The impact of Jewish custom on daily life cannot be overestimated. Evolving spontaneously as an ascending process, it pr
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Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chi
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Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their
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On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud readi
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German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality b
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This is the first instalment of a multi-volume edition of Poyln, the first English translation to be published. Here beg
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Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men
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