DOCSLIB.ORG

I I I !

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

c><^!^<c><><>e>e<><><><><>0<><^^ I 1 INDEX % 4 I I% i% I I I I I ! ! ! '5*3K>^00<><><><3><3><3><><><3><><^^ <^^^^^><^><^><£^><^^ Index Aascher, Abraham, 290 Aleman, Miguel, 201 Abbreviations, list of, 452 Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, Abdullah, King of Hashemite Jordan, 179, 454 405, 410 Algeria, 425, 432-34 Aberg, Einar, 62, 296 Ail-American Conference against Com- Abrahams, I., 269 munism, 84 Abrevaya, Dr., 303 Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Academic Council for Hebrew Univer- Deutschland, 321 sity, 463 Alliance Israelite Universelle, 278, 387, Acheson, Dean, 116, 117, 375 412, 418, 420, 440, 428, 429, 430, Achron, Joseph, 186 431-32, 435 Actions Committee of the Labor Zionist Alliance Israelite Universelle, American Movement in Canada, 466 Friends of, 455 Actors' Equity Association, 60 Alliance Voice—Farband Shtimme, 485 Adato, Salomon, 302 Alpha Epsilon Phi Women's Fraternity, Adenauer, Konrad, 313, 319 459 Adler, Nettie, 250 Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, 459 Adler, Robert, 186 Alpha Omega Fraternity, 459 Afghanistan, 406-07 Alpha Zeta Omega, 460 Africa, population, 197, 199 L'Amandier Fleuri, 280 Africa (see also North Africa, South Ambijan Bulletin, 335, 336 Africa) American Academy for Jewish Research, Aged, care of, 136-37, 156 Inc., 179, 454 ' Agudas Achim, 291 American Association of English-Jewish Agudas Israel World Organization, 444, Newspapers, 454 447, 448, 456 American Association for Jewish Educa- Agudath Israel of America, Inc., 87, 121, tion, 99, 109, 122, 456. 131, 456 American Association of School Ad- Agudath Israel of America, Inc. Chil- ministrators, 75 dren's Division—Pirchei Agudath American Association of University Israel, 456 Women, 81 Agudath Israel of America, Inc. Girls' American Bar Association (ABA) , 441 Division—Bnos Agudath Israel, 456 American Biblical Encyclopedia Society, Agudath Israel of America, Inc., Wo- 454 men's Division—X'Shei Agudath Is- American Birobijdan Committee (AM- rael, 456 BIJAN), 335, 455 Agudath Israel of America, Inc., Youth American Bowling Congress, 81, 82, 85 Division—Zeirei Agudath Israel, 456 American Camping Association, 60 Agudath Israel of Belgium, 286, 325, American Christian Palestine Commit- 387 tee, 119, 376 Aharonowits, Zalman, 379 American Civil Liberties Union, 26, 62- Ahmed Izzet, Mohammed, 415 63 L'Aide a Israel, 281 American Committee for Hebrew Uni- Aide aux Israelites Victimes de la versity. Weizmann Institute and Guerre. 287 Haifa Technion, 121, 131 Air Force (see Armed Forces) American Committee of Jewish Writers, Akko, 436 Artists and Scientists, Inc., 453 Akorokov, V., 335, 336 American Committee for National Sick Albany Hebrew Congregation, Albany, Fund of Israel, Inc., 463 Ga., 96 American Committee of OSE, Inc., 455 559 560 INDEX American Committee for Relief of American Jewish Physicians' Committee, Yemenite Jews, Israel, 455 463 American Committee for Weizmann In- American Jewish Outlook, 488 stitute of Science, Inc., 463 American Jewish Review, 485 American Committee of Universal Yeshi- American Jewish Times—Outlook, 487 vah of Jerusalem, 463 American Jewish World, 485 American Council on Education, 43, 75 American Jewish