...At the start of the Occupation, both French and German agencies accepted the fundamental legitimacy of the so‐called Jewish Question (Judenfrage) and adopted anti‐Semitic policies of defamation, discrimination, and despoliation with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Perceiving Jews...

...At the start of the Occupation, Theodor Dannecker and junior SS officials built an apparatus to facilitate the deportation of Jews while superiors like Helmut Knochen accrued power. Once vested with executive authority, Adolf Eichmann, Heinz Röthke, and other SS leaders pressed for the immediate...

... of this fundamental objective. The historical context of Contempl. would be the bitter hostilities between Jews and ‘Greeks’ in the city of Alexandria. alabarch Alexander Gaius Julius Eusebius Foucault M Gaius Caligula Josephus Philo of Alexandria Pythagoras Jerusalem Temple Ἀλεξάνδρεια πρὸς...

... back to Aristobulus in the second century BCE. They are also extremely ascetic, but their interpretations may not all have been approved of by Philo. Philo was not alone in his enterprises in Alexandria, for Philo's writing indicates that there were other intellectual Jews like himself who looked...

... surrounding them. Based on evidence from both Alexandria and Heliopolis, the continuation of the old solar calendar appears to have been particularly endorsed by some of the Jews of Egypt. As refugees and emigrants from Judaea, they preserved an old pentecontad calendar. The usual feasts of Judaism were...

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... emigrant Jews Matins Anglican prayer family psalms reading other than Bible Allen Joseph emigrant Christ Jesus Church of England Providence Ring James emigrant Roman Catholics ism Wanganui ship Wilson William emigrant Owen Robert Protestants Protestantism socialism United States clergy...

...What psychological mechanism transformed the average, and presumably normal, citizens of Germany and its allies into people who would carry out or tolerate unimaginable acts of cruelty against their fellow citizens, the Jews, resulting in the death of six million of them? The question is especially...

...The Holocaust was one of the most shocking and disgraceful events of the twentieth century. It is widely estimated that the genocide led to 11 million civilian deaths, including 6 million Jews. Nazi Germany's mass executions of millions of defenseless civilians who had not been convicted of any...

...This chapter seeks to examine and analyse the history and legislative provisions to protect minorities in Iraq. It situates Iraq’s minority communities (Kurds, Kaka’i, Shabak, Yezidi, Marsh Arabs, Christian, Armenian, Assyrian, Sabean Mandaeans, Baha’i, Black Iraqi, Circassians, Jews, Roma...

... these new religious identities in Africa. The factors influencing African Jews' religious identities are discussed. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented. Falasha African Jewish identity Parfitt Tudor Sons of Dan Trevisan Semi Emanuela Asia Asians Patai Raphael and J Patai Kaplan Steven...

...This chapter argues that people in the early medieval times knew almost nothing Africa and Africans. Through geographical errors and confusion between India and Ethiopian Africa, biblical traditions about the presence of Jews in the land of the Son of Kush, the legend of Solomon and the queen...

... Portuguese navigators Sofala Christian Kingdom Prester John Ptolemy Baines Theodor Bible Havilah land of Himyar Himyarites Africa Africans Solomon Queen of Sheba mythology Bible Ten Tribes Jews Hebrews Traditions built around the biblical story of King Solomon have often been invoked...

....” The long history of blackness as a common denominator of the inferiority of Africans as well as Jews in Western culture is discussed. Havilah land of Other Otherness colonial discourse colonists McClintock Anne and Robert Young Orientalism Zantop Susan Aethiops African genesis Parfitt Tudor...

... of Israel state of Nietzsche Friedrich Arendt Hannah American Jews American writers Arthur Cohen death camps history Holocaust Jewish history Jewish theologians Jewish thinkers In 1984, Arthur Cohen wrote that both he and Richard Rubenstein were “outsiders to the Jewish establishment...

...An examination is made of some of the responses to the work of the five main Jewish thinkers/theologians, which was addressed in Chs. 6–10, and to the work of other post‐Holocaust Jewish thinkers. This is done by looking at the popular response (that of ordinary Jews), the response of young Jewish...

... in Jewish life, especially the return to texts, the renewal of ritual celebration, and the commitment to “liberal” values. The author encourages an appreciation of the realism and yet the idealism of the post‐Holocaust thinkers and points out that their goal, like that of every Jew, is to find a way...

... it offered him to realize his own goals in Palestine. In his personal dealings with the Zionists, Abdullah was never hampered by any racist prejudice. Hatred of the Jews did not burn in his heart and he stood above the fanatic anti-Jewish prejudices common among some members of his race. Abdullah Ibn Husayn...

...This chapter examines the events leading to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. It discusses King Abdullah's signing of a new treaty with Great Britain in defiance of the Arab League and his agreement with the Jews. It also analyses the communication between King Abdullah and Israeli Prime Minister David...

... communities. The more recent is a qualitative study of American Jews' understandings and experiences of anti-Semitism and how it relates to politics, particularly around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It compares some of the findings from this study with findings that emerged in earlier ethnographic...