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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
By the time anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda was widely analogizing Jews to rodents and other nonhuman animals in need of extermination, the accusation that Jewish people might be subhuman, or nonhuman, had been informing non-Jewish perceptions of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. As Jay Geller …
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Jewish Jesus, Gentile church - Jewish meal? The origins and development of the Lord's Supper through a Jewish prism
… the Lord’s Supper are best understood through a Jewish prism. In order to do this, I create a distinction between ethos and practice. The four critical research questions that govern the thesis are: Firstly, why did the Lord’s Supper come about in the first place? Secondly, are the Passover, …
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THE COMMUNITY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: A NEW EXPERIENCE IN JEWISH EDUCATION
… the origins and development of the Community Jewish Day School in America, a new form of education for the American Jewish community. It was different from earlier, single-ideological day schools that had emerged in the early part of the twentieth century. This dissertation describes the …
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“Jewish, Gay and Proud”
… and contrary to tradition by almost the entire Jewish community. The starting point of the argumentation is, in addition to general changes in American synagogues after World War II, the assumption that Los Angeles was the most suitable place for this foundation. Los Angeles has an impressive …
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The Hebrew-Jewish Disconnection
… regardless of geographical boundaries. In the Jewish community this language is Hebrew. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship that American Jews have with the Hebrew language in terms of comprehension, the value they place on Hebrew, and how they position themselves on the …
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Examining Priming Effects of Jewish Culture and Religion on Impressions of a Jewish Individual
… cultural and religious components of American Jewish people's identities (Friedlander et al., 2010). Consequently, we conducted a series of studies assessing Jewish stereotype content and activation that confirmed these components also comprise the Jewish stereotype (Letson & Seta, 2011). The …
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
<p>I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in …
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Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism
… as a disciple of Karl Barth and an exponent of Jewish-Christian dialogue, the dissertation largely brackets these aspects of Wyschogrod’s intellectual background in order to focus on the ways in which his thought deploys themes and tropes drawn especially from the work of Søren Kierkegaard, but …
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Positive Relationships: A Jewish Perspective
… Integrating and drawing parallels between Jewish laws, beliefs, values, and customs and the science of positive psychology, Positive Judaism offers a holistic approach to those who want to enhance their well-being from a Jewish perspective. Based on this framework, several religiously and …
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Recovering Jewish Spain: Politics, Historiography and Institutionalization of the Jewish Past in Spain (1845-1935)
… is a study of initiatives to recover the Jewish past and of the emergence of Sephardic Studies in Spain from 1845 to 1935. It explores the ways the Jewish past became central to efforts to construct and claim a Spanish patria, through its appropriation and integration into the nation's …
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A Grounded Theory of How Jewish Experiential Education Impacts the Identity Development of Jewish Emerging Adults
<p>The Jewish community has increasingly relied upon Experiential Education as a pedagogical approach to instilling Jewish identity and communal affiliation over the past twenty years. The Experiential Education format of travel programs has specifically been emphasized and promoted for Jewish …
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Buddhist Heart - Jewish Soul: A Examination of the Phenomenon of Jewish Buddhists in the United States
… United States are Jews. Within the population of Jewish Buddhists are many of Western Buddhism’s scholars, spiritual leaders, authors and teachers. This thesis project will examine the phenomenon of the non-Asian Buddhists in the United States who are Jewish. It argues that this phenomenon is a …
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Background to Jewish education in America.
This item has been digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… will focus on four popular novels by Jewish-American women writers and the relatively neglected area of the imaginative representation of women’s experiences within post-holocaust Ultra-Orthodoxy. It will explore the notion of what an Ultra-Orthodox heroine is and examine whether a …
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Jewish identity and positive distinctiveness: an exploratory study of the subjective importance of being Jewish using Q methodology
… to assess the subjective importance of being Jewish for a sample of Jewish South Africans residing in Cape Town (n = 51 ). The psychological processes by means of which group identity may be understood are examined using Tajfel's Social Identity Theory. Three different perspectives about being …
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Leopold von Mildenstein and the Jewish Question
… Nazi SS and his attempt to solve the so-called Jewish Question through Zionist emigration in prewar Nazi Germany. Mildenstein’s Zionism was contingent upon the German Zionist movement’s success in effecting Jewish emigration to Palestine. When international factors such as the Arab revolt made …
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Leopold Von Ranke and the Jewish Question
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Vision and imagination in Jewish mystical texts
… argument on the rich artistic heritage of the Jewish people. Secondly, various otherworldly visions will be examined, with special reference to visions of the soul whilst in and out of the body. The soul while still in the body is able to have extraordinary visions. These spiritual visions are …
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