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Jewish Diaspora

Books on: "Jewish diaspora" OR (jews AND diaspora)

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The Israeli Diaspora

Book by Steven J. Gold; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora, Jews--Attitudes Towards Israel

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Israelis form a unique case in the field of diaspora studies. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948 it was seen as the longed-for end to the wandering and oppression which had characterised the Jewish diaspora over the centuries.
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Israel and the Diaspora

Book by Ben Zion Dinur; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora, Jews--History--Philosophy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...such." 11 The basis of Josts division of the Jewish Diaspora into two halves is thus not only territorial, but...conflicts are thus critical times in the history of the Jewish Diaspora. 53 Epochal changes in general history must, therefore...
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Continuity, Commitment, and Survival: Jewish Communities in the Diaspora

Book by Sol Encel, Leslie Stein; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora, Jews--Cultural Assimilation, Jews--Identity, Judaism--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...0-275-97337-9 (alk. paper) 1. Jewish diaspora. 2. Jews-Identity. 3. Jews...prospects for Canadian Jews are good, com- pared with other Diaspora communities or Canadian...ism legitimates what Diaspora Jews have been hoping for since...
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Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the World of Maritime Empires (1540-1740)

Book by Jonathan I. Israel; Brill, 2002

Subjects:

Jews--History--70-1789, Marranos--History--16th Century, Marranos--History--17th Century, Sephardim--History--16th Century, Sephardim--History--17th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...highly specialized Jewish diasporas within the wider Jewish diaspora of a kind which had not really existed before and...extended maritime trading diaspora within the wider Jewish diaspora was, initially at least, in its early formative...
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Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity

Book by Howard Wettstein; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Jewish Diaspora--History, Jews--Civilization, Jews--Identity

Collections: History, Entire Library

"Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."--Hillel J. Kieval, author of "Languages of Community"

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Journal Articles on: "Jewish diaspora" OR (jews AND diaspora)

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Tongue Ties: The Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mid-Nineteenth Century *

Journal article by Adam Mendelsohn; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007

Subjects:

Damascus Affair, 1840, Gratz, Rebecca--History, Jewish diaspora--History, Jewish history--19th century AD, Jews--19th century AD, Jews--History, Leeser, Isaac--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mid-Nineteenth Century...a distinct English-speaking Jewish diaspora. This Anglophone entity has...see Nancy Green, "The Modern Jewish Diaspora: East European Jews in New York...
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Y. Michal Bodemann, Ed., New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora

Journal article by Alena Heitlinger; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Perspectives in German...problematic for transnational diasporas. Two informative articles...Islam, and between German Jews and German Turks. Sander Gilman...the Russian transnational Diaspora than with German society...Bagno argue that "Russian Jews were brought to Germany to...
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Diaspora: Jews Amongst Greeks and Romans

Journal article by Hagith Sivan; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Diaspora: Jews Amongst Greeks and Romans (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...for the self. For Erich S. Gruen, this book on the Jewish diaspora pre-70 CE represents a second major excursion into...understand what diaspora meant for Jews, he explores Jewish-diaspora humor. Thus, one chapter deals with historical fiction...
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Jews on View

Journal article by Peter Wollheim; Afterimage, Vol. 34, 2007

Subjects:

American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century (Book)--Book reviews, Bar Mitzvah Disco (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Book)--Book reviews, Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism (Book)--Book reviews, The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...256 PP./$23.95 (HB) FAR FROM ZION: JEWS, DIASPORA, MEMORY BY JASON FRANCISCO PALO ALTO...Freud would have it, Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (2006) interpretatively documents...In his chapter on "Slashing Toward Diaspora," Kaplan dwells on the well-known staged...1994." Others pun with references to "Jews on Hogs" (Harley-Davidsons); "Nice...
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British Diplomats and the Jews in Poland, Romania and Hungary during the Communist Takeovers

Journal article by Arieh J. Kochavi; East European Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1995

Subjects:

Hungarian Jews--Emigration and immigration, Jewish diaspora, Jews, Hungarian--Emigration and immigration, Jews, Polish--Emigration and immigration, Jews, Romanian--Emigration and immigration, Polish Jews--Emigration and immigration, Romanian Jews--Emigration and immigration

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

British Diplomats and the Jews in Poland, Romania and Hungary during...similarity between the situation of the Jews in the three states - the result, among...decided influence on the condition of the Jews. The British, who feared that an inundation...

