[PDF] Exotic Jewish Communities eBook

Author : Ken Blady
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0765761122

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Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.

Author : Ben Frank
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0762777478

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This book is an odyssey to discover exotic Jewish communities around the world––a road map of travel and adventure set in such locals as Russia (including Siberia), Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, and Israel.

Author : Gordon Rock
Publisher : Gordon Rock
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2020-05-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN :

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Bring the world to your table! The holidays are here and once again the family is gathering for a feast; each household bringing their own specialty dishes as a contribution to add to the table—the same tried and true dishes that your most kitchen-savvy relatives have perfected over many years. But perhaps this time something new will catch the attention of the guests? Exotic foods plucked from the culinary traditions of Jewish communities across the world could be the centerpiece of your next holiday feast! Perhaps a soup from Eastern Europe paired with a Levantine meat pie? Or a Georgian staple followed by an exotic dessert of sweetened vegetables in Moroccan fashion? This selection of traditional dishes including soups, desserts, and main courses will allow you to impress your friends and family without toiling for hours with over-complicated recipes or forcing you to buy rare and expensive ingredients. Palates will be tickled and your guests will certainly be asking for more of your colorful and exciting foods at the next holiday feast!

Author : Stephen I. Levine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739100035

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Part of a large study of diaspora Jews worldwide in comparison with those in Israel, based on Daniel Elazer's People and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of World Jewry (1989). Levine (politics, Victoria U. of Wellington) does not, therefore, offer either a history of Jews in New Zealand nor an anecdotal account of their experience, but an analysis that follows Elazer's data, approach, and arrangement so it can be compared with analogous studies of other countries. The topics are Jewish commitment, organizational structure, religion, education, culture, welfare and defense, Israel and world Jewry, constitutional documents, and future prospects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Adam L Rovner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479845817

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From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in remote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only Israel emerged from dream to reality. Israel’s successful foundation has long obscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism’s prophet, Theodor Herzl, seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle East. In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical land of Israel. It is the only book to detail the connections between these schemes, which in turn explain the trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping narrative drawn from archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion recovers the mostly forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement, and the stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed it. Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to a broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion offers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness. Visit the author's website: http://www.adamrovner.com/.

Author : Francine Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004471057

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A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.