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Livingstone Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Livingstone, Zambia, 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
The 20th century story of Paula and Samuel Furnberg's family : from Vienna to three continents /
No full textJacob Jacobson - deutscher Jude und Archivar (1888-1968). /
No full textOff-print of an appraisal of Jacob Jacobson, published in "Archive und Gedaechtnis. Festschrift fuer Botho Brachmann", Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, 2005, pages 547-585
Honen Dalim Congregation Synagogue, Maputo, Mozambique, 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
Ohel Shem / Cemetery Chapel, Harare, Zimbabwe, 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
Jewish Cemetery Ohel, circa 1900, Buawayo, Zimbabwe, Interior 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
Kitwe Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Kitwe, Zambia, 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
Bericht ueber das Leben meines Vaters Benoit Courmont. 1911-1951
No full textThe memoir has a very formal style. It is written in a strictly chronological way, and each year received an entry. Renate Nottrott uses letters, and many other written notes and documents of her family to reconstruct her father's life. There are also family trees attached at the end. The memoir reconstructs the life in Germany during World War 2.digitizedBenoit Courmont was born on May 23, 1913, in Hamburg, Germany. A year later his family moves to France. His father Donat dies in World War 1 as a French soldier, and the family moves back to Germany. Benoit's mother marries Peter Sander, a Gentile. Benoit's girlfriend Frieda Hanke gets pregnant in 1939, but they are not allowed to marry because of the racial laws in Germany. Benoit gets the permission to be a private tutor in 1940
Spatial relationality: Urban space and ethnic relations in Jewish-Arab mixed towns, 1948--2004.
No full textThis dissertation examines how urban space, Jewish Arab sociality and local/national identities are both represented and produced in ethnically mixed cities since the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Against the background of a century-long conflict between the Jewish and Palestinian national movements, this research studies the relations between the Jewish and Palestinian "projects of nativization" and community building efforts in a politically and culturally contested urban setting. While most scholars conceptualize both Palestinian and Jewish national collective identities as separate and antagonistic projects---indeed as respectively independent ideologies of autochthony defined only by the negation and exclusion of the other---I focus instead precisely on the dialectic process of mutual determination between these communities often rendered invisible in Palestinian-Israeli studies. Within a critique of what Ulrich Beck has termed "methodological nationalism," I deconstruct this unidimensional segregation/integration paradigm in an ethnographic site that is itself considered from a nationalistic perspective to be a historical and political anomaly. Thus, the study posits mixed towns as a challenge to the hegemonic ethno-nationalist guiding principles of the Israeli state, which ultimately fails to maintain homogeneous, segregated and ethnically stable spaces. This failure, I argue, results in the parallel existence of heteronomous spaces in these cities---operating through multiple, often contradictory, logics of space, class, nation and governance. Analyzed relationally, these spaces produce a peculiar form of quotidian social relations between Arabs and Jews as well as new forms of local identities, political coalitions and hybrid cultures that challenge both Palestinian and Jewish nationalisms.Focusing on cities like Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Lydda and Ramla, I historicize the particular place they have occupied in the Israeli and Palestinian popular, political and sociological imagination. A bi-national borderland in which Arabs and Jews live together, these cities bring to the fore, on the one hand, the paradox of Palestinian citizens in a fundamentally Jewish state, while simultaneously suggesting, by the mere spatial and social realization of "mixed-ness," the potential imaginary of its solution. Through ethnographic and historical research centered in Jaffa this project investigates the contradictory process of "inter-permeation" between the two populations taking place in mixed towns. On the one hand, the accelerated gentrification process brings affluent Jews into poor mixed neighborhoods, thus provoking violent dispute and bitter frustration among lower-class Arab and some veteran Jewish inhabitants. Simultaneously, however, as many lower-class Jewish families move out of mixed towns, growing numbers of mixed-income Palestinians purchase apartments in the now cheaper and formerly "Jewish" neighborhoods. Analyzing life stories, urban "riots," planning policies and the history of community organizing, I show how Jewish and Palestinian Jaffans, implicated in economic, social and cultural relations of interdependence within the larger context of Israeli society and state, strive to define their respective collective identity and communal distinction. These latter processes as well as their ensuing complex bi-national form of sociality and spatiality, serve as a lens through which the research engages a wider set of questions in urban anthropology regarding ethnicity, citizenship, and identity-making as embedded in practices of "making place."Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2005.School code: 0330
Attached to „P2“, S.S. General M.C. Meigs.
No full textPhotocopy of diary entries between November 30, 1946, and January 18, 1947, and an explanatory letter. The entries are very brief and limited to information on port arrival and departure times. The ship sailed from San Francisco to Honolulu (Hawai), to Shanghai (China), to Hongkong (China), to Manila (Philippines), to Shanghai, and went finally back to San Francisco.Joseph Greene was a mate on the SS General MC Meigs, a large troop transport vessel that picked up a large number of European refugees from Shanghai in 1947, who were fleeing the civil war in China.General MC Meigs (ship