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American Jews and Crime: An Annotated Bibliography - JSTOR
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Meyer Lansky is undoubtedly American Jewry's most famous organized crime figure and has received a great deal of biographical attention. Hank Messick wrote the first full-length study of Meyer Lansky. Titled simply Lansky, it details Lansky's bootlegging opera-tions during Prohibition, his decades-long alliance with Lucky
World War II and American Jewish Identity - JSTOR
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as Jews. The first, occurring in June, 1941 just prior to American entry into World War II, involved the death of a Jewish Congressman. The second, happening in September, 1945 just after the end of the war, took place at America's most famous beauty pageant. For American Jews, the contrast between these two events could not have been more ...
[PDF File] Jews, Communism, and the Jewish Communists - Central …
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Anti-Semites in Europe have often said that Jews created communism and that communism is Jewish. Already in 1879 a report written by the Prussian police contained the conclusion that “Jewry is by nature a revolutionary movement”.30 Also, Kisielewski, who was never an anti-Semite, wrote that Jews “created communism”.
[PDF File] The Holocaust in
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policy of extermination of the Jews or did nothing to stop it, archbishop Damaskinos of Greece formally pro-tested the deportation of Jews. after learning of the deportation of the Thessaloniki Jews in March 1943, Damaskinos sent a letter of protest to the Germans. This letter was composed by the famous Greek poet angelos sikilianos …
THE JEWISH GOLDEN AGE OF SPAIN REVISITED - JSTOR
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The history of the Jews in Spain has been characterised by the height of achievement and the depths of despair and hcmelessness. Broadly speaking, the golden age of Spanish Jewry can be divided into three periods. The first began in about 900 C.E. under Muslim rule, spurred by the flowering of Muslim culture.
Moses Hamon, Chief Jewish Physician to Sultan Süleymān …
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The most famous Jewish physician of that period was Jacob of Gaeta, known as hekim Ya'kilb, the private physician to Sultan Mehemmed II. 4 He was, in the words of a contemporary Greek historian 5, ,,a wise man and one with the highest attainments in his art, whether in point of theory or of practice as well as a man who had great influence with
Judaism and Orthodox Judaism - Brigham Young University
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Judaism and Orthodox Judaism. lhe term Jew, which began as a tribal name and later became a national title, today refers to many things: an ethnic group, a philosophy, a religion (Judaism), a tradition, or a way of life. Although Jews have comprised a relatively small portion of the world .population (currently a mere 14, million people), over ...
[PDF File] Jews in the Colonial and Early National Periods
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CataLog 27. Jews In The Colonial And Early National Periods Jonathan D. Sarna. American Jewish history as we know it began in 1654. In that year, twenty-three Jews - men, women and children, refugees from Recife, Brazil which Portugal had just recaptured from Holland -sailed into the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam on a vessel probably …
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JEWS THEIR RETURN …
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340 THEOPENCOURT. andprotestationsfromthecouncilsandtheCortes,whichhadlit- tleornoeffectupontheking. Moreperiloustimes,however,commencedfortheJewsof ...
Napoleon, French Jews, and the Idea of Regeneration
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reconsider the status of the Jews. In France, one of the most famous forums where their condition was reconsidered was an essay contest held in the city of Metz (in the eastern region of Lorraine) in 1785-8. 4. Comments in June 1801, cited in François Furet, Revolutionary France, 1770 -1880, trans.
[PDF File] THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON …
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the most famous Jewish Hessian, is credited with preserving Congrega tion Shearith Israel of New York's synagogue sanctuary during the period when that city was under British military control. Other Jewish Hessians settled further south: in Charleston, South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. They seem to have met with mixed receptions from the ...
