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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...
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
HasidismIntroductionHasidism, an eastern European movement of religious pietism (the word hasidut means piety), has played a key role in Jewish life f...
Hasidism, Lubavitch
Wojciech Tworek
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Lubavitch HasidismIntroductionChabad Hasidism developed at the end of the eighteenth century around the persona of rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (b. 17...
Haskalah
Yahil Zaban
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Haskalah Introduction Haskalah, or the Jewish Enlightenment movement, is the name for a relatively small group of Jewish intellectuals in cent...
Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) Literature
Amir Banbaji
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) LiteratureIntroductionThe Haskalah movement became distinguishable in Prussia during the last two decades of the 18th ...
Hebrew
Tsvi Sadan, Ora Schwarzwald
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Hebrew Introduction Hebrew belongs to the family of Semitic languages, which is part of the larger family of Afroasiatic languages. It spans m...
Hebrew Bible, Blood in the
William K. Gilders
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Blood in the Hebrew BibleIntroductionIn the Hebrew Bible, the identification of blood (dām דם; plural, dāmîm דמים) with “life” or life-force (nepeš נפ...
Hebrew Bible, Memory and History in the
Barat Ellman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Memory and History in the Hebrew BibleIntroductionThe importance of memory in connection to biblical literature precedes its emergence as an area for ...
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