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2022
Abstract This chapter examines how “Jew” and “Judaism” functioned as one such category into which social and religious others could be placed. Yet, in order for Jews, whether real or imagined, to be understood, they continued to be mediated through the narrative provided by the qurʾānic text.
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Abstract This chapter examines how “Jew” and “Judaism” functioned as one such category into which social and religious others could be placed. Yet, in order for Jews, whether real or imagined, to be understood, they continued to be mediated through the narrative provided by the qurʾānic text.
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2008
The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans, including Jewish American playwrights, are descendants of Eastern European Jews. So it is not surprising that few characters on the American stage have been recognizable as descendants of German Jews, who formed the majority of Jewish immigrants during the middle years of the nineteenth century, before the
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The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans, including Jewish American playwrights, are descendants of Eastern European Jews. So it is not surprising that few characters on the American stage have been recognizable as descendants of German Jews, who formed the majority of Jewish immigrants during the middle years of the nineteenth century, before the
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2020
This chapter assesses the meetings of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews on the ground in the communities of the Holy Roman Empire. It begins by examining the chapbook Di bashraybung fun Ashkenaz un Polak (The Description of a German and a Polish Jew).
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This chapter assesses the meetings of the Polish Jewish refugees with the German Jews on the ground in the communities of the Holy Roman Empire. It begins by examining the chapbook Di bashraybung fun Ashkenaz un Polak (The Description of a German and a Polish Jew).
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2012
This chapter analyzes the “prehistory” of the Jewish rehabilitation of Spinoza, exploring how his Jewish origins figured in fashioning him into a cultural symbol among non-Jews first. It traces his shifting image across a spectrum of modern Jewish movements and milieus, from the Berlin Haskalah to early religious Reform and Wissenschaft des Judentums ...
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This chapter analyzes the “prehistory” of the Jewish rehabilitation of Spinoza, exploring how his Jewish origins figured in fashioning him into a cultural symbol among non-Jews first. It traces his shifting image across a spectrum of modern Jewish movements and milieus, from the Berlin Haskalah to early religious Reform and Wissenschaft des Judentums ...
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2006
This chapter explores the difference between Jews and non-Jews. One of the first Jewish thinkers to emphasize that the distinction resides in a property shared by Jews and lacking in non-Jews is Judah Halevi; he called this property the amr al-ilahi. Halevi was also the first to teach the doctrine that Jews by birth are innately superior to non-Jews ...
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This chapter explores the difference between Jews and non-Jews. One of the first Jewish thinkers to emphasize that the distinction resides in a property shared by Jews and lacking in non-Jews is Judah Halevi; he called this property the amr al-ilahi. Halevi was also the first to teach the doctrine that Jews by birth are innately superior to non-Jews ...
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1990
The Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty years after its creation, the Alliance established a vast network of schools in the lands of Islam for the purpose of "civilizing" the local Jewish communities and remaking ...
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The Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French-Jewish organization founded in 1860, occupies a crucial place in the history of Sephardi communities in the modern period. In the fifty years after its creation, the Alliance established a vast network of schools in the lands of Islam for the purpose of "civilizing" the local Jewish communities and remaking ...
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Depressive Illness in Jews and Non-Jews
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1966Depressive illness is a major medical problem among psychiatric out-patients (Davies, 1964). Most of the recent investigations of depression have been related to the use of antidepressive drugs and electroplexy, but a deeper understanding of the condition quite apart from the efficacy of treatment is necessary (Lewis, 1964).
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