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Good Life, Brave Death, and Earned Immortality: Features of a Neglected Ancient Virtue Discourse
Open Theology, 2022 This article examines early Jewish ideas of virtue that are usually ignored in presentations of the history of virtue discourse. We analyze the use of the Greek term ἀρετή in the Apocrypha of the Septuagint; all the occurrences of the term are in texts ...
Yli-Karjanmaa Sami, Uusimäki Elisa
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German court Jews and Denmark during the Great Northern War [PDF]
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1966 The Danish archives house a great wealth of largely unused material capable of throwing light on the history of the Jews during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Latvia's democratic resistance: a forgotten episode from the Second World War [PDF]
, 2009 In summer 1943 politicians representing the four main political parties of Latvia's democratic years came together to establish a movement which would both resist the German occupation and prevent the return of the Red Army. They considered the key to re-
Swain, G.
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The Alternative Histories of Muslim Asia’s Urban Centres: De-Cosmopolitanisation and Beyond
The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2020 Historians increasingly analyse the cultural diversity of life in the Afro-Eurasian arena of ‘Muslim dominion’ in terms of its cosmopolitanism. By contrast, critical scholarship has recently brought attention to declining levels of religious diversity ...
Magnus Marsden
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Repatriation and restitution of Holocaust victims in post-war Denmark
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016 Jewish Holocaust survivors faced severe economic and emotional difficulties on returning home to Denmark in 1945. Jewish families had used their savings, sold valuables and property and obtained improvised private loans in order to finance their escape ...
Sofie Lene Bak
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Bøger om jødisk historie i Danmark de sidste 15 år
Nordisk Judaistik, 2016 I Danmark er der de sidste femten år udkommet en hel del bøger om jødernes historie, ikke mindst om deres trængsler. Morten Thing gennemgår i denne oversigtsartikel de vigtigste indenfor forskning og formidling.
Morten Thing
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Religions, 2023 This article explores an age-old form of dialogical learning, havruta, which has been employed by Jews throughout the centuries to study the Torah and the Talmud, and evaluates the experiment of extending havruta from a couple of fellow students (haverim)
Claudia Welz +2 more
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, 2022 This book explores the portrayal of Jews and Judaism in medieval Danish and Swedish literary and visual culture. Drawing on over 100 manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art, the author describes the various, often contradictory, images ranging from antisemitism and anti-Judaism to the elevation of Jews as morally ...
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Jonathan Adams. Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2023 No abstract is available.
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Nordisk Judaistik, 1989 The Royal Library in Copenhagen has for 50 years been in possession of an archive of extraordinary scope, bequeathed to it by the former chief rabbi in Denmark, Professor David Simonsen (1853–1932).
Dror Ständig
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