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Goldberg, Adam M. "Jewish culture and the American military." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2581.
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This study explores the Jewish experience within the American military. Information sources include a review of literature, interviews with nineteen Jewish service members, and data files of officers and enlisted personnel who were on active duty as of October 2005. Data files were provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center in Monterey, California. The history of military service by persons of the Jewish faith corresponds roughly to that of persons from many other ethnic or religious groups: military service has been a patriotic calling, especially in periods of war, as well as a path during earlier times toward full assimilation into American society. This study concludes that Jewish military personnel, overall, have consistently performed well in service, given current measures of success; and, this trend is likely to continue. Further research should seek to examine additional measures of success in the military for Jewish personnel. More generally, research should examine the possible relationship between military performance and a person's religious faith, since religion is such an important part of individual identity. This information would add to existing knowledge of the various background and demographic factors of military members that help to shape a diverse and highly effective force.
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Rebiger, Bill. "Judaistische Anmerkungen zu John Zorns Radical Jewish Culture." Universität Potsdam, 2014. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/7170/.
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Der Musiker, Komponist, Produzent und Labeleigner John Zorn ist eine der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der New Yorker Downtown-Szene. Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre verleiht er seiner jüdischen Identität mit dem von ihm initiierten Programm einer „Radical Jewish Culture“ einen künstlerisch und diskursiv wirkmächtigen Ausdruck. In diesem Artikel werden einige Gestaltungsmerkmale der produzierten CDs, die darin abgedruckten Zitate und liner notes sowie die Bandnamen und Titel der Stücke näher betrachtet und mit judaistischem Hintergrundwissen kommentiert. Zwei Quellen, die Zorn für die hebräischen Titelbezeichnungen herangezogen hat, konnten verifiziert werden: „Oedipus Judaicus“ von William Drummond und „Sefer Yetzirah“ von Aryeh Kaplan.The musician, composer, producer, and label owner John Zorn is one of the most influential figures in New York’s downtown scene. Since the early 1990s he embodies his Jewish identity with the help of his platform of the ‘Radical Jewish Culture’ in an artistically and discursively powerful way. In this article some design elements of the produced CDs, the quotations and liner notes therein as well as the names of the bands and the titles of the tracks will be considered and commented on with Judaic knowledge. Two sources used by Zorn in order to find Hebrew titles could be verified: ‘Oedipus Judaicus’ by William Drummond and ‘Sefer Yetzirah’ by Aryeh Kaplan.
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Godley, Andrew C. "Enterprise and culture : Jewish immigrants in London and New York, 1880-1914." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243871.
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Guttman, Rebecca. "Jewish law, Jewish ethics and Quebec's culture: potential influences on the experience of infertility for Hasidic women in Quebec." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119397.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine reproductive technologies and infertility from the perspective of Orthodox Jewish ethics, law and culture. Treating infertility is a complex process; individuals vary in their course of treatment, taking into account their medical situation, religious beliefs, prevailing cultural norms, reproductive policy in their jurisdiction, financial constraints, and their community context. For Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews, this context includes a religious and cultural imperative to procreate, as well as religious law and social preference dictating the most preferred types of family. Judaism is a particularly pronatalist religion, and has a large body of halakhic text on reproductive technologies. Jewish people living in North America may also be influenced in their infertility experience by the policies and cultural norms of the society in which they live. This thesis examines the aspects of halakha (Jewish law), Quebec policy, Orthodox Jewish ethics, and ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish culture that are likely to influence the experience of infertility for Hasidic Jewish women in Quebec. Orthodox Judaism has a strong legacy of opinion defining the nature of family and the importance of genetics. This paper examines the aspects of Judaism and Hasidic culture that might strongly influence this experience, and also examines aspects of Quebec's history and current policy that may also influence this experience, albeit from a different angle.L'objectif de cette thèse est d'examiner les technologies de reproduction et de traitement de l'infertilité au point de vue de l'éthique, du droit et de la culture juive orthodoxe. Le traitement de l'infertilité est un processus complexe; les individus changent en cours de traitement. On doit tenir compte de leur dossier médical, de leur croyance religieuse, des normes culturelles en vigueur, de la politique de la reproduction dans leur juridiction, des contraintes financières et du contexte de leur communauté. Pour les juifs orthodoxes et ultraorthodoxes, ce contexte comprend un impératif religieux et culturel de procréer. Aussi, la loi religieuse et la préférence sociale dictent les types de familles les plus privilégiées. Le judaïsme est une religion prônant la natalité, et qui possède un grand corps de texte halakhique sur les technologies de reproduction. Les Juifs vivant en Amérique du Nord peuvent également être influencés dans leur expérience de l'infertilité par les politiques et les normes culturelles de la société dans laquelle ils vivent. Cette thèse examine les aspects de la Halakha (loi juive), la politique du Québec, l'éthique juive orthodoxe, et les cultures juives ultraorthodoxes et hassidiques qui sont susceptibles d'avoir une influence sur l'expérience de l'infertilité pour les femmes juives hassidiques au Québec. Le judaïsme orthodoxe possède un fort héritage quant à l'opinion qui définit la nature de la famille et l'importance de la génétique. Ce document examine les aspects du judaïsme hassidique et la culture qui pourraient influencer fortement cette expérience, et étudie également les aspects de l'histoire du Québec et de la politique actuelle qui peuvent aussi influer sur cette expérience, mais à partir d'un angle différent.
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Kavanaugh, Sarah. "The Jewish leadership of the Theresienstadt ghetto : culture, identity and politics." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400544.
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Hahn, Hans-Joachim. "Leslie Morris: The Translated Jew. German Jewish Culture outside the Margins." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2020. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71011.
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Leslie Morris: The Translated Jew. German Jewish Culture outside the Margins (=Cultural Expressions of World War II). Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press 2018, 235 S., ISBN: 978-0-8101-3763-9 (paper), 34,95 $. Besprochen von Hans-Joachim Hahn.
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Shawyer, Sarah Rose Violet. "The imperial patriarchal discourse : British Jewish culture, identity and the Palestine Mandate." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/415883/.
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This thesis explores the interplay between British Jewish culture and identity in relation to contemporary perceptions and collective memories of the Palestine Mandate. It begins with a historical examination of the British Jewish press, Mass Observers, and communal and personal correspondence regarding British Jews and the Palestine Mandate from 1944 to 1948. The thesis then devotes a chapter each to discussion of three modern British Jewish texts that provide insight into communal and personal responses to both the end of the Palestine Mandate and the subsequent establishment of the state of Israel: Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern Times; Peter Kosminsky’s The Promise; and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question. Throughout all four chapters, issues of age, gender, and the use of specific terminology along with features of recent British Jewish history, such as Zionism, the Holocaust and the Second World War, will be fully explored. The unique socio-political orientation of Grant, Kosminsky and Jacobson as British Jews will be examined, with the differences and similarities noted accordingly. The subsequent findings of this analysis argue that each of the three texts discussed employ an overarching framework, the imperial patriarchal discourse, in which retrospective perceptions of the Palestine Mandate exist. Furthermore, the origins of this narrative can be evidenced in the historical study of press, communal and individual responses to the Palestine Mandate and British Jews between 1944 and 1948, suggesting the modification of an already existing pattern of understandings among British Jews. This framework is adaptable in nature and inclusive in scope. The use of the imperial patriarchal discourse thus demonstrates that British Jews formed their response to the Palestine Mandate, Zionism and Israel from within the specific socio-cultural milieu in which they operated – and continue to do so.
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Saposnik, Arieh Bruce. "Becoming Hebrew : the creation of a Jewish national culture in Ottoman Palestine /." Oxford ; New York : Oxford university press, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41274041z.
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Alfonso, Esperanza. "Islamic culture through Jewish eyes : al-Andalus from the tenth to twelfth century /." London ; New York ; Milton Park : Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410814269.
