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The Jesuit Order as a synagogue of Jews Jesuits of Jewish ancestry and purity-of-blood laws in the early Society of Jesus / by Maryks, Robert A.

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Jewish Russians upheavals in a Moscow synagogue / by Goluboff, Sascha L.

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Kristallnacht 1938 by Steinweis, Alan E.

Table of Contents: “…"Our path is the right one" -- "This bloody Jewish deed" -- "Now the people shall act" -- "The time for revenge has now arrived" -- "Synagogues ignited themselves" -- "A tempest in a teapot" -- "Defendants and witnesses openly hold back with the truth."…”
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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 / by Baader, Benjamin Maria

Table of Contents: “…The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism -- At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation -- Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century -- The transformation of the culture of prayer -- Bourgeois synagogue devotion -- From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations -- Modern rabbis and Jewish women -- Conclusion : Women, men and the feminization of Judaism.…”
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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 / by Baader, Benjamin Maria

Table of Contents: “…The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism -- At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation -- Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century -- The transformation of the culture of prayer -- Bourgeois synagogue devotion -- From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations -- Modern rabbis and Jewish women -- Conclusion : Women, men and the feminization of Judaism.…”
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Inscribing devotion and death archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa / by Stern, Karen B.

Table of Contents: “…Toward a cultural history of Jewish populations in Roman North Africa -- Locating Jews in a North African world -- Naming like the neighbors: Jewish onomastic practices in Roman North Africa -- Inscribing the dead to describe the living: reading Jewish identity through funerary language -- Questioning "Jewishnesss" in the North African synagogue: Hammam Lif as a case study -- North African Jewish responses to death: choosing appropriate gods, neighbors, and houses in the afterlife.…”
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Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939 : In Search of an Identity / by Mirelman, Víctor A.

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Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939 : In Search of an Identity / by Mirelman, Víctor A.

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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. …”
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