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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Leonard Cohen and the Tosher Rebbe: On Exile as Redemptions in Canadian Jewish Mysticism

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2014
Aubrey L. Glazer
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Recommendation of premarital genetic screening in the Syrian Jewish community based on mutation carrier frequencies within Syrian Jewish cohorts. [PDF]

Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2021
Zeevi DA, Chung WK, Levi C, Scher SY, Bringer R, Kahan Y, Muallem H, Benel R, Hirsch Y, Weiden T, Ekstein A, Ekstein J.   +11 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

The Aggrieved Subject: Culture Wars and Recognition Rights

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrew Fagan
wiley   +1 more source

‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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Musical Minhag: Negotiating Prayer Melodies in a Liberal Synagogue in Vienna [PDF]

Musicologica Austriaca
This article examines the negotiation of prayer melodies at Or Chadasch, a liberal Jewish synagogue in Vienna, exploring how these melodies represent the community’s balance between tradition and innovation within a progressive Jewish framework.
Isabel Frey
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Fearless Friday: Hannah Lebovitz

, 2018
This week, we recognize the work of Hannah Labovitz ’21. Hannah is currently pursuing a history major, a Spanish and Public History double minor, and a teaching certification. She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been very involved in the Jewish
Labovitz, Hannah M.
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Menorah Review (No. 23, Fall, 1991) [PDF]

, 1991
Acts of Faith and Compassion: Some Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust -- Jewish Mysticism, Mystical Cosmology and Mystical Experience -- Schvere un zein a Yid -- Arguing With God in the Age of Dilemma -- New Insights Into an Ancient People -- Book ...

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