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Fuhr, Christina. "Jewish identity construction and perpetuation in contemporary Britain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3f96cb8b-ad6a-4797-849f-edb9f5a4ce02.
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This thesis attends to the major question ‘how is Jewish identity created and maintained in contemporary Britain?’ To answer this question, I have done one year of ethnographic fieldwork in Britain, which included 121 interviews with Jewish people of various ages and across different religious as well as non-religious denominations. This thesis identifies four major elements informing the creation and perpetuation of Jewish identity: One, a sense of difference from the majority population creates and maintains the identity. Jews can perceive themselves to be different religiously, nationally, ethnically and/or culturally from white Christian British people. Two, trauma memory has an impact on the creation and sustenance of this identity. Vicarious group trauma, meaning trauma experienced by proxy of previous generations, can inform identity through its influence on everyday experiences. Three, community affiliation plays a role in creating and particularly reinforcing the identification. The Jewish community provides resources, social interaction and thus signalled attention, and regard; all of them respond to innate human needs that a person aims to have satisfied. Four, a group norm of continuity is important in the perpetuation of this identity within and across generations. This norm is created and sustained by its members through their focus on endogamy. Wanting to have a partner from one’s own group, have Jewish children and raise them in a Jewish lifestyle can, thereby, reinforce and maintain a sense of Jewishness (inter-) generationally. Without members marrying within the faith and having children that are raised with Judaism, it would be difficult to preserve Jewish identity in a country where the group does not constitute the majority. The thesis concludes that there are two reasons why Jews in diaspora have been able to sustain as a group and maintain their identity over time. Firstly, the multi-dimensionality of the Jewish group and respective affiliation platforms have allowed its members to create a multi-faceted meaning of being Jewish, and, secondly, continuous external challenges to the group’s security together with constant reminders of those challenges; both have prevented the group from assimilating into mainstream society.
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Beller, S. P. "Jews in Viennese culture 1867-1938 : an investigation into the historical debate concerning the Jewish influence in Viennese culture at the turn of the century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273096.
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Wojtowicz, Ian (Ian Stanislaw). "B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78506.
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Thesis (S.M. in Visual Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, September 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165).
"The history of the Polish-Jewish relationship is...the embattled terrain of several collective memories, each with its claim to moral legitimacy, and each charged with fierce and sometimes vehement feelings." These contested histories are the source of tension and animosity between Poles and Jews to this day. Unlike the German-Jewish relationship, where "the moral rights and wrongs were starkly clear," Poland's past is far more complex. This thesis describes the design of a storage and retransmission medium for these contested histories, using photography, nomadic performance, new media mapping techniques and imaginary architecture. The system, entitled B'Seder, makes use of the ancient technology of memory palaces to produce a long-term relational aesthetic practice for the transformation of post-conflict societies through storytelling, conversation, and the mapping of narratives into visual forms. Using a well established process from post-traumatic therapy, the medium focuses on restructuring fragmented memories into a cohesive, flowing story. In formal terms, the project begins with a photograph of an empty room. Anecdotes are collected from readings, films and conversations with community participants. These anecdotes are then transformed into mnemonic objects, which are depicted in the image. This process of accumulation of object/stories continues as the image is taken to new sites with new participants. The system then transitions into an editing and organizing mode where these anecdotes are arranged into a singular narrative sequence, which is memorized and recounted in public space.
by Ian Wojtowicz.
S.M.in Visual Studies
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Agis, Derya Fazila. "Pink Angels: Cultural Reproduction Through The Therapies Provided By A Jewish Women." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615198/index.pdf.
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Some Turkish Jewish women have been serving the elderly staying in the geriatric unit of the Jewish Or-Ahayim Hospital in Istanbul. Their group is recognized as &lsquothe Pink Angels.&rsquo
The volunteer women at the Jewish hospital founded a group in 1974, and Nuket Antebi named this group &lsquo
the Pink Angels.&rsquo
Today this group of women is divided into three subgroups: (1) those who offer chat and art therapies, after having been trained, (2) those who distribute foods and beverages, deal with donations, are involved in the preparation process of jam jars, and offer memorial services, and (3) those who assume both duties. The Pink Angels who serve as therapists contribute to the attainment of world peace locally in Istanbul by chatting and reading various texts belonging to various world cultures in the chat therapies and making the patients create works of art and sing songs related to different cultural occasions in the art therapies by promoting global moral values. Sometimes they promote the moral values of other religious and cultural groups by celebrating different feasts and narrating stories belonging to these diverse groups by underscoring the concept unity in diversity and imposing upon the patients that they constitute a family in the hospital. Moreover, not only the foods and beverages the Pink Angels distribute, but also the jam jars and gift baskets they prepare carry Turkish Jewish symbols. This thesis based on fieldwork tests the hypotheses that the Pink Angels employ positive symbols in the therapies and activities they conduct, avoid talking about negative issues, such as sadness and death, not only the therapies, but also all the other activities that the Pink Angels conduct evoke happiness and joy in the patients as long as the Turkish Jewish culture is reproduced, since the patients feel as if they were at home, and several intercultural peace building techniques are employed in the therapies together with symbols and metaphorical imagery emphasizing the importance of peace between different religious and ethnic groups by mentioning the commonalities between them, and the rules obeyed by the Pink Angels provide the patients with comfort, since they conceive that they are in a serious and secure place. Furthermore, the foods cooked everyday in the hospital and the music the patients listen to during the therapies reflect the transcultural identities of the Turkish Jews whose ancestors had lived in different countries and interacted with various cultural groups. Symbolic interactionism is employed in analyzing all of these.
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Hart, Sydney. "Things from home : ethnic identity and material culture in African American and Jewish American homes /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Slingland, Susan M. "Twentieth-century composers inspired by Jewish culture selections from the solo and collaborative piano repertoire /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3419.
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Thesis (D.M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Music. Title from t.p. of PDF. Degree in piano performance. Contents of audio listed in pdf file. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. PDF portion also available in paper.
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Blaj, Linda Derviche. "Sukot e Purim na educação infantil: um encontro da infância e da cultura judaica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8152/tde-29012009-105521/.
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A dissertação Sukot e Purim Festividades na Educação Infantil: um encontro da infância e da cultura judaica localiza-se na área de conhecimento da Cultura Judaica que corresponde a um segmento do currículo da Educação Infantil das escolas judaicas de São Paulo. O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender como as crianças integram a cultura judaica em seus processos de aprendizagem. A pesquisa teve como ponto de partida o estudo sobre o desenvolvimento do pensamento infantil e a concepção de infância, que alicerçam os Referenciais Curriculares do Brasil e de Israel, os quais compõem os currículos das escolas judaicas do Brasil. Para tal, resgata a concepção de infância no decorrer dos séculos XIX e XX, e descreve os primórdios do estabelecimento da educação infantil relacionado às diversas influências políticas, econômicas, culturais e ideológicas de cada momento histórico. O estudo do desenvolvimento infantil tem como referência os estudos de Jean Piaget e a compreensão do desenvolvimento da linguagem segundo Vygotsky. A segunda parte do trabalho teve como foco o estudo das festividades Sukot e Purim, elementos da cultura judaica, que foram escolhidos pela sua diversidade de símbolos e costumes e pelo seu aspecto lúdico. Na última etapa foi realizada a coleta de dados com grupos de crianças, de um ano e quatro meses a cinco anos, em uma escola judaica de São Paulo. A análise dos dados baseou-se no repertório expresso pelas crianças que, após a tabulação, evidenciou o conhecimento e a compreensão acerca das festividades, de cada grupo.The dissertation Sukot and Purim Festivities in Childrens Education: a gathering of infancy and the Jewish Culture, corresponds to a parcel of the Childrens Education curriculum in the Jewish schools of the city of Sao Paulo. The purpose of the research is to understand how children integrate the Jewish Culture in their learning process. The research started with the analysis of childrens thinking process development and the concept of infancy that work as references for Israel and Brazils Curriculum conception and constitute the Jewish Schools curriculum in Brazil. In order to do this, the thesis retrieves the concept of infancy during the XIX and XX centuries and describes the beginning of childrens education under the influence of politics, economy and culture in different historical moments. Jean Piagets studies and the comprehension of language development according to Vygotsky were the theoretical references for the study of childrens development. The second part of the thesis focuses on the study of Sukot and Purim festivities, which are Jewish Culture elements and were chosen due to their symbols and traditions diversity and their playful aspect. The last part the thesis shows the data collection among children between the age of sixteen months and five years, in a Jewish School located in the city of Sao Paulo. The analysis of the data was based on childrens comments. The analysis of the data showed the knowledge and comprehension of the festivities in the different groups.
