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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Jewish Life"”.
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Institutions for the Education of the Modern Rabbi in Germany (During the Nineteenth Century)
… of these institutions by changes in modern Jewish life, the writer portrays their growth, indicates their educational innovations, and evaluates their achivement.
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… largely responsible for the great diversity of Jewish musical traditions, and delineates the various Jewish communities living in geographically defined areas today. The need for comparative studies spanning these different communities is stressed; Chapter 3 is concerned with the history of the …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… largely responsible for the great diversity of Jewish musical traditions, and delineates the various Jewish communities living in geographically defined areas today. The need for comparative studies spanning these different communities is stressed; Chapter 3 is concerned with the history of the …
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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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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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Thinking Beyond Identity, Nationalism, and Empire
… Zionism became an effective movement in American Jewish life. In the quest for a just and lasting resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most scholarly attention has been focused on the state (and people) of Israel and the people of Palestine, and their efforts to resolve the conflict …
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Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
… on the social, cultural, political and economic life of the British Jewish community. During this period, Anglo-Jewry developed a clear sporting tradition, in both a direct and indirect sense, and their participation in the world of British sport had a significant impact on processes and …
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, American-Jewish artist Shimon Attie traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs …
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Two Life Histories of Native American Women Becoming Literate
This life history study presents two Uptown Chicago Native American women, who overcame obstacles in their literacy development. Vonda Gluck interchanges between a traditional Santee Sioux life as well as a traditional Jewish life. Debbie Valentino has acquired knowledge, making a dramatic change …
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Rabbi Akiba Eger: His Life and Times
… such material is analyzed and important data on Jewish life in the first half of the nineteenth century are brought to light. While Eger's method of instruction and his attitude to early and late rabbinical authorities have been examined in this study, it was clearly outside its scope to evaluate …
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Jewish women in Glasgow c1880-1950: gender ethnicity and the immigrant experience
… examining the experiences of women in immigrant Jewish families and including gender analysis, it also forms an addition to British/Jewish history. The development of a Jewish community is examined in chronological format beginning with the arrival of immigrants from Eastern Europe and ending …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… of local participation in the elimination of Jewish life in Estonia. The subject was catapulted onto the national political agenda in alignment with integration to both NATO and the EU, which clearly viewed Estonia's coming to terms with the event as a matter of importance upon its arrival …
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Judaizmus és közösségtörténet Kecskemét rabbijainak működése történetszociológiai aspektusból
… of their society, organisation, divisions, life – and their perishing. In order to have a future, we need to be aware of the past. This striving has been a quality of the thinking man ever since the dawn of time. During the past decades, the religious and cultural life of the Hungarian Jewry …
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Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility
… here she gave witness to the truth of Jewish life as she experienced it. Finally, Stein unfolded her personal core by entering Carmel and offering her life as a sacrifice for all people. These actions are evidence that Stein had an ethic by which she strove to integrate her internal …
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Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000
… “outside” American world an antithesis to Haredi Jewish life.</p> <p>I examine one genre of children’s books in each chapter, and I argue that each genre contributes to a Haredi literacy of text, language, space, and time. Middle grade short story collections invoking the Talmud suggest that every …
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The economy of the Temple of Jerusalem and its clergy in the Hellenistic period.
… its strict hierarchy was the prominent class in Jewish society. Although the Temple apparently possessed no estates extensive enough to keep its personnel, as other Graeco-Roman sanctuaries did, it had a great economic impact on Jewish life. It exacted significant taxes from its worshippers, both …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… themselves as embodying and enacting Israel’s Jewish and democratic ideal through their integration within Israeli society and state institutions. I study Religious-Zionists who identify as dati’im liberalim, liberal religious Jews, who re-envision the locus of religious authority and of public …
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An analysis of loanwords in selected isiXhosa texts
… their domains (including religion, politics, and lifestyle) in order to establish what prompted the borrowing. The preoccupations, political tensions, practicalities, motivations of prestige and novelties involved in isiXhosa contact with missionaries and settlers dominate the corpus domains, and …
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The Good Italian, the Bad German, and the Survivor: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Shoah in Italy
… with government records, I show how Italy’s Jewish survivors, for many decades after World War II and the Shoah, continued to invoke the national myths of the ‘good Italian’ and the ‘bad German’ in their recollections, despite their frequent persecution at Italian hands. This tendency, I …
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Reading and Responding: Finding and Making Meaning in the Life Writing of Diasporic Iranian Jewish Women
This project investigates the English-language life writing of diasporic Iranian Jewish women. It examines how these women have differentially imagined their diasporic lives and travels, and how they have in turn been imagined and accepted or rejected by their audiences. In the first chapter, I use …