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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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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools +2 more
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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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Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
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Exceptionally Jewish: Israeli Synagogue Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s
Arts, 2020 This article examines three exceptional synagogues designed in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s. It aims to explore the tension between these iconic structures and the artworks integrated into them.
Naomi Simhony
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Prey of Pray: Allegorizing the Liturgical Practice
Arts, 2019 Numerous images embedded in the painted decorations in early modern Central and Eastern European synagogues conveyed allegorical messages to the congregation.
Zvi Orgad
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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