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Attia-Krieger, Sharon. "Sacrifice scripts : the role of context in the transmission of counter-cultural religious representations of sacrifice and commitment : Israeli-Jewish culture." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1003/.
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This thesis explores transmission of religious representations of sacrifice and commitment within modern Jewish-Israeli culture. The thesis begins with a focus on the domain of religious representations and then explores the empirical plausibility of a context-based approach for studying their transmission patterns using recently emerging perspectives within cognitive science of religion. On that basis, the thesis turns the attention to religious representations that violate shared cultural assumptions (counter-cultural), through a review of the possible differences between these and religious representations that violate innate intuitions ( counterintuitive ). It is argued that without further expanding of the context-based view to include violations of cultural kind, new advances in this approach will not be convincing. A theoretical model of the effect of context on the spread of counter-cultural religious representations is therefore developed through a conceptual integration of aspects of script theory. The socio-cognitive model presented here is based on the potential connection between emerging accounts for cultural transmission and script theory. The first study involves an empirical investigation of media representations of sacrifice and commitment scripts within Jewish - Israeli culture. A second study, involving 1,005 participants, seeks to operationalize the investigation of religious representations, and does so by an online research tool that allows structured insight into mental representations of sacrifice and commitment scripts, based on representation elicited from the previous media analysis. This dynamic technology facilitates the investigation of the different qualities of recurrent representations over time and under different contextual conditions. In conclusion, this thesis attempts to explore the potential connections between the context in which counter-cultural representations are spread and the degree to which they spread by suggesting that under some conditions representations that maximally deviate from cultural assumptions can turn minimal, becoming optimal for transmission, as long as they can be justified in that context.
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Homer, Jarrod. "Ethnic peculiarity and universal appeal : the ambivalence of transition in mid-twentieth century Jewish American culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:156396.
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This thesis examines the contribution of Jewish artists to American popular culture in the mid-twentieth century and argues that the Jewish imagination contains a peculiar ability to simultaneous articulate the concerns of a specifically ethnic identity and a more universal American character. The thesis posits that by exploring how the Jewish community negotiated the space between ethnic identity and an American paradigm, Jewish artists were able to explore the middle ground between individuality and conformity, selfhood and consensus, liberalism and conservatism, tradition and change, and heritage and progress that held a wider pertinence for a more general American audience. The thesis argues that the diversity of the Jewish American imagination at this time can be united by a leitmotif that can be best described as the ambivalence of transition. By examining aesthetically dissimilar texts from a variety of artistic fields, in particular comic books, theatre, cinema, television, and literature, the thesis argues that despite the cultural evolutions that occurred throughout the thirties, forties and fifties, the Jewish voice articulated a continuing concern regarding the relationship between ethnic identity, masculine identity, the individual and mass culture. This last point hints at another preoccupation of this thesis; the texts analysed here all share a narrative focus that explores and represents notions of masculine identity and ideality. In this way, the thesis necessarily focuses upon debates about masculinity within the Jewish imagination and American culture, charting the evolution of the Jewish and American male and their relationship towards notions of performed, consensus, individual and paradigm masculinity. Although there has not necessarily been a desire to fully deny the notion of a continuing thematic preoccupation within the Jewish imaginary, previous scholarship has shown a tendency towards accentuating the eclectic nature of Jewish American culture. Whilst scholars like Paul Buhle and Stephen J. Whitfield recognise the importance of popular culture as an arena in which Jewish artists sought to articulate issues at the heart of Jewish identity and community in the US, their studies focus upon the kaleidoscopic eclecticism of Jewish American culture. The intention of this thesis is to harness the diversity inherent in Jewish cultural expression via the prevailing leitmotif of the ambivalence of transition. In this way the thesis will use the multifarious and textured fabric of mid-century Jewish culture, as well as the simultaneous articulation of both ethnic and more general concerns, to illuminate the understanding of both Jewish identity and American culture throughout the mid-century. Thus, the thesis builds upon work by the likes of Julian Levinson and Hana Wirth-Nesher that revisits ideas of assimilation and attempts to complicate the inexorable movement away from Jewish distinctiveness and identity. Similarly, the thesis builds upon studies by the likes of Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Will Brooker that attempt to accentuate the reductive understanding of the mid-century based upon boundless suburbia and unthinking conformity.
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Gallas, Elisabeth. "Cecile E. Kuznitz: YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture. Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2015. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34969.
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Spezia, Elizabeth Michele. "How Parents Use Television to Enrich Their Children's Cultural Identity: The Case Study of Shalom Sesame and Jewish Life." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1018.
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A small-scale ethnographic case study of young children's learning from television in southern Illinois provides understanding about the frameworks used for interpreting media use in family life. The research consisted of in-home interviews about patterns of using the media, observations, and family diaries of children's viewing behavior to examine family engagement with a prosocial television program, Shalom Sesame, depicting Jewish culture, Hebrew language, holidays, and the land of Israel. Family responses to the program are identified in terms of appeal, use, and overall fit with Jewish identity and tradition in the homes. Data analysis reveals that quality educational program features of Shalom Sesame such as repetition, role models, humor, on screen textual cues, and follow-up activities in the home support learning. The case study concludes that Shalom Sesame helps connect families with young children, especially those who are isolated from other members of their minority, to the larger community of diverse Jewish people and culture around the globe.
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Fishman, Talya. "Shaking the pillars of exile : "Voice of a fool", an early modern Jewish critique of rabbinic culture /." Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford university press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38840833v.
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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Post-biblical Jewish history and literature--Stanford--University.Contient la traduction anglaise de "Kol Sakhal" = "Voice of a fool" / Léon de Modène (sous le pseudonyme de Amitai bar Yedaiah ibn Raz). Bibliogr. p. 297-326. Index. Glossaire.
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Grözinger, Elvira. "Shternshis, Anna, Soviet and kosher, Jewish popular culture in the Soviet Union 1923-1939. / [rezensiert von] Elvira Grözinger." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2251/.
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Shternshis, Anna: Soviet and kosher : Jewish popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 / Anna Shternshis. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2006. - XXI, 252 S.: Ill.
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Levin, Toby R. "The Influence of Religion on Attitudes toward Alcohol Use in Jewish Adolescents." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/481.
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Historically, the Jewish faith has used alcohol in rituals and religious holidays in which adolescents are permitted to fully participate and this exposure to alcohol may influence attitudes and beliefs about underage drinking among Jewish adolescents. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between the Jewish religion and attitudes toward alcohol among Jewish adolescents. The theoretical frameworks, on which this study was based, were the social bond theory and the social development theory. Each of these theories indicates that community is important to the individual. Using a cross sectional study design, 160 adolescents participated in a survey that was administered by paper during a free period or lunchtime. ANOVA and linear regression were used to determine if there was a relationship between religion, gender, age, and attitudes toward alcohol. According to study findings, there was no significant relationship between religious affiliation or religious service attendance and attitudes towards the use of alcohol. However, there was a significant relationship between gender and attitudes against drinking and between age and the positive attitudes for drinking. These findings may spur positive social change at the community level. Yeshivas may review with Jewish adolescents the distinction between using alcohol for rituals/ceremonies and using alcohol socially, and the consequences of underage drinking. Future studies should include more participants in the different sects and denominations to get a more complete picture of the Jewish community.
