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‘Turning Jews Over’ – the Participation of ‘Blue’ Policemen in Deportations of Jews Illustrated with the Example of the Radomsko County

Zagłada Żydów, 2017
Based on previously unknown archival documents, the author discusses the Polish Police functionaries’ participation in deportations of the Jewish population from Radomsko County to the ghetto in Radomsko or to death centres.
Ewa Wiatr
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Micro-Yizkor and Hasidic Memory: A Post-Holocaust Letter from the Margins

Religions
This paper examines a previously unknown anonymous Hebrew letter inserted into a postwar edition of Shem HaGedolim, found in the library of the Jewish University in Budapest.
Isaac Hershkowitz
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Religion as Hatred: Antisemitism as a Case Study

Journal of Hate Studies, 2004
The topic of religion as a source of hatred could be explored through several lenses. I first came to this topic through an analysis and evaluation of the studies done on prejudice in Catholic teaching materials undertaken in the sociology department of ...
John T. Pawlikowski
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Home beyond Borders and the Sound of Al-Andalus. Jewishness in Arabic; the Odyssey of Samy Elmaghribi

Religions, 2020
In their conversation about music, Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim discuss a process of seeking home in music and literature. For Moroccan-Jewish superstar Samy Elmaghribi (Solomon Amzallag), who migrated to France and Israel and then settled for most ...
Jessica Roda, Stephanie Tara Schwartz
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Family network of emerging Jewish intelligentsia (Cracow 1850-1918)

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2018
Mass genealogy of Jewish community in Cracow in 19th and early 20th century provides extraordinary opportunity to investigate the process of creating a new social class: society of traditional merchants and peddlers produced modern attorneys and doctors.
Marek Jerzy Minakowski
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(Od)czytywanie losów żydowskich

Autobiografia, 2020
This text introduces a collection of articles which seek to interpret Jewish ego documents and testimonies, broadly defined. Reading these documents facilitates a process of uncovering intimate threads and problematizing Jewish biographies.
NATALIA ALEKSIUN
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Shimon Samet and the Gap in the Story

Autobiografia, 2020
This article offers a close reading of personal memoirs about coming of age in Żółkiew in Eastern Galicia and about transitions on the way to immigration to Mandatory Palestine before WWII.
YEHOSHUA (SHUKI) ECKER
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The Talmudic Rabbi as Triage Officer: Decision-Making in Times of COVID-19

Religions
The essay outlines a four-phase triage process made by a fictive Talmudic rabbi working on an equally fictive hospital COVID-19 ward. The rabbi bases his decision on four different Talmudic texts, proceeding one by one, with each text building on the ...
George Y. Kohler
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Management of Religious Diversity in Chile: Experiences from Local Governments

Religions
This article analyzes the origins, characteristics, and functioning of the Chilean public institutions dedicated to managing religious diversity at the municipal level.
Nelson Marín Alarcón, Luis Bahamondes González   +1 more
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Nordisk judaistik / Scandinavian Jewish Studies

Nordisk Judaistik, 2018
This review article describes and analyses the development of the journal Nordisk judaistik / Scandinavian Jewish Studies (NJ) since its founding in 1975. It discusses the editorial policies and practices of the journal as these have taken shape over the
Ruth Illman
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