La rebelión de hijos emancipados: judeidad y diáspora en escritores exiliados judíos latinoamericanos by Leonardo Senkman

“…This article first deals with historical and cultural differences between the European and South American Jews’ emancipation process in order to comparatively show how some intellectuals, daughters and sons of South American Jewish immigrants have been the main actors on both social and citizen-like aspects, in some conflicted family situations in respect to children born from Jewish parents emancipated from the Old Continent, according to Stéphane Mosès’s definition. …”
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Mordecai Kaplan’ın Yahudi Dinî Hayatında Yaptığı Yenilikler/Mordecai Kaplan’s Innovations in Jewish Religious Life by Mahmut Salihoğlu, Şefaat Bedir

“…Many concepts of Kaplan such as synagogue center and bat mitzvah ceremony, have been accepted by the majority of American Jews. Kaplan has also pioneered many innovations within the American Jewish community that will take place towards women’s rights and gender equality, through the Restructuring movement.…”
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Irish Nationalism as an Inspiration for American Zionists in the Early Twentieth Century: As exemplified by Boston Lawyer Louis D. Brandeis’s Speeches and Writings by Armin Langer

“…At the turn of the twentieth century, in light of increasing antisemitism and assimilationism, a growing number of American Jews discovered Zionism as a tool of resistance. …”
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The black bar mitzvah by Anders Ackfeldt, Erik Magnusson

“…This article further suggests that 2. the representations of Jews featured in the lyrics cannot be made comprehensible without looking into the historical relations between American Jews and African Americans. According to Jeffrey Melnick, this relation is characterised by ‘robust ambivalences’. …”
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God and the Welfare State - Substitutes or Complements? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Belief in God's Control. by Gilad Be'ery, Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom

“…We find evidence that, largely, belief in God's control increases support for income redistribution among Israeli Jews (study 1), American Jews (study 2), and American Catholics (study 3). …”
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The Response of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to the Crisis of Soviet Jewish Émigré Dropouts (Noshrim) in the 1970s by Fred Lazin

“…This led to a joint committee of Israelis and American Jews to coordinate a response. The ‘freedom of choice’ debate ensued; should Soviet Jews resettle in Israel or have the freedom to choose where to resettle? …”
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Group status, geographic location, and the tone of media coverage: Jews and Muslims in New York Times and Guardian Headlines, 1985–2014 by Hasher Nisar, Erik Bleich

“…We find that headlines about Jews have a more positive tone than those about Muslims, and that headlines about each group situated within the newspaper’s country—such as American Jews or British Muslims—have a more positive tone than those set in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region—such as MENA Jews or MENA Muslims. …”
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Islam in a More Conservative Western World by Ali A. Mazrui

“…This is as major reason why American Jews have been among the greatest defenders of the separation of church and state, for any breach could lead to the imposition of some practices of the religious majority, such as forcing Jewish children to participate in Christian prayers at school. …”
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The Humanitarian Mission by Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Hungary (1914-1921) by Oleksandr Shevchuk, Yuliia Siekunova

“…JDC for the first time had brought together in the common task of mercy American Jews of all shades of opinion. The experience of these years had developed an organization and had recruited dedicated personnel. …”
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The chosen genes : Jews, genetics, and the future of ethnic medicine by Anthes, Emily Kennedy

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The Novel Snowman by David Albahari. A Socio-Anthropological Reading by Marija Brujić

“…While researching American Jews, Park concluded that they are “men on the margin of the two cultures” and that “marginal men personality” is a “cultural hybrid”, developed as a reaction to life in new surroundings. …”
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Reflections on Minority Cultures in China: A Photo Essay by Robert Landy

“…In further in reflecting on the journey, the author acknowledges the impact of his mentor – a refuge from mainland China in 1949 – and his own heritage as an American Jew descended from generations of East European Jews displaced by pograms and by the Holocaust.…”
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Philosophy of History in E. L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times and Its Affinities with the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes by Ph.D. candidate Hossein Torkamannejad, Asst. Prof. Zohreh Ramin

“…Since Doctorow was an American Jew who was influenced by the Jewish tradition, in this paper, Welcome to Hard Times is placed within a Jewish context and read from the perspective of this multilayered tradition. …”
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The American Jewish Experience and the Emergence of the Muslim Community in America by Jonathan D. Sarna

“…Within fifty years “at the latest,” he predicted, Jews would be “undistinguishable from the mass of humanity which surrounds them.“ Just under a century later, in 1964, Look magazine devoted a whole issue to the “Vanishing American Jew,” at the time a much-discussed subject. …”
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