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Abraham Isaac Kook
Don Seeman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Abraham Isaac KookIntroductionRabbi Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook (b. 1865–d. 1935) is considered one of the most important modern Jewish thinkers and s...
Agudat Yisrael
Gershon Bacon
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Agudat YisraelIntroductionAgudat Yisrael (also called Agudath Israel, Agudas Yisroel, and Aguda[h] for short; Union of Israel) is a political and reli...
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 Hebrew Literature
Stephen Katz
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
American Hebrew LiteratureIntroductionOver two million Jewish refugees immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, escaping poverty and per...
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...
American Jewish Literature
Josh Lambert
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
American Jewish Literature Introduction That Jews in the United States have, throughout their history in the territory, written and published ...
American Jewish Sociology
Shaul Kelner
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
American Jewish Sociology Introduction Research on the Jewish population of the United States is often labeled American Jewish “sociology,” ev...
An-sky (Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport)
Brian Horowitz
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
An-sky (Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport)IntroductionSemyon (Shimon) An-sky was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, revolutionary, and ...
Ancient Anti-Semitism
René Bloch
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Ancient Anti-SemitismIntroductionAncient “anti-Semitism” has long been a controversial subject in Jewish studies and classics alike. Greco-Roman liter...
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...
Anti-Semitism, Modern
Jonathan Judaken
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Modern Anti-Semitism Introduction The term “anti-Semitism” was coined in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr to distinguish his brand of racialized and polit...
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...
Aramaic
Aaron Koller
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
AramaicIntroductionAramaic has been recorded for the past three thousand years. It began as a local language in Syria, before expanding to be written ...
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...
Archaeology: The Rabbinic Period
Joshua Ezra Burns
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Archaeology: The Rabbinic PeriodIntroductionThis article comprises a bibliographical guide to the archaeology of Jewish life during the times of the r...
Art, Synagogue
Vivian B. Mann
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Synagogue ArtIntroductionThe first synagogues were established in the Diaspora, for example, at Delos, Greece, dated to the 1st century bce. In the La...
Austria, The Holocaust In
Albert Lichtblau
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
The Holocaust in Austria Introduction Austria was occupied by Nazi Germany in March 1938. Certain conditions are characteristic for Austria’s ...
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1918
Michael L. Miller
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867–1918 Introduction In 1867, following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich), the Habsburg Monarchy was reor...
Biblical Archaeology
Avraham Faust
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Biblical ArchaeologyIntroductionThe term “biblical archaeology” has meant different things to different people at different times. During most of its ...
Biblical Literature
Robert S. Kawashima
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Biblical Literature Introduction The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, is not so much a book as a collection of books—hence the derivation of “B...
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