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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Jew"”.
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Fagin the Jew
… investigation of Cotopaxi, a 19th-Century Jewish agricultural colony in Colorado that failed after two years. It explores personally and historically constructed Jewish identities as they reverberate through the gaps and silences in the Cotopaxi colony's past and into the present.</p>
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Grafting Onto `the Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity
<p>The dissertation examines how Jewish figures in early modern plays, prose, and poetry moved beyond the uncomplicated medieval image of murderous villain and towards a more reasoned consideration of the Jew's position in Christianity as well as in English life. While there has been significant …
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
… analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with the New Testament, I examine how Paul employed sexual stereotypes to distinguish the …
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Imaging and Imagining the Jew in Medieval England
… on the relationship between representations of Jews and the people who made and used these representations fills a significant gap in existing scholarship. My definition of the visual community, as constructed by the complex and nuanced relationship between the choices of an artist, the …
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The Portrait of The Jew in The Balzacian Novel
… created important literary characters who were Jewish. Although he borrowed certain traits, his Jews were not the stereotypes commonly found in earlier literature. Balzac used his ability to penetrate the facade of reality in order to explore human experience and to depict French society. …
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Kliem Ingliż f’kuntesti differenti : Malti kontemporanju jew Malti Ingliż imħallat?
… li din il-kelma daħlitx fiż-żewġ kuntesti jew le. Permezz ta’ dan ix-xogħol jien m’iniex ngħid b’definitezza li dawn il-kliem daħlu fil-Malti jew le, iżda se niffoka fuq x’jaħsbu l-parteċipanti fuq dan il-kliem Ingliż li dieħel fil-Malti. Bl-ebda mod ma qiegħed niġġudika dak li qed …
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“I’m not just a Jew, I’m a trans jew, and I’m not just trans, I’m trans and Jew”: agency and identity in the experiences of gender diverse former students in non-Orthodox Jewish day schools in the United States
… protection in privately-funded schools, such as Jewish day schools (JDSs), is also not guaranteed. Moreover, inherent tension between gender diversity and religion render religious K-12 schools and higher education institutions unsafe for gender diverse students (Callaghan et al., 2023; Craig et …
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“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew
… volume. Wordsworth’s “Song for the Wandering Jew” was one of these newly added poems. There are a number of influences at work in the poem, chief among these is the narrative of the Wandering Jew alluded to in the poem’s title. In regards to work written on Jews in Romantic-era English …
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
… reflect contemporary suspicions of the Anglo Jewish population. In the thirteenth century, the bestiary experienced a final flourish during which the imagery and text of certain entries, which allegorized Jews, Judaism, and the Old Testament, were amended and amplified. During the first …
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A Jew from Nebraska: An Actors Attempt at Stand-up Comedy
Stand-up comedy has been a major influence on American culture and has given the "Everyman" the ability to laugh at ourselves. Stand-up comedians have been performing in nightclubs, bars, clubs, and, most importantly, theatres for the past 60 years. Stand-up comedy can take many forms: a monologue …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… tend to take one of three attitudes towards the Jewish figure in Early Modern drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view …
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The Anguish of Ahasverus: The Legend of the Wandering Jew in English Romantic Literature
… of the influence of the Legend of the Wandering Jew on specific works of three English Romantic poets, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, and of the use made by these poets of the Legend. Certain critics, concerned with the whole field of the Legend, have discussed the Legend as legend or as …
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The foundations of antisemitism in South Africa : images of the Jew c.1870-1930
Historians of South African Jewry have depicted antisemitism in the 1930s and early 1940s as essentially an alien phenomenon, a product of Nazi propaganda at a time of great social and economic trauma. This thesis argues that antisemitism was an important element in South African society long …
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Justice and identity : the 'non-Jewish Jew', cosmopolitanism and anti-apartheid activism in twentieth century South Africa
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-90).
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Marlowe on the English stage: 1588-1988 : a stage history of three Marlowe plays Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and the Jew of Malta.
… Marlowe's plays, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta, from Marlowe's own time to our own time. It also attempts to discuss changes in critical attitudes to these plays in particular, and to Marlowe in general, and to relate these to the plays' theatrical fortunes. Each of the first and …
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The Third Space: The Meeting of Jew and Christian in the Act of Remembering, Restoring, and Reconciling - A Case Study of the Matzevah Foundation
… and challenging relationship exists between Jews and Christians. The resulting breach isolates and separates these two faith groups from each other. Consequently, they struggle to interact and engage in meaningful dialogue, which could repair the breach and lead to forgiveness and …
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Comparison and Contrast in the Major Tragic Protagonists of Christopher Marlowe
… of four plays, Tamburlaine. Doctor Faustus. The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second. |To study the likenesses and differences of Marlowe’s tragic protagonists in three of these is the purpose of this thesis. To date there seems to have been no study made of this problem. The plays themselves will …
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ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ
… BUT ONLY THESE BOOKS WERE ACCEPTED BY TRYPHO (A JEW). YET, JUSTIN IS FAMILIAR WITH OTHER O.T. TRANSLATIONS AS WELL (THAT OF THEODOTION AND THAT OF ACYLAS) AND WITH A COLLECTION OF PROPHECIES; HOWEVER, HE IGNORES THE HEBREW. IN THE SECOND CHAPTER THE "CHRISTOLOGICAL" ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IS …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… concerned with the Christian conception of the Jew. From the St. Gall Passion play (1300's) to the Alsfeld Passion play (1500), the Passion plays present Jesus's Jewish enemies alongside his Jewish followers. The Halle Passion play (1490's) emphasizes the Jewishness of Jesus and his disciples. …
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