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The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts [PDF]
, 2015 The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and a modern idea of Jewishness ...
Gasztold, Brygida
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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Kelmė and Vaiguva Jewish Communities and Their Perishing in 1941
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2011 It is believed that Jews settled in Kelmė in the 15th century and in Vaiguva in the 18th century. In 1897, 2,710 of the 3,914 residents of Kelmė were Jews.
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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Mapping Jewish Education: The National Picture [PDF]
, 2006 Based on interviews as well as a database of Jewish educational organizations, foundations, and programs, examines their accomplishments, challenges, future directions, and links within a Jewish educational system.
Amy L. Sales +6 more
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Refuge, 1983 While my wife and I were on a recent visit to the USSR, we visited with several refusenik families. These people were all members of the Jewish religion and were being helped, in some form or other, by synagogues and/or other Jewish organizations ...
Paul H. Klein, Lloyd Jones
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“Right on, Vashti!”: Minor Characters and Performance Choices in the Synagogal Megillah Reading
Religions, 2023 Every Purim, synagogues read the biblical Book of Esther aloud in liturgy, a tradition that exemplifies how synagogue performance practices elaborate on, revise, and refine minor characters in the text.
Jonathan Homrighausen
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A study of the spatial characteristics of the Jews in London 1695 & 1895 [PDF]
, 1994 This paper suggests that the settlement pattern of Jews in London is in a distinct cluster, but contradicts the accepted belief about the nature of the 'ghetto'; finding that the traditional conception of the 'ghetto', as an enclosed, inward-looking ...
Vaughan, Laura
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni +2 more
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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