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Allen, Garrick V. "Early Jewish textual culture and the New Testament : the reuse of Zechariah 1-8 in the book of Revelation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6944.
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The text of the book of Revelation preserves examples of scriptural reuse that cohere with similar patterns of borrowing in other ancient Jewish works. This thesis describes the processes of reuse employed by Revelation's notional author (John), and places them into conversation with modes of reuse employed in other ancient Jewish texts, using Zechariah 1-8 as a test case. The design of the study has been crafted to explore these examples in a manner consistent with ancient textual composition. In the first chapter, I examine a dominant aspect of Jewish and early Christian textual culture: pluriformity. I argue that a pluriform scriptural tradition (in both Hebrew and Greek) was a controlling force that shaped the processes of scriptural reuse and, in turn, composition in this period. This analysis also delimits the possible forms of Zechariah available to ancient readers. With textual pluriformity in mind, the next chapter examines the text of Zech 1-8 preserved in John's scriptural references (Rev 5.6; 6.1-8, 9-11; 7.1; 11.4; 19.11-16). While this analysis is complicated by the author's presentation of reused material in Revelation, the evidence strongly suggests that John was familiar with a Hebrew form of Zechariah. Once John's preferred form of Zechariah is identified, the third chapter describes his techniques of reuse. This portion of the thesis consists of a catalogue and discussion of the differences in graphic representation between segments of Zech 1-8 and their instantiation in Revelation. This examination builds a set of textual data that accesses John's processes and strategies of reading. The fourth section of the thesis explores John's habits of reading as witnessed in his techniques of reuse. This section identifies features of Zech 1-8 that motivated John to engage with and alter the wording of antecedent material. Not every textual difference can be accounted for in this way, but it is evident that John is cognisant of the features of a particular form of Zech 1-8. Many of the differences between source and reuse can be explained as John's attempt to comprehend ambiguities in Zechariah. The final section of the thesis is a comparative analysis. The results of the preceding examinations of Revelation are compared to instances of the reuse of Zechariah in early Jewish literature, including works in the Hebrew Bible, the ancient versions of Zechariah, Dead Sea Scrolls, and works commonly classified as “deutero-canonical.” This analysis grounds previous observations about John's reuse in their native textual culture and acts as an historical control. The evidence suggests that John's modes of reading, reformulation, and reuse are similar to those found in other early Jewish works. The thesis concludes that scriptural reuse in the book of Revelation cannot be understood apart from the realities of textual pluriformity and the practices of scriptural reuse in Jewish antiquity. This approach suggests that John is a “scribal” expert—a careful reader of his scriptural tradition—and that his modes of reuse are conditioned by the textual culture of this period.
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Cartus, Niels. "Olhares brasileiros judaicos: a presença do judaísmo na arte brasileira contemporânea." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8152/tde-08052007-105116/.
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Olhares brasileiros judaicos: A presença do judaísmo na arte brasileira contemporânea pretende mostrar vestígios da cultura judaica na arte brasileira contemporânea. Os imigrantes judeus que chegaram ao Brasil no século XX trouxeram consigo, em sua maioria, um pensamento liberal do judaísmo que influenciou a relação com as artes plásticas dentro do judaísmo europeu. O presente trabalho parte da hipótese de que a aproximação do judaísmo e artes plásticas também teve continuidade no Brasil, uma vez que os judeus imigrantes vindos de Europa e as gerações seguintes conseguiram integrar-se com sucesso na sociedade brasileira. A questão central, portanto, é saber em que formas e conteúdos essa influência cultural se articula. É apresentada a primeira geração de artistas judeus no Brasil, que forneceu impulsos importantes para o desenvolvimento da arte moderna, tendo como pano de fundo a evolução cultural e artística do judaísmo e sua compreensão emancipada da proibição bíblica de representação de imagens. Porém, exceto por Lasar Segall, encontram-se marcas judaicas na arte brasileira apenas na segunda metade do século XX. Através da obra de quatro artistas judeus brasileiros escolhidos, cuja análise não pretende ser absolutamente completa e representativa, na parte central desta tese são constatados elementos de cultura judaica na criação artística que se fazem notar tanto sob o aspecto formal e de conteúdo quanto em posições éticas, religiosas dos artistas. Dali resulta uma forma híbrida de cultura ou identidade brasileira e judaica: olhares brasileiros judaicos. Do ponto de vista da metodologia são significativos, além das entrevistas realizadas com os artistas, os tratados científicos sob arte judaica e artistas judeus, que possibilitam uma contextualização global.Brazilian-Judeo Gazes: The presence of Judaism in contemporary Brazilian art attempts to identify vestiges of Hebrew culture in Brazilian contemporary art. Jewish immigrants to Brazil during the 20th century brought with them, largely, a liberal Jewish thinking which influenced the relationship of the plastic arts in European Judaism. This present work stems from the hypothesis that the approximation of Judaism and the plastic arts had continuity in Brazil, once the Jewish immigrants coming from Europe and subsequent generations were able to successfully integrate themselves into Brazilian society. The central question, therefore, is to know the forms and types of content this cultural influence articulated with. Within, we present the first generation of Jewish artists in Brazil who provided important impulses for the development of modern art, and which served as the underlying fabric for the Jewish cultural and artistry evolution with its emancipated understanding from the biblical prohibition on the representation of images. However, except for Lasar Segall, distinct Jewish hallmarks in Brazilian art make their appearance only at the second half of the 20-century. Through the work of four selected Brazilian-Judeo artists, whose analysis does not intend to be absolutely complete and representative, there is in the central part of this thesis, verifiable Jewish elements in the artistic creation which standout as much for their formal aspects and content as their ethical and religious positions of the artists. From there a hybrid form of the culture resulted or, Brazilian-Judeo identity: olhares brasileiros judaicos (Brazilian-Judeo Gazes). The methodological aspects of this study are significant, in addition to interviews conducted with the artists, there are scientific treatises about Jewish art and Jewish artists that allow for a global contextualization of the subject.
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Dennett-Thorpe, Ivy Garlitz. "The old country : an experiment in modes of writing on the Jewish-American experience in poetry, fiction and popular culture." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297480.
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Allard, Elisabeth Bolorinos. "My enemy or my brother? : Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish culture during the colonial campaigns in Morocco, 1909-1927." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6e0bcfff-12a2-4b59-92d4-57f9fff5adec.
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This thesis examines Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish cultures in Morocco during the colonial campaigns in the Rif (1909-1927) in relation to constructions of Spanish identity during this period. It focuses on visual and textual narratives in the press (colonial photojournalism) and on three literary texts: Carmen de Burgos' En la guerra (1909), Ernesto Giménez Caballero's Notas marruecas de un soldado (1923) and Arturo Barea's La ruta (1943). The analysis undertaken centres on the use of the motifs of the body and the city and references to the medieval Castilian ballad tradition, the Romancero, by writers and photographers to explore the cultural relationship between Spain and North Africa. The chapters explore the delineation of boundaries between Spanish and Moroccan cultures by contemporary commentators and the power structures that underpin those boundaries, considering the different hierarchies that are established in Spain's relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews. Chapter 1 concerns the socio-historical context of the colonial campaigns and highlights the significance of the question of Spain's identity in relation to Morocco during this period. Chapter 2 compares representations of cultural and ethnic affinity between Spain and Morocco, arguing that beyond merely serving as a tool of colonial domination, they are harnessed in some cases to support the colonial venture, in others to challenge it, and yet in others to explore the pre-modern origins of the Spanish nation. In many of the examples examined, a process of self-Orientalisation is observed, where the 'Orientalist' and colonialist gaze is turned back on Spain as well as on Morocco. Chapter 3 examines representations of Muslim and Jewish alterity, arguing that these assertions of difference reveal Spanish anxieties about non-difference from North Africa, cultural regression, national fragmentation, and Spain's ability to dominate the protectorate. I conclude that these anxieties provide the fundamental underpinning to Spanish constructions of Morocco during the Rif War, and that this self-awareness about non-difference and failures of domination unsettles the predominant paradigm of discourse analysis within colonial studies.
