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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781584653097 |
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Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
Publication date: | 04/01/2005 |
Series: | Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life |
Pages: | 268 |
Product dimensions: | 8.75(w) x 11.25(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
ANDREA GREENBAUM is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Barry University, Miami Shores. She has published several books including Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies and The Emancipatory Movements (2001). She is co-editor of Judaic Perspectives in Composition Studies, forthcoming from Hampton Press.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements • Introduction • Part I Culture and Community • Ten Percent of American Jews - Ira Sheskin • Alligators and Matzo Balls: A Historical Overview of the Florida Jewish Community - Marcia Kerstein Zerivitz • Blood and Sand: The Jewish Community of South Florida - Shephen J. Whifield • Anti-Semitism in Florida Culture - Henry Abramson • Cuban Jews in South Florida: Exile Redux - Stephen Benz • Sephardic Jews in South Florida - Annete B., Fromm • From Swamp to "Shayna Platz": Jewish Lfe in Broward County (Historical Photos from the Jewish Museum of Florida) - Marcia Kerstein Zerivitz • Jews of Boca Raton - Linda Brockman • Yiddishkeit in South Beach: "I want to Be With You to Sing My Songs"- Joel Saxe • Life on South Beach: A Photographic Portfolio - Gary Monroe • Part II Institutions • Jewish Gangsters Starring Meyer Lansky - Jack B. Moore • Leon Kronish: Miami Beach's Twentieth- Century Prophet - Henry A. Green • Synagogues in the Sand - Zev Ben Beichman • Jewish Education in South Florida - Susan Neimand • A History of the National Council of Jewish omen, Greater Miami Section - Joanie Glickstein • Yizkor: Survivor Narratives at the Miami Holocaust Memorial - Andrea Greenbaum • Behind the Cultural Facade: Yiddish Cultural Revival in Miami - David Weintraub • Contributor Biographies • IndexWhat People are Saying About This
"There are red states and there are blue states. FLORIDA--at least South Florida--is a BLUE AND WHITE STATE. The Jews who formed part of the force that shaped the state from its inception are seen as integral to its history and its future. The brilliance of the essays in Andrea Greenbaum's book is that we are given a multitude of perspectives on how this perception was created and how true it is now and will be in the future. Not 'local Jewish history' but a readable attempt to sketch the complexity of Jewish life in Florida from the rabbis to the gangsters and everything between."
Sander L. Gilman,Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College, Oxford