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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Porter, Jack Nusan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Praise for Jack Nusan Porter --; Contents --; 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: 1963–1971—The Radical Years --; 7. 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 --; 8. Activism Continued, 1967–1971: The 1968 Chicago Convention Riot; the Chicago 8 Trial; 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) --; 9. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League --; 10. Northwestern: The Making of a Sociologist --; 11. Academic Follies --; 12. Reunions --; Part Three: 1971–1991—The Transitional Years --; 13. My Grove Press Days --; 14. My Nazi-Hunting Days --; 15. My Native American Days and Nights (Sun Dances, Sweat Lodges, Dealing with Death) --; 16. 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 --; 17. The Death of a Father --; 18. The Founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars / Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and Other Zones of Conflict --; 19. A Jew at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute --; 20. No Tenure: The Switch to Real Estate: Hello, Harold Brown and Other Billionaires --; 21. 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 --; 22. The Death of My Mother --; 23. Running for Office—Skakes, Fitzie, and Other Kennedys --; 24. The New Yorker Article --; 25. 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) --; 26. Rabbi in Paradise (“Key West Rabbi”) --; 27. Finding Love Again, with Raya, 2011–2017 --; 28. 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) --; 29. Toward the Future / Miracles / Mormons / and Mahayana Meditation / Finding Peace and Love Again --; Photographs --; Glossary of Terms --; Appendix --; Sources and Permissions --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644699010; 9783111023540; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319254; 9783111318677
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644699010
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jack Nusan Porter.

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 yeshiva 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.