Human Relationship With Animals Reading the Book of Tobit in the Light of Christian Tradition by Gianfranco Nicora, Alma Massaro

“…We also show that the Book of Tobit, even if it is deeply encouched in the anthropocentric view particular to Jewish culture, includes insights of non-violence toward animals as well as vegetarianism that are both fundamental and prophetic aspects of the new ethic suggested by Isaiah’s prophecies and by the good news announced in the New Testament.…”
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Women Witnesses to the Risen Lord by Andrew Simmonds

“…This seems to cast doubt on Jesus’ resurrection because in Greek, Roman, and Jewish culture, women were ineligible as witnesses or were considered vastly inferior as witnesses to men. …”
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Proza Anny Fein. Rosyjsko-izraelska odsłona humoru żydowskiego by Mirosława Michalska-Suchanek

“… Jewish humour with a rich repertoire of forms is an integral part of Jewish culture. The article summarises the typical features of Jewish humour and presents an outline of its history from its beginning at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, through the times of immigrants to Palestine, from the first Aliyah (1882–1903), until the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, to the humour of modern Israel. …”
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On Neglected Hebrew Versions of Myths of the Two Fallen Angels by Moshe Idel

“…The working hypothesis of this article assumes that these versions preserved material that entered the Ashkenazi (Germano-French) center of Jewish culture as part of a stream of traditions which also preserved other, known and unknown, versions of the myth of the fallen angels. …”
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La parabola: radici orientali ed echi occidentali di una forma narrativa by Elisabetta Lo Vecchio

“…While Christian tradition was dogmatizing it, Jewish culture preserved the parable from the theological crystallization of the Holy Scriptures, using it both in a religious and secular context. …”
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Translating Czernowitz: The “Non-Place” of East Central Europe by Leslie Morris

“…This legendary Jewish city, once a part of the Habsburg empire and now in Ukraine, is present as a textual site of memory, as the locus—even the embodiment—of the absence of Jewish culture in east Central Europe. This essay examines the literary and cultural meanings of Czernowitz, the layers of repetition and echo in the evocation of Czernowitz as place within the “non-place” of east Central Europe. …”
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THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF SPATIAL-ARCHITECTURAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TYUMEN JEWISH COMMUNITY by O. N. Naumenko, E. A. Naumenko

“…The authors compare the features of Jews’ spatial development in Tyumen with the principles of the Jewish quarters organization in the two main historical centres of Jewish culture – Jerusalem and medieval Prague, to identify common and distinctive features in this process. …”
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The Poem Which Lacks the Context. “Vilnius 1943” by Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas by Saulius Žukas

“…The semiotic study of the imagery is supplemented with contextual analysis, which differentiates three contextual fields – that of historical context (the war realities), the cultural context (ancient literature, the Bible, Jewish culture, the modern art, etc.) and the context configured by the poet himself. …”
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Jewish and Hebrew Books in Marsh’s Library: Materiality and Intercultural Engagement in Early Modern Ireland by Bradford A. Anderson, Jason McElligott

“…We suggest that these books, a majority of which come from Marsh’s personal collection, are a valuable resource for reflection on (1) Christian engagement with Jewish culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, (2) the production, use, and travel of Jewish books in early modern Europe, and (3) snapshots of Jewish life in early modern Ireland and beyond.…”
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Holocaust representation in Dutch history textbooks 1960-2010 by Marc L.F. Van Berkel

“…In most cases, the Holocaust is seen as a by-product of World War Two, an event in itself but not as the most tragic part of Jewish life and culture in Europe. The richness of Jewish culture and the difficulties in the long-lasting relation between Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands is mostly marginalized or not mentioned at all. …”
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Religious Pluralism Concept of M. Mendelssohn and Its Theoretical Foundation by L. E Kryshtop

“…The author also attempts to reveal the reasons why Mendelssohn, despite his great significance for both German philosophy and Jewish culture, was almost forgotten for a long time.…”
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Intertextuality and Its Different Facets in the Narrative Analysis of the Book of Esther and 3 Maccabees by Mariola Trojanowska

“…As such, it also strongly influenced Jewish culture, including similar texts written to cultivate Jewish traditions in the diaspora. …”
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Israel’s defence ethos: military service as a turning point by Roen Itsik

“…Jewish culture deals a lot with survival stories – most of them became myths, especially since the establishment of the state of Israel. …”
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Jewish Traces in the Inter-War Prose Writing of Assimilated Authors by Erik Gilk

“…A detailed reading of the work of all three prose writers reveals that for them Jewish culture did not represent an essential literary theme, and indeed they barely mentioned it whatsoever. …”
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„Pamiątka, Zabawka, Talizman / Souvenir, Talisman, Toy” (wystawa w Muzeum Etnograficznym w Krakowie, 2013 rok, kuratorka: Erica Lehrer) by Alina Cała

“… Pamiątka, Zabawka, Talizman / Souvenir, Talisman, Toy (an exhibition in Cracow’s Ethnographic Museum, 2013, prepared by Erica Lehrer) The article is a review of the exhibition Pamiątka, Zabawka, Talizman / Souvenir, Toy, Talisman, which opened at the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Cracow on 30 June 2013, during the Jewish Culture Festival. The exhibition was curated by Erica Lehrer. …”
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Christian Engagement with Ewe Culture in Ghana: A Dialogue by Mawuli Nyador

“…As Christianity left its comfort zone in Jerusalem, it needed to engage with different cultures and give relevance of the good news to people that were alien to the Jewish culture which was a national religious culture. …”
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AHDİ ATİK VE AHDİ CEDİD’DE SALDIRGANLIK VE ŞİDDET OLGUSUNUN SOSYOLOJİK TAHLİLİ / THE SOSCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EVENT OF AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW TESTAME... by Emine ÖZTÜRK

“…Biz bu çalışmanın dinî metinlerdeki şiddet olgusunun sınırlı bir analizini yapması bakımından din sosyolojisi ve dinler tarihi çalışmalarına katkı sağlayacağı kanısındayız.AbstractIn this research iti will be discussed that the religious arguments of the violence which is used agaianst people in general means in Jewish Culture and in societal means which is used againast to women. …”
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Imagem no judaísmo: aspectos do "aniconismo" identitário Image in judaism: aspects of indentity "aniconism" by Ivan Esperança Rocha

“…In the historiography its capacity to represent the social imaginary and to evidence the collective mentalities have been considered, enriching or filling out spaces left by the written documentation. In the Jewish culture, however, the image had a very special treatment, becoming a distinctive element of its identity. …”
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Secular Jewish Identity and Public Religious Participation within Australian Secular Multiculturalism by Jennifer Creese

“…However, public representations of Jewish culture within Australian multiculturalism frequently highlight the religious practices of Judaism as markers of Jewish cultural authenticity. …”
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Identification of the network structure of the Hebrew Bible texts based upon the notion of the otherworld and the afterlife by Igor R. Tantlevskij, Elizaveta Evmenova, Dmitry Gromov

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