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Early Modern Period, Christian Yiddishism in the
Aya Elyada
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Christian Yiddishism in the Early Modern PeriodIntroduction“Christian Yiddishism” refers to the engagement of Christian authors with the Yiddish langu...
Eastern European Haskalah
Mordechai Zalkin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Eastern European HaskalahIntroductionThe eastern European Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) first appeared in the late 18th century. At this time, only ...
Emancipation
David Sorkin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
EmancipationIntroductionSince the early 19th century, “emancipation” has been the catch phrase used to designate the release of Jews from an inferior ...
England
David Cesarani
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
EnglandIntroductionThe Jewish presence in England dates back to the Norman Conquest. Jews were expelled from England in 1290, and they were kept out f...
Environment, Judaism and the
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Judaism and the Environment Introduction Judaism has had much to say about the relationship among God, humanity, and the natural world, but th...
Eruv
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
EruvIntroductionEruv is a term coined in the rabbinic Hebrew of the Mishnah (late second century ce). It refers to a rabbinic ritual construct, mostly...
Ethics, Jewish
Jonathan Crane
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Jewish Ethics Introduction Jewish ethics investigates both theoretical and practical questions of what Jews can and should do in the world. It...
Ethiopian Jews
Hagar Salamon, Steven Kaplan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Ethiopian Jews Introduction The Ethiopian Jews (also known as Beta Israel, or Falasha) lived until the last decades of the 20th century as a r...
Feminism
Laura Levitt, Miriam Peskowitz
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Feminism Introduction Jewish feminism’s history begins in the late 20th century. Women’s studies and feminist scholarship date to the early 19...
Film
Ari Y. Kelman, Rachel S. Harris
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...
Folklore
Dan Ben-Amos
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Folklore Introduction Four interrelated qualities distinguish Jewish folklore: (a) extended history depth, (b) continuous interdependence be...
Folktales, Jewish
Eli Yassif
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Jewish Folktales Introduction Jewish folktales are an inseparable component of folklore. It is a creation of folk culture—of the larger segmen...
Food
Andrea Most, Aldea Mulhern
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
FoodIntroductionFood studies is a burgeoning field that crosses many disciplinary lines, and that has increasingly turned academic attention toward fo...
Forverts/Forward
Rachel Rojanski
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Forverts/ForwardIntroductionForverts (the Jewish Daily Forward or The Forward) was a Yiddish-language newspaper based in New York City that appeared a...
Frank, Jacob
Pawel Maciejko
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Jacob FrankIntroductionYa‘akov (Jakub) ben Yehudah Leib Frank (b. 1726–d. 1791) was the founder of Frankism, a Jewish religious movement that spread i...
Gender and Modern Jewish Thought
Andrea Dara Cooper
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Gender and Modern Jewish ThoughtIntroductionModern Jewish thought has been largely a masculine discursive space in both its historical construction an...
Germany, Early Modern
Joshua Teplitsky
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Early Modern GermanyIntroduction“Germany” as we know it as a modern political entity properly came into existence only in the last third of the 19th c...
Ghettos in the Holocaust
Martin Dean
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-06-23
Ghettos in the HolocaustIntroductionThe surprising aspect of Nazi ghettoization is that there was no centralized German policy and no clear agreement ...
Goldman, Emma
Marla Brettschneider
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Emma GoldmanIntroductionBoth in the United States and internationally, the anarchist Emma Goldman earned a reputation as a prominent Jewish radical fe...
Golem
Maya Barzilai
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
GolemIntroductionThe term “golem” refers to several distinct, albeit overlapping, forms of reflection on artificial creation: Talmudic commentaries th...
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