Year Book, 179, 485 American Council of Jewish Fraternal The American Klansman, 70 Organizations, 460 American Legion, 84 American Council for Judaism, 83, 119, American Liberty Press, 67 123, 453 American Medical Association, 38-39, American Council on Race Relations, 81 75, 77 American Memorial to Six Million Jews American Economic Committee for of Europe, Inc., 454 Palestine, Inc., 463 American Nurses Association, 38, 81 American Eretz Israel Corporation— American ORT Federation—Organiza- AMEIC, 120, 463 tion for Rehabilitation Through American Ethical Union, 79 Training, 455 American Federation of Jews from Cen- American ORT Federation, Women's tral Europe, Inc., 460 American ORT, 455 American Federation of Labor, 80, 119 American ORT Federation, Young American Federation for Lithuanian Men's and Women's ORT, 455 Jews, 460 American Palestine Corporation, 120 American Federation for Polish Jews of American Patriots, 67 the American Alliance of Jewish American Pro-Falasha Committee, Inc., Polish Societies, Inc., 460 455 American Friends of the Hebrew Uni- American Red Morgan Dovid for Israel, versity, Inc., 188, 463 Inc., 121, 463 American Fund for Israel Institutions, American Technion Society, 463 121, 463 American Veterans' Committee, 63 American Hebrew, 485 American Zionist Council, 110, 117, 118, American Hungarian Jewish Federation- 414, 463 Inc, 460 American Zionist Youth Commission, American Intelligence Agency, 67 464 American Israelite, 487 Americans for Democratic Action, 63 American Jewish Archives, 180, 488 L'Amite Judeo-Chretienne, 278 American Jewish Bibliography, 490-500 AMPAL—American Palestine Trading American Jewish Bibliography (see also Corporation, 464 literature, scholarship) Anglo-Israel Friendship Association, 247 American Jewish Committee, 75, 77, 82, Anglo-Jewish Association, 243, 250, 440 83, 84, 85, 123, 124, 179, 216, 220, Anglo-Saxon Christian Congregation, 66 361, 408, 414, 420, 440, 453, 525-37 Anniversaries, congregational (see under American Jewish Congress, 41, 63, 75, name of congregation) 84, 85, 186, 414, 453 L'Annuaire du Judaisme, 276 American Jewish Congress, Women's Ansche Chesed, Erie, Pa., 96 Division, 453 Anski Cultural Union, 289 American Jewish Historical Society, 454 Anti-Communist League, 67 American Jewish Joint Agricultural Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Corporation, 455 43, 82, 84, 85, 453 American Jewish Joint Distribution Anti-Jewish agitation, 61-70 Committee, Inc. (JDC) 125, 127-28, Anti-Semitism (see anti-Jewish agita- 209, 220, 227, 259, 275, 279, 285, 287, tion, employment, education, etc; 289, 292, 294, 307, 310, 311, 316, 320, see also individual countries outside 322, 325, 343, 346, 350, 351, 359, 360, of U.S.) 363, 369, 371, 407, 411, 417, 422, 429, Apartheid, 261, 263 432, 435, 436, 455 L'Appel Unifie, 1950, 281 American Jewish Journal, 484 Apenszlak, Jacob, obituary, 501 American Jewish Labor Council, 84, 453 Arab League, 405-06 American Jewish League Against Com- Arab Legion, 405 munism, Inc., 453 Arab refugees, 115, 116, 119, 405 INDEX 561 Arazi, Tuviah, 304 Bailey, Dorothy, 23 Arbeiter Wort, 283 Bakr, Abdullah I., 415 Arcand, Adrian, 242 Baltimore Board of Jewish Education, Arcavy, Isaac, 219 107 Archives et Musee d'Art Populaire Juif, Bamberger, Bernard J., 183 284 Banchik, Simje, 223 Argentina, 214-23 Bannet, Ivor, 250 Argentiner Beymelekh, 222 Barasch, Polia, 353, 354 A.R.I.F.