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....
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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 ...
not just a woman married to a Jew, he would be Jewish according to Halachah. Hamilton never identified himself as a Jew and lived his life in New York as a Christian. 1771: Sixty-six-year-old Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens the author ofLettres Juives(The Jewish Spy) in w...
Lamastu is closely associated with Lilith, a prominent figure in some Jewish texts. Accounts of Lilith vary considerably, but in the most notable versions of the story, she was the original woman. God created both Adam and Lilith from the Earth, but there was soon trouble between them. Lili...
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...
Battle of Cable Street: In Britain, Sir Oswald Ernald, 6th Baronet, Mosley, led around 2,000 BUF members in uniform in a march through the East End (an area of London known to have a high proportion of Jewish residents and much poverty) in an attempt designed to intimidate local Jews ...
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...
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 ...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field