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DI, LUCCHIO PIERANGELA. "Fra identità e memoria. Viaggio nella Comunità ebraica di Napoli." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/923.
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The focus of this thesis is the analysis of the concepts of memory and identity within a religious minority group like the Jewish one. The case-study is the Jewish Community in Naples, one of the smallest communities in Italy (around 184 members).
What this study aims at is to bridge the methodological gap between history and anthropology. As a matter of fact, on the one hand the scholars of Hebraism have frequently focused their attention to anthropological investigation methods for a better understanding of the dynamics existing between Jewish and not Jewish over the centuries; while, on the other hand, the anthropologists, non only Italian, have rarely dealt with these subjects. That is the reason why there is an urgent need to study the concepts of memory and identity in this specific cultural situation, which might also help the Jewish culture come out of its persistent isolation and become the object of anthropological investigation.
Thus, a transdisciplinary method has been developed to integrate not only anthropologic, historical, psychological and sociological methodologies, but also literary ones. This is clear especially in the analysis of the narrative modes used by the several interviewees to explain their memories both in speaking and writing. Naturally, everything has been carried out constantly keeping in mind that numerous are the reasons underlying the social action.
Starting from the local (Naples), considerations will also include more global aspects (the dispersion and Israel).
What emerges is a Transnational Community, often inclined to migration, polyglot and, tough deeply Italian, still strictly linked to Israel.
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Rocha, Junior Ozeias. "À mesa com um estrangeiro: a refeição como elemento organizador e identitário das comunidades lucanas a partir de Lucas 24,13-53." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2011. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/193.
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Previous issue date: 2011-09-28Our research aims to determine the influence of Hellenistic meal in the customs of a Mediter-ranean Jewish community in the first century. We, then, a survey of contacts in the Jewish community in general had with the Greco-Roman both the diffusion and exchange of their values as in the spaces occupied by both cultures and their symbolic conceptions. Thus, we studied the influence of Greek meal in the writings of Luke and Acts. First, in exegetical reading of Luke 24.13-53, the disciples on the way to Emmaus, we see evidence that this narrative, especially in the scene of the table, the meal was marked by the inclusion of a foreigner. In a way, the constitution of the Lucan community points, especially regarding the meal for the formation of their identity. Then we find in the writings of Luke-Acts the conse-quences of contact. The material of Luke, both the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, presents narratives that focus on table therefore found that the act of Jesus was at table with unqualified persons, according to Jewish customs and the prospect of this material Lucan, shows the influence of Greek meal in the practice of Jewish followers of Jesus and that this practice was assimilated by this community in the early years of its formation.
Nossa pesquisa tem como meta verificar a influência da refeição helênica nos costumes de uma comunidade judaica do Mediterrâneo no primeiro século. Fizemos, então, um levantamento dos contatos em que a comunidade judaica, em geral, teve com a cultura greco-romana, tanto na difusão e troca de seus valores como nos espaços ocupados por ambas as culturas e suas concepções simbólicas. Em seguida, estudamos a influência da refeição grega nos escritos do Evangelho de Lucas e em Atos. Primeiramente, na leitura exegética de Lucas 24,13-53, os discípulos a caminho de Emmaús, percebemos nesta narrativa indícios de que, especialmente na cena da mesa, a refeição foi marcada pela inclusão de um estrangeiro. De certa forma, a constituição da comunidade lucana aponta, principalmente no que diz respeito a refeição, para a formação de sua identidade. Por fim, verificamos nos textos de Lucas-Atos as consequências desse contato. O material de Lucas, tanto o Evangelho quanto os Atos dos Apóstolos, apresenta narrativas que dão ênfase à mesa, portanto constatamos que o ato de Jesus estar à mesa com pessoas desqualificadas, segundo os costumes judaicos e na perspecti-va deste material lucano, mostra a influência da refeição grega na prática dos judeus seguidores de Jesus e que esta prática foi assimilada por essa comunidade nos primeiros anos de sua formação.
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Fruitman, Stephen. "Creating a new heart : Marcus Ehrenpreis on jewry and judaism." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Historiska studier, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-59770.
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This dissertation represents the first attempt to take account of the entire Swedish œuvre of Marcus Ehrenpreis and view it as a single, coherent statement, recognizing the very fundamental confrontation taking place between traditional and modern ways of viewing reality and its possible resolution. A reading of his work reveals that the one constant in his life in letters was the struggle to reconcile the apparent logical antithesis of universalism and particularism, which this dissertation sees as one with resonance for all ethnic minorities. In the Chapter One, a general orientation in the modern Jewish world is provided, including the traditional worlds of Orthodoxy and Hasidism into which he was born; the trend toward the political emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe and the subsequent waves of assimilation among young Jews; the exacerbation of antisemitic tendencies in both Eastern and Western Europe; the emergence of Jewish nationalism, commonly known as Zionism; and the renaissance of Jewish culture which crystallized around these events. Chapter Two offers a social and intellectual biography of Ehrenpreis, providing the reader with the relevant information about his youth, organizational efforts, education, and career as rabbi and author, while Chapter Three posits a perspective from which to approach his work, by describing the generational unit to which he belonged and how the concerns of his youth and early adulthood, shared by other Jewish intellectuals born around the same time as he, shaped the problems with which he grappled throughout his life. The generational perspective also allows the fundamental differences between his own generation and the generations before and after his to emerge in bold relief. It is hoped that in employing this perspective, it becomes clear that the accumulated work of Ehrenpreis can be seen as an integrated whole, which came to full expression during his thirty-five years in Sweden. In Chapter Four, Ehrenpreis' definitions of Jewish religion and Jewish culture and the difference between them are explicated, before proceeding to investigate the way in which he thought the essence of these ideas best be mediated - primarily from the pulpit in his sermons and the intellectual periodical in his writings. The latter in particular he found to be an essential tool for disseminating Jewish culture in Sweden, both to Swedish Jewry and the general Swedish public. Chapters Five and Six deal with what Ehrenpreis considered the two major expressions of Jewish culture, literature and historical knowledge, and the roles they played in the formation of a substantive understanding of Jewish culture in the modern world. For him, literature was the bearer of ethics and values and the forum within which these could be transvaluated and made germane to modern man. In his historical writings, he wished to counteract tendencies from within and without the Jewish world which either consigned the Jewish people to the past tense, or overemphasized the role of traumas and catastrophes in its history at the expense of an ongoing, positive and creative Jewish cultural evolution. Chapter Seven concludes the close reading of Ehrenpreis ' Swedish authorship by concentrating on his wartime writings. In referring to the legacy of the Hebrew prophets, the essential cultural values of Jewish tradition as he perceived them emerge: The ideas of social justice, minority rights, and the goal of perpetual peace between nations. He emphasizes their significance for the development of the democratic tradition in Europe as well as their function as the pillars on which the identity of Jews in the modern world could rest. The dissertation closes with a summary of its conclusions.digitalisering@umu
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Barkay, Rafaela. "Kaminos de Leche i Miel: um olhar sobre os modos, os costumes e a memória de mulheres da comunidade sefaradita de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8158/tde-12122014-175149/.
