מחקר זה יעסוק בהתרחשות ההיסטורית הייחודית של מחנה ההשמדה סוביבור. סוביבור הוקם במסגרת מבצע ריינהרד לחיסול יהודי הגנרלגוברנמן, נבנה בתחילת שנת 1942 על מנת לבצע את הפתרון הסופי ליהודי מחוז לובלין של הגנרלגוברנמן )כשם שבלז'ץ הוקם לטיפול ביהודי מחוזות גליציה המזרחית וקרקוב וטרבלינקה…
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Health inequalities exist in many societies and mostly reflect inequalities between social and ethnic/racial groups. This dissertation consists of three independent studies of health inequalities. Each study examines a different source of inequality and focuses on a particular h…
This dissertation traces the competing forces of antisemitism and Jewish civic activism in French colonial Algeria from the 1870 Crémieux decree to the end of World War II. The dissertation centers on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as the…
There exist some very good reasons that Jewish/Christian/Muslim interfaith dialogue avoids the topic of the military conflict in Israel/Palestine, for the contentiousness it evokes runs counter to dialogic courtesy and prevents valuable relationships from forming. However, avoid…
This document examines the musical performance practices of the Igbo Jews of Abjua, Nigeria. Amongst the 50 million Igbo, an estimated 5,000 are currently practicing Judaism. Despite prior research conducted by Daniel Lis (2015), William Miles (2013), Shai Afsai (2013), Edith Br…
Studies of the rise of the European state continue to evoke fascination and scholarly controversy. Drawing on theories of state formation, imperial administration, self-fashioning, and legal theory to approach state and personal archives in Bohemia, Moravia, Oxford and Jerusalem…
Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries members of the exilarchal dynasty—known as nesi'im—appeared in Syria, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa. Their appearance is examined from a variety of perspectives on the basis of nearly four hundred documents from the Cairo Geniza.…
Quels sont les processus mémoriels (analogues à une mémoire sélective) par lesquels une collectivité assure les assises de la transmission identitaire à travers plusieurs générations? Alors que certains sociologues définissent la société postmoderne comme résultant de la fin des…
The Red Jews are a legendary people; this is their history. From the late thirteenth to the late sixteenth century, vernacular German texts depicted the Red Jews, a conflation of the Biblical ten lost tribes of Israel and Gog and Magog, as a savage and unnaturally foul nation, w…
La presente recherche etudie le motif de l'Election chez Paul, tel qu'il est exploite en Rm 9-11, et son apport a une theologie du dialogue entre Juifs et chretiens, de maniere a articuler exegese et hermeneutique. D'une part, d'un point de vue exegetique, une lecture nouvelle d…
Intense Civil War anti-Semitism sharply altered both Gentile views of Jews and Southern Jewish self-perception. Southern Jews lost the sanctity of their name and saw their antebellum status as white insiders rapidly eroded. The memory of wartime anti-Semitism alongside Reconstru…
In the summer of 38 C.E. the Jewish community of Alexandria in Egypt was brutally persecuted. An edict issued by Flaccus, the Roman prefect, by declaring the Jews foreigners, cancelled their civic privileges, especially residence privileges, and the Alexandrian citizens, after h…
Today there are over 70,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, many of whom immigrated in two mass movements in the mid 1980's and early 1990's. Among the many cultural practices they brought with them is a spirit possession complex called zar. Zar centers around a class of invisi…
Aufbau began in 1934 as a monthly 12-page bulletin of the German-Jewish Club in New York, N.Y. As a foreign-language paper, it wanted to be a bridge between the old and the new homelands. It also adopted the purposes of the club, whose members were recent immigrants: to help its…
This dissertation considers the question of Jewish ethnic politics in Argentina under the Peronist regime from 1946–1955. Like other Latin American populists, Perón combined a corporatist conception of the state with ideals of popular democracy and social mobilization throughout…
This dissertation investigates the emergence of total exclusionary social movements and the consequent violent eruptions they precipitated. It examines the most extreme forms of violent ethnocentrism: expulsion and genocide. Its aim is to shed light on the social-psychological a…
This dissertation is a comparative study of early modern English and Spanish literature and historical documents. It focuses on representations of blackness, purity of blood and intersections of theories of purity of blood with those of rank, gender and inheritance. Scholars of …
This dissertation is an evaluation of a group of American Olim (immigrants) to Israel who are representative of American Judaism diversity, ranging from the ultra-Orthodox to the secular. Unlike the vast majority of Jews who have no intention of leaving home, these Olim went to …
What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreli…