Barry Trachtenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Trachtenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Trachtenberg |
| SIGNATURE | TRACHTENBERG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1700-9565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shifting Sands: Zionism & American Jewry
The current willingness of major American Jewish organizations and leaders to dismiss the threat from white supremacists in the name of supporting Israel represents a new stage in the shifting relationship of U.S. Jews toward Zionism. In the first stage, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the majority of U.S. Jews did not take to Zionism, as its goals seemed antithetical to their aspirations to join mainstream American soci…
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Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Journal Article Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Get access Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiv, 385. Cloth $35.00, e-book $29.99. Barry Trachtenberg Barry Trachtenberg University at Albany, State University of New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author…
Station Identification: A cultural history of Yiddish radio in the United States
Ber Borochov's “The Tasks of Yiddish Philology”
Argument Ber Borochov (1881–1917), the Marxist Zionist revolutionary who founded the political party Poyle Tsien (Workers of Zion), was also one of the key theoreticians of Yiddish scholarship. His landmark 1913 essay, “The Tasks of Yiddish Philology,” was his first contribution to the field and crowned him as its chief ideologue. Modeled after late nineteenth-century European movements of linguistic nationalism, “The Tasks” was the first articul…
Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye , the Holocaust and the changing mission of Yiddish scholarship
The first attempt to publish a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Yiddish language began in Berlin in the early 1930s. The editors of Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (The General Encyclopedia) were initially concerned with bringing the latest discoveries from fields such as history, demography, biology, economics and political science to readers in need of assistance in comprehending the larger world. Almost from its inception, however, the project was…
Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy (review)
Reviewed by: Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy Barry Trachtenberg Jan L. Feldman . Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 212. Lubavitch Hasidim appeared in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century as one of many Hasidic sects to form in the wake of the death in 1772 of the movement's second leader, Dov Ber of Mezeritch. The founder of the Lubav…
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Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy (review)
Reviewed by: Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy Barry Trachtenberg Jan L. Feldman . Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 212. Lubavitch Hasidim appeared in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century as one of many Hasidic sects to form in the wake of the death in 1772 of the movement's second leader, Dov Ber of Mezeritch. The founder of the Lubav…
Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye , the Holocaust and the changing mission of Yiddish scholarship
The first attempt to publish a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Yiddish language began in Berlin in the early 1930s. The editors of Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (The General Encyclopedia) were initially concerned with bringing the latest discoveries from fields such as history, demography, biology, economics and political science to readers in need of assistance in comprehending the larger world. Almost from its inception, however, the project was…
Ber Borochov's “The Tasks of Yiddish Philology”
Argument Ber Borochov (1881–1917), the Marxist Zionist revolutionary who founded the political party Poyle Tsien (Workers of Zion), was also one of the key theoreticians of Yiddish scholarship. His landmark 1913 essay, “The Tasks of Yiddish Philology,” was his first contribution to the field and crowned him as its chief ideologue. Modeled after late nineteenth-century European movements of linguistic nationalism, “The Tasks” was the first articul…
Station Identification: A cultural history of Yiddish radio in the United States
Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Journal Article Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Get access Jeffrey Veidlinger. In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxiv, 385. Cloth $35.00, e-book $29.99. Barry Trachtenberg Barry Trachtenberg University at Albany, State University of New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author…
Franklin
Shifting Sands: Zionism & American Jewry
The current willingness of major American Jewish organizations and leaders to dismiss the threat from white supremacists in the name of supporting Israel represents a new stage in the shifting relationship of U.S. Jews toward Zionism. In the first stage, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the majority of U.S. Jews did not take to Zionism, as its goals seemed antithetical to their aspirations to join mainstream American soci…
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