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[Review of] Richard Klayman. A Generation of Hope: 1929-1941 [PDF]

, 1988
There would be little disagreement among students of American Jewry that we know relatively little about the experience of Jews living in the smaller cities and towns of this country. In recent years, the number of community studies has grown. Typically,
Kliger, Hannah
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A Renaissance of Jewish Studies in Contemporary Germany

Nordisk Judaistik, 2020
This paper provides an overview of the development of Jewish studies in Germany since reunification. After a brief historical review of the subject in the nineteenth century with the development of modern Reform Judaism and the science of Judaism ...
Christina von Braun
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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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‘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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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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Connected to Give: Key Findings [PDF]

, 2013
This is the first in a series of reports based upon the wealth of data from National Study of American Jewish Giving. The key findings represent the top level of information gleaned from the studies, but there is much more to be explored.
J. Shawn Landres, Jim Gerstein, Steven M. Cohen   +2 more
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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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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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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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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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