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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Jewish community"”.
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All of Us? Marginalizing Dissent in Toronto's Jewish Community
Mainstream Jewish institutions like the Canadian Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada largely communicate the impression of community-wide support for Israeli government policies and actions to the broader society. When Jewish individuals and groups in Toronto who do not …
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The experience of motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish community
… motherhood within north-west London’s Orthodox Jewish community. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted amongst seven mothers, each with three or more children, the youngest being over the age of one. All participants were religious Orthodox Jews …
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Negotiating Jewishness : identity and citizenship in the Leeds Jewish community
… ethnic groups. This research into the history of Jewish integration into British society analyses the relationship between changing forms of British citizenship and the evolution of British Jewish identities. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how citizenship policies affect minority …
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A history of the Jewish community of Potchefstroom and environs
… and secularization are explored. The Jewish community developed in parallel with the fortunes of the town until external factors prompted the departure of individuals and families to other centres. The inner workings of the communal organizations and the role of functionaries are …
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Gaucer Disease in the Ashkenazi-Jewish Community of South Africa
Gaucher disease is a biochemical genetic disorder of the lipid storage group. It is characterised by an accumulation of a glycosphingolipid, glycosyl ceramide in the reticulo-endothelial system. The condition presents clinically with hepatosplenomegaly, haematologic and orthopaedic problems. …
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“Matters have improved beyond description”: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Jews under fire: the Jewish community and military service in World War I Britain
Jewish and national histories have been interwoven in this study to probe the collision between perceptions of Jewish identity and the legacy of an imperial hierarchy of martial masculinity, conditioned by the pressures of war. It was to create significant dislocation, both in the traditional …
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An existential exploration of the experience of coming out in the Orthodox Jewish community
… of the experience of coming out in the Orthodox Jewish community. It is grounded in a qualitative, phenomenological and existential methodology. Eight participants were interviewed, all male between the ages of 20-30, who grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community and came out as gay, a minimum of …
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Aspects of the Oral Heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho
… of the oral heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho, Kurdistan: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research in the field has …
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Securing supplemental revenue in private elementary school: A case study of one Jewish community day school
… and tuition under $10,000. The chosen site was a Jewish community day school operating a program for infants through sixth graders. It was the only Jewish school in the county and adjacent areas. Data was collected from ten participant interviews, multiple documents, the school website, and …
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The role of religious symbols in the identity of the Jewish community of the Western Cape
… cultures, obliterating all signs of their Jewishness. There were those who chose to culturally and nationally assimilate, yet to retain some of the religious symbols of Judaism (Reform). There were those who chose to try to find a synthesis between the new culture and their Jewishness, …
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Let my people grow: the diffusion of the Jewish farming movement through the Jewish community of the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area
… research is to account for the diffusion of the Jewish farming movement as it transpires through several sites in Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland. This research develops an empirically grounded theory surrounding the establishment and diffusion of the Jewish farming movement, as …
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Jewish Education Between Students of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Age and High School Students in a Jewish Community
… Do older students recognize the importance of Jewish education more than younger students? Will more older students claim that they enjoyed a great deal in both Jewish elementary and high schools? Do older students favor the Jewish high school teachers more than the younger students? Are older …
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Tradition, accommodation, revolution and counterrevolution: a history of a century of struggle for the soul of orthodoxy in Johannesburgs Jewish community, 1915-2015
… religious movement within the single largest Jewish population centre in South Africa. From a splintered and largely immigrant community in 1915 with weak religious and educational institutions, and a pattern of religious laxity, Orthodox Jewry has transformed into a highly organized and …
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A comparative study of lower grade and higher grade pupils at a Jewish community school with regard to intelligence, self-concept and adjustment
… and 29 Higher grade pupils in Stds 8 and 9 at a Jewish community day school were compared with regard to their I Q scores, self-concepts and adjustment level. These variables were measured on the following tests: The NSAGT; the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and the PHSF Relations …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
… Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as a coherent work by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali. The collection has been used by scholars as a source regarding …
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