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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Orthodox Judaism"”.
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A study of the nature and development of orthodox Judaism in South Africa to c.1935
This dissertation examines the manner in which Orthodox Judaism developed in South Africa from the foundation of the first congregation in 1841 up to about 1935, and considers what distinctive features, if any, characterised South African Judaism. Locating the emergence of South African Judaism …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… a small minority community in South Africa, the Orthodox Jewish com-munity in Johannesburg, this study explores why a person would actively and volun-tarily seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding …
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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
… provides the first comprehensive study of Orthodox Judaism within Johannesburg, the dominant 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 …
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Encounter with the eruv : a project towards the city of open enclosures
… allowed within a private domain on Shabbat in orthodox Judaism. An eruv is created by constructing a continuous boundary and the symbolic pooling of resources of the community. Both the eruv's origin in Jewish law as well as contemporary analysis provide the framework for my own interpretation. …
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Between Letter and Spirit: The Ontology of Jewish Performance
… rituals and performance practices in the orthodox Jewish community in Toronto, Canada over the last decade. It explores how the written law factors into an oral tradition, a script not passed on by bodily surrogation alone but in the form of guidebooks, performance manuals and legal texts. …
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The experience of motherhood within the Orthodox Jewish community
… of 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 …
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Binján áv - A rabbinikus gondolkodásmód analízise egy rabbinikus írásmagyarázati szabály logikai vizsgálatán keresztül
… be interpreted in several ways. According to the orthodox Judaism the context is the includes Written and the Oral Law as well, so the meaning of the halakhot in the Written Torah is determined by the Oral Torah. The derivations with the middoth are really acknowledgements, which give the peshat …
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Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000
<p>Children’s literature is an important force in building not only linguistic literacy but a literacy of the world, showing the child reader how to make sense of themselves in relation to the many people, objects, experiences, and concepts around them. Haredi children’s texts foster a mode of …