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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Jewish history"”.
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Vulgar Moon
… of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, and Jewish history. In addition, these pieces explore the inner workings of the human psyche, both tender and malignant, and the inherent human need for absolution.
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Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
… of Nazi rule. What impact did the violin have on Jewish music and culture prior to Nazi domination? How did the Nazis use instrumental music to manage of the camps and control the lives of prisoners? How did the music prove to be a means of defiance against Nazi power? In an era when Nazis …
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The Book of Enoch and Second Temple Judaism.
<p>This thesis examines the ancient Jewish text the Book of Enoch, the scholarly work done on the text since its discovery in 1773, and its seminal importance to the study of ancient Jewish history. Primary sources for the thesis project are limited to Flavius Josephus and the works of the Old …
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Towards a curriculum for teaching the holocaust in a South African Jewish primary school : a case study
… in the evolving identity of the South African Jewish Community and the appropriate means of translating the subject into the curriculum of its schools. Its place in the primary school has been unclear and its role undefined in contrast to the subjects central unit in the high school Jewish …
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"""Ukraine without Jews""? Nationality and belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948"
… of other Europeans. Within the context of Soviet Jewish history, this dissertation advocates re-envisioning the years between 1943 and 1948—typically portrayed simply as the period between the Holocaust and the antisemitic policies of Stalin’s final years—as a time of professional, personal, and …
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Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden
… political owes a debt to her earlier writings on Jewish history, including her Kantian-influenced theory of political judgment and storytelling, in this thesis I would like to narrow down this debt to a specific trope: The<em> Ostjuden, </em>or the imagined associations with Eastern European …
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Jewish women in Glasgow c1880-1950: gender ethnicity and the immigrant experience
This study makes a contribution to the gender history of modern Scotland and addresses issues of ethnic diversity in the Scottish past. By examining the experiences of women in immigrant Jewish families and including gender analysis, it also forms an addition to British/Jewish history. The …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
This thesis presents 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 …
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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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Culture and Exchange: The Jews of Königsberg, 1700-1820
<p>This dissertation traces the history of the Jewish community in Königsberg, East Prussia, from its founding in 1700 to the aftermath of the Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812, as well as the early stages of Jewish embourgeoisement and political integration. My project combines aspects of a …
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Jewish Identity and Attitudes toward Militarism in Scotland c.1898 to the 1920s
This thesis concerns Scottish Jewish participation and non-participation with the military, primarily during the Great War, and the connection to Jewish integration and interaction with Scottish society.<br/><br/>Within British Jewish historiography, Scottish Jews receive little attention in …
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Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
… 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 discourses surrounding …
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Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096
<p>The course of Jewish history in western Europe is varied. Beginning in small communities located in the Roman provinces at the beginning of the Common Era, the Jews spread northward into Germany and France and slowly increased both their population and the number of towns in which they were …
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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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Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception Of Timekeeping Technology From The Bible To The Twentieth Century
Many studies of Jewish history are set against a backdrop of political or cultural change; few studies, especially those set before the Industrial Revolution, analyze technological change, in part because such change often took place quite slowly. Timekeeping technology has been in development for …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
This dissertation traces a literary lineage in Jewish cultural imaginations that associates havruta—an educational method of long-term study partnership that has evolved in a male homosocial context of traditional Judaism as a central pedagogical method and an important religious practice—with …
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From Lineage to Legacy: Charles Garland Verrinder and Victorian Anglo-Jewish Music
… provides an unusual insight into the world of Jewish music in Victorian Britain. An Anglican musician trained as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and with Royal Organist Sir George Elvey, Verrinder’s forty-five-year career as the first organist of the West London Synagogue (Britain’s first …
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Jose Arturo Castellanos: An Unlikely Hero of the Second World War from El Salvador
The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on a Holocaust rescue effort untaken by Jose Castellanos and George Mandel. Mandel has been the subject of several publications while Castellanos' role has largely been ignored. Newly discovered certificates along with cooperation and acknowledgement from …
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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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צדקה és társadalometika
… thesis is to interpret the concept of צדקה as Jewish social ethics. Judaism is determined by its social ethics, which, in turn, is the set of principles of צדקה . The main objective of the research is to analyse the diverse aspects of Jewish social ethics. Thus, it is our conviction that the …
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