ABSTRACT

The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture  is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout.

Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world.

Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index.

This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.

chapter |4 pages

Agam , Yaakov

[Gipstein] (b.1928)

chapter |9 pages

Aizman, David

(1869–1922)

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Amram, David

(b.1930)

chapter |22 pages

Anthropology, modern Jewish

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Ardon, Mordechai

(1896–1992)

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art, Dutch-Jewish

chapter |7 pages

Ascher, Saul

(1767–1822)

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Avidom, Menahem

[Menahem Mahler-Kalkstein] (1908–95)

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Bacher, Wilhelm

(1850–1913)

chapter |8 pages

Bala´zs, Be´la

[Herbert Bauer] (1884–1949)

chapter |18 pages

Baron, Salo Wittmayer

[Shalom] (1895–1989)

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Berkovits, Eliezer

(1908–92)

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Berlin, Isaiah

(1909–97)

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Berlinski, Herman

(1910–2001)

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Berman, Hannah

(1883–1955)

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Braham , John

[probably Abraham] (1774–1856)

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Broch, Hermann

(1886–1951)

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Chagall, Marc

[Moshe] (1887–1985)

chapter |18 pages

Chayefsky, Paddy

[Sidney] (1923–81)

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Danziger, Itzhak

(1916–78)

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Darw -ısh, Sha¯lu¯m

[Shalom] (1913–97)

chapter |7 pages

Doubrovsky, Serge

(b.1928)

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Durkheim, E´mile

(1858–1917)

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Elkin, Stanley

(1930–95)

chapter |9 pages

Eydoux, Emmanuel

[Roger Eisinger] (b.1913)

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Feldman, Louis

[Leibl] (1896–1975)

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Fiedler, Leslie

(1917–2003)

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Finzi-Contini, Giovanni Alberto

(b.1932)

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Flusser, David

(1917–2000)

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Gehry Frank (b.1929)

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Goldemberg, Isaac (b.1945)

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Goldman, William (b.1911)

chapter |8 pages

Goldschmidt, Georges-Arthur (b.1928)

Further reading

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Gordimer, Nadine (b.1923)

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Green, Gerald (b.1922)

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Gross, Hayim (1904–91)

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Grumberg, Jean-Claude (b.1939)

Further reading

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Guston Philip

[Goldstein], (1913–80)

chapter |8 pages

Hakoah

chapter |1 pages

Harby, Isaac

(1788–1828)

chapter |30 pages

Harshav , Benjamin

[Hrushovski] (b.1928)

chapter |7 pages

Heym, Stefan

(1913–2001) Further reading

chapter |18 pages

Hobson, Laura Keane Zametkin Hoffmann, David

[Zevi] (1834–1921) (1900–86)

chapter |1 pages

Horovitz, Bela

(1898–1955) Further reading

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Horovitz, Joseph

(b.1926)

chapter |1 pages

Horowitz, Leopold

(?1837–1917)

chapter |11 pages

Huberman, Bronislaw

(1882–1947)

chapter |6 pages

Isaacson, Michael (b.1946)

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Jacobson, Dan (b.1929)

chapter |8 pages

Jong, Erica (b.1942)

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Jungk, Robert (1913–94)

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Kirsch, Olga (1924–97)

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Kraus, Karl (1874–1936)

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Laqueur, Walter (b.1921)

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Lensky, Hayim (1905–43?)

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Levi, John (b.1934)

chapter |14 pages

Levy, Emmanuel (1900–85)

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Litvinoff, Emmanuel (b.1915)

Further reading

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Mazar, Benjamin (1906–95)

chapter |23 pages

Meyerbeer, Giacomo [Jakob

chapter |1 pages

Mu´gica, Daniel (b.1967)

chapter |13 pages

Munk, Solomon (1803–67)

chapter |24 pages

music, Jewish, in Poland

chapter |15 pages

Odets, Clifford (1906–63)

Further reading

chapter |40 pages

Paris, Jewish School of

chapter |25 pages

Poznanski, Samuel Abraham

Further reading

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Roth, Cecil (1899–1970)

chapter |9 pages

Russian-Jewish literature

chapter |3 pages

Sadan, Dov (1902–96)

chapter |1 pages

Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg

Further reading

chapter |8 pages

Scheiber, Alexander (1913–85)

Further reading

chapter |1 pages

Sholem Aleichem [Sholem

chapter |6 pages

Sinclair, Clive (b.1948)

chapter |19 pages

sociology, Jewish modern

chapter |17 pages

Soviet-Jewish culture

chapter |13 pages

Steiner, George (b.1929)

chapter |1 pages

Szichman, Mario (b.1945)

chapter |15 pages

Tin Pan Alley

chapter |11 pages

Vermes, Geza (b.1924)

chapter |14 pages

Wolpe, Stefan (1902–72)

chapter |3 pages

Zamenhof, Ludwik Lazar