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Ahad Ha' am
Steven J. Zipperstein
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Ahad Ha’am Introduction Ahad Ha’am is a pen name for the Russian Jewish essayist, editor, and Zionist thinker Asher Ginzberg (b. 1856–d. 1927),...
American Jewish Artists
Samantha Baskind
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
American Jewish Artists Introduction American Jewish art, like Jewish art more generally, is variously understood. For some scholars, American...
Anthropology of the Jews
Marcy Brink-Danan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Anthropology of the Jews Introduction Anthropology of the Jews encompasses a modern intellectual tradition of ethnographic study of Jews, resu...
Apocalypticism and Messianism
Lorenzo DiTommaso
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Apocalypticism and Messianism Introduction Apocalypticism and messianism originated in ancient Judaism. Apocalypticism, or the apocalyptic wor...
Archaeology, Second Temple
Steven H. Werlin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Second Temple Archaeology Introduction The Second Temple period stretched from the end of the Babylonian Exile in 539 bce to the destruction o...
Art, Synagogue
Vivian B. Mann
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Synagogue Art Introduction The first synagogues were established in the Diaspora, for example, at Delos, Greece, dated to the 1st century bce....
Biblical Archaeology
Avraham Faust
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Biblical Archaeology Introduction The term “biblical archaeology” has meant different things to different people at different times. During mo...
Culture, Israeli
Eran Kaplan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Israeli Culture Introduction Modern Israeli culture, while related linguistically and religiously to an ancient tradition, is a recent phenome...
Dead Sea Scrolls
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Marlene Schiffman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Dead Sea Scrolls Introduction The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish manuscripts that have been discovered around the shore of the Dead Sea. ...
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife
Matthew J. Suriano
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism Introduction Death is a universal problem in humanity, and the response...
Dietary Laws
David Kraemer
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Dietary Laws Introduction The body of Jewish dietary laws expanded considerably through the ages. The biblical laws were quite limited, pertai...
Film
Ari Y. Kelman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Film Introduction The relationship between Jews and film cannot be limited to any single narrative. It is not only the story of powerful Holly...
Graetz, Heinrich
Amos Bitzan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Heinrich Graetz Introduction Heinrich Graetz (also known as Hirsch, Hirsh, or Tsvi; b. 1817–d 1891) was the 19th century’s foremost narrative ...
Hasidism
David Biale
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Hasidism Introduction Hasidism, an eastern European movement of religious pietism (the word hasidut means piety), has played a key role in Jew...
History, Early Modern Jewish
David B. Ruderman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Early Modern Jewish History Introduction The term “early modernity” as the name of a period roughly extending from the end of the 15th to the e...
Holocaust in Poland, The
David Engel
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Holocaust in Poland Introduction The phrase “Holocaust in Poland” is generally taken to refer to the set of individual or group decisions,...
Holocaust in the Netherlands, The
Ido de Haan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Holocaust in the Netherlands Introduction The persecution and destruction of the Jews during World War II is part of European history, yet...
Holocaust, Philosophical and Theological Responses to the
Zachary Braiterman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Philosophical and Theological Responses to the Holocaust Introduction Raising pressing theoretical, philosophical, and theological questions, ...
Josephus, Flavius
Steve Mason
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Flavius Josephus Introduction When scholars speak of the history of Judaea in the early Roman period, they invariably depend on the work of Fl...
Ladino
Olga Borovaya
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Ladino Introduction Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) is an Ibero-Romance language used by Sephardim (descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews) in the ...
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