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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 ...
Hebrew Literature and Music
Michal Ben-Horin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Hebrew Literature and MusicIntroductionLiterature and music have a long entwined history. Since antiquity, music and poetry (a crystalized form of “li...
Hebrew Literature Outside of Israel Since 1948
Melissa Weininger
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Hebrew Literature Outside of Israel Since 1948IntroductionHebrew literature, defined expansively, has existed outside of the land of Israel since at l...
History of the Holocaust
Deborah Lipstadt
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
History of the HolocaustIntroductionMany historians consider the Holocaust, the systematic murder of approximately six million Jews during 1941–1945, ...
History, Early Modern Jewish
David B. Ruderman, Francesca Bregoli
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Early Modern Jewish HistoryIntroductionThe term “early modernity” as the name of a period roughly extending from the end of the 15th century to the en...
Holocaust in France, The
Renée Poznanski
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
The Holocaust in France Introduction Since the screening in 1985 of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental documentary film Shoah, this term—Shoah—has, ...
Holocaust in Germany, The
Wolf Gruner
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
The Holocaust in Germany Introduction The Holocaust is one of the most researched events in modern history, but it is nevertheless still one o...
Holocaust in Poland, The
David Engel
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Holocaust in PolandIntroductionThe phrase “Holocaust in Poland” is generally taken to refer to the set of individual or group decisions, actions, ...
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 in the Soviet Union, The
Vadim Altskan
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union Introduction The phrase “Holocaust in the USSR” usually refers to the systematic persecution and mass murder...
Holocaust Museums and Memorials
Brigitte Sion
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Holocaust Museums and MemorialsIntroductionHolocaust memorials can be categorized according to the evolution of the genre. The first type of memorials...
Holocaust Survivors, Children of
Diane Wolf
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Children of Holocaust SurvivorsIntroductionThere are children of survivors (COS) in Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Israel, South Africa and...
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, ...
Humor, Jewish
Arie Sover
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Jewish HumorIntroductionJewish humor is a vast field of Jewish studies that includes many aspects, including different periods, different types, diffe...
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