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Book Synopsis Strictly Observant by : Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
Download or read book Strictly Observant written by Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women’s relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women’s roles in negotiating them. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women regularly establish valuable social, cultural, and religious capital through the countless decisions for use and nonuse of media that they make in their daily lives, and in ways that challenge the gender hierarchies of each community. By exhibiting a deep awareness of how media can be managed to increase their social and religious reputations, these women prompt us to reconsider our outmoded understanding of the Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the role that women play in these communities as agents of change, and our own relationship to media today.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Jerusalem by : Jerome M. Segal
Download or read book Negotiating Jerusalem written by Jerome M. Segal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of how Jerusalem is seen by both Palestinians and Israeli-Jews, this book is a landmark study of the potential for successfully negotiating the Jerusalem question. It sheds important light on the question "what is Jerusalem?" By showing that the current boundaries are not viewed by either side as sacrosanct, the authors prove that there is room for creative efforts to reach an agreement. Such room may help resolve what is undoubtedly the most difficult issue standing between Israelis and Palestinians.
Book Synopsis The Forgotten Kindertransportees by : Frances Williams
Download or read book The Forgotten Kindertransportees written by Frances Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being of the Jewish faith. The outbreak of the Second World War turned this short-term initiative into a longer-term episode and Britain became home to the thousands that had been forced to migrate across the continent to flee the Nazis and the tragic Holocaust that would take place. This book re-evaluates and challenges misconceptions about the Kindertransportees' experiences in Britain - misconceptions that currently pervade Kindertransport scholarship. It focuses on the particularity of the Scottish experience, scrutinising misleading national pictures, which have dominated existing literature and excluded this important part of the Kindertransport episode. An estimated 8% of Kindertransportees were cared for in Scotland for the duration of the war years and this book demonstrates how national agendas were put into practice in a region that was far removed from the administrative and bureaucratic hub of London. The Forgotten Kindertransportees provides original interpretations as it considers a number of important aspects of the Kindertransportees' experiences in Scotland, including those of a social, political and religious nature.This includes an examination of Scotland's philanthropic welfare solutions for the dependent trans-migrant minor, the role of Zionism and the impact of Scottish-Jewry's particular approach to Judaism and a Jewish lifestyle upon broader life stories of Kindertransportees. Using a vast body of new research material, Frances Williams provides a fascinating and detailed examination of the Kindertransport that is region-specific and one that is all the more important because of its specificity. This is an important text for anyone interested in the Holocaust and the social history of those involved.
Book Synopsis An American Orthodox Dreamer by : Seth Farber
Download or read book An American Orthodox Dreamer written by Seth Farber and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale historical treatment of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the leading figure in twentieth-century American Jewish Orthodoxy.
Book Synopsis Jewish Life and American Culture by : Sylvia Barack Fishman
Download or read book Jewish Life and American Culture written by Sylvia Barack Fishman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions. Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence.
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jewishness of Israelis by : Charles S. Liebman
Download or read book The Jewishness of Israelis written by Charles S. Liebman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1993, the Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research released the results of the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews. The study revealed that Israeli Jews were far more traditional in their religious beliefs and behavior than previously thought, resulting in an intense public debate within Israeli society. This book summarizes the Guttman Report and describes how the media and Israeli intellectuals responded to it and imposed their own interpretations. It then analyzes the report in greater detail and puts in global perspective Israeli Jews' ritual behavior, religious beliefs, and attitudes toward religion in public life. The editors conclude that the religious traditionalism of Israeli Jews is unique among advanced industrial societies. They seek to explain this uniqueness in terms of the particular nature of Israeli society, focusing on Israel's security problems and suggesting the impact that a new security situation would have on Israeli Jews and how it would reshape the Israeli political map.
Download or read book Invisible Lines written by Maxim Samson and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel. Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious—an ocean, or a mountain range—to subtle differences in language or climate. We cross boundaries all the time, sometimes without realizing it. They can be subjective: our perceptions of a boundary may not be shared by others. And yet they shape the way we engage with the world. Geographer Maxim Samson examines invisible lines, exploring the ways in which we divide this world—from meteorology and ecology to race and religion—and how they allow us to define “insiders” and “outsiders,” to identify places where particular attention and resources are especially urgent, to distinguish between two sides, two groups, two futures. From segregation along Detroit’s infamous 8 Mile to herds of red deer that still refuse to cross the former Iron Curtain, the existence—or perceived existence—of dividing lines has manifold implications for people, wildlife, and places. Vividly written and illustrated with maps, Invisible Lines is a compelling exploration of boundaries in all their consistency, and all their messiness too.
Book Synopsis Intricately Connected by : Heerak Christian Kim
Download or read book Intricately Connected written by Heerak Christian Kim and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intricately Connected contains academic papers presented by Kim at various international conferences in the fields of biblical studies, literary criticism, and intertextuality. The articles examine the question of how various literatures connect to consciousness and culture at personal and collective levels. The focus is on the functionality of literature across time and space and addresses such questions as: How do later books of the Bible, such as Jeremiah, utilize consciousness and ideas from earlier times, such as those found in the book Deuteronomy? How does Toni Morrison link African-American experience of today with experience of slavery hundreds of years ago? How does the film Da Vinci Code (2006) assess and manipulate the received tradition of the Lord's Supper?"--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Secularism on the Edge by : J. Berlinerblau
Download or read book Secularism on the Edge written by J. Berlinerblau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law.
Book Synopsis The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record by :
Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Book Synopsis The imperial and Asiatic quarterly review by :
Download or read book The imperial and Asiatic quarterly review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Download or read book The Asiatic Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-century United States by : Mark Hulsether
Download or read book Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-century United States written by Mark Hulsether and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key players and themes in US religion before the twentieth century -- Changes in the religious landscape in the early twentieth century -- Religion and social conflict in the early twentieth century -- Shifts in the religious landscape from World War II to the present -- Religion and evolving social conflicts from World War II to the present -- Cultural aspects of religion from World War II to the present -- Conclusion: consensus, pluralism, and hegemony in US religion.
Book Synopsis Holocaust and Redemption by : Mati Alon
Download or read book Holocaust and Redemption written by Mati Alon and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living 2000 years in exile the Hebrews had a 2000-year DREAM to return to their Promised Land. The MIRACLE happened in 1948 when the State of Israel was founded. Not yet the Third Temple, the DREAM period was full of anguish, tears and blood: the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust in Europe, Anti-Semitism, etc. The MIRACLE period was also, is also, full of anguish, tears and blood: Fighting five Arab nations, very well equipped, without arms, with a Western World arms embargo against Israel. Then the SIX-DAY War in 1967 when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel. This was followed with the constant terror attacks, the Intifadah, mainly against Israeli civilians.
