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Temple Isaiah, Columbia, MD (Box 0S 7, Folder 8)
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The story of my family & my life as I remember it.
No full textKrakauer was born and grew up in Nikolsburg, Bohemia (today Mikulov, Czech Republic). In March of 1939 he and his brother Hans started their emigration to Palestine with the help of a Zionist organization. 1942-1945 he served with the British army in Palestine, fighting in World War II in Egypt and then moving on to France before being discharged in Czechoslovakia. He continued his studies in Prague, before returning to Israel in 1949. In 1956 he settled in Canada, where he finished his medical studies and settled as cytologist in Hamilton, Ontario
West of center: Jews on the real and imagined frontiers of Texas.
No full textThis dissertation is a narrative history of Texas Jewry focusing on ways that the idea of the frontier has shaped Jewish life and religious practice in Texas. It covers the experience of Texas Jews from the late sixteenth century---when "secret Jews" fleeing the Spanish Inquisition may have settled in South Texas---to the present. It includes topics such as the appearance of the first Jews in the state, the beginnings of Jewish communities and religious institutions; the Galveston Immigration Movement; the creation of the state's first Jewish newspaper; the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the ideological clashes over Zionism and religious orthodoxy that culminated in the Houston Controversy of 1942; the impact on Texas Jews of the Holocaust, World War II, and the establishment of Israel; the conflicted feelings of Jewish Texans toward the Civil Rights Movement; and the nature of the community today.As a diasporic people living in what one Jewish historian described as "one of the last corners of the Dispersion," Texas Jews built religious communities far from the acknowledged centers of Jewish culture and history, doing so with an awareness of themselves as a peripheral community. Early chapters of this study explore the effect of the "material" frontier---the realities of space, distance and remoteness---on nineteenth-century Texas Jewish communities. Even when the material frontier disappeared, however, Texas Jews continued to imagine themselves as a peripheral people. The geographic distance that separated them from Jewish centers, formerly a critical factor in defining their communities and religious lives, became an imagined distance, an "interior" frontier composed of symbolic distinctions between Texas Jews and other groups. Later chapters examine this phenomenon and trace through the social and political developments of the twentieth century how Texas Jews continue to define themselves as a distinct people in contrast both to other Texans and other Jews.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.School code: 0227
India and the exile experience as mirrored in the writings of Jewish exiles and Indian writers.
No full textThis dissertation studies Jewish exile experience in India by analyzing fictional and autobiographical writings of exiles who fled from Nazi persecution during the Second World War and sought refuge in India. Writers such as Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Willy Haas, and Ernst Nathan Schaeffer lived in Indian exile and recorded their experiences. This study not only deals with their experiences in Indian exile, but also examines their impact on the Indian milieu through the study of Indian writings about Jewish emigration to India. Vishram Bedekar and Anita Desai constitute the group of Indian writers who are discussed in this dissertation.Due to its geopolitical situation, India occupied a unique status as country of asylum during the Second World War. As a British colony struggling for independence, government policies and attitudes towards the exiles were radically different from those in other parts of the world. The presence of refugees from Central Europe in colonial and post-colonial India marks a site of cross-cultural dialogue that is analyzed with the help of postcolonial theory and orientalism. The writings examined in this study reflect not only the legacy of British colonialism but also the challenges facing a new and free India. The dissertation's two-track approach to the study of Jewish exile experience in India creates a dual perspective by presenting the European perspective of India as well as the Indian perspective of the Europeans.This study presents discourse and counter-discourse by giving expression to the voice of the European Self and the voice of its Other, in this case India. The repetition of European history in Indian reality urges readers to confront the past. The democratic assessment of racial prejudice and chauvinism on both sides stresses the importance of a critical, decentered consciousness. This position of relativity and in-betweenness leads to an empathic universalism and a deracialization of culture, thus giving way to a new discourse that mediates between and among cultures rather than privileging one side over the other.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2003.School code: 0254
Comedy of terrors: Humor and truth in Holocaust fiction and film.
