Director General, The Board of Deputies of British
Jews, London, England
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Kubatova and Lanicek explore discursive and visual images of the
Jew during the course of two non-democratic regimes of 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
Schedrin shows that among expert
Jews there were serious scholars such as German Barats, who wrote a history of
Jews in Kievan Rus' and Moisei Berlin and who published "an ethnographical survey of Russian
Jews." Expert
Jew Moisei Kreps prepared several articles for the Russian Jewish encyclopedia, published in St.
According to all branches of Judaism, I'm Jewish because my mother was a
Jew. I accept this criterion.
At auspicious occasions, such as weddings, it is important to invite a
Jew to attend, as
Jews ward off evil.
Jews settled in Tunisia more than 2,000 years ago, and DNA signatures carried from the Middle East are still evident in Tunisian
Jews today, the researchers found.
Sherri Muzher (SM): Before talking about the letter, "A New Spirit: A Letter from Jewish Descendents of the Countries of Islam," can you describe what being a Mizrahi
Jew has meant to you and how has it shaped your outlook throughout your life?
If you love the
Jew on the cross love the other
Jews too
Interestingly enough, Rosenzweig used the example of inter-Jewish enmity to make this point--whereby the
Jew who says Judaism is about covenant and not law demonizes the 'orthodox
Jew' who says it's about 'law and not spirituality' and the two decidedly excise the positive feature of the other from their own proclamation.
As a
Jew, Rothschild should also know that it is against our precepts to stand idly by and be killed; one is obligated to defend oneself.
This book is an account of non-Jews during the Second World War, who, at great personal risk, usually the threat of death, attempted to save the life of
Jews who would otherwise have been put to death.
All of which poses the question, what does it mean to be a
Jew? And here I would like to agree with Figes, that there are no special traits of intellect, emotion, personality, or character that are either distinctive of
Jews or native to
Jews as such.
To view the East End through the prism of anti-Semitism does not help us to understand the place of
Jews in East End life, particularly in the interwar period.