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Jews and the British Empire c.1900 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the years of high imperialism at the beginning of the twentieth century what bearing did the British Empire have on the Jews, or Jews on the British Empire? The silence of scholarship might lead us to answer ‘not very much’.
Feldman, David
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“Struma”: The Destiny of a Tragedy. A Revised Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society
Using new and previously-published sources, including archival documents and family testimonies, this article revises the common view of the 1942 Struma disaster, the sinking of a ship carrying 769 people, mostly Jewish emigrants from Romania to ...
Maria Mădălina Irimia
doaj   +1 more source

Jews as a Changing People of the Talmud: An American Exploration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[Excerpt] My project has two parts. The first part demonstrates that Jews were in fact a changing people of the Talmud. Even though I make some references to it, discussion of that large subject awaits further investigation.
Korman, Gerd
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DEVELOPMENT OF HANDICRAFT INDUSTRIES AMONG THE JEWISH POPULATION OF KYIV REGION IN LATE 1920S – EARLY 1930S

open access: yesVìsnik - Kiïvsʹkij nacìonalʹnij unìversitet ìmenì Tarasa Ševčenka: Ìstorìâ, 2021
The article examines the position of Jewish artisans in the Kyiv region in the late 1920s, a period when the Soviet government's course on the industrialization accelerated the collapse of the NEP policy.
Perga T., Perga Yu.
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Jewish Literature in German Clothing…? [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl, 2022
As in the case of Franz Kafka and other authors like Franz Werfel, Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler or Leo Perutz, it is necessary to take seemingly secondary or even hidden allusions to Jewishness very seriously.
Karl Erich Grözinger
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Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser ...
Abramovitsh   +187 more
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PERSECUTION AND LONGING OF YEMENITE JEWS IN THE HANDSOME JEW [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2021
The article is an attempt to highlight the suffering of the Yemenite Jews as depicted in Ali Al-Muqri’s The Handsome Jew. It argues that Ali Al-Muqri has been able to articulate the suffering experienced by Yemenite Jews for thousands of years and that
Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi
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Performance as Exchange: Taxation and Jewish Theatre in Early Modern Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In early modern Italy, an unusual form of exchange between Jewish and Christian communities materialized in Mantua: Jews in Mantua were required to perform an annual play as a tribute to their Gonzaga rulers.
Jaffe-Berg, E
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Nostra aetate (No. 4) as a Compass for the Jewish-Catholic Dialogue

open access: yesEdinost in Dialog, 2020
The article examines the Conciliar declaration in light of the previous historical circumstances and spiritual movements that led to the writing of this text and reflects on its theological importance.
Norbert Johannes Hofmann
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Jewish Communities in Western Siberia in 19th-21st Centuries: Sociocultural Image

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The state of Jewish communities in Western Siberia in the historical perspective is analyzed. On the basis of a wide range of archival sources the author analyzes the specifics of the life of such communities during four historical periods: pre ...
V. A. Gerasimova
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