US Jews

US Jews
Author: Sergio DellaPergola
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 484
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3031663128

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Author: Uzi Rebhun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199363498

This volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry directs its searchlight on the social scientific study of Jewry. Its symposium consists of 11 essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in different complementary fields of demography, sociology, economy, and geography. Taken as a group, the essays cover the major areas of Jewish life today in Israel, the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Author: Mary Zirin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2898
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317451961

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague

The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague
Author: Sharon Flatto
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800345437

Sharon Flatto's comprehensive study offers the first systematic overview of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague and the first critical account of the life and thought of its pre-eminent rabbinic authority, Ezekiel Landau. Her detailed analysis, firmly rooted in the historical and cultural context of the period, challenges the conventional portrayal of Landau as a staunch opponent of esoteric practices and reveals the centrality of kabbalistic thought in this key central European city.

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo

A Legacy of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a Focus on Sarajevo
Author: Esther Gitman
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2024-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1036405001

In this book, Esther Gitman, a Holocaust survivor from Sarajevo, documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a focus on Sarajevo, her birthplace. The book features an examination of archival documents from Sarajevo, Zagreb, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and more. The ground-breaking work reveals the many facets of Jewish life in Yugoslavia from the time of their expulsion from Spain and Portugal in 1492. This book provides an in-depth look at the integral role the Sephardic Jews, from the Hebrew word for Spain, played in the broader development of the city. More broadly, the book provides readers with a glimpse into a community which saw seventy percent of its members annihilated during WWII.

War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945

War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
Author: Jozo Tomasevich
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 862
Release: 2002-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804779244

This is a meticulously researched history of the rule of the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia, along with the role of the other groups that collaborated with them—notably the extremist Croatian nationalist organization known as the Ustashas.