[PDF File] Chapter Eighteen Judaism in Late Antiquity (ca. 250 to 565)
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Judaism was not very profound, and was managed without synagogues. Most famous of the Judaizing Berbers, according to Ibn Khaldun, was the Jarāwa tribe that lived in what is now northeastern Algeria. The tribe’s ruler was a queen usually called “Kāhina” (“Soothsayer”). For
Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
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ognized as Jews by the Ashkenazim. Additionally, this book critiques histori-ans of the Jewish experience in the United states for excluding the Sephardi-Mizrahi-Romaniote Jews from their research. This exclusion leads the author to emphasize that “the acknowledged portrait of American Jewish history and
The Medieval Holocaust: The Approach of the Plague and …
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The Jews of Germany have suffered a great deal from persecutions over the centuries. The Holocaust of the 1940s, for example, ranks among the most brutal events in recorded history, but there were many other instances of oppression in German history, many of which date from the Middle Ages. During the Medieval period, the Jews were subject to
[PDF File] Pažinkime žydų istoriją ir paveldą Lietuvoje - Semel Institute …
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built for famous Jews. Before the Hol-ocaust the community was large, but in 2011, there were only 2,012 Jews living in Vilnius. Vilna Gaon (1720–1797) was the most famous Jew in Vilnius, and is consid-ered to be one of the most famous Talmudists of all times. His grave is considered a holy place. Devout Jews leave notes with various wishes on
South African Jews and Apartheid - Macalester College
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even relatively apolitical Jews like Nadine Gordimer who did their part on Mandela’s behalf; Gordimer secretly helped edit the famous speech Mandela gave in his defense at the Rivonia trial,3 and donated all the prize money from her 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature to the Congress of South African Writers, an organization aligned with the ANC.
Jews, Soldiering, and Citizenship in Revolutionary and
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Alfred Dreyfus, who with little doubt stands as the most famous Jewish military officer in French history, has been the subject of vast quantities of scholarship.1 In contrast, the name of Dreyfus’s predecessor Anselme Nordon, who in Sep-tember 1792 became the rst Jew to serve as an ofcer in the professional French. fi fi.
[PDF File] Hitler's Final Words, His Political Testament, Personal Will, …
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to rescue Hitler would most likely not to be able to accom plish its mission. Still, Hitler held a slim hope that Gen. Walther Wenck’s 12th Army, heading toward Potsdam and Berlin, would succeed. Nevertheless, Hitler knew that he soon would have to commit suicide. Before doing so, he wished to marry his
[PDF File] Ceauşescu, Romania’s Jews, Chief Rabbi Rosen, and Me
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The synagogue, built in the late 1800s, was the historic seat of Romania’s chief rabbi. Although it was February, the synagogue, like most buildings in Bucha-rest, was unheated. Despite its ...
Hoodlum Hero: The Jewish Gangster as Defender of His
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Jews on the Lower East Side of New York accorded. spect to the notorious Max "Kid Twist" Zweibach, century gang leader and killer, because he kept. gangs—or as he said, "the wops and the micks"—from neighborhood.3. Zweibach's sometimes rival and successor, Big other gangster who kept other ethnic hoodlums neighborhood.
'Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Race': Jewish …
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tures of Jews. Jews with non-Jewish noses are often able to "pass" by which I mean being able to blend into the dominant culture and thereby being able to become invisible as Jews.1 Hollywood at least until the 1960s provides many examples of Jewish stars (I provide the names of some of the most famous
Cultural Historical Studies of Jews in Pennsylvania A Review …
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nia, many Jews were of Sephardic background and hailed from South America, the Caribbean, and the Netherlands. Added to this tiny population were Ashkenazic Jews from central Europe who came in increasing numbers through the nineteenth century. As American Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors scrutinized the inter-
Iberian Jewry between West and East: Jewish Settlement in …
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century.1 However, the migration of Spanish Jews was neither immediate nor direct. The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was perhaps the most famous exile of that era, but it was actually only one of a series of cataclysmic events that drove large numbers of Jewish refugees eastward across the Mediterranean.
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415. BOOK REVIEWS. Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuriesedited by Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2007. Pp. xxx + 930. Price $49.95 hardcover. A topic as complex as that addressed by these writers deserves a tome as massive as this book. Jewish Believers in Jesusis a formidable collection of articles ...
[PDF File] A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM - ADL
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Martin Luther, the most famous theologian of the 16th century Protestant Reformation, wrote a pamphlet in 1545 entitled The Jews and Their Lies, claiming that Jews thirsted for Christian blood and urging the slaying of the Jews. The Nazis reprinted it in 1935. Some scholars feel that these scurrilous
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