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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Minutes 1924-1927

, 1924
Digital imageThe Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities (BFJC) was formed in 1909 and in 1944 merged into the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City to form the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York ...
Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, Minutes 1909-1913

, 1909
Digital imageThe Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities (BFJC) was formed in 1909 and in 1944 merged into the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City to form the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York ...
Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Members of Little Neck Jewish Center

, 1971
Group portrait of members of the Little Neck Jewish Center.Digital ImageDigital finding ...
United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York
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Preservation of Synagogues in Greece: Using Digital Tools to Represent Lost Heritage

Heritage
In the wake of the Holocaust and the post-war reconstruction of Greece’s historic city centers, many Greek synagogues were demolished, abandoned, or appropriated, erasing centuries of Jewish architectural and communal presence.
Elias Messinas
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (Box 19, Folder 149)

, 1946
The National Jewish Welfare Board Military Chaplaincy Records document the evolution and activities of the Board's military chaplaincy agency, which was known as the Commission on Army and Navy Religious Activities (CANRA) from 1942 to 1947 and as the ...
National Jewish Welfare Board
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(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
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