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Publishing The Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper And Its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman
Publishing The Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper And Its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Publishing the Pan-Jewish emerges from a question about sites of synthesis between claims of sacred continuity and novel forms of communication. It centers on the first ten years of Hamagid (1856-1866), acknowledged within the historiography as history’s first Hebrew-language newspaper. Eliezer Lipman Silberman, an Orthodox butcher founded Hamagid in East Prussia as a bulwark of his vision of traditional Judaism. The first chapter of this dissertation examines the formal elements of the newspaper as a medium, demonstrating the myriad ways in which it presented novel experiences for its reading public. Chapter two narrates an untold history of the newspaper’s early …
The Jews Of Harlem, Dimitry Ekshtut
The Jews Of Harlem, Dimitry Ekshtut
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This is a syllabus for JWST 31919 - The Jews of Harlem, offered by the Jewish Studies Department at City College of New York. "The Jews of Harlem" is an interdisciplinary class focusing on the story of Jews in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York, their historic connection to the neighborhood (when it was the 3rd largest Jewish community in the world), and the flowering of new Jewish life in Harlem today.