Exotic Jewish Communities

Author : Ken Blady
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jewish diaspora
ISBN : 9780765761125

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Jewish Communities in Exotic Places by Ken Blady Pdf

Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.

Author : Schifra Strizower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Jewish diaspora
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119373772

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Exotic Jewish Communities by Schifra Strizower Pdf

Author : Ken Blady
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461629085

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Jewish Communities in Exotic Places by Ken Blady Pdf

Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.

Author : Edward S. Lowenstern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Jewish diaspora
ISBN : 0876555237

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Exotic Jewish Communities of Eurasia and Africa by Edward S. Lowenstern Pdf

Author : Joan G. Roland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351309820

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Jewish Communities of India by Joan G. Roland Pdf

Although the Bene Israel community of western India, the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay and Calcutta, and the Cochin Jews of the Malabar Coast form a tiny segment of the Indian population, their long-term residence within a vastly different culture has always made them the subject of much curiosity. India is perhaps the one country in the world where Jews have never been exposed to anti-Semitism, but in the last century they have had to struggle to maintain their identity as they encountered two competing nationalisms: Indian nationalism and Zionism. Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Joan Roland describes how identities begun under the Indian caste system changed with British colonial rule, and then how the struggle for Indian independence and the establishment of a Jewish homeland raised even further questions. She also discuses the experiences of European Jewish refugees who arrived in India after 1933 and remained there until after World War II.To describe what it meant to be a Jew in India, Roland draws on a wealth of materials such as Indian Jewish periodicals, official and private archives, and extensive interviews. Historians, Judaic studies specialist, India area scholars, postcolonialist, and sociologists will all find this book to be an engaging study. A new final chapter discusses the position of the remaining Jews in India as well as the status of Indian Jews in Israel at the end of the twentieth century.

Author : Avi Beker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Jewish diaspora
ISBN : UOM:39015038155712

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Jewish Communities of the World by Avi Beker Pdf

Author : Ben Frank
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780762777471

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Scattered Tribe by Ben Frank Pdf

This book is an odyssey to discover exotic Jewish communities around the world––a road map of travel and adventure set in such locals as Russia (including Siberia), Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel.

Author : Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814740170

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New Jews by Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer Pdf

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Author : Jordan Paper
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781554584031

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The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000–1850 by Jordan Paper Pdf

A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The merchants settled there and the community prospered. Over centuries, with government support, the Kaifeng Jews built and rebuilt their synagogue, which became perhaps the world’s largest. Some studied for the rabbinate; others prepared for civil service examinations, leading to a disproportionate number of Jewish government officials. While continuing orthodox Jewish practices they added rituals honouring their parents and the patriarchs, in keeping with Chinese custom. However, by the mid-eighteenth century—cut off from Judaism elsewhere for two centuries, their synagogue destroyed by a flood, their community impoverished and dispersed by a civil war that devastated Kaifeng—their Judaism became defunct. The Theology of the Chinese Jews traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology’s focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews. Equally relevant to contemporary Jews is that the Chinese Jews remained fully Jewish while harmonizing with the family-centred religion of China. In an illuminating postscript, Rabbi Anson Laytner underscores the point that Jewish culture can thrive in an open society, “without hostility, by absorbing the best of the dominant culture and making it one’s own.”

Author : Ellen Eisenberg,Ava Fran Kahn,William Toll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : California
ISBN : UCSD:31822036453256

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Jews of the Pacific Coast by Ellen Eisenberg,Ava Fran Kahn,William Toll Pdf

The first interpretive history of the Jews of the pacific coast

Author : Gordon Rock
Publisher : Gordon Rock
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Exotic Holiday by Gordon Rock Pdf

Bring the world to your table! The holidays are here and once again the family is gathering for a feast; each household bringing their own specialty dishes as a contribution to add to the table—the same tried and true dishes that your most kitchen-savvy relatives have perfected over many years. But perhaps this time something new will catch the attention of the guests? Exotic foods plucked from the culinary traditions of Jewish communities across the world could be the centerpiece of your next holiday feast! Perhaps a soup from Eastern Europe paired with a Levantine meat pie? Or a Georgian staple followed by an exotic dessert of sweetened vegetables in Moroccan fashion? This selection of traditional dishes including soups, desserts, and main courses will allow you to impress your friends and family without toiling for hours with over-complicated recipes or forcing you to buy rare and expensive ingredients. Palates will be tickled and your guests will certainly be asking for more of your colorful and exciting foods at the next holiday feast!

Author : Francine Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004471054

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Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Francine Friedman Pdf

A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814344200

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On Jewish Folklore by Raphael Patai Pdf

On Jewish Folklore spans a half-century of scholarly inquiry by the noted anthropologist and biblical scholar Raphael Patai. He essays collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first time in English translation, provide a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over the world and from ancient to modern times. Among the subjects Dr. Patai investigated and recorded are the history and oral traditions of the now-vanished Marrano community of Meshhed, Iran; cultural change among the so-called Jewish Indians of Mexico; beliefs and customs in connection with birth, the rainbow, and the color blue; Jewish variants of the widespread custom of earth-eating; and the remarkable parallels between the rituals connected with enthroning a new king as described in the Bible and as practiced among certain African tribes.

Author : Rivka Dorfman,Ben-Zion Dorfman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050693152

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Synagogues Without Jews by Rivka Dorfman,Ben-Zion Dorfman Pdf

Through words and more than 300 exquisite photographs, Synagogues Without Jews tells the engaging histories of over thirty Jewish communities across Europe that thrived before WWII. Beautiful full colour photographs and architectural drawings bring back the past splendor of these synagogues and once again we can see why they were the pride and joy of their congregations.

Author : Harvey E. Goldberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520918382

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Jewish Passages by Harvey E. Goldberg Pdf

American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life—however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice and collective identity, emerges as a central fact of contemporary Jewish experience in Harvey E. Goldberg's multifaceted account of how Jews celebrate and observe the cycles of life. A leading anthropologist of Jewish culture, Goldberg draws on his own experience as well as classic sources and the latest research to create a nuanced portrait of Jewish rituals and customs that balances the reality of "ordinary Jews" with the authority of tradition. Looking at classic rites of passage such as circumcision and marriage, along with emerging life-milestone practices like pilgrimage and identity-seeking tourism, Jewish Passages aptly reflects the remarkable cultural and religious diversity within Judaism. This work offers a new view of Jewish culture and history with the individual firmly situated at their center by blending anecdote and historical vignettes with rabbinic, midrashic, and anthropological insights; by exploring Sephardi and Ashkenazi traditions as well as modern ideologies; and by bringing into sharp relief the activities of women and relations with Gentile neighbors. As such, this book provides a unique window on the particulars—and the significance—of personal and communal acts of identification among Jews past, present, and future.