—Association Pour La Recon- Barden Bill, 50 struction des Institutions et Oeuvres Barker, Dudley, 241, 242 Israelites en France, 455 Bar-Levav, Reuben, 178 Arkansas Education Association, 81 Bar Mitzvah, 103, 105-06 Armed Forces, discrimination in, 60-61 Baron, Abraham, obituary, 501 Armstrong, George W., 68 Baron De Hirsch Fund, 462 Army (see Armed Forces) Baruch, Bernard, 356 Arnold, Karl, 319 Batshaw, Harry, 233 Aronson, Arnold, article by, 29-39 Battersby, J. Larrat, 266 Artakov, A., 190 Baum, Marie, 320 Asch, Sholem, 168 Bavli, Hillel, 178 Asher, Court, 68 Bayar, C, 298 Ashkenazy, Maurice, 252, 253 Baylinson, Abraham S., obituary, 501 Asia, population, 195, 196-97, 199 Bayonne Jewish Community Council, Asociaci6n Mutual Israelita Argentina— 108 Chevra Kedisha of Buenos Aires, 214 Bedell-Smith, Walter, 329 Asociac6n Poale Sion-Zeire Sion, 219 Beigin, Menahem, 206, 212 Aspects de la France, 277 Beirut, Boleslaw, 337 Assembled Generate de la Communaute Belarsky, Sidor, 185 Juive, 303 Belgium, 273, 274, 285-87 Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, Benbaron, David, 431 243 Ben Gurion, David, 123, 124, 130, 132, Association of Orthodox Jewish Sci- 333, 342, 356, 371, 375, 376, 378, 379, entists, 45 384, 387, 389 Association of Private Office Personnel Ben-Haim, 189 Agencies, 35 Ben Isaiah, Abraham, 184 Association of Yugoslav Jews in the Ben-Tuvim, Arie, 238 United States, Inc., 460 Beraud, Henri, 278 Astruk, Herschel, 361 Berg, Albert A., 88 Atkinson, Henry A., 118 Berg Memorial House (see Moretz and Atlanta (Ga.), 73-74 Josephine Berg Memorial House of Attack, 67 Living Judaism) Aufbau, 485 Bergelson, David, 334 Australia, 196-97, 199, 251-60 Berger, Morroe, articles by, 22-29, 57-61 Australian Jewish Historical Society, Bergner, Hertz, 257 257 Berk, Fred, 186 Australian Jewish Welfare Societies, 259 Berkson, Isaac, 109 Australian Natives' Association, 257 Berl Katzenelson Institute, 124 Austria, 322-25 Berman, Adolph, 345 Automobile Club of Minneapolis, 71 Bernadotte, Folke, 296 Autonomous School of Cuba, 209, 210 Bernheimer, Charles, 97 Avenburg, Moses, 217 Bernstein, Aviasaf, 189 Avriel, Ehud, 357 Bernstein, Edgar, article by, 261-72 Avshalomov, Jacob, 188 Bernstein, Leonard, 187 Aynikeit, 334 Bernstein, Misha, 333 Ayoubi, Ali Joudat, 412 Bernstein, Philip, article by, 132-42 Bet-Am, 362 Bachad, 113, 289 Bet Hanoar, 123 Badouin, Prince, 285 Beta Sigma Rho, 460 Baeck, Leo, 244 Beth Din (London), 447 Baerwald, Paul, 279 Beth Din of America, Inc., 456 Baerwald School (see Ecold Baerwald) Beth El, Fort Worth, Tex., 96 562 INDEX Beth Israel, Hempstead, L. I., 96 Brandeis University, 47 Beth Jacob Schools, 108 Brandeis Youth Foundation, Inc., 464 Bezalel National Museum, 394 Brandon, David H., 209 Bialik. Mosad (Bialik Foundation), 177, Branover, David Stichkin, 224 389 Breuer, Jacob, 183 Bialostocki, I., 340 Brill, David, 324 Bible News Flashes, 67 Briscoe, Abraham, 249 Bible reading, 49-50 Brit Trumpeldor of America, Inc.— Bibliography (see literature,
Recommended publications
  • Culture-Sensitive Counselling, Psychotherapy and Support Groups in the Orthodox-Jewish Community: How They Work and How They Are Experienced