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O presente estudo descreve o relato de mulheres da comunidade sefaradita de São Paulo a respeito de sua trajetória familiar, memória e prática do idioma judeu-espanhol e da cultura em seu entorno. Herança de uma tradição milenar cujas origens remontam à presença judaica na Península Ibérica sob o Império Islâmico, foi um dos poucos elementos carregados na bagagem após a expulsão dos judeus sefaraditas pelos Reis Católicos em 1492. Esta cultura se solidificou na nova pátria sob o Império Otomano na região dos Bálcãs e Turquia e foi transmitida através das gerações predominantemente no ambiente doméstico, guardando forte relação com o universo feminino, que distante da prática religiosa formal em hebraico criou seu próprio sistema de ritos na língua vernácula judaica. Enfrentando uma segunda diáspora após a derrocada do Império e principalmente após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma parte desta população estabeleceu-se na cidade de São Paulo, constituindo uma minoria dentre a comunidade judaica local. A fim de praticar o idioma e os costumes de seus antecessores, um grupo de mulheres se reuniu mensalmente entre os anos de 1992 e 2013, mantendo viva esta memória e preservando seu legado para as novas geraçõesThe present study describes the narrative of women from the Sephardic community of Sao Paulo about their family history, memory and practice of the Judeo-Spanish language and the culture around it. As the heritage of an ancient tradition whose origins date back to the Jewish presence in the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic Empire, it was one of the few elements loaded in the baggage after the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. This culture was solidified in their new homeland under the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and Turkey, and was transmitted through generations predominantly in the household, keeping a strong relationship with the feminine universe, which being away from the formal religious practice in Hebrew, created its own system of rites in the Jewish vernacular. Facing a second diaspora after the collapse of the Empire and especially after World War II, part of the population settled in the city of São Paulo, constituting a minority of the local Jewish community. In order to practice the language and customs of their predecessors, a group of women met monthly between the years 1992 and 2013, keeping this memory alive and preserving its legacy for future generations
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Santos, Maria Medianeira dos. "Territorialidades judaicas no espaço urbano de Porto Alegre/RS." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/112208.
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A presente tese problematiza como os imigrantes judeus e seus descendentes vieram e vêm dominando e se apropriando do espaço nos diferentes processos de desterritorializações e reterritorializações judaicas, tendo a cidade de Porto Alegre, capital do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, como foco de análise. Os imigrantes judeus e seus descendentes, em diferentes momentos históricos e geográficos, organizaram e implementaram nos seus novos espaços determinadas formas de dominação e apropriação. Isso permite evidenciar "geossímbolos" que estão presentes em determinadas cidades, que demarcam a presença deste grupo cultural. Em Porto Alegre, a comunidade judaica formou-se a partir do início do século XX. Na cidade, a presença dos judeus é visível através de um conjunto de elementos materiais que se encontram difundidos pela paisagem urbana da capital gaúcha. O bairro Bom Fim é o espaço onde a identidade judaica se faz mais viva, pois nele é possível encontrar diversas sinagogas, além de instituições de caráter social e cultural. A pesquisa foi realizada com base em registros históricos, trabalhos de campo, entrevistas com membros da comunidade judaica e análise dos "marcadores identitários" no espaço urbano. O estudo das migrações e das territorializações delas derivadas, especialmente pelo viés cultural, permite obter importantes contribuições para o estudo das novas territorialidades em formação no mundo contemporâneo.This thesis discusses how Jewish immigrants, as well as their descendants have been dominating and appropriating space through the different processes of jewish deterritorialization and reterritorializations, focusing Porto Alegre, the principal city capital of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Jewish immigrants and their descendants, throughout the different historical and geographical realms, organized and implemented in their new spaces certain forms of domination and appropriation. This allows us to highlight "geossymbols" that are present in certain cities, marking the presence of this particular cultural group. In Porto Alegre, the Jewish community began to establish from the early twentieth century. The presence of Jews is visible by a set of material elements broadcasted by the urban landscape of the state capital. The Bom Fim neighborhood is the place where Jewish identity is more alive, because it is possible to find several synagogues, and social and cultural institutions. The documental research was based on historical records, fieldwork, interviews with members of the Jewish community and analysis of "identity markers" in the urban space. The study of migration and the derived territorializations, especially by the cultural bias, provides important contributions to the study of new territorialities in the formation of the contemporary world.
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Goussinsky, Sonia. "Era uma vez uma voz: o cantar ídiche, suas memórias e registros no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8158/tde-30042013-114834/.
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O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo da cultura ídiche através do cantar e do seu significado para os imigrantes e descendentes dessa vertente cultural no Brasil. O cantar ídiche foi um dos elos que esses indivíduos mantiveram com suas raízes. Esses vínculos foram investigados através de entrevistas e relatos de suas memórias. O objetivo desta tese foi retratar o passado vivo de um grupo cultural que sempre cultivou formas de expressão musical no seu cotidiano e seu significado. O resultado do trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância do cantar na preservação dessa cultura musical e sobre questões relativas à identidade judaica brasileira. Os gêneros musicais ídiches acalentam a saudade velada e simbólica que os imigrantes e seus descendentes sentem do território evocativo do ídiche. O cancioneiro ídiche traz, no plano coletivo e individual, uma herança apreciada de forma universal e crescente, por diversas esferas culturais.This work presents both a study about the Yiddish culture through singing and its meaning to the Jewish immigrants and their cultural descendants in Brazil. Yiddish singing has been one of the common bonds these individuals chose to stick to their roots; bonds which have been investigated through interviews and also by listening to peoples memories. The aim of this thesis is to portray the memorable past of a cultural group that has kept ways of musical expression in their daily lives. The results of this work poses both a reflection on the importance of singing to keep this musical culture and also on matters related to the Jewish- Brazilian identity. Yiddish musical genres nourish a veiled and symbolic nostalgia these immigrants descendants have of their Yiddish evocative territory. Moreover, Yiddish songs carry individual and collective cultural heritage which is increasingly appreciated worldwide.
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Ernestová, Eva. "Nová synagoga Jihlava." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-391856.
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The diploma thesis focuses on the design of a new synagogue in Jihlava, and other objects for the Jewish community. These are administrative building, restaurant and a museum. The area where we work is large and it is therefore important to solve the area as well as urbanistically. The diploma project solves a separate building of the synagogue, an administrative building with a courtyard for the Jewish community, a separate restaurant place in tower moat, and two buildings located in the gap of an existing building. One of these objects is used for the Jewish culture museum, the second is polyfunctional. Furthermore, the park areas and underground parking is being solved.
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Jonsson, Sofia. "Now – let's eat! : en etnologisk studie om mat, minne ochtillhörighet i den svenskjudiska diasporan." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19172.
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This master thesis is an ethnological study focusing members of a young, urban Jewishdiaspora in Sweden. The study's aim is to problematize and describe the relation between theJewish minority that is regarded as religious, and the secular normative majority societyregarded as non-religious. The study explores questions regarding social positioning,belonging and memory and how Jewish traditions are practiced in contemporary Sweden. Themethodological approaches are interviews and participation observations with a specific focuson food; its symbolic value and how food can materialize identities and communicatememories. The empirical data comprises 24 interviews in total, of which 11 interviews havebeen chosen and thus constitute the material on which the study's analysis is made upon. Theanalysis is mainly based upon the theoretical perspective of phenomenology focusinganalytical concepts as materiality, positionality, (conditional) belonging, minority/majorityand diasporic processes. By being regarded as "well integrated" and at the same time beingdesignated as one of Sweden's national minorities, the Jewish group is given contradictorypositionalities, which is examined in this study. The study also shows that memory and aconnection to the past (both personal and general Jewish history) are of great importance tothese informants when expressing their identities, and that this connection often materializesthrough food. By highlighting the informants' experiences of keeping kosher, it becamevisible that Jewish way of life challenges the normative (imagined) secularity in Sweden.
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Herrmann, Manja. "“[B]eide zu einem harmonischen Ganzen verschmolzen”: Particularism, Universalism, and the Hybrid Jewish Nation in Early German Zionist Discourse." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2014. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35047.