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Magazine Articles on: "Jewish diaspora" OR (jews AND diaspora)

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The Future of the Jews and Israel: An Optimistic Vision; an "Imagineered" Future Offers a Positive Outlook for Jews, Israel, the Diaspora, and Peace with the Muslim World, as Well as a Glimpse of What Measures Might Be Taken to Realize This Vision

Magazine article by Tsvi Bisk; The Futurist, Vol. 42, March 2008

Subjects:

Future predictions, Jewish diaspora-Israel relations--Forecasts and trends, Jewish diaspora--Forecasts and trends, Jewish-Muslim relations--Forecasts and trends, Jews--Attitudes toward Israel, Jews--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...by any group of Jews since the advent of the Zionist project itself. THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIAN--JEWISH RELATIONS The Jewish Diaspora resides in Christian and post-Christian countries. Israels two most important relationships are with the United States...
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Jews for Justice

Magazine article by Michael Lerner; The Nation, Vol. 274, May 20, 2002

Subjects:

American Jews, Arab-Israeli conflicts--Public opinion, Israel-Arab conflicts--Public opinion, Israel--Military aspects, Jewish diaspora-Israel relations, Jews, American--Attitudes toward Israel

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Jews for Justice. by MICHAEL LERNER They call us "self-hating" Jews when we raise criticisms of Israeli policies. Yet most of those Jews who risk this calumny as the cost of getting involved actually feel a special resonance...
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The Meaning of Zionism for the Diaspora

Magazine article by Arthur Hertzberg; Cross Currents, Vol. 48, Winter 1998

Subjects:

Immigrants--Social aspects, Israel--Relations with the Diaspora, Jewish diaspora--Diaspora, Zionism--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The meaning of Zionism for the Diaspora. by Arthur Hertzberg Jews in the multi-ethnic future will need...that is, the insistence that the Diaspora must now come to an end so that the Jews could become a "normal people." The...secular, that exists to this day in the Diaspora and in Israel was created by Jews in the nineteenth century and in the...
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The One-State Solution: However Utopian, Binationalism May Be the Last Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Magazine article by Daniel Lazare; The Nation, Vol. 277, November 3, 2003

Subjects:

Antisemitism--Analysis, Antisemitism--History, Aqaba Summit, 2003, Arab-Jewish relations--Forecasts and trends, Arab-Jewish relations--History, Arab-Jewish relations--Political aspects, Ben-Gurion, David--Political activity, Efron, Noah--Works, Ellis, Marc--Works, Hertzberg, Arthur--Works, Herzl, Theodor--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Herzl, Theodor--Works, Israel and Palestine: Out of the Ashes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Israel--History, Israel--International relations, Israeli history, Jewish law--Analysis, Jewish law--Interpretation and construction, Jewish law--Social aspects, Jewish-Arab relations--Forecasts and trends, Jewish-Arab relations--History, Jewish-Arab relations--Political aspects, Levine, Allan--Works, Real Jews: Secular vs. Ultra-Orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Sharon, Ariel--Political activity, The Fate of Zionism (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, United States foreign relations, Zionism--History, Zionism--Planning, Zionism--Political aspects, Zionism--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits, is a relic...without offering evidence that Diaspora Jews ever felt to the contrary. Although...SCATTERED AMONG THE PEOPLES: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits. By Allan...
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Israel's Un-Orthodox Battle

Magazine article by Leonard Fein; The Nation, Vol. 265, July 7, 1997

Subjects:

