“But Now I Consydre Thy Necesse”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Jewish Witness and the Restoration of Racial Hierarchies in the Croxton <i>Play of the Sacrament</i> by Ella Schalski

“…This paper also confronts contemporary scholarly perspectives that view the play as challenging religious boundaries, positing that such interpretations overlook the ingrained racialization and marginalization of Jewish identity during the European Middle Ages. It argues that the play’s transient disruption of power dynamics ultimately reinforces prevailing social hierarchies, thereby solidifying deep-seated anti-Jewish sentiments.…”
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Memoralization of the Holocaust in the Polish film Aftermath and in contemporary Hungary by Andrea Petö

“…While silence and forgetting meant, for many, abandoning one’s Jewish identity, among some families and groups of friends the discussion of past events was a means of establishing identity. …”
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Jewish Education in Algerian Jewish Communities—Multiple Identities in an Era of Change (1830–1939) by Yossef Charvit

“…The Jewish education in Algeria fueled loyalty to one’s Jewish identity and heritage and partially knit together the fissures that materialized in Jewish society ever more forcefully in this era of change. …”
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Israel and the Apostolic Mission: A Post-Supersessionist Reading of Ephesians and Colossians by Lionel J. Windsor

“…Furthermore, it offers alternative non-supersessionist readings of critical passages concerning circumcision, law, and Jewish identity in the two letters. The article is a distillation and summary of research in the author’s previously published book <i>Reading Ephesians and Colossians After Supersessionism: Christ’s Mission through Israel to the Nations</i>.…”
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<i>A Pathologically Abnormal Situation:</i> Le Cercle Gaston Crémieux and the [Im]Possibility of an Anti-National Jewishness by Joel Howard Swanson

“…In contrast to either an assimilationist model which demanded the acceptance of French national identity in the public sphere, or a Zionist model of Jewish nationalism, the Cercle offered a model in which the state of exile and diaspora becomes constitutive of Jewish identity, positioned as an alternate mode of being-in-the-world defined against white Christian European nationalism. …”
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Mapping Emotions, Culture and Identity through Food and Memory in Esther David’s Book of Rachel by Hitesh D Raviya

“…The research paper explores how food, consumption, and recipes in the novel recreate the Jewish identity, an essential reconnect with home through culinary memories.…”
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Force Inside Identity: Self and Other in Améry’s “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” by Deborah Achtenberg

“…In doing so, he is one of a group of Jewish thinkers, including Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, who reject Sartre’s ideas about Jewish identity and identity more generally, ideas expressed particularly in Reflections on the Jewish Question but amplified by views expressed in “Existentialism is a Humanism” and Being and Nothingness.Those in the group go out of their way to express their gratitude to Sartre for writing on “the Jewish question” after the war--Sartre who wrote because he saw no mention of the 77,000 Jews in France who were deported and murdered by the Nazis.…”
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Shylock’s Speech in The Merchant of Venice: Critical Discourse Analysis by Hamada Dawood, Nimer A. A. Abuzahra, Mohammed Farrah

“…What is found in this paper is that Shylock, the Jew, lacks power, Jewish ideology and Jewish identity, but when he tries to find these aspects, he fails to gain any of them. …”
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Qué es una madre judía según Filón Who is a Jewish mother according to Philo by Marta Alesso

“…<br>Nowadays many research works on Jewish identity in the works by Philo of Alexandria have focused on the author's definitions of himself as a Jew. …”
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Transformation of the Old Testament Female Tradition Characters Within the Lyrics of Rose Ausländer by Olha Kravchuk

“…Image of newly invented Moses' daughter might be treated as the author's attempt to construct her own Jewish identity. Analogy in between the Jewish people and persona consists in the motif choice – the crisis of seeker. …”
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DECONSTRUCTION AS A PRAYER: CINDERS AND THE “WE” OF DERRIDA’S JEWISH SELF by Shellie McCullough

“…However, progressing through the chronology of Derridan texts, one quickly begins to find that issues of Jewish identity begin surfacing throughout his works, and as the philosopher aged, he began to increasingly examine both the Holocaust and his relation to it. …”
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Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's Dream Songs by Andrew S. Gross

“…More recent critics see the figure as a misappropriation of Jewish identity. Berryman, however, did not want to pass himself off as Jewish; he invented the figure to expose the anti-Semitism of Eliot and Pound. …”
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Between History and Theology—Zerubbabel and Nehemiah as Governors of Judah from the Perspective of Literary History by Sarah Schulz

“…As the texts not only attribute aspects of royal leadership to Zerubbabel and Nehemiah as governors of Judah, but also present the holders of a Persian office as custodians of Jewish interests (temple and Torah), it will be argued that the texts contribute to the political and religious reorganization of Judaism and, thus, to the formation of a collective Jewish identity.…”
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On Becoming a Non-Jewish Holocaust Writer: Yann Martel’s <i>Beatrice and Virgil</i> by Rachel F. Brenner

“…On a collective level, the decree of Jewish annihilation constructed a Jewish identity that imposed an obligation to keep the Holocaust memory in the consciousness of the world. …”
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Reviews and Interviews / Contributors by Norman Ravvin, Sherry Simon, Krzysztof Majer, Justyna Fruzińska, Agnieszka Salska, Jadwiga Maszewska, Zbigniew Maszewski

“…As a venue for discussing Canadian Jewish identity and its links with Poland, the conference supported a dialogue between Canadians, Polish Canadianists, and European scholars from further afield. …”
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Contrasting Conceptions of <i>Teshuvah</i>: Between “Repentance” and “Atonement”—A Case Study of the Beta Israel Community (Ethiopian Jews) by Sharon Z. Shalom

“…The community maintained its Jewish identity and devotedly upheld observance of the mitzvot, even in the face of grave physical and spiritual difficulties and unrelenting attempts to persuade them to abandon their religion. …”
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Self-Assertion in the Public Sphere: The Jewish Press on the Eve of Legal Emancipation by Dieter J. Hecht

“…The paper therefore addresses questions of biography and the (Jewish) identity these portraits at once reflected and shaped.…”
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Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and Medieval European Economic History by Julie Mell

“…The émigrés form three distinct groups defined by Jewish identity and by professional identity. The first two (Guido Kisch and Toni Oelsner) identified as Jews and worked as Jewish historians. …”
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A Journey across Multidirectional Connections: Linda Grant’s The Cast Iron Shore by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

“…The different stages in the main character’s journey will be examined by drawing on theories on the construction of Jewish identity and femininity, and by applying the model of multidirectional memory fostered by various contemporary thinkers such as Michael Rothberg, Stef Craps, Max Silverman, and Bryan Cheyette. …”
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Judeo-Arabic: Cultural Symbiosis of the Jews in the Islamicate Context by Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras

“…The Judeo-Arabic, as the technical terms of the Jewish language in this period and in the subsequent eras, was one of the many venues through which people negotiated the Jewish identity in the non-Jewish environments. This negotiation was the outcome of intensive meeting between the Arabs’ culture and the Jewish-specific heritages since pre-Islamic era to the period of the medieval Islam in dialectical and contested way. …”
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