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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity

Book by Gershon David Hundert; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

Hasidism--Europe, Eastern--History--18th Century, Jews--Lithuania--Economic Conditions--18th Century, Jews--Lithuania--History--18th Century, Jews--Lithuania--Social Conditions--18th Century, Jews--Poland--Economic Conditions--18th Century, Jews--Poland--History--18th Century, Jews--Poland--Social Conditions--18th Century, Lithuania--Ethnic Relations, Mysticism--Judaism--History--18th Century, Poland--Ethnic Relations

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...stressed that if there were more taxes paid by Jews, there would be more funds to support...They believed that there were far more Jews than the number reflected in what was supposed...advocating a higher tax, speakers demanded that Jews pay directly and individually and not through...
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Jew or Juif? Jews, French Canadians, and Anglo-Canadians, 1759-1914

Book by Michael Brown; Jewish Publication Society, 1987

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Canada--Ethnic Relations, Jews--Canada--History, Jews--Quaebec (Province)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...had unfortunate dealings with individual Jews they encountered and, in any case, did...reason for the seesaw career of French Jews was the lingering strength of the forces...tradition was ambivalent in its thinking about Jews, the conservative, monarchical, clerical...
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Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy

Book by Jonathan Frankel; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Feminism--Religious Aspects--Judaism, Gender Identity, Jewish Women--Social Conditions--20th Century, Jews--Identity, Jews--Social Conditions--20th Century--Book Reviews, Women In Judaism, Women In Rabbinical Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...philosophy subject that I put forward under this name. I use quotation marks to avoid confusing these jews with real Jews. What is most real about real Jews is that Europe, in any case, does not know what to do with them: Christians demand their conversion...
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Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian

Book by Louis H. Feldman; Princeton University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Antisemitism--History, Conversion--Judaism--History, Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D, Jews--History--70-638, Jews--Public Opinion--History, Judaism--Controversial Literature--History And Criticism, Judaism--Relations, Philosemitism--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...shekel from every adult male Jew. In any case, the Land of Onias...persecution, and that other Jews also were attracted by the welcome...just as in the fifteenth century Jews who were persecuted in Spain...would be expected, between the Jews of the Land of Israel and the...
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The Jews of China - Vol. 1

Book by Jonathan Goldstein; M. E. Sharpe, 1999

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China--Ethnic Relations, Jews--China--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

19. Finn, " The Jews in China ," p. 42; see also Edward I. Ezra and Arthur Sopher, " Chinese Jews," in Kublin, ed., Jews in Old China , p. 222. 20. Donald D. Leslie, The Survival of the Chinese Jews: The Jewish Community of Kaifeng...

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Journal Articles on: jews

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Jews in China: A Dialogue in Slow-Motion

Journal article by Ho Wan-Li; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 40, 2003

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Confucianism--History, Confucianism--Research, Jews--Research, Judaism--History, Judaism--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...from 1642 to 1723. The Jews during this period numbered...Cheng-chi, a Chinese Jew who had received the highest...Westerner to contact Kaifeng Jews, although he did not...and the native Chinese Jew Ai Tien: Ai Tien of Kaifeng...assumed it belonged to Jews. Thus, when he met the...
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Is the Jew White?: The Racial Place of the Southern Jew

Journal article by Leonard Rogoff; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997

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Jewish identity, Jews--Identity, Race relations--History, Southern States

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...effigy to a prominent Alabama Jew, Nott observed that Jews have remained unchanged...Southern attitudes to the Jew. Even if the Jews were not black, their racial...voice asks anymore, "Is the Jew white?" As Jews assimilated they ceased to...
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John Foxe and the Jews [*

Journal article by Sharon Achinstein; Vol. 54, 2001

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English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Religious aspects, Foxe, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jews in literature--16th century, Jews, British--16th century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...that results in the Jews death. This anecdote about the Jew in the privy turned...recounted the story of the Jew. For Stubbes, it also revealed the Jews unwillingness to...his treatment of the Jews, as in the case of the Jew in the privy. 29...
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Demonic Images of the Jew in the Nineteenth Century United States

Journal article by Robert Rockaway, Arnon Gutfeld; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001

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Antisemitism--History, Antisemitism--Religious aspects, Antisemitism--Social aspects, Jews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...tell me Miss Isaacs is a Jew," she exclaims. "And if the Jews kill the Lord and Master...demonic images of the Jew had on American behavior toward Jews. What we do know is that...toward individual, living Jews (the "Jew next door") with preconceived...
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Jews in the Fleury Playbook

Journal article by Theresa Tinkle; Comparative Drama, Vol. 38, 2004

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Antisemitism--History, Jews--History, Manuscripts, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation, Medieval manuscripts--Criticism and interpretation, Religion and drama--Criticism and interpretation, Religious drama--Criticism and interpretation, The Fleury Playbook (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

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...of the hermeneutic Jew, who comes to represent...Christendom. The Jews desire to kill Jesus...law. In place of Jews privileged relation...the play pictures a Jew who fails both to...against a Judaizing and Jew-Supporting Christian," in Jews and Christians in...