American Jews, Interfaith relations, Israel--Religious aspects, Jewish diaspora-Israel relations, Jews, American--Attitudes toward Israel, Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and "Nazis.") Still, internecine religious wars among the Jews have characterized Jewish life almost since its inception...They include both the relationship between Israel and Diaspora (especially American) Jewry and the very meaning of the...that in Israel, the religious choice that confronts the Jews is between Orthodoxy in one of its several manifestations...there is simply a radical disconnect between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry on matters religious. The only transoceanic coalition...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Jewish diaspora" OR (jews AND diaspora)

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One Hundred Years of the Filipino Diaspora; (First of Two Parts)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 1, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...worldwide is often compared to the Jewish diaspora, which began in the 6th century...there are some 7.8 million Jews in the diaspora (compared to some 6.3 million...million - roughly equal to the Jews in the diaspora which was an epic movement...
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Even Now, Jews Must Not Give Up on Israel; the Daily Images of Carnage in Lebanon Have Appalled British Jews, but Their Disgust Could Help Make Israel the Country It Should Be

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 3, 2006

Subjects:

Chocolate industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...third is what Israelis would call the Jewish diaspora. Israel likes to act in the name of the whole Jewish people. Yet if Jews around the world began to make clear...profound impact. It does not work if Jews express it as outsiders - as opponents...
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Israel Eyes Barring of Land Sale to Non-Jews

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 14, 2007

Subjects:

Israel. Lands Administration--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...purchased with money donated by the Jewish diaspora to foster Jewish settlement. The...the JNF not to sell its land to non-Jews. But Yoav Loeff, a spokesman for...against the practice of selling only to Jews. Though the JNF bought up land in...
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Making Case That Ancient Greeks and Romans Were Tolerant of Jews

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 16, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES DIASPORA: JEWS AMIDST GREEKS AND ROMANS By Erich...Erich Gruen sets out to answer in "Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans." Mr. Gruen...culture grew and flourished in this diaspora. He argues forcefully that Greece...Greek and Roman attitudes towards the Jews was not uniformly - or even predominantly...
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Obama and Israel; Will Senator's Backers Drive Jews Away?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 4, 2008

Subjects:

Legislators, Senators

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Court, 13 sit in the 100-member Senate and 30 are in the 435-member House of Representatives. Yet, as dwellers in the Judaic diaspora, they must always ask themselves if presidential candidates, besides being good for the country they live in, will be good for Jews and for the things they care about. If they conclude that Mr. Obama (Democrat) isnt good for them and for the United States...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Jewish diaspora" OR (jews AND diaspora)

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Diaspora

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

DIASPORA dias p r Gr.,=dispersion, term used...used to designate the dispersal of the Jews at the time of the destruction of the...Babylonia (see Babylonian captivity ). The diaspora became a permanent feature of Jewish...Cyrene, Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome. Jews followed the Romans into Europe and from...America, Russia, and Ukraine. The term diaspora has also been applied to other peoples...outside their traditional homelands. See Jews ; Judaism...
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Jews

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Temple was completed in 516 b.c. The Jews remained a strong religious group during...second Temple was destroyed in a.d. 70. Diaspora As political aspirations subsided...moneylending were forbidden to European Jews; the ghetto came into existence. The Jews, who had earlier been an agricultural...
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Tel Aviv

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Israeli Opera, and Tel Aviv Museum. Tel Aviv Univ. and the Jewish Diaspora Museum are in the suburb of Ramat Aviv. The home of...is preserved as a library and memorial. Many of the Jews from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union who emigrated...
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Judaism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...traditionalists whose religious ideas were rooted in the Diaspora, and many of whom opposed any movement to build a secular...Eventually, an Orthodox wing of Zionism did emerge. For many Jews still unanswered is the question of whether a full Jewish...States; the religious and secular Zionists in Israel and the Diaspora; the unorganized secular Jews, who maintain an atheists or agnostics adherence to Jewish...
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Passover

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...seven days in Israel, eight days in the Diaspora (although Reform Jews observe a seven-day period). Numerous...second evenings by all other observant Jews in the Diaspora, various special dishes symbolizing the...festival, in memory of the fact that the Jews, hastening from Egypt, had no time to...

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