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Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as native sons, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus tells the story of these Iraqi Jews' first decades in Israel. Faced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties, demonstrated in the streets, and fought for the education of their children, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. Orit Bashkin sheds light on their everyday lives and their determination in a new country, uncovering their long, painful transformation from Iraqi to Israeli. In doing so, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told.

Immigrants --- Jews, Iraqi --- Iraq. --- Iraqi Jews. --- Israel. --- Maʽabarot. --- Mizrahim. --- Transit Camps. --- migration. --- resistance. --- HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Iraqi Jews --- Cultural assimilation --- History --- Civil rights --- Government relations --- Social conditions --- Sociology of minorities --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Israel

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Examines anti-Semitism as a force challenging Jewish identity while highlighting anti-Semitism as a cause of the Holocaust.

Sociology of minorities --- World history --- anno 1900-1999 --- Antisemitism --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews --- History. --- Causes. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Identity. --- Zionism. --- RELIGION / Judaism / History --- RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated varied responses over the last century. Taking Jewish and Islamic education as its objects of inquiry, Mandatory Separation sheds light on the contours of this debate in Palestine during the formative period of British rule, detailing how colonial, Zionist, and Palestinian-Muslim leaders developed competing views of the form and function of religious education in an age of mass politics. Drawing from archival records, school syllabi, textbooks, newspapers, and personal narratives, Suzanne Schneider argues that the British Mandatory government supported religious education as a supposed antidote to nationalist passions at the precise moment when the administrative, pedagogic, and curricular transformation of religious schooling rendered it a vital tool for Zionist and Palestinian leaders. This study of their policies and practices illuminates the tensions, similarities, and differences among these diverse educational and political philosophies, revealing the lasting significance of these debates for thinking about religion and political identity in the modern Middle East.

History of Asia --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- Israel --- Palestine --- Religious education --- Jewish religious education --- Islamic religious education --- Muslim religious education --- Religious education, Islamic --- Islamic education --- Education, Jewish --- Jews --- Religious education, Jewish --- Judaism --- Moral education --- Ethical education --- Theological education --- Education --- History --- Study and teaching --- Politics and government

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"A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious figures, as well as the socio-historical contexts in which sainthood operates, in order to better understand the role of saints in monotheistic religions. Using comparative religious and anthropological approaches, an international panel of contributors guides the reader through three main concerns. They describe and illuminate the ways in which sanctity is often configured. In addition, the diverse cultural manifestations of the cult of the saints are examined and analysed. Finally, the various religious, social, and political functions that saints came to play in numerous societies are compared and contrasted. This ambitious study covers sanctity from the Middle Ages until the contemporary period, and has a geographical scope that includes Europe, Central Asia, North Africa, the Americas, and the Asian Pacific. As such, it will be of use to scholars of the history of religions, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue, as well as students of sainthood and hagiography"--

Christianity. --- HISTORY --- Holiness. --- Holy, The. --- Islam. --- Judaism. --- RELIGION --- Religious life. --- Saints. --- Social History. --- Christianity --- History. --- Religious life --- Holy, The --- Holiness --- Saints --- Islam --- Judaism --- 291.213 --- Persons --- Perfection --- Righteousness --- Sanctification --- Numinous, The --- Sacred, The --- God --- Religion --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- Church history --- 291.213 Verering van mensen: halfgoden; helden; heiligen; heersers (apotheose) --- Verering van mensen: halfgoden; helden; heiligen; heersers (apotheose) --- Religious aspects --- Christian religion --- Jewish religion

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism  The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed of deep, and at times dark, passions? And why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from traditional, observant backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader? Drawing on a vast body of Herzl's personal, literary, and political writings, historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl's path to Zionism had as much to do with personal crises as it did with antisemitism. Once Herzl devoted himself to Zionism, Penslar shows, he distinguished himself as a consummate leader-possessed of indefatigable energy, organizational ability, and electrifying charisma. Herzl became a screen onto which Jews of his era could project their deepest needs and longings.About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives: "Excellent." - New York times "Exemplary." - Wall St. Journal "Distinguished." - New Yorker "Superb." - The Guardian

Zionists --- Jews --- Zionism --- 296*77 --- 323.13 <=924> --- 323.13 <=924> Zionisme --- Zionisme --- 296*77 Jodendom en zionisme --- Jodendom en zionisme --- History --- Herzl, Theodor, --- Herzl, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hertsl, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hartzil, Thiyūdūr, --- Gert︠s︡lʹ, Benʹi︠a︡min Zeėv, --- Герцль, Беньямин Зеэв, --- Gert︠s︡lʹ, Teodor, --- Герцль, Теодор, --- Herzl, Teodoro, --- Herzl, Théodore, --- Hertsl, Ṭeodor, --- Hertsel, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hertsel, Teʼodor, --- הירצל, טיאודור --- הירצל, תיאודור --- הערצל --- הערצל, בנימין בן יעקב, --- הערצל, בנימין טהעאדאר --- הערצל, טה --- הערצל, טהעאדאר --- הערצל, טהעאדאר, --- הערצל, טעאדאר --- הערצל, טעאדאר, --- הערצל, ט. --- הערצל, ת., --- הערצעל, ט. --- הרצל --- הרצל, בנימין זאב --- הרצל, בנימין זאב, --- הרצל, טיאודור --- הרצל, ט., --- הרצל, תאודור --- הרצל, תאודור, --- הרצל, תיאודור --- הרצל, תיאודור, --- הרצל, תיאודר, --- הרצל, ת., --- טעאדאר הערצעל --- هرتزل، ثيودر، --- Herzl, Theodor --- Zionism.