From Mesopotamia To Modernity

From Mesopotamia To Modernity
Author: Burton Visotzky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429979983

From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study, and scholars will be refreshed by the balanced, yet challenging treatments found here.These introductory essays cover most major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible and its time up to modern Judaism. The work is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism as well as Church and Synagogue adult study courses. Ideal for reading groups, this work will lead readers to further study of the varied subjects considered. Each essay covers the basic field, be it in a given era of Jewish history or in a defined area of Jewish literature. Suggestions for further reading will assist the reader in moving beyond this volume to explore a given area in further detail. The introductions range from encyclopedic detail through elegiac essay and enthusiastic appreciation of the field considered. The authors hold positions in major academic institutions throughout the United States and Israel.

About the Eu's 35 Synagogues Destroyed Rule

About the Eu's 35 Synagogues Destroyed Rule
Author: Dov Ivry
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515300441

Here is how the book begins. In the past 1,000 years Europeans murdered 9.5 million Jews. That's a pace of about 1 million per century. Very few of the murderers were brought to justice of any kind. The murders were always accompanied by robbery, extreme violence, and the destruction of synagogues. There were only a few nations around the edges in Europe where it was not open season on Jews during these 1,000 years. The worst part is that Europeans have not changed and today again are menacing the survival of the Jewish state of Israel, even though it is located in Asia, not Europe. I am not talking of any sovereign nation. None of these is in a status of enmity with Israel and several are friendly. Their representatives are responsible to an electorate and prosecuting a war against Israel is not on the agenda of any parties there. The danger comes from an abomination called the European Union where bureaucrats, answerable to no one, controlled by no one, driven by raw anti-Semitism, are doing everything they can to cause trouble for Israel, aiding and abetting Israel's enemies in any way they can at every turn. Every leading EU bureaucrat is likely to be a descendant of someone who murdered Jews along the way and they all manifest themselves in the eyes of Israelis as avatars of those murderers come alive, ghouls with blood dripping from their eyes, fangs thrusting from their mouths, and talons from their fingers. At the EU the dead have possessed the living and are controlling their actions. Not a day goes by without a new threat emanating from the EU. The latest one is that they intend to cripple our banks. The bureaucrats must have been inspired by Greece, where they succeeded in accomplishing just that. But Israel has its own currency. They can't do spit to us. If I were ever in government, and everyone can relax because that will never happen, I would pass this law. Anyone representing the EU who lands at our airport is given two choices: they can return whence they came peaceably or forcibly. They ain't coming in here ever. If they have business with the Arabs they can drive overland from Jordan, and as long they do not intend to break the law, which they do all the time now, they can be admitted. If they break the law, they are banned forever. What do we have to lose? Nothing. Every European state has diplomats here and they are quite capable of taking care of themselves without needing to be surrounded by a mob of ghouls, fiends, zombies, ogres, and vampires thirsting for Jewish blood to sate appetites inherited from their malevolent ancestors. No one ever counted the number of synagogues the Europeans destroyed or stole when rampaging against the Jews but it is a vast number. The EU bases its policies toward the State of Israel on the 35-synagogues destroyed rule. This was the way things were always done in Europe although they perhaps employed different numbers in different places. Here's how it works. If someone destroys 35 synagogues in expelling Jews by force from a given area, the Jews henceforth have no right ever to return to that area.

From Mesopotamia To Modernity

From Mesopotamia To Modernity
Author: Burton Visotzky
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780813367170

From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study, and scholars will be refreshed by the balanced, yet challenging treatments found here.These introductory essays cover most major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible and its time up to modern Judaism. The work is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism as well as Church and Synagogue adult study courses. Ideal for reading groups, this work will lead readers to further study of the varied subjects considered. Each essay covers the basic field, be it in a given era of Jewish history or in a defined area of Jewish literature. Suggestions for further reading will assist the reader in moving beyond this volume to explore a given area in further detail. The introductions range from encyclopedic detail through elegiac essay and enthusiastic appreciation of the field considered. The authors hold positions in major academic institutions throughout the United States and Israel.

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Author: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN: 9780814330326

Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.

Eric Mendelsohn's Synagogues in America

Eric Mendelsohn's Synagogues in America
Author: Ita Heinze-Greenberg
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Synagogue architecture
ISBN: 9781848222946

In America between 1946 and 1953, the German-Jewish architect Eric Mendelsohn planned seven synagogues, of which four were built, all in the Midwest. In this book, photographer Michael Palmer has recorded in exquisite detail Mendelsohn's four built synagogues in Saint Paul, Saint Louis, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids. These photographs are accompanied by an insightful contextual essay by Ita Heinze-Greenberg which reflects on Eric Mendelsohn and his Jewish identity. Mendelsohn's post-war commitment to sacred architecture was a major challenge to him, but one on which he embarked with great enthusiasm. He sought and found radically new architectural solutions for these "temples" that met functional, social, and spiritual demands. In the post-war and post-Holocaust climate, the old references had become obsolete, while the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 posed a claim for the redefinition of the Jewish diaspora in general. The duality of Jewish and American identity became more crucial than ever and the congregations were keen to express their integration into a modern America through these buildings. Hardly anyone could have been better suited for this task than Mendelsohn, as he sought to justify his decision to move from Israel and adopt the USA as his new homeland. The places he created to serve Jewish identity in America were a crowning conclusion of his career. They became the benchmark of modern American synagogue architecture, while the design of sacred space added a new dimension in Mendelsohn's work.

Stone's Paranoia

Stone's Paranoia
Author: Peter Henisch
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Stone's inability to react to this sentence subsequently splits his "good Austrian" identity in two, giving rise to a crisis that becomes both psychological and political, personal and national.".

The Ancient Synagogue

The Ancient Synagogue
Author: Lee I. Levine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300074751

Annotation The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. Drawing exhaustively on archeological evidence and on such literary sources as rabbinic material, the New Testament, Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, and Christian and pagan works, Lee Levine traces the development of the synagogue from what was essentially a communal institution to one which came to embody a distinctively religious profile. Exploring its history in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods in both Palestine and the Diaspora, he describes the synagogue's basic features: its physical remains; its role in the community; its leadership; the roles of rabbis, Patriarchs, women, and priests in its operation; its liturgy; and its art. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of a dynamic institution that succeeded in integrating patterns of social and religious behavior from the contemporary non-Jewish society while maintaining a distinctively Jewish character.