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2020
Abstract This chapter introduces Jewish approaches to divine guidance. Corinth was a leading community of the Jewish diaspora and maintained close connections with Jews elsewhere, especially in Jerusalem and Rome. There was a variety of “Judaisms” in this period, but their common focus was on the written Torah and the oral tradition of ...
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Abstract This chapter introduces Jewish approaches to divine guidance. Corinth was a leading community of the Jewish diaspora and maintained close connections with Jews elsewhere, especially in Jerusalem and Rome. There was a variety of “Judaisms” in this period, but their common focus was on the written Torah and the oral tradition of ...
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2012
The years 2008–2012 brought significant change to the American Jewish community. As the economic recession created difficulties for individual Jews and Jewish institutions, a cultural climate that promoted individual fulfillment weakened Jewish group cohesion, leading, on the one hand, to disaffiliation, and on the other, to deep divisions about Israel
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The years 2008–2012 brought significant change to the American Jewish community. As the economic recession created difficulties for individual Jews and Jewish institutions, a cultural climate that promoted individual fulfillment weakened Jewish group cohesion, leading, on the one hand, to disaffiliation, and on the other, to deep divisions about Israel
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Remembering Sofia's Romaniote Jewish community
2021Upon its independence in 1878, Bulgaria was home to a sizable Jewish community, particularly in its newly established capital, Sofia. The overwhelming majority of the Jewish population spoke Judeo-Spanish, including both the Ashkenazi and Romaniote communities.
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2020
This chapter deals in sequence with the present position of synagogal organization; the organizations connected with religious life; with charitable organizations; and lastly with a number of institutions of a significant or typical nature. It also deals with the British Jewish Community it is probably more appropriate in terms of ‘organizations ...
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This chapter deals in sequence with the present position of synagogal organization; the organizations connected with religious life; with charitable organizations; and lastly with a number of institutions of a significant or typical nature. It also deals with the British Jewish Community it is probably more appropriate in terms of ‘organizations ...
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1971
The Jews in Surinam are the only group of white colonists to have settled there long before Emancipation and to have maintained their identity as a separate group. There were probably Jews in Surinam even before Lord Parham first came to settle there.163 In 1652 a number of Jews entered the country with Parham and in 1666 a new group under David (Cohen)
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The Jews in Surinam are the only group of white colonists to have settled there long before Emancipation and to have maintained their identity as a separate group. There were probably Jews in Surinam even before Lord Parham first came to settle there.163 In 1652 a number of Jews entered the country with Parham and in 1666 a new group under David (Cohen)
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This chapter looks at the readership of The Occident, a thriving Anglo-Jewish journal in the period before the American Civil War. The chapter argues that by using local agents, the journal's editor, Isaac Leeser, who immigrated in 1824, helped construct a communication network that connected Jews across the Atlantic world.
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Jewish Communities, Jewish Education and Quebec Nationalism
Social Compass, 1984La relation entre nationalisme et judaïsme n'est pas statique. Les nationalismes canadien et québécois ont traversé une période de changement et se sont orientés vers des conceptions opposées à propos de leur statut de minorité.
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2010
This chapter provides an overview of the history and inner workings of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague. It focuses on the efflorescence of Prague's rabbinic culture during the latter half of the century despite Joseph II's Toleranzpatent, which officially abolished the Jewish community's autonomy.
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This chapter provides an overview of the history and inner workings of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague. It focuses on the efflorescence of Prague's rabbinic culture during the latter half of the century despite Joseph II's Toleranzpatent, which officially abolished the Jewish community's autonomy.
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Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a Jewish Community.
International Migration Review, 1969Eckard V. Toy Jr. +2 more
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