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Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic
Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic tells the story of the Iberian New Christians or conversos – Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism – who arrived in Amsterdam in the early 1600s. In post-Reformation Netherlands, they encountered something new, Freedom of …
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… Two, I analyze the historical trauma of the Sephardi Jews of Libya, due to their permanent statelessness, through Victor Magiar’s novel (inspired by his childhood in Libya) E venne la notte. Chapter Three highlights the intellectual exile of Andrea Amedeo Sammartano, focusing on the way he …
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Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel
… This started to change in 1973, when the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, ruled that Ethiopian Jews (also known as the Beta Israel) were indeed Jews. However, movement in the political echelon toward relocating Ethiopia’s Jews was not immediately forthcoming. This thesis …
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A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
… to the European Jewish religious circle, the Sephardi community leaders embraced the Zionist idea enthusiastically, as did a large number of Oriental Jews. In my analysis I also touch on the contradictory attitude of the WZO toward the Zionist activities of the Middle Eastern and North African …