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Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2000
3774 kr
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How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from …
Dutch Intersection
The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History
Av Yosef Kaplan
Inbunden, 2008
3141 kr
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This collection of historical studies deals with the multiple connections between the history and culture of the Jews of the Netherlands from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the period after the Holocaust, and phenomena and processes that distinguish the history of the Jewish people …
Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century
Aspects of History, Community, and Culture
Inbunden, 2008
3976 kr
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The history of Iranian Jews after the establishment of the Safavid State in Iran in 1501 C.E. has formed the subject of growing academic and broader interest over the last few decades. However, despite the significant increase in the quantity and quality of the publications in this area, some of …
Same but Different?
Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640
Inbunden, 2011
2865 kr
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Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this study challenges the historiographical argument that the Sephardim, and indeed, a variety of religio-ethnic groups, achieved their commercial success by relying on geographically dispersed family members and fellow ethnics. The …
Martyrdom of a Moroccan Jewish Saint
Av Sharon Vance
Inbunden, 2011
2464 kr
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The martyrdom in 1834 of Sol Hatchuel, a Jewish girl from Tangier, traumatized the Jewish community and inspired a literary response in Morocco and beyond. This study focuses on works written in the first century after her death in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish, Spanish and French that tell …
Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance
Sources and Encounters
Inbunden, 2011
2514 kr
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Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures – from …
Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context
Av Edna Nahshon
Inbunden, 2012
3143 kr
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Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences have played an enormous role in the development of the European and American theater. Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context, a collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, addresses this …
Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference
Av Shlomo Simonsohn, Joseph Shatzmiller
Inbunden, 2012
2393 kr
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This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry. Established in 1960 by Professor Shlomo Simonsohn and scholars from …
Revising Dreyfus
Inbunden, 2013
3534 kr
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In Revising Dreyfus, contributors from a wide variety of disciplines (art history, film, media, theater, sociology, history) offer new ways of understanding the ever-evolving meanings of the Dreyfus Affair. Although the Dreyfusards led the way in explicating the nuances of the Affair in lengthy …
Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Ari Ariel
Inbunden, 2013
2513 kr
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In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen and Yemeni Jewish migration patterns. Previous research has dealt with …
Comfort of Kin
Samaritan Community, Kinship, and Marriage
Inbunden, 2014
3274 kr
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In The Comfort of Kin Monika Schreiber presents a study of the social and religious life of the Samaritans, a minority in modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Utilizing approaches ranging from anthropological theory and method to comparative history and religion, she approaches this …
Jews of Italy
Antiquity
Inbunden, 2014
3665 kr
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The history of the Jews in Italy is the longest continuous one of European Jewry and lasted for more than two millennia. It started in the days of the Roman Republic and continued through the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Jewish Italy served as melting pot throughout its history, first for migrants …
Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah
Inbunden, 2017
3391 kr
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Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the …
Festschrift Darkhei Noam
The Jews of Arab Lands
Av Carsten Schapkow, Shmuel Shepkaru m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2348 kr
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The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the …
Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry
Inbunden, 2017
2218 kr
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In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after …
From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times
Essays in Honor of Jane S. Gerber
Av Federica Francesconi, Stanley Mirvis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4389 kr
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From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models …
Site of Amnesia: The Lost Historical Consciousness of Mizrahi Jewry
Representation of the Experience of the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East during World War II in Israeli, European and Middle Eastern Film and Television
Inbunden, 2019
3117 kr
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This study deepens our historical understanding of the North-African Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish experience during WWII, which is often under- or mis-represented by the media in Israel, the Arab world, France, and Italy. Public, historical and sociocultural discourse is examined to clarify …
Secularizing the Sacred
Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture
Av Alec Mishory
Inbunden, 2019
3222 kr
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As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus …
Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism
Inbunden, 2021
2114 kr
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Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism traces the participation of Baghdadi Jews in Jewish transnational networks from the mid-nineteenth century until the mass exodus of Jews from Iraq between 1948 and 1951. Each chapter explores different components of how Jews in Iraq participated in …
Re-envisioning Jewish Identities
Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora
Inbunden, 2021
3286 kr
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This innovative study shows how the imaginary constructions of self and Other are shaping identification with Jewishness in the twenty-first century. The texts and artworks discussed in this book test a diverse range of ways of identifying as Jews and with the Jewish people, while engaging with …
Reclaiming Biblical Heroines
Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art
Inbunden, 2022
3039 kr
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Although recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and …
Portuguese Jews of Hamburg
The History of a Merchant Community in the Seventeenth Century
Av Hugo Martins
Inbunden, 2023
2324 kr
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The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary …
Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Inbunden, 2024
3312 kr
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Further Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of publication, and miscellaneous subjects. Book arts addresses pressmarks representing publishers motifs, several unusual, and the varied usage of biblical verses to entitle books. …
Betraying the Trust: Israel, Europe and Restitution after the Holocaust
Av Aharon Mor
Inbunden, 2026
2775 kr
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This book describes and analyzes the full scope of Holocaust restitution, starting in 1943 before the end of WWII, and ending in 2023. Thematically, it covers what was attempted and what was achieved in all main areas of Holocaust restitution during this period. It is the first updated estimate of …
Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition
Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940
Inbunden, 2026
1775 kr
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The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940 offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch economic, political, and cultural elites. Considering the lives of over seven …
