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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Eastern European Jews"”.
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
… that German and Yiddish literature about Jews from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Holocaust is characterized by several discourses and tropes borrowed from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and folklore studies. The influence of these disciplines is manifest in the …
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The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet: with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others.
The secular music of the Eastern European Jews is known today as klezmer. Klezmer was the traditional instrumental celebratory music of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who eventually populated the Pale of Settlement, which encompassed modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania. Due …
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Policy and Practice in Franco-Jewish Migrant Aid
… aid response to the mass immigration of Eastern European Jews between 1881 and 1914 (chapter 4). The second case study focuses on how Franco-Jewish organisations responded to the migration of German-Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1940 (chapter 5). The third and principal case study …
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South Asians in Boston
… the famine-struck Irish, the Italians, the Eastern European Jews wanting to escape religious and socio-political tensions, the Blacks wanting to escape slavery, the Chinese seeking better economic opportunities and more recently, the Asian Indians seeking better education and work …
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Representations of Jews and Jewishness in English painting, 1887-1914
… Act of 1905 which brought immigration from Eastern Europe largely to an end. The author argues that the show constituted a part of an active programme of, as the author names it, Anglification: a cultural and educational project aimed at transforming immigrants into Englishmen (and -women). …
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Zionistische Debatten im Kontext des Ersten Weltkriegs am Beispiel der Herzl-Bund-Blätter 1914–1918
Die Bedeutung des Ersten Weltkriegs als zentraler Kontext für die Aushandlung, Anpassung und Verwerfung unterschiedlicher Konzepte jüdischer Identität im Deutschen Kaiserreich, aber auch über dessen Grenzen hinaus, wurde in der jüngsten Forschung in verschiedenen Aspekten erörtert. Die …