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Ibn Ezra, Abraham
Shlomo Sela
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Abraham Ibn Ezra Introduction The writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra (b. c. 1089–d. c. 1161) were not produced in Muslim Spain, where he was born an...
Indian Jews
Shalva Weil
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Indian JewsIntroductionIndo-Judaic studies, which range from historical to anthropological treatises, have developed at a rapid pace since the 1990s. ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Isaac Bashevis SingerIntroductionIsaac Bashevis Singer (b. 1904 [or 1902; both dates can be found in various biographical entries]–d. 1991) was a Yidd...
Israel Ba'al Shem Tov
Uriel Gellman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Israel Ba’al Shem Tov Introduction The 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic, Israel ben Eliezer (b. c. 1700–d. 1760)—known widely as the Ba’al Sh...
Israel, Religion and State in
Gideon Sapir
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Religion and State in Israel Introduction At the time of its establishment and during the first years of statehood, Israel consolidated variou...
Israel's Society
Dan Avnon
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Israel’s SocietyIntroductionIsraeli society came into being with the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel as the Jewish people’s nation-state. In...
Israeli Economy
Paul Rivlin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Israeli Economy Introduction The achievements of the Israeli economy since 1948 have been immense. The population has grown from 750,000 at in...
Israeli Film
Raya Morag, Rachel S. Harris
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Israeli FilmIntroductionThe canon of Israeli/Jewish/Hebrew cinema studies proposes a unitary conception in regard to the major periods, genres, and tr...
Israeli Literature
Shai Ginsburg
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Israeli LiteratureIntroductionThe question of what constitutes “Israeli literature” is not only a literary or cultural question, but a political one a...
Jewish American Women Writers in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Irina Rabinovich
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Jewish American Women Writers in the 18th and 19th CenturiesIntroductionWhile the only existing substantial writings by Jewish women in 18th-century N...
Jewish Bible Translations
Leonard J. Greenspoon
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Jewish Bible TranslationsIntroductionThe first translations of the Bible, the Septuagint (from Hebrew into Greek) and the Targums (from Hebrew into Ar...
Jewish Culture, Children and Childhood in
Tali Berner
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Children and Childhood in Jewish CultureIntroductionThe study of children and childhood in the past and present is relatively new to Jewish studies. W...
Jewish Economic History
Cornelia Aust
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Jewish Economic HistoryIntroductionJewish economic history comprises the economic activities of Jews, their economic and social position as a minority...
Jewish Folklore, Chełm in
Ruth von Bernuth
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Chełm in Jewish FolkloreIntroductionThe collected tales of the wise men of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern E...
Jewish Genetics
Noah Tamarkin
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Jewish Genetics Introduction Like other research on human heredity and biological relationships, Jewish genetics has seen a surge in new resea...
Jewish Heritage and Cultural Revival in Poland
Marta Duch-Dyngosz
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Jewish Heritage and Cultural Revival in PolandIntroductionInterest in the Jewish heritage and Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe, includ...
Jewish Names
Shlomit Landman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Jewish Names Introduction The term anthroponym includes given names and surnames. The science of given names and surnames and toponyms is onom...
Jewish Studies, Dance in
Nina Spiegel
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Dance in Jewish StudiesIntroductionThe study of dance and Jewish life is a more recent and emerging field in Jewish studies. In Jewish religious pract...
Jewish Territorialism (in Relation to Jewish Studies)
Laura Almagor
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Jewish Territorialism (in Relation to Jewish Studies)IntroductionThe Jewish Territorialist movement was first organized in 1905 when, at the Seventh Z...
Jewish-Christian Polemics Until the 15th Century
Nina Caputo
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Jewish-Christian Polemics until the 15th Century Introduction This article focuses on the history of Jewish-Christian polemics from Late Antiq...
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