Gender and Jobs in the Jewish Community: Europe at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Green
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Community

She Came from Kasaba

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 582-585
Author(s):  
Leslie Hakim-Dowek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Modal Approach ◽  
History Of

As in Marianne Hirsch’s (2008) notion of ‘devoir de memoire’, this poem-piece, from a new series, uses the role of creation and imagination to strive to ‘re-activate and re-embody’ distant family/historical transcultural spaces and memories within the perspective of a dispersed history of a Middle-Eastern minority, the Sephardi/Jewish community. There is little awareness that Sephardi/Jewish communities were an integral part of the Middle East and North Africa for many centuries before they were driven out of their homes in the second half of the twentieth century. Using a multi-modal approach combining photography and poetry, this photo-poem series has for focus my female lineage. This piece evokes in particular the memory of my grandmother, encapsulating many points in history where persecution and displacement occurred across many social, political and linguistic borders.

Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Jonathan Raban
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Philip Roth ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Bernard Malamud ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
Urban Problems

The “Jewishness” of recent American fiction has already been well explored. But discussion of the work of Jewish writers tends to be retrospective: it leads back to the shtetl and the shlemiel without considering how “Americanised” Jewish forms and themes have become. Clearly, recent authors such as Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow are indebted to a fund of “Jewish experience”. But their novels are “American”, far more concerned with twentieth-century urban problems than with the enclosed life of the traditional Jewish community. This essay therefore attempts to assess how far “Jewish” localised material has been translated into specifically “American” terms.

Moroccan Jews in Modern Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Norman A. Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Ashkenazi Jewish ◽  
World War ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
School Network

Until the mid twentieth century, Moroccan Jewry constituted the largest non-Ashkenazi Jewish community and had more than double the population of any other Jewish community in the Islamic world. Under the influence of the Alliance Israélite Universelle school network, French colonialism, the experience of World War II and the innate tensions between Zionism and Arab nationalism, the Jews of Morocco underwent a variety of transformations and ultimately the dissolution of the community as a result of the mass exodus to Israel, France and North America.

Jewish Women’s History: First Steps and a False Start—the Case of Jacob Katz

2007 ◽  
pp. 168-181
Author(s):  
Moshe Rosman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
False Start ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

This chapter discusses Jacob Katz, the social historian of the mid-twentieth century. He originated some principles, methods, and concepts that have become critical in pursuing the history of Jewish women and in writing gender-conscious historiography. In discussions about Katz's contribution to the study of the history of the early modern Jewish community, it is standard to emphasize his methodological innovation. In his earlier works Katz applied the methods of ‘social history’ to his research and writing about Jewish history. According to Katz, ‘social history’ had a different aim. It used the tools of sociology, but did so in order to understand the development of a particular historical society over time — that is, through history. Katz was not interested in extrapolating universal laws.

Jews, Zionism and the Left in Brazil: Echoes of a Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Gherman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Considerable Part

Abstract During considerable part of the twentieth century, the contacts between left-wing groups and the Jews in Brazil were relatively positive and amicable. In certain way, it could be found a kind of a symbiosis between sectors of the Jewish community and some groups of the Brazilian left. At present times, in contrast, any description of the interaction between Jewish organizations (especially Zionist ones) and Brazilian left-wing groups inevitably mentions political tensions and mutual accusations. In the last years suspicion, conflict, and a lack of dialogue have characterized the relations between a segments of the Brazilian Jewish population and some left-wing groups. This article intends to discuss and analyze the changes and processes through which the Brazilian Jews and some Left-wing Brazilian groups have passed.

Between Universal and Particular: Baron's Jewish Community in Light of Recent Research

AJS Review ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-421
Author(s):  
Elisheva Carlebach
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Historiography ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Old Masters

Unlike the works of the “old masters” in the fine arts, often seen as the apotheosis of the creative spirit of their and all time, works of historiography have a much briefer shelf life. It is in the nature of scholarship to subject forebears to critical scrutiny; few works hold up beyond a generation or so. We are charged in this forum with reconsidering one of the “old masters” of Jewish historiography, Salo Wittmayer Baron, whose formidable mastery of languages and sources and his prolific output position him as one of the preeminent twentieth-century historians of the Jewish people. Has Baron's three-volume The Jewish Community, a masterpiece of historical synthesis first published in 1942, still retained its scholarly relevance? What is striking about this work is how much ahead of his time it was in certain respects, and how, in this work on a subject so central to understanding pre-modern Jewish life, Baron's construction was ahistorical in crucial dimensions. Baron's Jewish Community has fallen into disuse, so much so that in the Hebrew collection, Kehal Yisrael (2004), intended to portray specific Jewries and their communal lives, the latter two volumes, comprising dozens of essays and over 800 pages, written by leading Israeli scholars, contain only two references to Baron, in the notes. This blatant example of ignoring Baron's treasure trove is true not only of Israeli scholarship: most recent studies of Jewish communities make scarcely any use of it. Is the neglect deserved?

scholarly journals There is no interest in precious stones in a vegetable market: the life and sermons of Rabbi Jacob Gordon of Toronto

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimmy Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
North American ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
East European ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
Insight Into

A preliminary examination of Rabbi Jacob Gordon’s sermons within their biographical, communal, religious, historical, social, and cultural contexts, offers insight into the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in early twentieth century Toronto—as this Orthodox immigrant rabbi perceived them. These sermons provide details and perspectives, and they particularly illuminate doings within Toronto’s Orthodox-immigrant Jewish community. Gordon’s East-European background did not hold him back from remolding his style, as well as the content of his sermons, fully aware as he was of the need to modify his sermonic approach to respond to the novelties of Toronto’s immigrant world. Gordon’s sermons may also be compared to those of other North American contemporaries, again signaling the unique aspects of the Canadian Jewish religious experience at a critical moment.

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