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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Judaic studies"”.
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THE COMMUNITY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: A NEW EXPERIENCE IN JEWISH EDUCATION
… that could integrate both General and Judaic studies. Second, there was also present an ability to pay for private education and a sufficient population ready to leave the public school for a period of time. Third, Philadelphia in 1946 also provided a comfortable host environment in …
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A Contemporary Analysis of Shifting Contours of Jewish and Christian Identities
… through examination of four contemporary case studies evidencing two general phenomena. One phenomenon explored is how varieties of self-identified Jesus-believers have incorporated rituals and ideas that have traditionally been associated with Judaism into their contemporary religious practice …
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Prosecuting Hate Speech: Keegstra, Zundel, and the Criminal Law's Ability to Protect Vulnerable Communities
There has been an alarming increase in hate speech in recent years, both in Canada and abroad. There is wide consensus that increased emphasis on criminal law will help suppress harmful expression. Numerous countries have proposed or enacted new criminal laws targeting hate speech. But there is …
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
This study takes up the position that postvernacularity is the vernacular of the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene, creating the space for a subjective, relative, and contingent relationship with Yiddish cultural practices, and that this context necessitates that critical thinking be integrated …
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What Isn't There: Imaging Palestine
What Isn’t There is a research project that considers the possibility of creating an image of Palestine by documenting the 418 Palestinian villages that were erased with the establishment of the State of Israel. The work has taken many forms over a twenty-year period including: photography, film, …
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Thinking Beyond Identity, Nationalism, and Empire
This project explores how and why an Americanized form of 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 …
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In Defense of Empire: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1920
<p>This dissertation asks how Europe’s multinational states legitimized themselves in the face of new, nation-based theories of sovereignty around the turn of the twentieth century. It answers this question by analyzing the production, reception, and circulation of the concept of “empire” in and …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
By the time anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda was widely analogizing Jews to rodents and other nonhuman animals in need of extermination, the accusation that Jewish people might be subhuman, or nonhuman, had been informing non-Jewish perceptions of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. As Jay Geller …
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The Gospel of John and the Future of Israel
<p>The canonical gospels are each concerned to present the significance of Jesus vis-à-vis the Jewish tradition. Yet the Gospel of John exhibits a particularly strained relationship with Judaism, especially through its frequent description of Jesus’s opponents as “the Jews,” its presentation of …
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
… 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 held …