Synagogues Without Jews

Author : Rivka Dorfman,Ben-Zion Dorfman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Alon Confino
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300188547

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A World Without Jews by Alon Confino Pdf

This penetrating new assessment of the burning of the Hebrew Bible by the Nazis on November 9, 1938 explores how the Germans came to conceive of the idea of Germany without the Jews, which required that both Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history.

Author : Alon Confino
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300190465

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A World Without Jews by Alon Confino Pdf

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and how Germans understood their genocidal project: “Insightful [and] chilling.” —Kirkus Reviews Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves—where they came from and where they were heading—and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration—and justification—for Kristallnacht. As Germans entertained the idea of a future world without Jews, the unimaginable became imaginable, and the unthinkable became real. “At once so disturbing and so hypnotic to read . . . Deserves the widest possible audience.” —Open Letters Monthly

Author : Devorah Baum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300231342

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Feeling Jewish by Devorah Baum Pdf

In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to “negative” feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such “Jewish” feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.

Author : Yom Tov Assis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0893819409

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And I Shall Dwell Among Them by Yom Tov Assis Pdf

"Augmenting the photographs in And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World is an essay focusing on the social and cultural history of the Jews by Yom Tov Assis, a distinguished scholar of Jewish culture and history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Neil Folberg's first-person account of making the photographs accompanies each of the chapters, which are divided by geographic regions of his extensive travels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Martin Luther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732353212

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On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther Pdf

Founder of modern-day Lutheranism, Martin Luther (1483-1546) confronted many opponents, most notably, the Jews. Their religion directly denied Jesus as Messiah, and their arrogance, lies, usury, and hatred of humanity meant that they posed a mortal threat to society. Hence, said Luther, the harshest of measures are warranted. A shocking book.

Author : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Homesickness
ISBN : 9781479820511

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Beyond the Synagogue by Rachel B. Gross Pdf

Author : Barry L. Stiefel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320326

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Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730 by Barry L. Stiefel Pdf

Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.

Author : Heather A. McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507449

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Sabbath and Synagogue by Heather A. McKay Pdf

Sabbath worship as a communal event does not feature in the Hebrew Bible. In the context of the first century CE, according to Philo and Josephus, the sabbath gatherings took place only for the purpose of studying the law, and not for the liturgical recital of psalms or prayer. Classical authors depict Jews spending the sabbath at home. Jewish inscriptions provide no evidence of sabbath-worship in prayer-houses (proseuchai), while the Mishnah prescribes no special communal sabbath activities. The usual picture of Jews going on the sabbath to the synagogue to worship thus appears to be without foundation. It is even doubtful that there were synagogue buildings, for "synagogue" normally meant "community." The conclusion of this study, that there is no evidence that the sabbath was a day of communal Jewish worship before 200 CE, has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of early Jewish-Christian relationships. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Solomon Landman,Benjamin Efron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015026585599

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Story Without End by Solomon Landman,Benjamin Efron Pdf

Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190490270

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Who Rules the Synagogue? by Zev Eleff Pdf

'Who Rules the Synagogue?' explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis.

Author : Joseph I. Lieberman,David Klinghoffer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451627312

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The Gift of Rest by Joseph I. Lieberman,David Klinghoffer Pdf

Discusses the importance of observing the Jewish Sabbath as both a practical and spiritual exercise, and provides guidelines for properly incoporating the Sabbath into everyday life.

Author : Shimon Ben-Eliezer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Jerusalem
ISBN : UCAL:B3571547

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Destruction and Renewal by Shimon Ben-Eliezer Pdf

Author : Judah Leon Magnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0674212835

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Dissenter in Zion by Judah Leon Magnes Pdf

For nearly half a century, until his death in October 1948, Judah Magnes occupied a singular place in Jewish public life. He won fame early as a preacher and communal leader, but abandoned these pursuits at the height of his influence for the roles of political dissenter and moral gadfly. During World War I he became an outspoken pacifist and supporter of radical causes. Settling permanently in Palestine in 1922, he was a founder and the first president of the Hebrew University. Increasingly, he viewed rapprochement with the Arabs as the practical and moral test of Zionism, and the formation of a bi-national state of Arabs and Jews became his chief political goal. His life interests thus focused on the core issues that confronted and still confront the Jewish people: group survival in democratic America, the direction and character of the return to Zion, and thereconciliation of universal ideals with Jewish aspirations and needs. Dissenter in Zion draws upon a rich corpus of private letters, personal journals, and diaries to offer a moving account of an eloquent and sensitive person grappling with the great questions of the day and of an activist striving to translate private moral feelings into public deeds through politics and diplomacy. We see Magnes disagreeing with Brandeis over the leadership and direction of American Zionism and with Weizmann and Ben-Gurion over ways to achieve peaceful relations with the Arabs; defending himself against charges by Einstein that he was mismanaging the affairs of the Hebrew University; and persistently negotiating with Arab leaders, trying to reach a compromise on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. Dissenter in Zion also contains a biographical essay on Magnes by Arthur Goren, assessing his ideas and motives and placing him in the context of his times. It shows Magnes's profundity without covering up his weaknesses, his lifelong tactic for courting repeated defeat in favor of long-term goals that could not come to pass in his lifetime.

Author : Alan Unterman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 081087508X

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Historical Dictionary of the Jews by Alan Unterman Pdf

This ready reference tells the history of the Jewish people through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Jewish people.