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Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The diamond industry is home to many unusual features: the predominance of an ethnically homogeneous community of merchants, the norm of intergenerational family businesses, and a rejection of public courts in favor of private contract enforcement.
Richman, Barak D.
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A Tale of Two Synagogues: Culture, Conflict and Consolidation in the Jewish Community of Saint John, 1906-1919

open access: yesCanadian Jewish Studies, 1994
The history of the Jewish community in Saint John, New Brunswick has the characteristics of both large and small-town Jewish communities. Saint John paralleled the early Jewish communities of Montreal and Toronto in its formation by English and German ...
Craig Chouinard
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Dublin Jewish Demography a Century Ago [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the demography of Ireland’s Jewish community a century ago. Its focus is on Dublin Jewry, then mainly a community of immigrants from the Tsarist Empire and their children.
Cormac Ó Gráda
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Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
An economic theory of immigration and immigrant absorption for a religious minority is developed and applied to Jewish history. Human capital is classified according to whether it is allocative or productive, transferable or location-specific, general or
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman
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Jews in Germany: from Ancient Times to the Present Day

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2017
Antisemitism dates back to the remote past. Today it seems impossible to define whether antisemitism throughout centuries was stronger in Germany than in other European countries (France, Poland, and Russia) as from the point of view of historical ...
K Y Khderi
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NH International Seminar, Spring 2016: Identity, Marginality & Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
NHIS Spring 2016 - Identity, Marginality & Community Thursday, February 11, 2:10 – 3:30 pm, MUB Theater IIMarla Brettschneider, UNH Department of Women\u27s Studies and Political Science The Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa Wednesday, March 2, 4 ...
Center for International Education and Global Engagement
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The Characteristics of Cultural Tourists who Visit Urban Jewish Heritage Centres: The Case Study of Visitors to the White Stork Synagogue in Wrocław [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since the White Stork Synagogue in Wrocław has been restored, opened to visitors and become a part of the so-called District of the Four Faiths promoted by the city council, both the synagogue and its neighbourhood have become tourist attractions which ...
Duda-Seifert, Magdalena
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THE SILENCING OF DISSENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This thesis explores the experiences of Jewish peace activists in Sydney, Australia, who actively dissent from the ‘mainstream’ Jewish community by expressing criticism of the oppression of the Palestinian people by various Israeli governments.
Salom, Margot F.
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The role of Judaism in the Jewish community after the Holocaust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Through conflicts of opinions inside the Bratislava Jewish religious community, the author monitors changed relations toward Judaism after the Holocaust. The current form of the community was due to Regulation 231-1945 concerning “the arrangement of the
Salner, Peter
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Russian-Jewish Intellectuals outside the Pale of Settlement at the Beginning of 20th Century: in Search of Identity (Doctor I. Ya. Meerovich in Yekaterinodar)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The process of formation of the Russian-Jewish intellectuals of the early twentieth century on the example of the biography of the doctor I. Ya. Meerovich is illustrated in the article.
E. S. Norkina
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