A Lost Tribe Russian Speaking Jews In South Africa Today

Author : Boris Gorelik
Publisher : Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780799224689

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A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today by Boris Gorelik Pdf

There is a group of Jews in South Africa that has been almost overlooked by local Jewish organisations. In fact they are not even viewed as an entity, but rather as an aggregate of individuals whose number is unknown. These are the Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union- South African Jewry's 'lost tribe'. Unlike Israel, Germany or the United States, South Africa did not experience the influx of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews in the 1970s to 1990s. That is probably a reason why neither researchers nor journalists has ever considered them as a South African phenomenon. In addition, unlike those Jews from the ex-USSR in Israel, Germany or the United States, in South Africa they have not formed their own communities and do not play a prominent part in the existing ones. In fact, they usually appear to be unwilling to involve themselves with South African Jewish organisations. They keep their distance and are not as religious or Zionist as their locally-born counterparts and are generally not community oriented. To some observers they may even appear to be more Russian than Jewish. Generally speaking, ex-USSR emigres are not clearly bound to their Jewish identity. They might be Jews but do they manifest any 'Jewishness'?

Author : Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110791075

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The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States by Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin Pdf

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities (“Ukrainian,” “Moldavian,” or “Russian” Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the “transnational Russian-Jewish community”, and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well. This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019–2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).

Author : Asher Naim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058252183

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Saving the Lost Tribe by Asher Naim Pdf

This extraordinary history of the Falashas, the Black Jews of Ethiopia, is chronicled by the former Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia. Naim also recounts the rescue mission in 1991 that delivered them to the safety of Israel. 8-page full-color photo insert with b&w photos throughout.

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0297819348

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The Lost Tribes of Israel by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the land of Israel was eventually divided up between them. Following a schism which formed after the death of Solomon, ten of the tribes set up an independent northern kingdom, whilst those of Judah and Levi set up a separate southern kingdom. In 721BC the ten northern tribes were ethnically cleansed by the Assyrians and the Bible states they were placed: in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the city of Medes. The Bible also foretold that one day they would be reunited with the southern tribes in the final redemption of the people of Israel. Their subsequent history became a tapestry of legend and hearsay. The belief persisted that they had been lost in some remote part of the world and there were countless suggestions and claims as to where.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Judaism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Esther M. Morgan-Ellis,Kay Norton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197612460

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The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing by Esther M. Morgan-Ellis,Kay Norton Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing shows in abundant detail that singing with others is thriving. Using an array of interdisciplinary methods, chapter authors prioritize participation rather than performance and provide finely grained accounts of group singing in community, music therapy, religious, and music education settings. Themes associated with protest, incarceration, nation, hymnody, group bonding, identity, and inclusivity infuse the 47 chapters. Written almost wholly during the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic, the Handbook features a section dedicated to collective singing facilitated by audiovisual or communications media (mediated singing), some of it quarantine-mandated. The last of eight substantial sections is a repository of new theories about how group singing practices work. Throughout, the authors problematize the limitations inherited from the western European choral music tradition and report on workable new remedies to counter those constraints"--

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1924 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015079817071

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : MINN:30000009886296

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Matthew J. Gibney,Randall Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781576077979

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Immigration and Asylum [3 volumes] by Matthew J. Gibney,Randall Hansen Pdf

A comprehensive and timely examination of the history and current status of immigrants and refugees—their stories, the events that led to their movement, and the place of these movements in contemporary history and politics. Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the key concepts, terms, personalities, and real-world issues associated with the surge of immigration from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It focuses on the United States, but is also the first encyclopedic work on the subject that reflects a truly global perspective. With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on the subject, Immigration and Asylum offers nearly 200 entries organized around four themes: immigration and asylum; the major migrating groups around the world; expulsions and other forced population movements; and the politics of migration. In addition to basic entries, the work includes in-depth essays on important trends, events, and current conditions. There is no better resource for exploring just how profoundly the voluntary and forced movement of asylum seekers and refugees has transformed the world—and what that transformation means to us today.

Author : Richard Mendelsohn,Milton Shain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1868426483

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Jews in South Africa by Richard Mendelsohn,Milton Shain Pdf

This richly illustrated story the first comprehensive history to appear in over 50 years includes a wide range of historically important photographs, many long unseen, and encompasses a broad swathe of Jewish life, from the bimah and the boardroom to the bowling green. Beginning with the first Jewish immigrants to South Africa, and depicting the fragility of the early foundations and the shifting fortunes of this infant community, the book traces its development to robust maturity amidst turbulent social and political currents. These include the strident antisemitism of the 1930s, the moral dilemmas of the apartheid era, the subsequent turbulent transition towards a non-racial democracy, the birth of the New South Africa and the fresh challenges and promise that have followed in its wake up to the present day. The Jews in South Africa will be of great interest to every member of the Jewish community living both in South Africa and in their adoptive countries, as well as for all wishing to learn more about this highly energetic and innovative community whose contribution in many spheres of life has so greatly influenced and enriched the history of South Africa.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939438187

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The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler Pdf

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research.

Author : Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 303040370X

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American Jewish Year Book 2019 by Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin Pdf

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "National Affairs" and "Jewish Communal Affairs" and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population. Future major review chapters will include such topics as Jewish Education in America, American Jewish Philanthropy, Israel/Diaspora Relations, American Jewish Demography, American Jewish History, LGBT Issues in American Jewry, American Jews and National Elections, Orthodox Judaism in the US, Conservative Judaism in the US, Reform Judaism in the US, Jewish Involvement in the Labor Movement, Perspectives in American Jewish Sociology, Recent Trends in American Judaism, Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, American Jewish Museums, Anti-Semitism in America, and Inter-Religious Dialogue in America. Part II-V of each volume will continue the tradition of listing Jewish Federations, national Jewish organizations, Jewish periodicals, and obituaries. But to this list are added lists of Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, and Jewish honorees (both those honored through awards by Jewish organizations and by receiving honors, such as Presidential Medals of Freedom and Academy Awards, from the secular world). We expand the Year Book tradition of bringing academic research to the Jewish communal world by adding lists of academic journals, articles in academic journals on Jewish topics, Jewish websites, and books on American and Canadian Jews. Finally, we add a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015078734335

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A Current Bibliography on African Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tudor Parfitt,Netanel Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Conversion
ISBN : 1443899658

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Becoming Jewish by Tudor Parfitt,Netanel Fisher Pdf

One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.

Author : Andrew Tobolowsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514948

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The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel by Andrew Tobolowsky Pdf

This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.