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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
- Beginnings
- The Torah as History?
- Patriarchs in Space, Not in Time
The beginnings of ancient nations are always shrouded in mist. The social structures which gradually evolve into a “nation” do so in a slow, lengthy, and mainly unconscious process. The agonizing question “How did we become a nation?” usually finds its initial answer within the realm of myth; and it is the historian who needs to grapple with the di...
As long as the Torah Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses. was believed to be the living word of God, queries of this kind were unthinkable; once it began to be regarded as a human document and scrutinized with modern exegetical tools, scholars needed to seek scientific corroboration. Yet even the least historically authentic...
In the Bible, the patriarchs are located in space but not in time. The background seems to be the first half of the second millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamian sources support this assumption as they establish the existence of cultural links between Ur and Haran at the time. Both towns worshipped the same deity–the moon god, Sin. These sources also refer...
Instead, like the bulk of immigrants to America’s shores, Jews pursued opportunities wherever they found them. In so doing, simply by taking up residence in a prospective boomtown, they legitimated Judaism, winning it a place among the panoply of accepted local faiths.
- Jonathan Sarna
Aug 16, 2022 · TJE chose five documents from the book and asked Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and University Professor, to explain their significance.
Moses Mendelssohn. pioneered the Jewish Enlightenment, or Haskalah, which advocated many of the same ideas about freedom and equal rights as those that. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. and Immanuel Kant explored. Mendelssohn openly discussed the ways that Jews could live in a multi-religious society.
- Was the Torah crown ever returned or are the American's still holding onto it?http://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/5903-torah-crown It appears to still be in the collection of the Jewish Museum in NY.
- Under Holocaust in the second paragraph, it says that Jews were only excluded from certain professio...Jews have historically been banned from various professions nearly everywhere they went, whether by the government or by society (i.e. anti-semitic...
- why does there seem to be water on the floors where the cots are?That's not a room with cots, it's a place for washing the dead and the dying. The process uses much water. The floors are wet because that's where...
Nov 10, 2017 · Chapter 37 - The Jews in Early North America. Agents of Empire, Champions of Liberty. from Part III - The Jewish World, c. 1650–1815
The Jewish people, usually designated as Israel in Jewish theological and mythic discourse, stands at the center of almost all major religious expressions of Judaism through the notion of a covenant between Israel and God.
