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Jews living in the South or the West and in small towns throughout the United States experienced a different America from those in the large northeastern cities. The larger the city immigrant Jews settled in, the more likely their community would resemble the Lower East Side of New York: Yiddish-speaking Jews living in large concentrations and ...
- Gerald Sorin
- A Theory Is Born
- Religious Connotations
- Prominent Jews Respond
- Implications
One of the first books to suggest the Native American Lost Tribe theory was written by a Jew, the Dutch rabbi, scholar, and diplomat Manasseh ben Israel. In The Hope of Israel (1650), Ben Israel suggested that the discovery of the Native Americans, a surviving remnant of the Assyrian exile, was a sign heralding the messianic era. Just one year late...
Some of these writers were interested in Native American history, but most of them were just interested in the Bible. Indeed, the Lost Tribe claim should be seen as part of a general 19th-century fascination with biblical history. Explorations of Holy Land flora and fauna, the geography of the Holy Land, the life of Jesus-the-man, were very much en...
Around the time of the Pittsfield tefillin Pronounced: tuh-FILL-in (short i in both fill and in), Origin: Hebrew, phylacteries. These are the small boxes containing the words of the Shema that are traditionally wrapped around one’s head and arm during morning prayers. incident, Mordecai Manuel Noah, the journalist, playwright, politician, and Jewis...
From a historical and scientific point of view, the Native American Lost Tribe claim is clearly narishkeit (Yiddish for foolishness). But even a brief exploration of it — who was making it and why, who was refuting it and why, reveals important insights about American Jewry. Popular thought about who Jews were — their place in America, with whom th...
- David Koffman
- Ashkenazim Originate In the Rhine Region. The Ashkenazi Jewish population developed in the Rhineland—a region straddling France and Germany—more than 1,000 years ago, and spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
- The Name Refers to Germanic People. Ashkenaz is the Biblical name of a grandson of Japhet, the ancestor of the Romans. Perhaps because the area had been part of the Roman Empire, the region, its language, and its (non-Jewish) inhabitants were associated with that name.
- It Is One of Two Major Jewish Cultures Today. There are many sub-cultures and ethnicities within the Jewish people, including Yemenite, Italian, Greek, and Persian Jews.
- Early Greats Include Rabbenu Gershom and Rashi. Ashkenaz emerged as a center of Jewish scholarship just as the venerable academies of Babylonia—the traditional center of Jewish learning—were crumbling.
American Jews. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Donate. The America that Jewish immigrants from Central Europe encountered [in the 19th century] when they disembarked in coastal port cities was in the throes of economic change. What had been, outside of a few port cities, a largely subsistence economy ...
- Jonathan Sarna
t. e. Jewish assimilation ( Hebrew: התבוללות, hitbolelut) refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization. [1]
The Jews of the United States date their community to these first twenty-three souls, although a few Jewish merchants and even a metallurgist had preceded them to North America, and Jews had already made their way, or soon would, to colonial settlements beyond the Atlantic seaboard, among them Curaçao, Surinam, and Jamaica.
Dec 15, 2017 · A History of Judaism , by Martin Goodman, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 656 pages. The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects from the Ashmolean Museum, by Rebecca Abrams, Ashmolean Museum, RRP£15, 232 ...
