Rachel B Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel B Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eating at God's Table
I am extremely grateful to learn from Eating at God's Table, not least because Jody Myers was a generous and creative colleague in Jewish food studies who passed away too soon. Myers died of a brain tumor in 2022, and this posthumous book gives us her final contributions to the subfield she helped to shape. Her study of the foodways of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, Pico-Robertson in Los Angeles, California, is an unusual and particularly fruit…
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
The Art of the Jewish Family
Beyond the Synagogue
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum…
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Beyond the Synagogue
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum…
The Art of the Jewish Family
Friends Are the Cream of Life
American Jewish writers Mary Antin and Jessie Sampter met as teenagers in 1899. Throughout the next four decades, they wrote letters and visited each other, discussing literature, politics, and life. Independently, both women achieved some professional success. Antin's autobiography, The Promised Land, launched her to national fame, before she withdrew from public life to focus on religious pursuits. Sampter supported Zionist efforts from the Uni…
Eating at God's Table
I am extremely grateful to learn from Eating at God's Table, not least because Jody Myers was a generous and creative colleague in Jewish food studies who passed away too soon. Myers died of a brain tumor in 2022, and this posthumous book gives us her final contributions to the subfield she helped to shape. Her study of the foodways of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, Pico-Robertson in Los Angeles, California, is an unusual and particularly fruit…
Art (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Anti-Zionism (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)