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Vašička, Jakub. "Nová synagoga Trutnov." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414294.
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Diploma thesis theme is design of a new synagogue in the city of Trutnov on a memorial site of the original unpreserved synagogue. Part of the construction program is the creation of a complex used by the Jewish religious community and its members, containing a building for the Jewish community (administrative and educational use), kosher restaurants with use for the general public, and the Museum of Jewish Culture. The aim of the design is to create a set of buildings functioning as a whole respecting the natural landmark of the surroundings and the historical significance referring to the past. The new synagogue is designed as the dominant feature of the whole complex in the place of the original Jewish prayer house and emphasizes the monumentality of the place connected with nature. Other facilities are located in front of the synagogue and create a new public space for locals but also visitors to the city from a wide area not only for spiritual use but also for cultural, social, and recreational.
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Metzler, Tobias. "Jews in the metropolis urban Jewish cultures in London, Berlin and Paris, c1880-1940." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494965.
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Azzara', Silvia. "Studi sulla tradizione papiracea di Filone Alessandrino." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86177.
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Lee, Reuben Y. T. "Diaspora Judeans and proselytes in early Roman Palestine : a study of ethnic, social and cultural boundaries." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=194791.
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This research explores the ethnic, social, and cultural boundaries in Judaea and the nearby non-Judaean settlements in Palestine from 40 BCE till 70 CE, showing that the boundaries there were no less complex than those in the Diaspora outside the region. A large number of scholarly works have investigated the boundaries and identities of the Diaspora Judaeans outside Palestine, paying attention to their assimilation into — and resistance against — the non-Judaean cultures and social environments. Focusing on the following groups, I argue that Diaspora Judaeans and proselytes still encountered different sorts of boundaries even if they were in or near the predominantly Judaean region: a. local Diaspora Judaeans residing in the Hellenistic cities on the coast and in the Decapolis b. Judaean pilgrims coming from the Diaspora to Judaea c. Judaean immigrants settling in Judaea from the Diaspora d. proselytes making pilgrimages to or settling in Judaea from the Diaspora Certain experiences and identities of the Diaspora Judaeans and proselytes coming from diverse geographical origins in the Mediterranean and Near East were very different from those of the Judaeans in Judaea. These Diaspora Judaeans might have been considered socially and culturally foreign to the local Judaeans when they visited or lived in Judaea. At the same time, some of them were accepted into the local Judaean circle in various levels because of their common identities, lineages, and traditions. The ethnic, social, and cultural boundaries in Palestine were complicated, as they were not only negotiated among different ethnic groups, but also among those belonging to the same ethnic group and sharing certain traditions. The presence of Diaspora Judaeans and proselytes led to certain boundaries that were unique to this region.
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Kowitz-Harms, Stephanie. "Online-Sein oder Nicht-Sein – das ist nicht die Frage. Anregungen zur Reflexion über digitale Vermittlungsangebote zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2015. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34862.
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Tomkins, Sara Elizabeth. "‘Interlocked Together’: Black-Jewish Relationality in Contemporary Jewish American Comedy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16785.
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This thesis revisits the popular cultural narrative of black-Jewish relations in the United States — an association based on relational suffering — through an examination of contemporary Jewish American humour. It considers how Jewish comedians both identify with and distance themselves from African American culture, history, and experience in order to negotiate their place in the US racial system. At times, Jewish Americans express their ethnic particularity and marginality through cross-racial identification with African Americans as racial Others. At other times, they separate themselves from blackness to strengthen their associations with dominant white culture. Focusing on the work of Jewish comedians in the US and Australia, this thesis contributes to key concerns underpinning the narrative of black-Jewish relations including the use of blackness to narrate Jewish alterity and subjectivity, the unstable relationship of Jewishness to white privilege, and the potential and limits of interracial identification. The first two chapters provide a historical framework for the development of black-Jewish relations and its articulation in Jewish American comedy. The three chapters that follow perform in-depth case studies of three prominent Jewish comedians — Larry David and Sarah Silverman from the US and John Safran from Australia — focusing on their use of African American tropes and themes to construct gendered and racialised Jewish diasporic identities. The chapters on David and Silverman highlight their critical engagement with gendered Jewish American stereotypes such as the nebbish Jewish man and the Jewish American Princess. The chapter on Safran shifts cultural and geographical perspective to look at how a Jewish Australian comedian draws on African American and Jewish American popular culture to perform a Jewish Australian identity. As such, this last chapter provides a useful way to think about transnational engagements with black-Jewish relations. The thesis examines postmodern blackface, racial satire, cringe comedy, and comic failure in the work of these comedians to investigate the productive and risky elements of racial and ethnic comedy. By analysing their performances within the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, the thesis illuminates the unique ability of comedy to engage with controversial issues of racial and ethnic difference. It also demonstrates the ways in which Jewishness continues to be an ambivalently white ethnic group in the United States.
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Melchers, Alma Louise Sophia. "Cinema plays history : National Socialism and the Holocaust in counterfactual historical films of the twenty-first century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14340.
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Inspired by 2009 pastiche Inglourious Basterds (US/DE), my research presents counterfactual historical film, firstly, as a marginalised type of film: the 2000s and 2010s have seen an abundance of overtly fictional films which do not intend to represent the past but nonetheless playfully refer to imageries of National Socialist and Holocaust history. These films have so far been neglected by historical film studies which, despite a consensus not to judge films according to their factual accuracy, tend to focus on genres close to historiography. My research considers as historical films the counterfactual parodies Churchill: The Hollywood Years (GB 2004) and Mein Führer: Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (DE 2007), as well as Inglourious Basterds and, in a brief conclusion, Nazi zombie films. In this sense, counterfactual historical film is, secondly, a research approach which suggests reconfiguring academic definitions of the field of history and film and historical film. Assuming that historical film never visualises past reality but engages with a history that is always already medialised, I propose that the above films despite their counterfactual plots embark on a visual historical discourse, and what is more reflect upon cinema and history in their own enlightening ways. My analyses show how twenty-first century counterfactual historical films revise Nazi and Holocaust visual history, and how they describe National Socialist history as visually constructed and historical Nazism as an eclectic amalgamation drawing on fictional as well as factual media sources. In regard to the present, they explore tensions between popular and academic culture through the dissolving binaries of fiction film and historiographical fact, and propose to recognise the reciprocity of media representation and actual past as an object of research in its own right. My research demonstrates the value of cinema's playful engagement with history as a potential contribution to the theory and practise of historical film studies.
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Leal, Cesar A. "RE-THINKING PARIS AT THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE: A NEW VISION OF PARISIAN MUSICAL CULTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GABRIEL ASTRUC (1854-1938)." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/30.
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Gabriel Astruc (1864-1938), a French impresario of Jewish background, is mostly known for his collaborative work as an impresario with Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. His role within Parisian musical culture at the fin de siècle, however, was much broader. He was a critic, creator of a leading periodical, producer of musical and circus events, music publisher, and associate of many important cultural figures of his day. Although Astruc has been mentioned in scholarly literature, his multifaceted activities have never been carefully studied.
Following the revisionist initiatives of previous scholars (e.g., Pasler, Huebner, Garafola, Fauser), this project offers a new understanding of Parisian cultural life between 1880 and 1913. Rather than focusing on valued composers such as Debussy or selected avant-garde repertoire, this dissertation considers the panoramic perspective of the Parisian cultural milieu as understood by a well-positioned impresario who participated in diverse, but often intersecting, music circles. It reveals rich interconnections between Astruc’s entrepreneurial, managerial, and publishing endeavors that linked private fêtes and soirées that he produced in elite homes with his ambitious concert series, La Grande Saison de Paris, 1905-1913 – organized through his firm La Sociéte Musicale – and with compositions and contents published in Musica, the magazine he co-founded in 1902. It questions Astruc’s aesthetic preferences and argues that he helped to shape Parisian culture through the promotion, publication, and programming of balanced, eclectic repertoire of new and old, national and international, and light as well as weighty works. This study also chronicles the development of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Astruc’s culminating project that was intended to embrace symphonic, operatic, and chamber performance and to experiment with new juxtapositions and integrations of the arts.
