If only you could bottle it : memoirs of a radical son
(Book)

Name: If only you could bottle it : memoirs of a radical son /
Author: Porter, Jack Nusan,

Author

Porter, Jack Nusan,

Published

Boston : Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.

ISBN

9781644698990, 1644698994, 9781644699003, 1644699001

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xix, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Boston : Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.

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Language

English

ISBN

9781644698990, 1644698994, 9781644699003, 1644699001

Notes

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

"This memoir of a radical Jew follows Jack Nusan Porter's journey from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust, through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day, and details his experiences fighting anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate"--,Provided by publisher.

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LC Subjects

Jewish sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Porter, Jack Nusan.
Rabbis -- United States -- Biography.
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

From Maniewicze to Milwaukee

the making of a writer/activist

Milwaukee in the 1940s and 1950s/diary, 1959

LA in the 1950s and 1960s

Habonim/Dror, 1956-1964

Israel, 1962-1963/diary, 1963

Golda and me

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

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)

My days and nights in the Jewish Defense League

Northwestern : the making of a sociologist

Academic follies

Reunions

My Grove Press days

My Nazi-hunting days

My Native American days and nights (sun dances, sweat lodges, dealing with death)

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

The death of a father

The founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars/Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and other zones of conflict

A Jew at the Ukrainian Institute

No tenure : the switch to real estate : hello, Harold Brown and other billionaires

The landlord : dealing with weirdoes (crazy tenants), wise guys (Italian, Russian, African American), and community organizers (Chuck Turner, Mel King, Ray Flynn)

The death of my mother

Running for office

Skakes, Fitzie, and other Kennedys

The New Yorker article

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)

Rabbi in paradise ("Key West Rabbi")

Finding love again, with Raya, 2011-2017

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)

Toward the future/miracles/Mormons/Mahayana meditation/finding peace and love again.

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Porter, J. N. (2023). If only you could bottle it: memoirs of a radical son . Cherry Orchard Books.

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Porter, Jack Nusan. 2023. If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son. Cherry Orchard Books.

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Porter, Jack Nusan. If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.

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Porter, Jack Nusan. If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son Cherry Orchard Books, 2023.

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