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When a family member dies, the loss is of a person. But in cases where that person embodies the last living link to an exilic homeland-a not uncommon occurrence for Jews in the Americas-the death of a parent can also mean the loss of a... more
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      Jewish Identity, Haunting and Spectrality, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Language and Literature, Mexican Identity
"Maurice Barrès" (p. 96-97) ; "Charles Maurras" (p. 643-645) ; "Judaïsme" (p. 528-533) ; "Juif errant" (p. 533-535) ; "Nationalisme" (p. 712-714)
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      French Literature, 19th Century (History), 20th Century, Jewish Identity
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      Jewish Identity, Science and Judaism, 20th Century American Judaism, Horace Kallen
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      Jewish Studies, Hellenistic History, Jewish History, Late Antiquity
XXXIII Convegno Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo "Ebraismo fra peculiarità e interculturalità", Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Ravenna, 2-4 Settembre 2019
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      Mythology, Jewish Studies, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism
בתולדות האמנות הישראלית, אשר את ראשיתה מקובל לראות בהקמת בית הספר בצלאל למלאכות אמנות בירושלים בשנת, 1906 בולטות בהיעדרן שנות השלושים. ההתעלמות מתקופה זו ניכרת במיוחד על רקע תשומת הלב הרבה הניתנת במחקר, בתערוכות ובספרים לעשורים הראשונים... more
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      Israel and Zionism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Artists, 20th Century French Art
Статья посвящена восприятию Земли Израиля, а также отношению к Государству Израиль среди последователей Прогрессивного иудаизма в современной России.
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    • Jewish Identity
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      Jewish Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Minorities in Turkey, Jewish Theatre
Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested... more
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      Intellectual History, Latino/A Studies, Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies
How many Jewish people are there who believe in Jesus? This is an open questions which is partially addressed in this paper which works with historical material as well as a recent survey of Evangelicals. 2% of those who identify as... more
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      Ethnic Studies, Jewish - Christian Relations, Evangelicalism, Israel
מסתו של פרויד ״הפרעת זיכרון על האקרופוליס עומדת במרכז הדיון של מאמר זה הטקסט נכתב בשנת 1936 כעיבוד מחודש ופירוש של זיכרון ישן של פרויד הכתוב בצורת איגרת המוקדשת ליום הולדתו ה-70 של רומן רולן. הטקסט הקצר של פרויד מציע ניתוח פסיכואנליטי... more
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      Psychoanalysis, Jewish Studies, Sigmund Freud, Memory Studies
Recent scholarship recognizes the particular importance of questions of individual and collective identity in framing the history of international law. Legal biography has emerged of late as a key mode of historical analysis for... more
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      Jewish Studies, International Law, Legal History, Legal Theory
There are many ways in which a Jew can express Jewish identity. One of these is, by living according to the guidelines of halakha-the normative aspect of Torah as explicated by scholarly rabbis. Different understandings of halakha will... more
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      Sephardic Studies, Jewish Identity, Philosophy of halakhah, SHAS
Book review of "Reclaiming Our Forgotten Heritage" by Curt Landry (Thomas Nelson, 2019). Review published December 13, 2018.
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      Jewish Studies, Old Testament Theology, Anti-Semitism, Jewish Messianism
The aim of this paper is to analyze Josephus’ geographical use of the terms Idumea (Ἰδουμαία) and Idumeans (Ἰδουμαῖοι) in Antiquitates Iudaicae books I-XI. To Josephus, the Idumeans were the descendants of Esau; more precisely, he saw... more
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      Jewish Studies, Identity (Culture), Male Circumcision, Josephus
In his first novel (Lenta Biografia) Chejfec told the story of an unsuccessful transmission of the familial memory and of the Ashquenazi culture. He then dealt with the progressive disappearance of the Jewish traditions and culture within... more
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      Yiddish Language, Yiddish, Jewish Identity, Postmemory, Transgenerational Memory
Around the world today we find several ways of belonging, of which full conversion is one option. Entire communities see themselves as Jewish without being formally recognized as such.
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      Jewish Identity, Conversion, Sense of belonging
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      German-Jewish Literature (Jewish Studies), Jewish Identity, Russian Jewish Emigration to Israel and Germany after 1989
Catalogue essay for the 2016 exhibition, 'William Rothenstein and his circle' (Ben Uri Gallery, London)
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      Jewish History, Jewish Identity, Anglo-Jewish History, German-Jewish Identity
This article examines the strategies by which the polylingual and multicultural writings of Clarice Lispector and Joyce Mansour de-essentialize belonging. I argue that both authors transform different aspects of belonging, whether their... more
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      Jewish Literature, Clarice Lispector, Jewish Identity, Sense of belonging