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Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century. It shows convincingly that New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds.Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century. It shows convincingly that New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds.
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- New York (N.Y.) --- Ethnic relations. --- New York (State) --- Ethnic relations
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This book outlines some aspects of Jewish intellectual life in the nineteenth and twentieth century, presenting a narrative of the relationship between Jewish scholars and their cultural environment. It investigates the language of conformity and dissent and interprets it as an imaginative grammar, comprising an arsenal of images, concepts, and interpretations. There is a special focus on German roots, for Germany played a major role as an intellectual laboratory in the areas of the (new) branches of academic life. This book consists of four parts: i) Searching for a Scientific Language; ii) "And the Jews": Political and Cultural History of a Conjunction; iii) Creative Languages: The Interstitial Spaces of Monotheism; iv) Disjunction: The Jewish Dissenter. A bibliography as well as detailed indexes of authors, scholars and subjects are included.
Jews --- Language and languages --- Grammar --- Grammar, Polyglot --- Polyglot grammar --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Languages --- History --- Grammars.
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Der 6. Band des Handbuchs bietet Informationen über Verlage, Zeitungen und Zeitschriften sowie über zahlreiche Traktate, Aufsätze und Bücher, die in der Geschichte der Judenfeindschaft seit den Flugschriften des 15./16. Jahrhunderts und in der Gegenwart eine Rolle spielen. Insgesamt 450 Artikel, verfasst von 150 Experten zur antisemitischen Publizistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart sowie ihrer Abwehr, machen den Band zum unverzichtbaren Kompendium. Vergünstigter Serienpreis (Print) erhältlich! › Bestellungen bitte an degruyter@de.rhenus.com
Antisemitism --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism --- Anti Semitism. --- handbook. --- publications.
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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and CollectionsThe year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other—from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish—regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Migrations --- History --- Charities. --- Social life and customs --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government
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This final volume of supplements and indexes completes the Encyclopedia of German-Jewish Authors (Vol. 1, 1992 through Vol. 20, 2012). This volume contains entries pertaining to about 15 additional authors, including Saul Ascher, Rudolf Borchardt, and Ernst Hans Gombrich. In addition, it provides comprehensive indexes for the entire lexicon: for dates of birth and death; for place of activity and profession; and for participation in war and deportation.
Jews --- Jewish authors --- Authors --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Biographical data. --- German language area. --- Jewish authors. --- catalogue of works.
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"Between 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina. This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity"--Provided by publisher.
Jews --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Identity. --- Argentina --- Ethnic relations. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism
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This is the story of perhaps the world's most unusual Jewish community told through the eyes of the oldest member of one of its most unusual families. Solomon 'Momy' Levy is one of the best known figures in Gibraltar. He was the Rock's first civic mayor and is a prominent and cherished part of both civic and Jewish life.
Mayors --- Jews --- Levy, Solomon, --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Alcaldes --- Municipal officials and employees --- Corregidors --- Levy, Momy,
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Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more Poles are discovering their Jewish heritage and beginning to seek a means of associating with Judaism and Jewish culture. Reszke analyzes this new generation, addressing the question of whether there can be authentic Jewish life in Poland after fifty years of oppression. Based on a series of interviews with Jewish Poles between the ages of 18 and 35, her study provides an illuminating window into the experience of being, and for many becoming, Jewish in these unique circumstances.
Jews --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Identity. --- Influence. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Eastern Europe. --- Judaism. --- Poland. --- antisemitism. --- conversion. --- cultural heritage. --- ethnicity. --- family. --- generations. --- identity. --- interviews. --- memoir. --- personal narrative. --- post-Holocaust. --- religion. --- sociology.
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die ästhetische Verarbeitung der Spannung zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Sichtbarkeit, die dem Verhältnis von Juden und den europäischen Mehrheitsgesellschaften in der so genannten Emanzipationszeit des 19. Jahrhunderts zugrunde liegen. Zentral ist dabei die Frage nach der Bedeutung des Wortes "Jude" in diesen Diskursen. Dabei werden keine kohärenten Identitätsmodelle herausgearbeitet, sondern durch das Aufzeigen von Dissonanzen die Komplexität und die Grenzen unterschiedlicher Modellierungen von Identität untersucht. So lassen sich zum Beispiel Selbstkonstruktionen als "Jude" und "Europäer" nicht ohne weiteres nebeneinanderstellen. Traditionslinien lassen sich nur schwer erarbeiten angesichts der Tatsache, dass viele autobiographische Zeugnisse einander widersprechende Diskurse miteinander verbinden. Folglich bilden die untersuchten Texte nicht nur eine Lebenswirklichkeit ab, sondern produzieren die Realität, von der sie sprechen. Jüdische Identität erscheint als diskursiver Entwurf, der ständig neu artikuliert wird.
Jews --- History --- Identity --- Emancipation --- Intellectual life. --- Cultural assimilation --- Germany --- Ethnic relations. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Autobiography, emancipation, Judaism/literature, literary history.
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Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cultural sensibilities in the medieval money market and the world of Jewish money lenders, this book examines objects pawned by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods given up by the Christian well-to-do who required financial assistance. The work also explores frescoes and decorations likely painted by non-Jews in medieval and early modern Jewish homes located in Germanic lands, and the ways in which Jews hired Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and create liturgical objects. Conversely, Christians frequently hired Jewish craftsmen to produce liturgical objects used in Christian churches. With rich archival documentation, Cultural Exchange sheds light on the social and economic history of the creation of Jewish and Christian art, and expands the general understanding of cultural exchange in brand-new ways.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Christians --- Jews --- Religious adherents --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social life and customs --- Civilization. --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization --- Jewish influences.