During the 1790s, Rebecca Samuel, a young Jew of Petersburg, Virginia, wrote to her parents in Hamburg: There are here [in Petersburg] ten or twelve Jews, and they are not worthy of being called Jews... . I crave to see a synagogue to which I can go. The way we live now is ...
athe origin of father`s day is not clear. some say that it begin in west virginia in 1908 and some say that Mrs Bruce Jone Dodd started to celebrate the holiday 父亲`s天的起源不是清楚的。 一些认为1908年它在西维吉尼亚开始,并且一些认为布鲁斯・ Jone Dodd夫人开始庆祝假日[translate] ...
Joel’s colorful account of the Passover seder he and his fellow Jewish soldiers had “in the wild woods of West Virginia” is among the most well-known anecdotes about Jewish soldiers in the Civil War. They used their wages to order seven barrels of matza and two prayer books from Cincin...
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Originally invented to designate connections between Judaism and Christianity in antiquity, “Judeo-Christian” began to be used to signify the common religious inheritance of the West by left-wing authors in the 1930s—a time when “Christian” had become a political code word for fascism and an...
length narrative,Thinly Veiled(‘09). Her short documentary on women’s cycling pioneer Georgena Terry won Best Female Directed Short at the Cornwall Film Festival. Zackem also won Best Cinematography for her short film,The Black Series, at the Women’s Independent Film Festival in West ...
As we have seen, the modern world was constructed in terms of Same and Other, European and the Rest, “white” and “colored.” Writing about the state, Bauman describes how: In the intellectual and political realms alike, the order must be both exclusive and comprehensive. Hence the two-...
my own relationship with David Berman and Silver Jews began in the same place as a lot of americana fans in the UK – with Uncut’sSounds of the New Westalternative country compilation from 1998. That CD was responsible for a lot, and still defines americana for me in all its sprawling ...
Silver Jews started when David Berman began playing with Steve Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich in the late 80s at the University of Virginia. Early singles with Drag City were noisy and lo-fi, very much in step with the indie rock of the early 90s. With each new album, Berman simplified his...
The problem is that the same people ignore the continuing need of the West in general and, since September 2001, the U.S. in particular to have direct access to in-depth intelligence of Muslim extremists and their plans - for which they in turn need the support of the Mossad. The ...