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Shmita Revolution: The Reclamation and Reinvention of the Sabbatical Year
Religions, 2016 Jewish observance of shmita (alternatively spelled shemitah)—the sabbatical year, or seventh (sheviit) year—is changing. Historically rooted in agriculture, modern Jewish environmentalists are seizing upon the long-ignored environmental and social ...
David Krantz
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Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2018 Jewish anti-Christian polemical treatises comprise a well-known genre in medieval Jewish literature. It is generally thought that these books were written in response to Christian missionary pressure.
Daniel J. Lasker
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Judaism, Enlightenment, and Ideology
Religions, 2021 The co-existence of Enlightenment and ideology has long vexed Jews in modernity. They have both loved and been leary of Enlightenment reason and its attending scientific and political institutions.
Randi Lynn Rashkover
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Legitimizing Rhetorics: Jewish “Heresy” in Early Modern Italy
Etudes Epistémè, 2017 Granted the weakness of Jewish institutions for social control, arguments for freedom of thought and criticism of authority could flourish relatively unimpeded within the community.
Bernard Dov Cooperman
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KOMPARASI SEJARAH DAN ANALISIS TEKS SABINE SCHMIDTKE
El-Fikr, 2022 This study looks at the numerous studies of Islamic theology conducted by Western nations since the early nineteenth century. They studied Muslim thinkers' writings and brought them to the West.
Halimatuzzahro Marzuki
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Medieval Roots of the Myth of Jewish Male Menstruation
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2021 The Jews in Western Europe during the middle ages were often perceived as distinct from other people not only in their religion, but also by virtue of peculiar physical characteristics.
Noga Roguin Maor +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Interview with Michael Löwy (CNRS): Russian literature, philosophy and messianism
RUS (São Paulo), 2021 In the history of the Dostoevsky’s and Tolstoy’s reception in modern philosophical thought, a philosophical tradition of German-Jewish origin has a prominent role.
Jimmy Sudário Cabral
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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