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"Identity Imperative: Ottoman Jews In Wartime And Interwar Britain", Aviva Ben-Ur Apr 2014

"Identity Imperative: Ottoman Jews In Wartime And Interwar Britain", Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

By the onset of World War I, hundreds of Ottoman immigrants, including a significant proportion of Jews, were living and trading in Britain. During wartime and through much of the interwar period, these multi-ethnic Ottomans were automatically classified as enemy aliens, subject at times to internment and deportation, stripped of their freedom of movement, and uniformly barred from citizenship. Drawing on nearly sixty recently declassified naturalization applications of Ottoman Jews, this article discusses the prosopography of Middle Eastern newcomers, nativism and xenophobia, and the role of the state in shaping national and ethnic identities, focusing on the British government’s invention …


Motti Inbari. Review Of Ariel, Yaakov, An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians And Jews . H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews., Motti Inbari Dr. Mar 2014

Motti Inbari. Review Of Ariel, Yaakov, An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians And Jews . H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews., Motti Inbari Dr.

Motti Inbari Dr.

No abstract provided.


Tötösy De Zepetnek, Steven Curriculum Vitae, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2014

Tötösy De Zepetnek, Steven Curriculum Vitae, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Purdue University Press Monograph Series Of Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2014

Purdue University Press Monograph Series Of Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Cumulative Index Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture (1999-), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2014

Cumulative Index Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture (1999-), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2014

Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Understanding The Haggadah: The Step-By-Step Seder Companion, Andrew Blitman Dec 2013

Understanding The Haggadah: The Step-By-Step Seder Companion, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

A sleek and simple 15-step guide to understanding the celebration of Passover, "Understanding the Haggadah" is meant to be read as a companion to the traditional Pesach Haggadah. Esteemed Jewish sources (primarily the Kabbalah and Talmud) are used to succinctly explain the purpose of each step of the Passover Seder. A must-read for the Passover Seder.


What Do Buddhists And Jews Have In Common - A Lot, Andrew Blitman Dec 2013

What Do Buddhists And Jews Have In Common - A Lot, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

No abstract provided.


Isolation And The Law: Germanism And Judaism In Hermann Cohen’S Reading Of Moses Mendelssohn, Robert Erlewine Dec 2013

Isolation And The Law: Germanism And Judaism In Hermann Cohen’S Reading Of Moses Mendelssohn, Robert Erlewine

Robert Erlewine

No abstract provided.


Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike Dec 2013

Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike

Barry D. Fike

For the Jew, “I beg to differ” has been an enduring tactic of achieving and affirming identity. The Jew had addressed the same caveat to God—not in self-contradiction, but in dialectic aiming at attainment of fuller realization of who he is, as Jew and as human being. In asking about God, we examine our own selves: whether we are sensitive to the grandeur and supremacy of what we ask about, whether we are wholeheartedly concerned with what we ask about. Unless we are involved, we fail to sense the issue.


“Birthright 2012: A Voyage Into The Heart And Soul Of Israel”, Book Club Dec 2013

“Birthright 2012: A Voyage Into The Heart And Soul Of Israel”, Book Club

Andrew Blitman

No abstract provided.


Jews, Pagans, And Heretics In Early Medieval Canon Law, David M. Freidenreich Dec 2013

Jews, Pagans, And Heretics In Early Medieval Canon Law, David M. Freidenreich

David M. Freidenreich

No abstract provided.


Walking Side By Side: Engagement With Islamic Law And Theology In Rabbinic Legal Literature, David M. Freidenreich Dec 2013

Walking Side By Side: Engagement With Islamic Law And Theology In Rabbinic Legal Literature, David M. Freidenreich

David M. Freidenreich

No abstract provided.


Intermarriage In Judaism, David M. Freidenreich Dec 2013

Intermarriage In Judaism, David M. Freidenreich

David M. Freidenreich

No abstract provided.


Can Baalei Tshuva Change Haredi Life Style In Israel? I Doubt It, Motti Inbari Dr. Dec 2013

Can Baalei Tshuva Change Haredi Life Style In Israel? I Doubt It, Motti Inbari Dr.

Motti Inbari Dr.

A rebuttal to a Mosaic article that called for a change in Haredi life style with the help of newly observant newcomers. Change is required but it has to come with women and young adults.


Messianic Religious Zionism And The Reintroduction Of Sacrifice: The Case Of The Temple Institute, Motti Inbari Dr. Dec 2013

Messianic Religious Zionism And The Reintroduction Of Sacrifice: The Case Of The Temple Institute, Motti Inbari Dr.

Motti Inbari Dr.

No abstract provided.


Hermann Cohen And The Jewish Jesus, Robert Erlewine Dec 2013

Hermann Cohen And The Jewish Jesus, Robert Erlewine

Robert Erlewine

There is a distinguished German Protestant tradition that understands Jesus, that is, his thoughts and consciousness, as essentially Greek rather than Jewish. Included in this tradition are such luminaries as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Adolf von Harnack. Hermann Cohen is not the first Jewish thinker to oppose this notion and insist upon Jesus’s Jewishness.1 However, his account of the Jewish Jesus, particularly as it is developed in his two major treatises on philosophy of religion, Der Begriff der Religion im System der Philosophie [The Concept of Religion in the System of Philosophy] and Religion of Reason Out of the …


“Atlantic Jewish History: A Conceptual Reorientation”, Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2013

“Atlantic Jewish History: A Conceptual Reorientation”, Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

This chapter explores the radical implications of an Atlantic perspective on American Jewish history, based on an analysis of select primary sources from The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica, housed at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Such an Atlantic perspective allows us to revise the national interpretation of “American” Jewish history, commonly taken to mean the United States, reminding us of its plural hemispheric meaning (Americas) and allowing us to envision an Atlantic Jewish world connecting four continents: Europe, Africa, South and North America. Adopting a chronological-thematic approach, this chapter identifies three key areas for analysis: …


Ben-Ur, %22when Spanish Is No Longer A Jewish Language%22.Pdf, Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2013

Ben-Ur, %22when Spanish Is No Longer A Jewish Language%22.Pdf, Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

This is a translation (improved thanks to the feedback of Julia Phillips Cohen) of a 1928 installment of the popular advice column "Postemas de Mujer," published in the U.S. Ladino newspaper La Vara by the Salonikan-born journalist Moïse Soulam, who wrote under the pen name of Bula Satula. The installment demonstrate that Ladino and Spanish were for the most part mutually intelligible languages, but Sephardim did not always welcome the overtures of the Puerto Ricans who overheard their conversations. This translation previously appeared in Aviva Ben-Ur, "We Speak and Write This Language Against Our Will’: Jews, Hispanics, and the Dilemma …


Biblical Aramaic Verb List, Philomena M. French Dec 2013

Biblical Aramaic Verb List, Philomena M. French

Philomena M French

No abstract provided.