Behind the gate leading nowhere: The 'Alliance' as a monument to Napoleonic genius
The gate that goes nowhere is somehow a monument to the Napoleonic genius of the man who enabled the emancipation of the Jews ...
Brandeis University8 年
Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims of ...
来自MSN1 个月
Jews must fight back to achieve independence according to Jewish values
The Jewish people’s emancipation from Egypt was the result of Divine intervention, which the Passover Haggadah attributes to merit. The Jewish nation mistakenly waited for Pharaoh to die and ...
Jewish Press23 天
Please, Be More Polite
In the 19th century, Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, responding to the challenges of Jewish emancipation in Germany, developed an ideology called “Torah im derech eretz.” He borrowed this term ...
来自MSN10 个月
Jewish holiday of Purim may have echoes in American history, says New York rabbi
The story of the Jewish holiday of Purim ... "About two weeks before publishing a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln met with ...