Jewish History

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• The News That Brittany Murphy Was Jewish

  
  Kingdom of Priests — Authority: 491
  ..., in the sense of having a Jewish mother , raises an interesting question apart from the tragic moral enigma of a beautiful young actresss  sudden death . Forgive me if it seems impertinent to ask now, but just how many Jews are there in the world? The figure you always hear is about 13 million. But imagine the ...
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• Food: Chinese food and Jews

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Where do you find the best Chinese restaurants in the US? Look for the Jewish neighborhoods. There is an age-old affinity between Members of the Tribe (MOTs) and Chinese food. MOTs contemplating moves to a new neighborhood or city have a priority list: Where are the best schools, the best doctors, and the nearest ...
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• Oregon: Jewish Museum reopens

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  The Oregon Jewish Museum has moved to a new home in the northwest part of Portland. Its resources include art exhibits and much more, including the Jewish historical societys archives and library (open by appointment to researchers). Back in the 1950s, the citys Old South Waterfront was a vibrant Jewish and ...
  2 days ago

• Two New Books on Medieval European Jewry

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 421
  H-German has a review of two new books on Medieval European Jewry. The first book is Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France . The second book is David Joshua Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250 . I ...
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• The Stolen Infamous Auschwitz Camp Sign Was Found

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 145
  The Polish police said early Monday that they had found the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that was stolen Friday from the gate of Auschwitz.More than one million people, mostly Jews but also Gypsies, Poles and others, died in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease while performing forced labor at ...
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• Music: Whose Christmas is it?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Musician and author Michael Feinsteins New York Times op-ed - Whose Christmas Is It? - is an interesting read, focused on the fact that much popular Christmas music was written by Members of the Tribe. Tracing the Tribe has written on this previously; click here . Read Feinsteins piece here . He addresses a ...
  4 days ago

• New York: Unique Sephardic programs at the JCC

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  The Upper West Side Jewish Community Centers goal is to celebrate the diversity and richness of the Jewish people. The JCC has scheduled some unique programming - lectures, travel, food and music - to discover different facets of Jewish life from January-March 2010. The JCC is located at 334 Amsterdam Avenue and ...
  5 days ago

• Why Make Aliyah?

  
  Esser Agaroth — Authority: 452
  7th Candle of H anukkah 5770 For a Jew there is no better place than the State of Israel. Yoel Meltzer 30 Kisleiw/December 17, 2009 Roughly 15 years ago I made a personal decision to leave the comfortable lifestyle and familiar surroundings of America in order to settle down and build my life in Israel. ...
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• Ancestry: The UK-Wales death index

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Ancestry.co.uk posted a very low key release of an important dataset, according to our good friend Laurence Harris, "our man" in London. He reported that theres now a full name searchable death index for all deaths in England and Wales for 1916-2005. Instead of having to search for a name visually on multiple images ...
  6 days ago

• GenAmi: Paris Archives, journal articles

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  GenAmi (Paris, France) has announced information on new online access to the Paris Archives and the list of articles in its new issue. Read on for more. If your quest includes family that had lived in Paris, remember that GenAmi is an important resource. Click GenAmi for more information on the organization, its ...
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• Latkes: What do YOU put on yours?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  While latkes are often considered to be a staple of Chanukah, European Jews had never even seen potatoes - that "New World" crop - until the late 16th century. In fact, food columnist and author Matthew Goodman says latkes and other potato dishes werent popular in the Russian Empire until the mid-19th century, as ...
  1 week ago

• Jews of the Caribbean: Jamaica

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Here are some well-known Jews of Jamaica: -- Poet Daniel Lopez Laguna ( 1635-1730), a survivor of the Inquisition who converted biblical Psalms into poems. A book of these poems, Espejo Fiel de Vidas (The True Mirror of Life), was published in 1720 and was the first book to be published in Jamaica under British ...
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• Los Angeles: Sephardic programs, AJS conference, Dec. 20

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference is in Los Angeles this year. On December 20, from 2-4pm, the following panel is part of an AJS panel on "(Re)articulating the Sephardic Americas." The conference is at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. For more on the conference, click here . According to the ...
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• Israel: Persian Gulf Jewish Communities

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  A conference held by the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies (University of Haifa) now features the presentations via video online. The international colloquium, titled "The Jewish Communities of the Persian Gulf: New Themes in Their Modern History," took place May 15, 2006. Among the speakers: ...
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• A Few Solutions to the International Jewish Problem

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 125
  Over on the TOO blog, I wrote the following comment (revised a bit here) in response to a letter which was received by TOO from a Jew named Joel Stern inquiring on what we propose to do about the international Jewish problem; in the following comment I offer a few humane and common-sense solutions to the Jewish ...
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• Museum of Family History: Jews of Asia

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Tracing the Tribe is very happy to see a new exhibit at the cyber Museum of Family History - "The Jews of Asia." Many Jews - both Ashkenazim and Sephardim - lived in various Asian countries. Steve Lasky indicated that aspects of Jewish life will be presented. The first offering is "Synagogues and Memorials." ...
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• Gift ideas: A special braidel dreidel

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Do you have a dreidel collection? Many people collect these small items from around the world in varying styles. Heres a new one you wont find in most collections. It might be a great gift for someone who has such a collection or for others for whom it might have a more practical purpose. Think about it: Most Jewish ...
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• Hannukah Notes from David Shasha

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  1. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, a Hebrew word meaning “to dedicate,”is a minor Jewish festival with no Biblical source. 2. Hanukkah is a historical holiday that commemorates the Jewish defeatof the Seleucidite Syrian Greeks in 165 BCE by a priestly family called theMaccabees. These Maccabees sought to defeat ...
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• Yosef Hayyim Yerushalmi and Hanukkah

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 421
  Yosef Hayyim Yerushalmi will probably be remembered most for his book Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory . I am sure that much will be written about it in the coming months, and I cannot but echo Yaakov Lozowick’s recommendation to read it. Its publication generated much controversy and it is one of ...
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• Moshe Gil on Jewish Nationhood

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 421
  The great historian Moshe Gil wrote the following in his book A History of Palestine: 634-1099 , p. 490, over ten years ago. The question often heard today, generally from elements unfriendly to the Jews, as to whether the Jews are a nation or only a religious community, did not trouble the Jews of the ...
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