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The Catholic-Jews of Spain
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The Jews of Savannah 1733-1860
<p>This is the story of the Jewish community of Savannah from their original settlement in the earliest days of the Georgia colony to the middle of the nineteenth century. With their history rooted in colonial times they have nevertheless maintained their identity as a people while integrating …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… Easter plays, in contrast, attribute to Jews sole guilt for Jesus's Crucifixion and exclusively venal motives. In hagiography (legends of St. Silvester, ""Der Judenknabe,"" Theophilus, St. Basil) Jews are variously depicted as philosophers, sorcerers, filicides, loving fathers, and …
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The Literary Role of Jews in Qur'anic Exegesis
This study explores the representation of Jews in the Tafsīrs (Qur’anic exegeses) of three medieval Sunnī scholars, Muqātil (d. 767 CE), al-Ṭabarī (d. 923 CE) and Ibn Kathīr (d. 1373 CE). The main argument is that the three exegetes create boundaries between Muslims and Jews by presenting Jews as a …
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Culture and Exchange: The Jews of Königsberg, 1700-1820
… I describe the triangular relationship of the Jews, the Prussian crown, and local municipal leadership in the city during the slow growth of the absolutist state in the eighteenth century. In particular, the dissertation investigates the Aleinu Edict of 1703 and the creation of an organized …
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Representations of Jews and Jewishness in English painting, 1887-1914
… painters such as Pilichowski. Especially in Jews mourning in synagogue, almost all narrative detail (synagogue furniture, scrolls, books) have been eliminated and the painting relies for it's a/effect entirely on the antique effect of the full-length prayershawls (typical of Eastern European …
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Time for favour: Scottish missions to the Jews, 1838-1852
… Chalmers’ enthusiasm for missions to the Jews. Both authors are challenged by a fresh evaluation of original sources: Roxborogh in chapter two and Chambers in chapter seven. The period 1838-52 was critical for the development of Scottish missions to the Jewish people. Although sympathetic …
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Jews and British Sport: integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960
Between the 1890s and the 1960s, sport had a distinctive and varied impact 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 …
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Art Used as a Therapeutic Intervention Between Isralie Arabs and Jews
… intervention between Israeli Arabs and Jews. It consists of interviews with facilitators and teachers on the one hand, and participants and students on the other. Results indicate that art is an important and helpful tool used in a wide variety of ways during the encounter workshops, art …
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"""Ukraine without Jews""? Nationality and belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948"
… some of the most pressing issues confronting Jews in the newly-liberated Ukraine to reveal how Soviet citizens attempted to articulate, reconstruct, and police the boundaries of their communities following the devastation of war, foreign occupation, and genocide, challenges they shared with …
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The chosen genes : Jews, genetics, and the future of ethnic medicine
All humans have certain genes that cause or predispose them to various diseases. In the ideal medical future, scientists will have hyperfast gene analyzers able to sequence anyone's DNA in a matter of minutes. In that future, a patient could have his entire sequence of DNA screened for mutations …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… to their shared past as Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union.</p>
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Intimate strangers: intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935
… well as the relatively less common ones between Jews 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,” …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… Bank. It examines the ways in which orthodox Jews on the one hand, and non-observant Jewish activists for solidarity with Palestinians on the other hand, use meditation techniques drawn from Buddhism for pursuing objectives that are central for them, respectively, as contemporary Israelis. In …
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Experiencing Everyday Prejudice of a Concealabe Stigma: Jews in a non-Jewish World
… minorities and ethnic groups (Swim, 2003). Jews with a long history as targets of stigma, prejudice and discrimination are an excellent example of a modern concealable stigma. Previous research into the Jewish experience has been influenced by concerns about group survival and has not …
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American Immigration Policies and Public Opinion on European Jews from 1933 to 1945.
… of the American public’s opinion on European Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Significant attention is placed on several aspects of American politics and public perceptions at this time. The ideas that developed from the Great Depression through World War II on refugees and immigrants are …
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