Purdue University Press
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Touro College
University of Pennsylvania
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Clark University
University of North Georgia
Remembering Yesterday: The Rally That Changed The Future Of Over 1 Million Soviet Jews,
2020
University of California, Irvine
Remembering Yesterday: The Rally That Changed The Future Of Over 1 Million Soviet Jews, Inbar Michael
The Macksey Journal
The purpose of this paper was to revive the importance of the Soviet Jewry Movement of the later 1900s, a historical occurrence that was quickly lost to history. It explored how the Soviet Jewry Movement not only relied on the unification of American Jews, but also on the mobilization and recognition of US politicians. Unification of American Jews entailed having to find common ground between the Orthodox and more secular Jews. The Soviet Jewry Movement successfully accomplished this by relying on the idea of Jewish solidarity to reach into the hearts of the Jews of the United States. The mobilization ...
Struggle, Change And Growth: How Israel And Kibbutz Na’An Navigated Similar Economic Paths,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
Struggle, Change And Growth: How Israel And Kibbutz Na’An Navigated Similar Economic Paths, Noam Yakoby
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
The Circassians Of Israel: Maintaining An Exilic Culture In The Zionist Homeland,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
The Circassians Of Israel: Maintaining An Exilic Culture In The Zionist Homeland, Nitin Rao
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
Marriage Through The Lens Of Divorce,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
Marriage Through The Lens Of Divorce, Mark Lis
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Albert Schuler’S “Jaffa Gate” And The History Of Holy Land Photography,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Albert Schuler’S “Jaffa Gate” And The History Of Holy Land Photography, Josh Kadish
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
Revisiting Annie Hall: Exploring Jewish Identity On The Silver Screen,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
Revisiting Annie Hall: Exploring Jewish Identity On The Silver Screen, Henry Hoffman
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
Demons, Magic, And Judaism: Incantation Bowls As Symbols Of Mystical Jewish Practice,
2020
University of Pennsylvania
Demons, Magic, And Judaism: Incantation Bowls As Symbols Of Mystical Jewish Practice, Zachary Goldstein
Kedma: Penn's Journal on Jewish Thought, Jewish Culture, and Israel
No abstract provided.
“The Jews Love Numbers”: Steven L. Anderson, Christian Conspiracists, And The Spiritual Dimensions Of Holocaust Denial,
2020
Emory University
“The Jews Love Numbers”: Steven L. Anderson, Christian Conspiracists, And The Spiritual Dimensions Of Holocaust Denial, Matthew H. Brittingham
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
From his pulpit at Faithful Word Baptist Church (Independent Fundamental Baptist) in Tempe, AZ, fundamentalist preacher Steven L. Anderson launches screeds against Catholics, LGBTQ people, evolutionary scientists, politicians, and anyone else who doesn't share his political, social, or theological views. Anderson publishes clips of his sermons on YouTube, where he has amassed a notable following. Teaming up with Paul Wittenberger of Framing the World, a small-time film company, Anderson produced a film about the connections between Christianity, Judaism, and Israel, entitled Marching to Zion (2015), which was laced with antisemitic stereotypes. Anderson followed Marching to Zion with an almost ...
Italian Jews: A Surprising And Understudied Influence In The Enlightenment,
2020
Liberty University
Italian Jews: A Surprising And Understudied Influence In The Enlightenment, Lura Martinez
Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History
The experience of Italian Jews during the Enlightenment is deserving of much more attention. Not only did Italian Jews such as Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto, a man born in a ghetto, later embrace a form of secularism, but his works and others written by his peers made an impact on the Italian Enlightenment and seemingly contributed to the practice of toleration that appeared in sporadic installments throughout Europe. While the Jewish experience in Europe hails from a long tradition of persecution, with sporadic and incomplete periods of toleration at various points in its history, it is clear that through a ...
The Resurrection Of Jewish Religion At The Turn Of The 20th And 21st Centuries: The Case Of Ukraine,
2020
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
The Resurrection Of Jewish Religion At The Turn Of The 20th And 21st Centuries: The Case Of Ukraine, Viktor Yelenskyi
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The article deals with the complexities of Judaism’s revival in Ukraine, where Jews have enriched the Jewish civilization with Hasidism, gifted the Jewish world with a whole plethora of outstanding Jewish figures and a remarkable cultural heritage both tangible and intangible, and where their religion underwent a monstrous destruction during the Holocaust and the Soviet anti-religious persecutions. Today's Judaism in Ukraine is a complex mixture of at least six decisive components. That is, (i) more than 20 centuries of the Judaism’s history in Ukrainian lands; (ii) the "great religious comeback," which unfolded in the world in the ...
Jewish Holidays In The Time Of The Corona Virus Pandemic In Slovakia,
2020
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jewish Holidays In The Time Of The Corona Virus Pandemic In Slovakia, Peter Salner
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The first wave of the new coronavirus pandemic swept through Slovakia between March 1 and May 31, 2020. During this relatively short period, four important Jewish holidays took place: Purim, Pesach, Lag BaOmer, and Shavuot. When the news of the pandemic initially broke, a large part of Slovak society viewed COVID-19 as a remote, and therefore, not entirely dangerous, threat. This attitude shifted on March 6, , when the first case of the disease was confirmed in the country. On March 9, the authorities reacted by introducing the first set of public health measures, which the Jewish Religious Community immediately relayed ...
