, institutional outlines and factual material that help explain patterns of belief, organisation and daily practice in early 20th century history. Its registers and chronologies supply granular context for social historians, while its reportage of community life offers narrative texture that attracts readers beyond the academy. In short, the volume sits at the intersection of Jewish cultural studies, social history and genealogy: libraries, research collections and individual collectors will find it a rich Jewish heritage resource, and family historians will appreciate its relevance to personal inquiry. Casual readers encounter vivid context and human detail; classic-literature collectors prize the book for its period authenticity and provenance. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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