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The National Transformation of the Historical Memory of Minor Jewish Holidays During the Period of Hibbat Zion

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
wiley   +1 more source

Smith\u27s Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World (Book Review)

open access: yes, 2016
A review of Smith, Mark S. Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014. xxiv1636 pp. $55.00 (paper)
Doak, Brian R.
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Jews as a Changing People of the Talmud: An American Exploration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[Excerpt] My project has two parts. The first part demonstrates that Jews were in fact a changing people of the Talmud. Even though I make some references to it, discussion of that large subject awaits further investigation.
Korman, Gerd
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Translating the field

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
wiley   +1 more source

When Does Hope Drive Social Change? Empirical Insights and Their Policy Implications

open access: yesSocial Issues and Policy Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, December 2026.
ABSTRACT When and how does people's hope for change drive social transformation? This question has gained urgency amidst the profound sociopolitical crises of the 21st century, including escalating intergroup conflicts, accelerating environmental degradation, and mounting threats to democracy.
Oded Adomi Leshem, Eran Halperin
wiley   +1 more source

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

Tamar’s Legacy: The Early Reception of Genesis 38

open access: yes, 2018
The story of Tamar and Judah is one of the Torah’s more morally complicated narratives. As such, interpreters throughout history, but specifically early Jewish interpreters, grappled with how to relay this story in their translations of the Hebrew Bible.
Smith, Julianna Kaye
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Yiddish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_stylistics.htm This version of the entry for Yiddish contains a moderate number of revisions made too late for inclusion in the printed version, which appears in vol. 1, pp.
Katz, Dovid
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