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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Jewish Studies"”.
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WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES: DIASPORISM AS AN EMERGENT JEWISH MOVEMENT
Thesis (M.A.) - Indiana University, Department of Jewish Studies, 2021
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“Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Redefining Armenians in Early Twentieth Century America
… Armenian American identity, this paper turns to Jewish studies for inspiration. Jewish studies historiography boasts a highly developed framework for understanding how Jewish Americans redefined themselves in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, offering a useful tool for studying …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… insights into both post-Soviet ethnography and Jewish studies. Much of the research done on emerging market practices in the former Soviet Union emphasizes the concept of transition and fails to fully address the ways in which people creatively react to and shape their social worlds. I consider …
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Culture's “In-Betweens”: Diaspora and artistic practice of Gavin Jantjes, Marlene Dumas and Moshekwa Langa.
… the discipline of history and, particularly, in Jewish studies. Its current omnipresence in the fields of art history and theory, however, is the result of a number of new critical, theoretical and curatorial tendencies that have gained particular momentum since the last two decades of the …
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FILIATIONS OF THE NEGATIVE IN FRANZ KAFKA, PAUL CELAN, AND ANDRE GREEN
… theoretical framework developed by the French-Jewish psychoanalyst André Green (1927-2012) the dissertation investigates the work of the Negative in the late writings of two crucial German-Jewish authors: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Paul Celan (1920-1970). Providing a new interdisciplinary …
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The emergence of literary ethnography in the Russian Empire: from the far east to the pale of settlement, 1845-1917
… in the works of two Russian and two Russian Jewish writers and ethnographers. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Semyon An-sky wrote fiction in the genre of literary ethnography. This genre encompasses discursive practices and narrative strategies in the analysis of …
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
… Nussbaum of Jackson, is central to most southern Jewish studies. However, it neglects aspects of their background. Neither rabbi was a native Mississippian nor accepted as truly Southern due to the stances they took regarding racial equality. Charles Mantinband was from Virginia and originally …
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Poststructuralism Avant La Lettre: Language and Gender in the Thought of Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn
… figure in the academic fields of philosophy and Jewish studies. This dissertation will argue that Schneersohn is deserving of scholarly attention, not merely as an interesting contributor to the field of modern Jewish thought, but as a relevant interlocutor with some of the central concerns of …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… of ceramics, archaeology, ancient history, Jewish studies and critical theory, to enlarge ways of viewing and understanding the bowls, advocating a more prominent position for them within ceramic historical traditions. Aramaic incantation bowls from 5th-7th century CE Iraq are clay bowls …
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The Musical World of Joseph Rumshinsky’s <i>Mamele</i>
… consists of a set of three cases studies that demonstrate the enormous need and potential for further Yiddish theater music scholarship. There exists little Yiddish theater scholarship that addresses music in any meaningful way: scholars like David Lifson, Nahma Sandrow, and Joel …
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Imaging and Imagining the Jew in Medieval England
… Gabrielle Spiegel that is complemented by recent studies of the Jew as a necessary construct by Gavin Langmuir and Jeremy Cohen. Situating visualized Jews within each community's unique visual culture provides the opportunity to merge traditional art historical methods with pioneering …
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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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The didactic utilization of the Bible and Midrash in the plays of Zalman Aaron Lison
… primarily adults, the plays' target audience was Jewish children in the higher classes of primary school. (early teens). I then discovered that Zalman Aaron Uson was a teacher who taught Jewish studies to South African Jewish children in government primary schools. He wrote the plays in order to …
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The genre of suffering in the ancient Near Eastern literature, the Hebrew Bible, and in some examples of modern literature
The aim of this thesis is to compare works of drama regarding the suffering of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering …
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Protection and Reward: the Significance of Ancient Midrashic Expositions on Genesis 15:1-6
<p>Genesis 15:1-6, because of its content, provides singular opportunities for the study of ancient midrashic documents. This kind of study is being increasingly performed, and has interest from a theological, historical and--especially--exegetical viewpoint.</p> <p>Chapter 1 attentively analyzes …
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The Laws of Clean and Unclean Animals of Leviticus 11: their Nature, Theology, and Rationale (an Intertextual Study)
… attempts to fill the gap in Pentateuchal studies on the Mosiac dietary laws concerning clean and unclean animals by investigating the nature, theology, and rationale of the food regulations.</p> <p>My study is divided into four chapters. After an introduction (where the problem of the …
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