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Sopher, Joyce and Dallal, Rachelle, interview, London
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Rebecca Treitel in Laupheim - wohltaetige Juedin und Intellektuelle.
No full textAppreciation of Rebecka (Rebecca) Treitel and her charitable work in : Schwaebische Heimat, volume 57 (2006), number 1, pages 42-46.The active teacher and writer Rebecca Treitel was married to Rabbi Leopold Treitel of Karlsruhe and later Laupheim
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No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
Gammans Cemetery Chapel, Windhoek, Namibia, Exterior View
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Finding home and homeland: Jewish DP youth and Zionism in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
No full textThe Jewish Displaced Persons, although only a small number of the total refugees in post-war Europe, played a disproportionately large role on the international stage. While most literature on the subject is in agreement that the She'erit Hapletah demonstrated an abundant Zionist enthusiasm that influenced the course of diplomatic negotiations over the creation of the state of Israel, there has been considerable debate as to the source and depth of that Zionist enthusiasm. Furthermore, studies of the Jewish DP population tend to describe the group as an undifferentiated mass, although it is apparent that the Jewish DPs were a population with a distinctively youthful demographic make-up that influenced its political and cultural choices. This dissertation investigates the behavior of young Jewish DPs against this background in an effort to determine the meaning and appeal of Zionism to young DPs and the reasons for its success, from the perspective of sources created by young Jewish DPs themselves. This study suggests that Zionism was not merely an obvious conclusion to the Holocaust or an agenda imposed upon the DP population by emissaries from Palestine. One of the foremost expressions of Zionist affiliation on the part of Jewish youth, often pointed to by outside observers as evidence of Zionist enthusiasm, was the choice to live in kibbutzim affiliated with Zionist youth movements. Frequently however, the reasons for joining such kibbutz groups had little to do with any ideological inclination toward Zionism. Rather, Jewish youth joined the kibbutz groups because they were best able to fill the psychological and material needs of this crucial cohort of survivors. Over their time in Europe, the Jewish youth in the kibbutz groups deepened their Zionist enthusiasm through a process of educational and cultural work. Even without the retroactive knowledge that the state of Israel would ultimately be created, a therapeutic and functional Zionism proved highly successful in filling a positive function for DP youth by providing a secure environment for vocational and agricultural training, education, rehabilitation and a surrogate family that could ultimately restore their belief in humanity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2005.School code: 0146
Still Jewish: A history of women and intermarriage in America.
No full textThis study of intermarriage and gender, and how the meaning of both was socially constructed and depicted culturally, marks the first history of American Jewish women who intermarried during the twentieth century. It explores three main questions: What did intermarriage mean to and for women who were Jewish at the time that they married non-Jewish men? In what ways did Jewish women shed or retain their ethnic and religious heritage despite marrying "out"? And how was intermarriage portrayed?This is a multigenerational history, beginning with women who immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century, using two methodological techniques. The first technique involves collecting women's self-reports to describe the experience and meaning of intermarriage. These oral history narratives enable me to discern what intermarriage meant to and for Jewish women within their particular social milieus and how this changed across time. I augment interviews with letters, memoirs, biographies, and novels about women. I consider how contextual factors such as immigration trends, World Wars, the Depression, antisemitism, and the civil rights and feminist movements influenced intermarriage. The second technique is to integrate throughout my study an analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals and religious community-generated literature to situate women's self-representations within the larger discursive contexts.My findings suggest that the meaning and representation of gender and intermarriage changed dramatically. While the few immigrant Jewish women we know intermarried before 1929 did not explicitly renounce their Jewish identities, they joined their husbands' larger non-sectarian circles. Likewise, Jewish women in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s often merged into the dominant culture through intermarriage. Whereas their predecessors were sometimes influenced by prejudice in who they married and how the identified, the political liberalism, ecumenism, and feminism of the 1960s and 1970s enabled an increasing number of Jewish women to intermarry and, ironically, to more proactively identify as Jews. The multiculturalism combined with secularism in general American society enabled women of Jewish heritage who intermarried between 1980 and 2000 to marry men without religious faith and, paradoxically, to become considerably more Jewish.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2005.School code: 0024
Colonialism, antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish descent in Imperial Germany, 1884--1912.
No full textThis work examines the connections between Imperial Germany's antisemitic and colonial movements from 1884 to 1912. It details the involvement with and investment in colonialism by Germany's major antisemitic political parties and explores the contributions of antisemitic ideologues and politicians to the creation and maintenance of Germany's overseas colonial states. I argue that the colonial era witnessed a subtle harnessing of the colonial project to the antisemitic cause. This occurred in three ways: through the deliberate merging of representations of Jews and black Africans by German antisemites, who rhetorically conflated the two in their newspapers, magazines, and other publications; through the cooption of public discussions of black Africans involving issues of race-mixing and citizenship rights by antisemitic politicians in the Reichstag, who advanced colonizing discourses that closely approximated racial antisemitism; and through the actions of antisemitic colonial explorers and enthusiasts like Carl Peters and Frieda von Bulow, who realized in the colonies their violent fantasies of racial domination. German antisemites influenced the colonial project, and colonialism provided antisemites with examples of, and opportunities for, racial subjugation.In addition, this dissertation examines the participation in German colonialism of men of Jewish descent and their relationships with pro-colonial, antisemitic forces. It focuses on Colonial Director Paul Kayser and State Secretary Bernhard Dernburg, individuals who suffered the barbs of antisemitism because of their Jewish heritage, but, nevertheless, headed the colonial administration in Berlin from 1890 to 1896 and 1906 to 1910, respectively. Their terms in office coincided with the high points in the political influence and parliamentary representation of the antisemitic political parties; as a result, both men united with pro-colonial antisemites against anti-colonial forces on the political left and center, where, ironically, the sharpest critics of antisemitism were found. Their participation in colonialism divided the antisemitic movement, forcing some to ponder the degree to which the proper ideological orientation might counteract a person's Jewish ancestry. Although their involvement in colonialism furnished them with strong patriotic credentials, it could not shield Kayser and Dernburg from antisemitism completely, failing, therefore, to solve the problems of assimilation.This study illuminates the complex relationship between German colonialism and antisemitism during the Kaiserreich era.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2005.School code: 0190