American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots by Mark Slobin Sale Books The stories of over forty

The stories of over forty women’s liberationists and identified Jewish feminists―from Shulamith Firestone and Susan Brownmiller to Rabbis Laura Geller and Rebecca Alpert―illustrate how women’s liberation and Jewish feminism unfolded over the course of the lives of an extraordinary cohort of women

many American Jews sought to downplay their difference

This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth

and totalitarianism

the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi's son into agitator

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots by Mark Slobin Sale Books The stories of over fortyKlezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late nineteenth century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes. Today, klezmer flourishes in the United States and abroad in the