Between the 1650s and 1820s, there was only one Jewish congregation in New York. Chapter 1 demonstrates how control over burial became a way for leadership to police congregational boundaries. By the nineteenth century, individuals began pushing back against this centralization. Amanik traces the....
The religious, cultural, and legal traditions and civilization of the Jewish people are collectively referred to as Judaism. The Middle East’s Bronze Age is where it first emerged as a formal religion. Judaism’s central belief is that there is a single, incorporeal, everlasting God who desire...
Over a thousand years ago, the far east of Europe was ruled by Jewish kings who presided over numerous tribes, including their own tribe: the Turkic Khazars. After their conversion, the Khazar people used Jewish personal names, spoke and wrote in Hebrew, were circumcised, had synagogues and ...
Why is the Book of Baruch not in the Bible? Why do Orthodox Jews use the Julian calendar? What is the Jewish burial timeline? What to bring to a Seder? Why is Rosh Hashanah celebrated? Why is Judaism matrilineal? What is the Jewish calendar based on?
Jewish Diaspora in Modern China 105 ratings at Coursera Jewish Diaspora in China is a unique experience for world Jewry, as China is the only country in Far East that has had Jews living in its society for over 1,000 years. Documentary evidence shows that Jews started to live in China...
Jewish Social Studies: Excerpt from “Isaac Mayer Wise: A New Approach” by Aryeh Rubinstein, Jewish Social Studies , Winter–Spring, 1977. Reprinted by permission of Jewish Social Studies . KTAV Publishing House, Inc .: Excerpts from poems by G. Zelicovich; Morris Rosenfeld; David Edelstadt...
There also is a tiny Jewish community, whose presence goes back centuries. Christianity has existed in Algeria since the Roman era, but despite efforts (particularly by the French colonizers) to convert, the number of Algerian Christians is very small. Islam forms the basis not only of ...
state-sponsored adulation of local Nazi war criminals and collaborators, and actual local mass murderers of the region’s Jewish population. It was, alas, a level of participation that resulted in the Baltics having the highest percentage of murder of its Jewish population in Holocaust-era Europe...
First Impressions of Vilnius’s New ‘Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews’ Vilnius Jewish Community Leads Dignified Protest at the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery, Protesting Plans for ‘Memorial Complex’ in Soviet Ruin Opinion: American Jewish Committee (AJC) Needs to Look Again at its...
Alice Heine was the second wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, and the first American woman to marry a reigning European sovereign. Her father Michel Heine was a French banker and businessman from a prominent German-Jewish banking family and established a bank in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ...