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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
The Jewish Quarterly Review
Author: The Turkoman Defeat at Cairo
Author: Solomon ben JosephPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Identity, Migration and Belonging
Author: Aaron KentPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The exploring and defining of identities and societal cultures is a tenuous task at best. With that in mind, this book explores the development of the Jewish community of Leeds, England, and investigates the sense of community developed by its members. The Jewish community of Leeds offers itself as a valuable tool in assessing identity change, both real and perceived. Their varied experiences are not the sole focus of the book, as it also explores their retention of common Judaism and what became of a rich culture when confronted by alien ideas and attitudes. The period spanning the 1880s through to World War I was an era that brought thousands of Jews to Leeds, where most settled in the area known as the Leylands. In exploring their experiences in education, work, uniformed movements, worship and during the war, this book reveals a side of Jewishness in Leeds not fully understood. It develops and extends existing histories of the Leeds Jewish community. Hosting the nation’s third largest Jewish population, the city stands out in many ways, particularly with regards to the paucity of published research on this community. The existing literature reflects divisions. Ernest Krausz, Anne Kershen, Joseph Buckman, Laura Vaughn, Rosalind O’Brien and Ernest Sterne have all approached various different elements of Leeds Jewry. There is a lack of a focused yet broad picture of this key era in which the community fully blossomed. Most of the limited work on Leeds highlights and focuses on specific areas such as tailoring, disharmony or how the community contrasted to Manchester. What is needed is an effort to bring these issues and others together to better discern Britishness and Jewishness as seen by the people of Leeds (both Jew and Gentile). In discerning the unique nature of Leeds Jewry, this book provides a greater understanding of the relationships between majority and minority communities, and the impact of external and internal pressures on their interpretation of culture, belonging and acceptance.
The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt
Author: Rebecca J. W. JeffersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788319656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as “The Cairo Genizah,” is far more convoluted and compelling than previously told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars, librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails, each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks, and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges. Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
Book Description
The Crusades
Author: State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. ConferencePublisher: Global Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781586842512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines the effects of the Crusades from a variety of perspectives.
The Biblical World
Author: William Rainey HarperPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Books for New Testament study ... [By] Clyde Weber Votaw" v. 26, p. 271-320; v. 37, p. 289-352.
Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Alexandria and Qumran: Back to the Beginning
Author: Kenneth SilverPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178491729X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This book addresses the proto-history and the roots of the Qumran community and of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of contemporary scholarship in Alexandria, Egypt.