A Lost Tribe Russian Speaking Jews In South Africa Today
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Author |
: Boris Gorelik |
Publisher |
: Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town |
Total Pages |
: 26 |
Release |
: 2010-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780799224689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0799224685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today by : Boris Gorelik
There is a group of Jews in South Africa that has been almost overlooked by local Jewish organisations. In fact they are not even viewed as an entity, but rather as an aggregate of individuals whose number is unknown. These are the Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union- South African Jewry's 'lost tribe'. Unlike Israel, Germany or the United States, South Africa did not experience the influx of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews in the 1970s to 1990s. That is probably a reason why neither researchers nor journalists has ever considered them as a South African phenomenon. In addition, unlike those Jews from the ex-USSR in Israel, Germany or the United States, in South Africa they have not formed their own communities and do not play a prominent part in the existing ones. In fact, they usually appear to be unwilling to involve themselves with South African Jewish organisations. They keep their distance and are not as religious or Zionist as their locally-born counterparts and are generally not community oriented. To some observers they may even appear to be more Russian than Jewish. Generally speaking, ex-USSR emigres are not clearly bound to their Jewish identity. They might be Jews but do they manifest any 'Jewishness'?
Author |
: Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2023-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110791075 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110791072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States by : Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin
Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities (“Ukrainian,” “Moldavian,” or “Russian” Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the “transnational Russian-Jewish community”, and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well. This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019–2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).
Author |
: Asher Naim |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058252183 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Saving the Lost Tribe by : Asher Naim
This extraordinary history of the Falashas, the Black Jews of Ethiopia, is chronicled by the former Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia. Naim also recounts the rescue mission in 1991 that delivered them to the safety of Israel. 8-page full-color photo insert with b&w photos throughout.
Author |
: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 419 |
Release |
: 2016-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107037625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110703762X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Ifs of Jewish History by : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
Author |
: Richard Mendelsohn |
Publisher |
: Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105130570927 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jews in South Africa by : Richard Mendelsohn
Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country. This richly illustrated story -- the first comprehensive history to appear in over 50 years -- includes a wide range of historically important photographs, many long unseen, and encompasses a broad swathe of Jewish life, from the bimoh and the boardroom to the bowling green. Beginning with the first Jewish immigrants to South Africa, and depicting the fragility of the early foundations and the shifting fortunes of this infant community, the book traces its development to robust maturity amidst turbulent social and political currents. These include the strident anti-semitism of the 1930s, the moral dilemmas of the apartheid era, the subsequent turbulent transition towards a non--racial democracy, the birth of the New South Africa and the fresh challenges and promise that have followed in its wake up to the present day. Included are such personalities as Barney Barnato, Helen Suzman, Joe Slovo, Sol Kerzner and Rabbi Cyril Harris, as well as many others who have made an important mark in their fields. This book will be of great interest to every member of the Jewish community living both in South Africa and in their adoptive countries, as well as to all wishing to learn more about this highly energetic and innovative community whose contribution in many spheres of life has so greatly influenced and enriched the history of South Africa.
Author |
: Library of Congress |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1678 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435081357824 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress
Author |
: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1924 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015079817071 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015078734335 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Current Bibliography on African Affairs by :
Author |
: Andrew Tobolowsky |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2022-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009089135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009089137 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel by : Andrew Tobolowsky
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many efforts to construct an Israelite history, rather than source material for later legends, Andrew Tobolowsky brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical “Israelite” histories. In the process, he sheds new light on how the structure of the twelve tribes tradition enables the creation of so many different visions of Israel, and generates new questions: How can we explain the enduring power of the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel? How does “becoming Israel” work, why has it proven so popular, and how did it change over time? Finally, what can the changing shape of Israel itself reveal about those who claimed it?
Author |
: Nathan Ausubel |
Publisher |
: Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105037649295 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pictorial History of the Jewish People by : Nathan Ausubel
Presents events of Jewish history, Jewish ideas, and names and facts about notable Jews.