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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
The contemporary American Jewish community is descended largely from central European Jews who immigrated in the mid-19th century and, particularly, from eastern European Jews who arrived between 1881 and 1924, as well as more recent refugees from, and survivors of, the Holocaust.
- A Theory Is Born
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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
May 5, 2015 · Most of the first Jews to cross the Atlantic traced their origins to the Iberian Peninsula, where what had once been a large and thriving Sephardic Jewish community had come to a catastrophic end with the 1492 expulsion of all Jews from Spain and the mass forced conversion of Portuguese Jews in 1497. Type. Chapter. Information.
- Pamela S. Nadell
- 2010
Since their arrival in America, Jews have faced the difficulty of maintaining a separate group identity in an open society that embraced them as equals. Nineteenth-century efforts to unify American Jews around a common liturgical rite failed.
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.
Jewish diaspora - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Origins and uses of the terms. Pre-Roman diaspora. Under the Roman Empire. Destruction of Judea. Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader era. Post-Roman period Jewish diaspora populations. Genetic studies. Zionist "negation of the Diaspora" Mystical explanation. In Christian theology.
