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This study examines the emergence, survival, and triumph of Hasidism—a popular Jewish mystical movement based on the teachings of R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (“The Besht”, c.1700–1760)—in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Central Poland, the territory which would come to…

This dissertation examines the role of the American Jewish community in achieving the mass exodus of Soviet Jews during the Gorbachev period, 1985–1991. It reviews the dynamics of American Jewry's decisive part during these critical years for Soviet Jewry, when over one million …

This dissertation explores the impact on the Algerian Jews of French colonialism, the French-Algerian War, and decolonization. In 1962, the year of Algeria's independence from France, almost all of the approximately 130,000 Algerian Jews left the Maghreb for France as part of a …