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Magazine Articles on: jews

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Jews, Christians, and Civil Society

Magazine article by David Novak; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2002

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Christianity and other religions--Judaism, Christians--Social aspects, Civil society--Religious aspects, Jews--Social aspects, Religion--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...is chosen, whether defined by Jews or by Christians. I do not see how any Jew can say he is practicing Judaism...jealous that this great soul wasnt a Jew speaking for us Jews. But she did speak for at least this Jew. What she was saying is that...
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Who Are the Jews?

Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, November 1993

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Genetics, History, Jews

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Who Are the Jews? The small yellow bird ahead...immigration and job retraining of Jews who were persecuted minorities...problem of defining who is a Jew. For example, a debate is...immigrants who identify themselves as Jews. Are they descendants of ancient...
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Russian Jews and Post-Soviet Alternatives

Magazine article by Dmitry Shlapentokh; World and I, Vol. 15, April 2000

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Antisemitism--Russia, Jewish persecution, Jews, Russian--Persecutions, Russian Jews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...materialistic West; and those Jews such as the spiritualized...peasant. This sort of Jew should naturally stretch...Jacob) Bromberg, a Jew who had participated...in his article on Jews and Eurasianism that...position of the Russian Jew is interesting, for...Russian elite toward Jews indicates that a nationalistic...
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Poles, Jews, and Post-communist Insecurities

Magazine article by David Ost; Tikkun, Vol. 18, May/Jun 2003

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Debates, Jews, Massacres, Poland

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...me they were all Jews, it became clear that in their world, "Jew" does not really mean a Jew-a person of Mosaic...When they oppose Jews, they think theyre...scenes. "So why do Jews hate us?" I myself...quickly became a good Jew. Minutes into this...
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Why This Rabbi Works with Non-Jews

Magazine article by Seth Goren; Cross Currents, Vol. 61, March 2011

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Chaplains--Practice, Jews, Rabbis--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...primary reason for working with non-Jews is that I believe in my obligation as a Jew, as a rabbi, as a clergyperson...more expansive audience, reaching Jews and non-Jews alike. Ultimately, the non-Jew we educate may take the knowledge...

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Newspaper Articles on: jews

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Republican Courtship of the Jews; Obama's Ambivalence toward Israel Leaves an Opening for the GOP

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 14, 2011

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Jews, Political parties, Reagan, Ronald

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

...Shakespeare from sharing the Jew-hatred of his characters because...that the playwright ever met a Jew. Jews were expelled from England in...two men, a Christian and a Jew, worked together to free Soviet Jews in ways that were mostly kept...
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Obama and the Jews; It's Time for the Jewish Vote to Defect from the Democratic Party

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 16, 2011

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Democratic Party (United States)--Political activity, Democratic Party (United States)--Political aspects, Jews--Political activity, Jews--Political aspects, Political parties--Israel

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Obama and the Jews; Its Time for the Jewish Vote to Defect...launching an outreach effort to American Jews to convince them that Mr. Obama is the...Jewish population is dropping. In general, Jews tend to be more liberal and more affiliated...
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Return of Bad Times for Jews; Islamists Use European Colonial Guilt to Fan Flames of Anti-Semitism

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 16, 2011

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Antisemitism, Comedians, Jews, Muslims, Yale University

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Return of Bad Times for Jews; Islamists Use European Colonial Guilt...help. Some of our funniest comedians are Jews, in a long line stretching from the Borscht Belt through vaudeville to Hollywood. Jews love to laugh at themselves. They arent...
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Russian Law Targets Jews and Christians Alike

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 3, 1997

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Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Yeltsin, Boris

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Russian law targets Jews and Christians alike The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews applauds your Oct. 1 editorial "In Russia, a question...documents current popular and official hatred of Jews. The fact that Moscows rabbis were afraid to speak...
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Boxing Club Brings Together Jews, Arabs

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 22, 2011

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Boxing, Jews, News agencies, The Associated Press

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Boxing Club Brings Together Jews, Arabs. Byline: Aron Heller Associated...sports violent nature, Luxemburg says Jews and Arabs never clash in his gym...Boxing Club offers a hub of coexistence. Jews and Arabs who would normally never cross...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jews

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Jews

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JEWS from Judah , traditionally, descendants of...There were approximately 17.8 million Jews in the world in 1990, with 8 million in the...before the Christian era. Under Ramses II the Jews were severely persecuted and, finally, Moses...
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Jew's-Harp

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JEWS-HARP or jews-harp, musical instrument of ancient lineage composed of a small metal...between the teeth and the metal tongue is plucked with the fingers. Each jews-harp can produce only one tone, the quality of which may be varied...
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Wandering Jew , in Legend

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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WANDERING JEW , in legend in literary and popular legend, a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to...but not until the early 17th cent. was he identified as a Jew. The story is common in Western Europe, but it presents...
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Wandering Jew , in Botany

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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WANDERING JEW , in botany common name for several creeping plants of the genus Tradescantia...is most commonly cultivated in window boxes and hanging pots. Wandering jew is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Commelinales...
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Palestine , Region, Asia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Israel. Palestine is the Holy Land of Jews, having been promised to them by God...period Moses led the Hebrew people (see Jews ) out of Egypt, across the Sinai, and...Romans, the Herods (see Herod ). When the Jews revolted in a.d. 66, the Romans destroyed...

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