Image Before My Eyes-A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939

1979 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-140
Author(s):  
Yeshayahu Nir
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Laws, doctrines and practice: a study of intermarriages and the ways they challenged the Jewish Community of Helsinki from 1930 to 1970

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Mercédesz Viktória Czimbalmos
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society

The identities, customs and habits of religious congregations are tightly connected to the history of these congregations and to the specific religious tradition or denomination they consider themselves to be a part of. They are also shaped by the legislative and bureaucratic regulations and processes of the secular society that is surrounding them. The aim of this study is to further our knowledge of some of these aspects of Jewish life as they relate to the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the period 1930–70 by showcasing two examples that emerged as a result of the rising number of intermarriages in the congregation.

Jewish Life in Lithuania: History of Separate Co-Existence

Ab Imperio ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-674
Author(s):  
Alla Myzelev
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
History Of

A Century of Jewish Life. The History of Modern Judaism

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Adolf Leschnitzer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Judaism

The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Claire Le Foll
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
East Europe ◽  
History Of

New Light on the Jews of Mozarabic Toledo

AJS Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Roth
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Land Of Israel

Medieval Spain represents a unique phenomenon in the history of Jewish civilization. Not only did the Jews live longer in Spain than in any other land in their history (indeed, almost as long as they occupied their homeland in the land of Israel from Abraham to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.), but the Jewish population of medieval Spain was greater than that of all other lands combined, and the rich achievements of Jewish culture there were unequaled elsewhere. Of all the cities in Spain which served as major centers of Jewish life and culture, Toledo perhaps stands out as the most important. Studies dealing with Jewish life in Spain have recognized this, and the long-awaited appearance of a recent two-volume work in Spanish devoted to the Jews of Toledo has helped focus attention once again on the vast archival material available.

scholarly journals North Carolina Books

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Eileen McGrath
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Red Clay ◽  
Race Riot ◽  
The North ◽  
Race Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Jim Crow South

Compiled by Eileen McGrath, the following books are included: The North Carolina Gazetter: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History; Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener; The Southern Mind under Union Rule: The Diary of James Rumley; A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot; Kay Kyser: The Ol' Professor of Sing! America's Forgotten Superstar; Haven on the Hill: A History of North Carolina's Dorothea Dix Hospital; Middle of the Air; Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation; Cow across America; Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France; 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & Poetry; Twelve by Twelve: A One Room Cabin off the Grid and beyond the American Dream; and Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.

scholarly journals Encountering the 'ghetto'

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Christhard Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
East European ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Direct Encounter ◽  
First World

In the history of Western perceptions of Jews and the ‘Jewish problem’, the First World War marks a period of change which was, among other things, influenced by the course of the war on the Eastern Front. The German occupation of large parts of Russian Poland in 1915 brought the difficult conditions of Eastern European Jewry closer to public attention in the West, not only in Central Europe, but also in neutral states. For the Scandinavian writers who travelled to occupied Poland in 1916 and 1917, the direct encounter with East European Jewry was a new and often disturbing experience. Their travelogues represent an illuminating and, so far, unused source for Scandinavian perceptions of Jews in Eastern Europe, focusing on the ‘ghetto’ as the physical embodiment of Eastern Jewish life. Analysing these accounts, the present article discusses the different depictions of Warsaw’s Jews thematically and identifies three interwoven perspectives of the ‘ghetto’: as a site of extreme poverty; as a foreign (‘oriental’) element in Europe; and as an archetype of Jewish life in general.

The Scandal of Kabbalah

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaacob Dweck
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as this book argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this book tells the story of the first criticism of Kabbalah, Ari Nohem, written by Leon Modena in Venice in 1639. In this scathing indictment of Venetian Jews who had embraced Kabbalah as an authentic form of ancient esotericism, Modena proved the recent origins of Kabbalah and sought to convince his readers to return to the spiritualized rationalism of Maimonides. This book examines the hallmarks of Jewish modernity displayed by Modena's attack—a critical analysis of sacred texts, skepticism about religious truths, and self-consciousness about the past—and shows how these qualities and the later history of his polemic challenge conventional understandings of the relationship between Kabbalah and modernity. The book argues that Kabbalah was the subject of critical inquiry in the very period it came to dominate Jewish life rather than centuries later as most scholars have thought.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Jason Lustig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This chapter considers the overall impact of the twentieth-century proliferation of archive activities in Jewish life and the rising paradigm of total archives in particular. By looking at the development of Jewish archiving in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine, we see the concrete manifestation of the impulses of a “time to gather” in Jewish cultures around the world. These efforts represent a kind of community-based archives, but also the internal tensions: What happens when there is a widespread understanding of the value of archives, and they represent resources of cultural capital worth fighting for? This conclusion also places the history of Jewish archives and the struggles to “own” the past in the broader context of the emerging information society. Altogether, this history indicates contentious struggles over what it means to have control over history in its most practical terms.

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