Nazi-Confiscated Art: Eliminating Legal Barriers To Returning Stolen Treasures,
2020
Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Nazi-Confiscated Art: Eliminating Legal Barriers To Returning Stolen Treasures, Stephanie J. Beach
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
World War II ended over three-quarters of a century ago, but there still remain prisoners of war. Before and during the war, the Nazis confiscated approximately 650,000 works of art—an “art theft” orchestrated by Adolf Hitler to rid society of Jewish art and artists and to collect worthy works to build his own art capital. Seventy-five years later, looted Holocaust-era artworks are still either undiscovered or in the possession of museums across the globe without proper ownership attribution or payment to Holocaust survivors or their heirs. There are modern remedies, such as the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust ...
Hannah Arendt’S Vision Of Politics: Exemplary Negativities And The Ostjuden,
2020
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Hannah Arendt’S Vision Of Politics: Exemplary Negativities And The Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Hannah Arendt’s vision of politics is one of the most enigmatic, perplexing, thoroughly analyzed, and potentially generative aspects of her philosophic corpus. It is marked by insightful analysis, cutting deconstructions of pressing moral issues, and confusing vernacular wherein her analytic boundaries, topics, and categories appear obfuscated. Although it has been observed that Arendt’s late-career theory of the political owes a debt to her earlier writings on Jewish history, including her Kantian-influenced theory of political judgment and storytelling, in this thesis I would like to narrow down this debt to a specific trope: The Ostjuden, or the imagined associations ...
Spatial And Collective Memories Of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study,
2020
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Spatial And Collective Memories Of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This paper is the first component of my capstone on the comparative study of the ghetto of Rome and Łódź ghetto in Poland. This project hopes to examine the importance of collective and spatial memory, and how these factors play a crucial role in our connection and understanding of identity, locations, and memory formation. The following paper will display the similarities between the occupation of the ghetto of Roman from 1555 to the unification of Italy in 1870, and the Łódź ghetto operation during World War II (1939-1945). The paper will also touch upon the differences between today’s Roman ...
In And Outside City Walls: Medieval Jewish Communities And Rulership In German Cities,
2020
Wittenberg University
In And Outside City Walls: Medieval Jewish Communities And Rulership In German Cities, Zoë Schwartz
2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
As one would expect, Jewish life within the German Kingdom in the high middle ages (1000-1300 CE) was fraught with instability. The micro-history of specific Jewish communities has been undertaken by historians in the past, but the Jewish experience within multiple cities has yet to be compared. Due to the diversity of German city authority structures, the restrictions and privileges put upon the community were diverse. How these laws effect the daily life of the Jewish community was subject to the gentile authority of bishops, for those inhabiting bishop-cities, or the Emperor directly, for those living in free imperial states ...
The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy Of Daniel 9:24–27 And First-Century Ad Jewish Messianic Expectation,
2020
Andrews University
The Seventy-Weeks Prophecy Of Daniel 9:24–27 And First-Century Ad Jewish Messianic Expectation, David J. Hamstra
Andrews University Seminary Student Journal
For Christians who interpret the seventy weeks of Daniel 9:24–27 by correlating the coming of the messiah with the arrival of Jesus Christ, the question of whether Jesus could have been identified as the predicted messiah at the time of fulfillment is theologically significant given biblical claims of prophetic intelligibility. There is a consensus among scholars affirming the view that interpretation of the seventy-weeks prophecy led to a climate of messianic expectation among certain sectors of first-century Jewish society. This position is supported by the explicit connection of the seventy weeks to the anticipated arrival of a messiah ...
At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse On The Jewish Joke [Table Of Contents],
2020
Fordham University
At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse On The Jewish Joke [Table Of Contents], Louis Kaplan
Sociology
Scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the 20th century
At Wit’s End explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.
The first in-depth study to explore the Jewish joke as a crucial rhetorical figure in larger cultural debates in Germany, author Louis Kaplan presents ...
(Re-)Making The State: Religious Zionism, Religious Violence, And Israel In The 21st Century,
2020
Macalester College
(Re-)Making The State: Religious Zionism, Religious Violence, And Israel In The 21st Century, Abe Asher
Religious Studies Honors Projects
Israel’s triumph and seizure of land in the Six-Day War paved the way for a religious Zionist movement based around territorial conquest exemplified by the ideology of Meir Kahane. Over the next 30 years, but particularly during the Oslo period in the mid-1990s, that movement organized and used targeted religious violence to gain power and solidify its place in Israeli society. Building on Shaul Magid’s work, I propose that Kahane’s ethics of violence have been adopted by or allowed to flourish within the modern State of Israel — a response to historic and present Jewish precarity centered on ...
Piety And Mayhem: How Extremist Groups Misuse Religious Doctrine To Condone Violence And Achieve Political Goals,
2020
Ursinus College
Piety And Mayhem: How Extremist Groups Misuse Religious Doctrine To Condone Violence And Achieve Political Goals, Noah Garber
Religious Studies Honors Papers
This thesis examines the way in which various groups have used religion as a justification for violent action towards political ends. From the Irgun, which carried out terrorist acts in Palestine, to the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, which has waged war on Israel, to the Buddhist leadership of Myanmar, which has waged a genocidal campaign against Rohingya Muslims living in the country, these groups have employed a narrow interpretation of their religious texts as a means to justify the actions they take. It is explained that it is not the compulsion of religious doctrine itself that is to blame, rather ...
Jewish Representation In Modern Film And Television,
2020
Ouachita Baptist University
Jewish Representation In Modern Film And Television, Ryan Motl
Scholars Day Conference
This paper takes a look at how effectively and accurately modern television is able to portray a character with a Jewish background.
