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If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son de Jack Nusan Porter

If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son

Autor Jack Nusan Porter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2023
Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.
Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we follow Porter as he recounts his personal journey from a DP camp in Linz, Austria to an idyllic childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Hebrew day school under Reb Twersk. Porter masterfully details his radicalism in the politically and sociologically turbulent 1960s which would later influence his academic work on genocide, Holocaust studies, and international human rights. Constantly re-inventing himself, readers are treated to engaging anecdotes as they navigate through Porter's highs, lows, and in-betweens.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781644699003
ISBN-10: 1644699001
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Cherry Orchard Books
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: 1946-1963—Coming to America
  1. From Maniewicze to Milwaukee—the Making of a Writer/Activist
  2. Milwaukee in the 1940s and 1950s / Diary, 1959
  3. LA in the 1950s and 1960s
  4. Habonim/Dror, 1956-1964
  5. Israel, 1962-1963 / Diary, 1963
  6. Golda and Me


Part Two: 1962-1971—The Radical Years
  1. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee: Becoming an Activist/Intellectual, 1963-1967; the Milwaukee Riots and Father Groppi; the Beginning of the Counterculture for Me; Hippies, Acid Trips, and Communes
  2. Activism Continued, 1967-1971: The 1968 Chicago Convention Riot; the Chicago 8 Rrial; My Relationship to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krasner, and Lee Weiner; the Black Student Sit-In at NYU; the Founding of the Radical Jewish Student Movement; the 1960s (Civil Rights, Hippies, Grass, Acid, the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War, Vietnam, Woodstock)
  3. My Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League
  4. Northwestern: The Making of a Sociologist
  5. Academic Follies
  6. Reunions

Part Three: 1971-1991—The Transitional Years
  1. My Grove Press Days
  2. My Nazi-Hunting Days
  3. My Native American Days and Nights (Sun Dances, Sweat Lodges, Dealing with Death)
  4. Marriage and Settling Down / The Almuly Family / A Jittery Decade, the 1970s—the First Half of the Radical Decade; the Second Half—We Grow Up, Settle Down, and Get Married
  5. The Death of a Father
  6. The Founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars / Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and Other Zones of Conflict
  7. A Jew at the Ukrainian Institute
  8. No Tenure: The Switch to Real Estate: Hello, Harold Brown and Other Billionaires
  9. The Landlord: Dealing with Weirdoes (Crazy Tenants), Wise Guys (Italian, Russian, African American), and Community Organizers (Chuck Turner, Mel King, Ray Flynn)

Part Four: 1991-2020—The Stabilizing Years
  1. The Death of My Mother
  2. Running for Office—Skakes, Fitzie, and Other Kennedys
  3. The New Yorker Article
  4. The Lost, Confused, and Yet Somehow Productive Years of 1990-2010 (Divorce, Stress—the Mallory-Weiss Syndrome—Death of Second Wife, Alienation from Family yet Traveling the World Lecturing on Genocide and Its Prevention)
  5. Rabbi in Paradise (“Key West Rabbi”)
  6. Finding Love Again, with Raya, 2011-2017
  7. Back to Harvard and Stability, 2011-2020—Renewed Productivity, Especially with Help from World-Famed Designer and Cousin Allen Porter, Support from My Mentor and Genocide Guide Greg Stanton, and Spiritual and Communal Support from My Sephardic Shul)
  8. Toward the Future / Miracles / Mormons / Mahayana Meditation / Finding Peace and Love Again

Glossary of Terms
Appendix
My Contribution to Knowledge
Famous People I Have Met or Who Have Influenced Me
Jack Nusan Porter’s Family Tree
Sources and Permissions
About the Author

Recenzii

“This remarkable and compelling book, a combination of memoir and articles by and about the author, provides an in-depth portrait of Jack Porter, a committed Jewish radical who has also retained his commitment to his very specific Jewish faith. It is a unique and highly readable account of his ongoing search for how Jews should relate to the modern world.”

– Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, Global Education Outreach Project, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw

“One of the most admired and thoughtful heroes of the Jewish left, Jack Nusan Porter offers a remarkable memoir of his life and work. Vividly recounting mid-century Jewish life in middle America, along with travel to the new State of Israel, Porter gives us a thoughtful window into an extraordinary era that reconstituted Jewish identity after the Shoah.”

— Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College