By the end of the twentieth century, Russian-speaking Jews solidified their reputation as emigrants and refugees - a people without a home. This was because the turn of the twenty-first century saw large waves of Jewish emigration out of the former Soviet Union. This emigration …
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Significant changes have taken place in both public and private Jewish life since the end of the 20th century, particularly in the realm of how Jews identify themselves. While the lengthy history of Jewish involvement in progressive social movements is uncontested, Jewish Studie…
Flavius Josephus was a Jewish historian who lived in the first century CE. When the First Jewish War began in 66 CE, Josephus was given a leading role in the defense of Galilee in northern Palestine. He was captured by the Roman forces and accompanied them to Jerusalem where he …
Recent histories of American Jews between 1945 and 1960 have emphasized their celebration of rising socioeconomic status, conservatism in the face of an oppressive political climate, and complacency about their Jewish identity. Only in the 1960s, these arguments suggest, did Ame…
This thesis examines different elements of Jewish identity viewed through the images rendered in a fourteenth century illuminated copy of the twelfth century's Guide of the Perplexed, commonly referred to as the Copenhagen Maimonides. The highly variable economic and social stat…
This project emerges out of the rich data derived from ethnographic interviews conducted with 20 American Jews during 2007. It is an effort to locate the compromises and conflicted understandings in which Jews articulate their own experiences, memories and identities. It is also…
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German l…