Bridging Traditions Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic And Ashkenazic Jews
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| Author | : Haim Jachter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781592645749 |
As the rabbi of a Sephardic synagogue for over twenty years who is himself of Ashkenazic descent and trained in Ashkenazic yeshivot, Rabbi Haim Jachter has a unique vantage point from which to observe the differences in customs and halachot between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. In Bridging Traditions, Rabbi Jachter applies his wide-ranging expertise to explicating an encyclopedic array of divergences between Ashkenazic and Sephardic halachic practice, while also capturing the diversity within different Sephardic communities. Bridging Traditions is essential reading for Jews of all origins who are interested in understanding their own practices and appreciating those of their brethren, and in seeing the kaleidoscope of halachic observance as a multi-faceted expression of an inner divine unity.
| Author | : Heskel M. Haddad |
| Publisher | : Shengold Books |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This seminal work presents an unbiased perspective and historical overview of Ashkenazi-Sephardi relations and offers a pragmatic approach towards bridging the gap dividing the two communities in Israel today. Concise tables elucidate the scope of the disparity, and the history, culture, and mores of Sephardim worldwide are analyzed.
| Author | : Sarah Abrevaya Stein |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2003-12-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780253110794 |
On the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries, respectively. What language should Jews speak or teach their children? Should Jews acculturate, and if so, into what regional or European culture? What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? Sarah Abrevaya Stein explores how such questions were formulated and answered within these communities by examining the texts most widely consumed by Jewish readers: popular newspapers in Yiddish and Ladino. Examining the press's role as an agent of historical change, she interrogates a diverse array of verbal and visual texts, including cartoons, photographs, and advertisements. This original and lively study yields new perspectives on the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational communities; Stein's work enriches our sense of cultural life under the rule of multiethnic empires and complicates our understanding of Europe's polyphonic modernities.
| Author | : Marina Zilbergerts |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2022-04-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0253059429 |
The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence of Hebrew literature in modern times. Departing from the conventional interpretation of the origins of Hebrew literature in secular culture, Marina Zilbergerts points to the practices and metaphysics of Talmud study as its essential animating forces. Focusing on the early works and personal histories of founding figures of Hebrew literature, from Moshe Leib Lilienblum to Chaim Nachman Bialik, The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature reveals the lasting engagement of modern Jewish letters with the hallowed tradition of rabbinic learning.
| Author | : Alanna E. Cooper |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2012-12-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253006554 |
Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish. Together with her historical research about a series of dramatic encounters between Bukharan Jews and Jews in other parts of the world, this lively narrative illuminates the tensions inherent in maintaining Judaism as a single global religion over the course of its long and varied diaspora history.
| Author | : Bracha Yaniv |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2019-03-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 178962505X |
A richly illustrated and documented survey of the evolution of synagogue textiles spanning fifteen centuries, offering a detailed analysis of the design and production of mantles, wrappers, Torah scroll binders, and the Torah ark curtain and valance, including the text of inscriptions marking the circumstances of donation.
| Author | : Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780231096607 |
One of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience.
| Author | : Jits van Straten |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2011-03-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110236060 |
Where do East European Jews – about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry – descend from? This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to constitute East European Jewry. Dealing with another much debated theory, van Straten points to the fact that there is no way to identify the descendants of the Khazars in the Ashkenazi population. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author draws heavily on demographic findings which are vital to evaluate the conclusions of modern DNA research. Finally, it is suggested that East European Jews are mainly descendants of Ukrainians and Belarussians. UPDATE: The article “The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route” (Aschkenas 2017; 27(1): 239-270) is intended to clarify the origin of East European Jewry between roughly 300 BCE and 1000 CE. It is a supplement to this book.
| Author | : Rebecca Kobrin |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 770 |
| Release | : 2010-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253004284 |
The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry, it also reshaped Jews' understanding and performance of their diasporic identities. Rebecca Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland -- Bialystok -- demonstrates how the act of migration set in motion a wide range of transformations that led the migrants to imagine themselves as exiles not only from the mythic Land of Israel but most immediately from their east European homeland. Kobrin explores the organizations, institutions, newspapers, and philanthropies that the Bialystokers created around the world and that reshaped their perceptions of exile and diaspora.
| Author | : Daniela Flesler |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2020-12-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253050146 |
The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.
