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- Type: LibraryChildren of Abraham Cemetery, Lawrence, Massachusetts… containing the history, dates, death and burials, contact information for the cemetery. Online searching of the cemetery is described, along with the procedures followed for compiling this history. Procedures included mapping, stone cleaning, stone transcription, male/female historical burial rules and the recording of research data on 'Find a Grave' and 'JOWBR'. A graph of early Lawrence Jewish marriages is provided The book contains a listing of names of the buried, along with the location of their burial. Not all graves have stones, and information on the stone can be in Hebrew, English, or both. A cemetery layout is provided The cemetery is currently made up of six sections: Sons of Israel, Tifereth Anshai Sfard, Ansha Sholum, Workmen's Circle, Jewish War Veterans and Essex County Lodge. - all sections are still active. At the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic there were four adjacent cemeteries: the Sons of Israel Cemetery, the Independent Lodge Cemetery, The Workmen's Circle Cemetery, and the Essex County Lodge Cemetery. The veteran's section was set aside at the end of WWII and contains mainly WWII veterans, but there are WWI …Tags: Congregation Beth Israel, Ansha Sholum Congregation, Children of Abraham Cemetery Inc, Temple Emmanuel Andover, National Guard Museum & Archives, National Guard Headquarters, Massachusetts State Archives, Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records, lawrence public library, Memorial Hall Library AndoverPeople: Jonathan Brody, Michael Emmi, Rose Ocken, Frances Perlys, Katie Barenboim.Dr Daniel Weber PhD, Shelly Budney Weber RPH, Rabbi Ari Weber, Harvey Goldma, Amita Kiley, Louise Sandberg, Antonio Cerro, Stephanie Aude, Tom Hamilton
- Type: LibraryJewish Book… This book is in either Yiddish or Hebrew and has not been translated. This book was published in Philadelphia. This book has numerous musical sheets inside. -Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3 …Tags: Music, Jewish, Hebrew
- Type: LibraryThe Melting Pot:… "A hit on Broadway, this play dramatized a Jewish immigrant's struggle with assimilation. It popularized the term "melting pot" to describe the transformation of immigrants into Americans." Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3. …Tags: Immigration, Assimilation, Plays, Jews, Drama
- Type: LibraryAnti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder… This book represents a study undertaken by the American Jewish Committee. It uses the psychoanalytic method and evidence to create a relationship between anti-semitism and emotional disorders. It discusses the methodological approach to the study, as well as the ways in which data was collected. It creates a clinical picture based on the information about patients given by many different doctors. Primarily discussed are the emotional factors that make it more likely that someone will become anti-semitic, other genetic causes, and social/group pressures which may cause people to express prejudice. Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3 …Tags: Studies, Anti-Semitism, Committee, American, Jewish, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Genetics
- Type: LibraryThe Jewish Dilemma… This book is divided into three parts. Part I is called The Myth of "a Jewish People". In this part it explains how Christians and Americans view the Jews. It also discusses their history and how they live their everyday life. Part II is called Zionist Nationalism and it is about how Zionism and nationalism came to be, how it affected the Jews, and how Zion "lived in the hearts of Jews" and was the heart of the Jews everyday prayer. Part III is titled For Free … their attempts in Holland and Germany in the twentieth century to get religious equality. Part III also talks about after WWI, the history of Jews in the United States, and how they integrated into society. It talks about the history of the beginning of Reform Judaism in the US, Zionism after WWII, the American Council for Judaism, and their beliefs in equality for Jews throughout the world. -Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3 …Tags: Council, Religion, Customs, Assimilation, Reform, Anti-Semitism, Judaism, American, Nationalism, Jews, Myths, Equality, Anti-ZionismPeople: Mendelssohn, Gotthold, Ephraim, Lessing, Christian, Willhelm, Dohm, Moses
- Type: LibraryA Bintel Brief:… This book contains information on the problems that the Jewish immigrants faced while living in America. There are letters in this book that are from hundreds of Jews who would ask for advice on many different types of subjects and in return they would get their answers. -Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3 …Tags: Jews, History, Letters, Jewish, Daily, Forward, East, Side, Sabbath
- Type: LibraryThe Landsmen… -brothers in suffering, brothers in faith, brothers in humanity. Each section of the novel is narrated by one of the nine characters: Yeersel, the tailor; Maisha, the religion teacher; Laib, the musician;Shim, his brother; Cochise, the dairyman; Berel, the water-carrier; Laib-Shmul, the butcher; etc... Some migrated to America, some died in Golinsk. It was written to establish a sense of Jewish identity as the background for a large fictional examination of Jewish-American life." …Tags: Lost, Pogroms, Nineteenth, Century, Jewish-American, Roots, Czarist, American, Life, Russia
- Type: LibraryThe Labor History Reader… Daniel J. Leab, the editor of this book, has collected the works of several authors to cover different topics of labor history from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Discussion focuses on the evolving working class in America, social mobility, women in the factories, different factories (such as textiles), politics, railroads, unions, black workers and labor unions, Jewish women and unions, radicalism in the working class, Passaic Strike of 1912, the working classes in the 1920s, the unemployed councils in 1930, industrial unionism during World War II, Women Workers and the UAW in the post-World War II era, and the textile industry in the south. …Tags: The Labor History Reader, Labor History, Social Class, America, Boston, New York, Nineteenth Century, 19th century, Railroads, steel industries, black workers, Labor Unions, 20th Century, radicalism, IWW, Passaic Strike of 1912, Jewish Women, Jewish Women Union, Jewish Union, 1920s, sit-down era, Post-war, post-World War II, Post-WWII, textilesPeople: Daniel J Leab, Leab, Sidney Fine, Richard B Morris, David Brody, Herbert G Gutman, James A Henretta, Gary B Nash, Alfred Young, Edward Pessen David Montgomery, H M Gitleman, James Holt, Paul B Worthman, Melvyn Dubofsky, Michael H Ebner, Alice Kessler-Harris, Frank Stricker, Daniel Nelson, Joshua Freeman, Nancy Gabin, Dale Newman
- Type: LibraryA Continuing Task:… This book is discussing the plight of Eastern European and Jews before, during and after WWI and WWII, as well as the efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to help them. *Book contains a small booklet with the Officers and Members of the Executive Committee. -Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 2 …Tags: Europe, Joint, Distribution, Committee, American, II, Jews, Jewish, Eastern
- Type: LibraryThe Jewish Americans (The Peoples of North America)… Jews in the US. It talks about the history of Judaism and the Jews, some of their customs, talks about what the Jews did once they arrived to the US, and the types of businesses they ran. It also talks about where they lived, how their religious customs changed when they came to the United States, and their history of activism, politics, and attempts to unionise. Finally, it talks about the Jewish culture, how it has affected the American culture, and famous Jews. -Jewish/Hebrew Books- Box 3 …Tags: Politics, Customs, Culture, Judaism, States, Jews, History, Immigrants, ActivismPeople: Gershwin, Alfred, Bloomingdale, Louis, Brandeis, George