No full textThis dissertation investigates the complex relationship between humor and truth-telling in Holocaust fiction and film. My research draws parallels between the rhetoric of deception and the rhetoric of humor, and accounts for the convergence of these narrative strategies in disparate Holocaust texts. Much of the Western philosophic tradition has considered both deception and humor to be harmful, irrational, and irresponsible. However, humor and deception have frequently been represented as ethically ambiguous within Holocaust literature and cinema. A survey of the primary philosophical objections to humor and deception highlights the clash between the ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust representation. My research targets: (1) the ways lying and laughter are imagined as ethical responses within the texts, as well as (2) the ways these two aspects may complicate an ethical encounter with the Holocaust as it is apprehended by works of the imagination.Narrative expressions of humor have a particular power to destabilize our conceptions of appropriate ethical responses to extreme experience. The issues my work explores are illustrated by analyses of texts in English (Martin Amis's Time's Arrow, Alan Isler's The Prince of West End Avenue, & Leslie Epstein's King of the Jews), Hebrew (Yoram Kaniuk's Adam Resurrected & A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani), and Yiddish (Rachmil Bryks's A Cat in the Ghetto ). Recent popular films (Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful and Peter Kassovitz's Jakob the Liar) are also considered in detail. The goal of this project is to suggest if and on what grounds humor may be viewed as a rational and ethical response to the Holocaust.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003.School code: 0093
Young Leaders (Box 120, Folder 9)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 120. Folder originally titled: Young Leaders - 2003.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Kaumheimer Collection Restitution--Merano Jewish Community (Box 114, Folder 12)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: Kaumheier Collection Restitution - Trento, Italy - June 15, 2003.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
From Suwalki to St. Ignace : a history of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman and related families /
No full textThis resource is only available on-site at the Center for Jewish History. Members of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman, and related families are encouraged to contact the Center at [email protected], if they would like access to the digital version.Alex E. Friedlander;BSLW YIVOL Clean-up ProjectDescription based on print version record.Digital imag
Acculturation as it is related to attitudes toward the marriage process in Jewish Iranians.
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between acculturation and attitudes toward the marriage process among Jewish Iranians. Specifically, it was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship between degree of acculturation and attitudes toward the marriage process.The sample consisted of 126 Jewish Iranian men and women residing in the Los Angeles area. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 78 ( M = 39). The participants were obtained through nonrandom measures from various cultural organizations, colleges, and social functions.Participants filled out three questionnaires consisting of a demographic questionnaire, a modified version of the Cultural Life Style Inventory (Mendoza, 1989), and the Marriage Process Scale (Banafsheian, 2003).As expected, the results of the study revealed a significant positive relationship between cultural resistance (CR) and attitudes toward the marriage process, in that as CR increased, traditional attitudes toward the marriage process also increased. A significant negative relationship was found between cultural shift (CS) and attitudes toward the marriage process, in that as CS increased, traditional attitudes toward the marriage process decreased. No significant relationship was found between cultural incorporation (CI) and attitudes toward the marriage process.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Alliant International University, Los Angeles, 2003.School code: 1436
Manipulating the news: The United States press and the Holocaust, 1933--1945.
No full textThis work is a qualitative/quantitative study of the treatment in the US press of the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930s and the Final Solution of the 1940s. In it, 23 of America's daily newspapers are closely examined and relevant articles coded to determine various details such as their frequency, placement, tone, and potential effect. Then, the data is compared to the American policy as it regarded European Jews of the day as well their influence upon opinion leaders and public opinion of the day. Also, it compares the findings and conclusions made here with those found in Deborah Lipstadt's Beyond Belief: The American Press & the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933--1945 .During the 1930s, there was an evolution of reporting that made the US press, for the most part, able to depict the true nature of Nazi antisemitism. Even so, it was also clear that the press found many other issues of greater importance. Then, during the Final Solution, war news took precedence as very few articles were printed on the plight of European Jews outside of a very short list of American cities. Coverage did increase late in the war with the liberation of the concentration camps, but even here it was presented in an inconsistent manner. It is believed that since there was limited print space for international news in most dailies, that editors and publishers had to choose the articles that were most important to them and their readers. Various forms of antisemitism surely played a part in many of these decisions.The actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, as well as other important actors like Breckenridge Long, Wilbur Carr, William Phillips, and John J. McCloy are examined. The actions of American Jews are looked at closely in the context of public opinion and social psychology theory.Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2003.School code: 0668