'Confounding closed systems': transforming the boundaries of jewish identity in Rebecca Goldstein's novel mazel [PDF]
In contemporary Jewish American fiction, the themes of immigration and resettlement take on a renewed significance. In various short stories and novels, a threefold composition – (prewar) life in Europe, the transatlantic journey and settlement in ...
Buelens, Gert, Lievens, Bart
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The settlement of Jews in Vic: origin, provenance and mobility of the Jewish community (1231-1277) [PDF]
This article focuses on the study of the establishment of Jewish families in Vic in the early 13th century. Documents from the Libri Judeorum, along with other notarial records, shine light on the origin and consolidation of the Jewish community of Vic
Llop, Irene
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A variant of prealbumin from amyloid fibrils in familial polyneuropathy of Jewish origin
Amyloid fibrils were isolated from spleen and thyroid obtained at autopsy from one patient (S.K.O.) of Jewish origin with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy.
M. Pras +3 more
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
Alexander +48 more
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Ethno-cultural Borderline: Conceptual, Typological, and Circumstantial Aspects (Alien — Other — One’s own). Third article [PDF]
The final part of the triptych is devoted to the problematics of Ukrainian-Jewish literary border. Unlike two previous parts, where geoplitical and regional aspects prevailed (Galitchina, Kharkov — Donbass), here the “internal” border is focused on, or ...
Yuri Ya. Barabash
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Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and Medieval European Economic History
This essay discusses the intellectual contributions of five Jewish émigrés to the study of European economic history. In the midst of the war years, these intellectuals reconceptualized premodern European economic history and established the predominant ...
Julie Mell
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European population substructure: clustering of northern and southern populations. [PDF]
Using a genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel, we observed population structure in a diverse group of Europeans and European Americans.
Michael F Seldin +8 more
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Modernity and the Jewish Stigma. Julian Tuwim, Alfred Döblin and Kurt Tucholsky: Biographies and Work [PDF]
The paper deals with biographical, ideological and artistic links between Julian Tuwim, Alfred Döblin and Kurt Tucholsky. On the one hand, the basis of comparison are biographical similarities, the Jewish origin of those three writers, their family ...
Bednarczuk, Monika
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Irène Némirovsky e l’impossibile oblio delle origini
This study does not aim to explore the biographical vicissitudes of Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942), a Russian Jewish woman who emigrated to France and died in Auschwitz, but it rather deals with the modalities adopted by the writer in thematising the ...
Valeria Dei
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The purpose of this study is to compare native-born and immigrant Jewish people from North African roots who reside in greater Paris regarding their multiple identities: ethnic-religious, as Jewish people; national, as French citizens; and transnational,
Lilach Lev-Ari
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