Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

From its founding in the late seventeenth century, Newark, New Jersey, was a vibrant and representative center of Jewish life in America. Geographically and culturally situated between New York City and its outlying suburbs, Newark afforded Jewish residents the advantages of a close-knit community along with the cultural abundance and social dynamism of urban life. In Newark, all of the representative stages of modern Jewish experience were enacted, from immigration and acculturation to upward mobility and community building. The Enduring Community is a lively and evocative social...

The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of art and cultural objects and a...

Grossman shows that the High Middle Ages saw a...

The unique duality of Jewish existence, wherein a major Jewish centre in the Land of Israel flourished alongside a large and prosperous diaspora, was one of the outstanding features of Second Temple and post-Temple Jewish life. As in modern times, ongoing Jewish dispersion raised questions that went to the heart of Jewish self-identity, and declarations of allegiance to the ancestral homeland were frequently accompanied by seemingly contrary expressions of 'local-patriotism' on the part of Jewish diaspora communities. The destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE, and the subsequent...

How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered. Rather we were to grow up 'normally', and to learn to turn our backs on the past as we struggled towards future identities while imagining ourselves 'like everyone else'. Fearful of difference we were often ambivalent about Jewish identities that could threaten a sense of...

Das vorliegende Werk listet in zwei Banden Spezialinventare von Archivalien zur Geschichte der Juden in polnischen Staatsarchiven auf und ermoglicht erstmals einen schnellen und direkten Zugang zu den jeweiligen Akten. Entsprechend der zentral angelegten polnischen Archivorganisation sind neben der staatlichen Uberlieferung auch die Akten der Stadtarchive, von Kirchengemeinden, Bildungseinrichtungen, Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Vereinen, politischen Organisationen und kulturellen Einrichtungen erfasst. Der Erfassungszeitraum bemisst sich nach der Zugehorigkeit der einzelnen Gebiete zum...