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Diaspora blues; Israel and the Jews.
; Jews around the world should join the debate about Israel, not...does WHAT is a Jewish state for, and what should it be like? Jews have been debating that for 200 years. Even today, with Israel...As European anti-Semitism grew, the idea took hold that Jews needed their own land as a safe haven. After the ...
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Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800
; Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800. By William Pencak...studies the intersection of anti-Semitism and acceptance of Jews in relation to politics from the colonial to early national...communities translated into fundamental acceptance. In fact, elite Jews and gentiles freely mingled and identified ...
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Jews and Israel: The Politicization of the Holocaust; Examining the Uses and Abuses of Its Legacy
; JEWS AND ISRAEL: The Politicization of the Holocaust; Examining...Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. Early in 1995, this policy was changed...other reasons. They see the tours as perhaps overemphasizing Jews as victims in the national self-definition, and ...
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Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
; Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany...consider Jewish cultural and social developments. German Jews have tended to make their appearance either as the victim...essays by Erika Rummel on the relation of German humanists to Jews and Judaism and by Christopher Ocker on ...
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Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800.(Book review)
; Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800, by William Pencak...Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 321 pp. $29.95. Jews and Gentiles in Early America fills an important gap in the...America. It offers a community-by-community analysis of how Jews, a numerically insignificant but still visible ...
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Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans.(Book Review)
; Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans, by Erich S. Gruen...well-established role as a leading specialist on Jews in antiquity. This breadth of study adds...the present book's argument that Diaspora Jews in the period before 70 CE usually did not...
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Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
; Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the...34.98. This is a fine addition to the literature on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. The literature has...interest stimulated by the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian peninsula and the subsequent ...
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Religious debate firmed bond with Jews in U.S.
; Jews in Israel and the United States continue to have vigorous...Relations Council. As Israel marks its 50th anniversary, Jews throughout the world are reflecting on their heritage and...continue to be debates in America about intermarriages between Jews and non-Jews, prominent Chicago Jewish leaders ...
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Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community
; Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community...is that of the preZionist "Golden Era" between Muslims and Jews. According to this revisionist paradigm, until the emergence of the colonial and settler proto-Israeli state in Palestine, Jews and Muslims lived in harmony, if not fraternal ...
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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.(Book review)
; Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship. Edited by Jack Kugelmass. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. vi + 232 pp. Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, edited by Jack Kugelmass, collects ten articles from a conference on Jews in sports. The ten papers vary greatly. After an introductory...
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