... is indispensable. It will no doubt provide a framework for an understanding of Goethe and the Jews for many years to come. Goethe Haskalah Enlightenment German Jewry Shoah The long and tangled history of antisemitism in Germany has been much debated, ¹ not least by scholars who resort...

... between 1967 and 1973, the younger generation of Diaspora Jewry in the West was torn between its sympathy for the State of Israel and its identification with New Left politics and ideology. In response, Israel conducted a wide-ranging campaign of Hasbara—the Hebrew word for explaining the justice...

... the Reform movement to expand without any significant resistance on behalf of the more conservative rabbis, who remained unorganized for many years. Jewish Orthodoxy 19^th century Hungarian Jewry Jewish Reform movement Jewish religion in modern era Most scholars of Jewish Orthodoxy agree...

... Zionist discourses. Songs of Many Days draws equally on her underlying belief that ‘metre and rhyme’, including in her own poetry, are a feature of diasporic existence. Nina Davis Salaman Romantic Zionism Hebrew Poetry Anglo-Jewry Salaman’s first anthology, Songs of Exile by Hebrew...

... Aleichem, and Y.L. Peretz. Samuel’s contributions invite reconsideration of our assumptions about the means and ends of cultural transmission in a modern context. I argue that Samuel’s works merit a better reputation, and that he has earned a place as one of twentieth-century American Jewry’s cultural...

... the gender problem in Judaism and reveals that the basic arguments of Jewish religious feminism had been expressed even before feminism as a movement came to terms with its objectives. This is the first scholarly analysis of this little known essay. Women in Judaism Religious Feminism Hungarian Jewry...

... of the term Ashkenaz from the Middle Ages onward is well documented. Ashkenazic Jewry is named for the Hebrew and Yiddish designation for Germany, originally a Biblical term. Yiddish Ashkenaz Ashkenazic Jewry One of the central premises of the article is that Yiddish spoken in Eastern Europe...

...Tim Grady First World War Weimar Republic war veterans German Jewry Remembrance In his eloquent memoir of his childhood years in 1930s Berlin, Peter Gay describes the stark contradictions that marked Jewish life under National Socialist rule. While the intensification of Jewish persecution...

...This book highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history...

... and historical context. First, the chapter describes the Moravian community of the mid-seventeenth century in its historical, political, and cultural context and the relation of the takanot to the General Ordinance Regarding Moravian Jewry of 1754, the Habsburg government's replacement...

...This chapter explores the question of the assimilation of Jews in the Kingdom of Poland. What had in fact occurred to 19th-century Polish Jewry? Firstly, the idea developed that its social structure was abnormal. The demand to reform this, understood as calling for changes in economic and political...

...This chapter discusses Ashkenazic Jewry and catastrophe. When Simon Dubnow was invited to contribute to the first volume of the Yiddish-language Historishe shriftn (1929), he submitted a piece on the 18th-century Jewish catastrophe in Uman. The article, an essay accompanying two...

... with the same issues, the coverage lessens towards the end of the existence of an organized Jewry in Czechoslovakia. Collegium Carolinum Czechoslovakia German population First Czechoslovak Republic Jews Bohemia Moravia Silesia Bohemian crown organized Jewry The Collegium Carolinum is a serious...

... within east European Jewry in those turbulent times. The chapter explains how Hasidism participated in abrupt social, economic, and cultural transformations in the Polish territories. It investigates the changes in social relations and perceptions that the transformations brought about or how the new...

... been deepened by the fierce and continuing controversy over the question of ‘who is a Jew?’ The book studies the background to this and related controversies. It traces the fragmentation of Jewry in the wake of the Enlightenment, the variety of Orthodox responses to these challenges, and the resources...

... community's autonomy. It also mentions several historians who claim that the Toleranzpatent marks the beginning of the modernization of Bohemian Jewry that was characterized by political and cultural transformation. The chapter examines Joseph II's Sprachgesetz or language law in 1748 that mandated that all...

... gaze, acutely aware of its self-appointed role as the official model for Russian Jewry and as representative of the community's interests before the authorities. The chapter also describes the struggle between Wengeroff and her husband, Chonon, over Jewish observance. It explores the notions of love...

...This chapter reviews The Jews of Poznań 1815–1848: Development of a Polish Jewry under the Rule of Prussia. It shows how this book enlarges our factual knowledge and enables us to correct the errors of older publications. It also shows in what way and why Polish Jews...

... and published German, Yiddish, and Hebrew sources, the book provides a unique glimpse into the spiritual and psychological world of eighteenth-century Prague Jewry. By unravelling and exploring the many diverse threads that were woven into the fabric of Prague's eighteenth-century Jewish life, the book offers...

... Jewish life Jewish communities Jewish congregations New York American Jewry Jewish experiences integration The general trend was matched within the Jewish community. Twenty-three refugees from Brazil, unwillingly received by the governor of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1654, made the beginning. When...