Research for this dissertation centered on a compilation and a comparative analysis of wide-ranging materials found in Astruc’s collections at the Archives Nationales and New York Public Library. Unlike earlier studies of fin-de-siècle Paris, this project utilizes previously unexamined publications, musical criticism, published literature, and manuscript material, all originating from or related to Astruc’s diverse activities and observations.
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Davidson, Lindy Reznick. "Innovative incorporation of cultural arts in Jewish education : how to enlighten the Jewish community with quality cultural arts programming /." Ann Arbor, Mi : University Microfilms, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/1427969.
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Smith, Dana. "The Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934-1938 : art and Jewish self-representation under National Socialism." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/27224.
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This thesis has two foci: the development of a National Socialist anti- Jewish cultural policy and the processes of internal Jewish community cultural self-representations. At the most basic level it is an organisational history of the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria between 1934 and 1938. Ultimately, however, the thesis is about the people: the artists, how they employed certain mediums for specific uses and how these events were received. The Kulturbund was the lone state approved Jewish cultural organisation in Nazi Germany; it was, in other words, the only public space for Jewish cultural performance and consumption. Activity began in Berlin in the summer of 1933 and expanded to cities, towns and villages throughout the country. Unlike the majority of these early branches, however, the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria developed independently of Berlin's main offices. Bavarians maintained autonomous control of their cultural league until the autumn of 1935. Organised Bavarian Jewish cultural life was 'liquidated' upon official state orders after 9 November 1938. This thesis analyses the Kulturbund programme as an internal projection of willed identity for Bavarian Jews. Kulturbund events - particularly in the early seasons when National Socialist censorship was ill-defined and haphazardly enforced - reflected the ways its membership chose to stage their own understandings of what it meant, to them, to be 'Jewish'. It was a process of dissimilation and internal community building that helped its membership navigate their experiences of political persecution and social flux. What developed in the Bavarian programme from February 1934 until November 1938 was a representation of 'Jewishness' that was self-described as both religious- and heritage-based with a regional bent.
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Fenichel, Deborah. "Exhibiting ourselves as others Jewish museums in Israel /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3199412.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4074. Adviser: Joelle Bahloul. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 10, 2006).
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Teitelbaum, Dina. "The Jewish ossuary phenomenon: Cultural receptivity in Roman Palestine." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29265.
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The discovery of Jewish ossuaries in the nineteenth century raised a host of questions, paramount among them the questions of the origin and purpose of the ossuaries. It was also realized that ossuaries were a short lived phenomenon, appearing and disappearing relatively suddenly. A number of theories were proposed: The ossuaries were thought to have to do either with transport or space-saving, protection, martyrdom, resurrection, atonement, individuation, or Roman convention. All of these theories focused on Judea as the origin of the phenomenon. However, no one theory was satisfactory in itself. The dissertation presents a fresh examination of all available evidence in the light of ancient Jewish burial customs from the First Temple period to the Hellenistic and Roman times, using the approaches of archaeology, anthropology, and socio-rhetorical analysis. It concludes that foreign influence triggered the adoption of the ossuary in Judea during the Herodian period and that Judeans adopted the Greco-Roman ash chest as a model, modifying an aniconic version for use with bones alone. A comparison of the Jewish ossuary with the Greco-Roman ash urn reveals parallels and striking similarities in terms of ritual, material culture, terminology, manufacture and time lines. In particular, the temporal distribution of ossuaries and ash chests points to a general diffusion of the concept throughout the Empire over a long period of time, with ossuaries appearing relatively late in Judea. Using the innovation-diffusion theory of Roberts, the dissertation argues that, once implanted, the idea of ossuaries, in conjunction with ossilegium, spread rapidly throughout Judea, each special interest group or individual adopting it for their own unique reasons. Ultimately it became a fashionable secondary burial instrument. The disappearance of the Judean ossuary can be explained in terms of the adoption of the subsequent fashion in the Roman Empire to bury the dead in coffins or sarcophagi. In conclusion, it has been shown in the dissertation that Jews of the Second Temple Period were attracted to, adopted, re-invented and reconfigured a foreign convention in such a way that it became consistent with their Torah laws and their beliefs.
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Herman, Dana. "Hashavat Avedah : a history of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99925.
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This thesis is an institutional history of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (JCR), an organization mandated by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) to assume trusteeship over heirless Jewish cultural property that had been plundered by the Nazis and later centralized in depots in the American Zone of Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Formally established in 1947, until 1951 JCR functioned as the cultural arm of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) and distributed hundreds of thousands of books, thousands of ceremonial objects, and Torah scrolls to Jewish communities around the world including the United States, Israel, West Germany, Britain, and Canada. Looking beyond its mandated mission, JCR was also involved in searching for caches of Jewish property in the Allied zones, microfilming manuscripts and archives in German public institutions, and negotiating the enactment of West German legislation to safeguard future discoveries of Jewish property.Salo Baron, professor of Jewish history at Columbia University, was JCR's founder and president; many of the foremost Jewish intellectuals of the day, including Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Baeck were associated with it. This study of JCR sheds light on numerous topics, not the least of which is the political activities of Jewish academics in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Further, the internecine struggles among Jewish organizations over which group best represented world Jewry as trustee of this property is highlighted along with the development of JCR from a research commission to a U.S.-recognized supervisory body. JCR's interactions with the State and War departments as well as with the American military government in Germany add to the discussion of Jewish influence during this period. The examination of JCR's activities in the American zone between 1948 and 1951 serves to underscore the diligent work that was carried out, but also the less than ideal conditions in which this work was done. The distribution process undertaken by JCR and its member organizations emphasizes the debate surrounding what it meant to culturally reconstruct the Jewish world after the Holocaust. Finally, a discussion of JCR's very limited activities, from 1952 to 1977 when it was finally dissolved, underscores the difficulties inherent in maintaining a relevant rationale and function in an ever-changing political landscape.Cette these presente l'histoire institutionnelle de la Jewish CulturalReconstruction, Inc. (JCR), une organisation mandatee par le bureau dugouvernement militaire des Etats Unis (OMGUS) pour assumer la tutelle desbiens juifs culturels sans heritier, qui ont ete pilles par les nazis et plus tardcentralises dans les depots de la zone americaine en Allemagne apres la DeuxiemeGuerre mondiale. De sa creation officielle en 1947 a 1951, la JCR a fonctionnecomme l'antenne culturelle de la Jewish Restitution Successor Organization(JRSO). Elle a distribue des centaines de milliers de livres, des milliers d'objetsrituels et des rouleaux de Torah aux communautes juives dans le monde,notamment aux Etats-Unis, en Israel, en Allemagne de l'Ouest, en Grande-Bretagne et au Canada. Outre sa mission originelle, la JCR a egalement participea la recherche des caches de biens juifs dans les zones alliees, a enregistre surmicrofilms des archives et des manuscrits appartenant aux institutions publiquesallemandes et est egalement intervenue pour encourager une legislation ouestallemandeafin de sauvegarder les decouvertes a venir des biens juifs.
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Jütte, Daniel. "Bericht über die internationale Konferenz "Zwischenräume". Jüdischchristliche Lebenswelten unter venezianischer Herrschaft im späten Mittelalterund der frühen Neuzeit / „Interstizi“. Culture ebraico-cristiane aVenezia e nei domini veneziani tra basso medioevo e prima epoca modern/ “Interstices”. Jewish Cultures in late medieval and early modern Venice and its dominions. Venedig, Deutsches Studienzentrum und Dipartimentodi Studi Storici der Universität Ca’ Foscari, 5.9.-7.9.2007." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3833/.
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