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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Jewish Communities"”.
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B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities
"The history of the Polish-Jewish relationship is...the embattled terrain of several collective memories, each with its claim to moral legitimacy, and each charged with fierce and sometimes vehement feelings." These contested histories are the source of tension and animosity between Poles and Jews …
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Progresszív judaizmus Magyarországon. Indentitás-(re)konstrukció reform zsidó közösségben = Progressive Judaism in Hungary. Identity (re)construction in reform Jewish communities
A progresszív judaizmus egy reformer zsidó vallási mozgalom és ideológia, amelynek gyökerei a felvilágosodásig nyúlnak vissza. Ma világviszonylatban követőinek számát tekintve a legnépesebb zsidó vallási irányzat. Magyarországon az első progresszív szervezetet a rendszerváltozás időszakában …
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A Preservation Framework for American Jewish Built Heritage
American Jewish built heritage is the tangible legacy of historic Jewish communities, especially in small and medium-sized cities throughout the U.S. This thesis examines the importance of Jewish built heritage to Jewish communities, their cities and towns, and the American story. As an …
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Immigrants to citizens : civil integration and acculturation of Jews into Oudtshoorn society, 1874-1999
… at providing a model for the study of rural Jewish communities in South Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular of the processes of acculturation and assimilation pertaining to Jewish immigrants in a frontier society. Oudtshoorn, an agricultural district in …
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Erdély zsidó közösségei a kezdetektől napjainkig a temetők tükrében
The PhD dissertation titled Jewish Communities in Transylvania: from the Beginnings to the Present int the Light of Cemeteries explores the Jewish society of Transylvania, a region in the heart of Romania, in the light of the cemeterie s that exist today and ca n thus be subject to research. The …
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The Theoretical Symbolism of Eruvin: A Model of Dual-Identity and Sacred Space
… Jews, <em>eruvin</em> strengthen the bonds of Jewish communities while subsequently allowing for the full integration of the same Jewish community into the majority “mainstream” culture. Further, they represent a challenge to western notions of space, most emphatically the concept that physical …
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Linguistic Variation in MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection
… casts light on the evolution and spread of Jewish medical knowledge, meticulously shaped by intellectual influences from both Eastern and Western traditions. Jewish communities, especially during the Islamic Golden Age, served as custodians and interpreters of an expansive body of medical …
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Expressions of Diasporic Identity: Transcultural Language in Jewish-Greek Inscriptions
The diasporic Jewish experience is characterized by the dynamics of acculturation and enculturation, a twofold process entailing a degree of integration into the majority culture and at the same time a strong retention of the Jewish identity. The primary purpose of my thesis is to demonstrate how …
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Art Used as a Therapeutic Intervention Between Isralie Arabs and Jews
… and animosity which exists between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel, centers of conflict resolution such as "Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam", "Givat Haviva" and "Interns For Peace" were founded to encourage rapprochement between these two ethnic groups. Among the many interventions being …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
… the first integrated history of Vienna’s four Jewish cemeteries as sites reflecting the construction, negotiation and at times contestation of Jewish communal belonging within Viennese society, embedded in the Viennese cityscape. Through a novel analysis of the sepulchral epigraphy of the …
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
… and non-Jews. Like Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities themselves, social boundaries shaped these unions and spurred the ways in which their meanings changed over time. One of the principal claims is that “confessional,” “religious,” and “racial” boundaries have to be understood as …
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Two far South: the responses of South African and Southern Jews to Apartheid and Segregation in the 1950s and 1960s
… It focuses on the interrelationship of the two communities with reform rabbis and international Jewish organizations. The dissertation argues that the nature of individual and institutional responses was significantly shaped by exposure to a set of factors common to the South and South Africa. …
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Two far south : the responses of South African and Southern Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s
… It focuses on the interrelationship of the two communities with reform rabbis and international Jewish organizations. The dissertation argues that the nature of individual and institutional responses was significantly shaped by exposure to a set of factors common to the South and South Africa. …
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Nearly the new world: refugees and the British west Indies, 1933-1945
… as a place of refuge, internment and transit for Jewish refugees from Europe during the interwar and Second World War period. It approaches the subject from the different perspectives of the British Government, West Indian colonies, refugee organisations and refugees themselves. It is divided into …
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Parallel Ruptures: Jews of Bessarabia and Transnistria Between Romanian Nationalism and Soviet Communism, 1918--1940
… political and social debates that took place in Jewish communities in Romanian-held Bessarabia and the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the interwar era. Both had been part of the Russian Pale of Settlement until its dissolution in 1917; they were then divided by the Romanian …
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Parallel ruptures: Jews of Bessarabia and Transnistria between Romanian nationalism and Soviet communism, 1918-1940
… political and social debates that took place in Jewish communities in Romanian-held Bessarabia and the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the interwar era. Both had been part of the Russian Pale of Settlement until its dissolution in 1917; they were then divided by the Romanian …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
In the mid 20th-century, American Jewish communities were participating both in an unprecedented level of social integration and an accompanying uncertainty regarding their personal and communal heritage. Jews were increasingly becoming like mainstream Americans, but processes of suburbanization …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… scholar. He was also the heir of a long Jewish family tradition. His great-great-grand father lived and died as a Jew. His great-grandfather, his grandmother and two of his uncles were among his relatives to have been sentenced as judaisers by the Inquisition. His own father kept the Law …
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Antisemitism in British football : examining good practice in anti-discrimination educational initiatives
Antisemitism, which adversely impacts Jewish communities worldwide, manifests in various forms, from verbal abuse and social discrimination to physical violence and even genocide. Antisemitism has been documented in European football stadiums, where antisemitic chants, symbols, and slurs have been …
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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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