    Culture-Sensitive Counselling, Psychotherapy and Support Groups in the Orthodox-Jewish Community: How They Work and How They Are Experienced

    1 International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 50, 227-240. Culture-sensitive counselling, psychotherapy and support groups in the orthodox-Jewish community: How they work and how they are experienced. Kate Miriam Loewenthal and Marian Brooke Rogers Psychology Department Royal Holloway University of London Egham Surrey TW20 0EX 01784 443601 [email protected] 2 Culture-sensitive counselling, psychotherapy and support groups in the orthodox-Jewish community: How they work and how they are experienced. Abstract Background: There is political and scientific goodwill towards the provision of culture-sensitive support, but as yet little knowledge about how such support works and what are it strengths and difficulties in practice. Aims: To study groups offering culture-sensitive psychological and other support to the strictly- orthodox Jewish community in London. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with service providers, potential and actual users from the community, and professionals serving the community. Interviews asked about the aims, functioning and achievements of 10 support groups. Results: Thematic analysis identified seven important themes: admiration for the work of the groups; appreciation of the benefits of culture-sensitive services; concerns over confidentiality and stigma; concerns over finance and fundraising; concerns about professionalism; the importance of liaison with rabbinic authorities; need for better dissemination of information. Conclusions: The strengths and difficulties of providing culture-sensitive services in one community were identified. Areas for attention include vigilance regarding confidentiality, improvements in disseminating information, improvements in the reliability of funding, and attention to systematic needs assessment, and to the examination of efficacy of these forms of service provision. 3 Culture-sensitive counselling, psychotherapy and support groups in the orthodox-Jewish community: How they work and how they are experienced.
  • Anglo-Jewry's Experience of Secondary Education

    Anglo-Jewry's Experience of Secondary Education

    Anglo-Jewry’s Experience of Secondary Education from the 1830s until 1920 Emma Tanya Harris A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements For award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London London 2007 1 UMI Number: U592088 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U592088 Published by ProQuest LLC 2013. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 Abstract of Thesis This thesis examines the birth of secondary education for Jews in England, focusing on the middle classes as defined in the text. This study explores various types of secondary education that are categorised under one of two generic terms - Jewish secondary education or secondary education for Jews. The former describes institutions, offered by individual Jews, which provided a blend of religious and/or secular education. The latter focuses on non-Jewish schools which accepted Jews (and some which did not but were, nevertheless, attended by Jews). Whilst this work emphasises London and its environs, other areas of Jewish residence, both major and minor, are also investigated.
  • Die Entwicklung Der Jüdischen Gemeinschaft in Russland Nach Dem Zusammenbruch Der Sowjetunion

    Die Entwicklung Der Jüdischen Gemeinschaft in Russland Nach Dem Zusammenbruch Der Sowjetunion

    Die Entwicklung der jüdischen Gemeinschaft in Russland nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion. Eine Gemeindestudie Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bayreuth vorgelegt von Karin Leipold M.A. aus Fürth angenommen am 5. Februar 2014 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bochinger Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreiner Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Einleitung ______________________________________________________________ 4 1.1 Die jüdische Gemeinschaft in Russland als Gegenstand der Arbeit .................... 5 1.2 Forschungsstand – Das Judentum in Russland im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs ........................................................................................................................... 9 1.3 Die Arbeit im Kontext der Religionswissenschaft ................................................ 25 1.4 Aufbau der Arbeit ...................................................................................................... 27 Teil I Hintergrundinformationen 2. Soziologie der jüdischen Gemeinde ______________________________________ 29 2.1 Die Entwicklung der jüdischen Gemeinde – Ein historischer Überblick .......... 30 2.2 Die Typisierung jüdischer Gemeinschaften nach 1945 von Daniel J. Elazar .... 35 3. Geschichte des Judentums in Russland bis zum Ende der Sowjetunion – Ein Überblick __________________________________________________________ 39 3.1 Die jüdische Gemeinschaft in der Sowjetunion ....................................................
  • Nation Making in Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Initial Goals

    Nation Making in Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Initial Goals

    Nation Making in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Initial Goals and Surprising Results WILLIAM R. SIEGEL oday in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Yevreiskaya Avtonomnaya TOblast, or EAO), the nontitular, predominately Russian political leadership has embraced the specifically national aspects of their oblast’s history. In fact, the EAO is undergoing a rebirth of national consciousness and culture in the name of a titular group that has mostly disappeared. According to the 1989 Soviet cen- sus, Jews compose only 4 percent (8,887/214,085) of the EAO’s population; a figure that is decreasing as emigration continues.1 In seeking to uncover the reasons for this phenomenon, I argue that the pres- ence of economic and political incentives has motivated the political leadership of the EAO to employ cultural symbols and to construct a history in its effort to legitimize and thus preserve its designation as an autonomous subject of the Rus- sian Federation. As long as the EAO maintains its status as one of eighty-nine federation subjects, the political power of the current elites will be maintained and the region will be in a more beneficial position from which to achieve eco- nomic recovery. The founding in 1928 of the Birobidzhan Jewish National Raion (as the terri- tory was called until the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1934) was an outgrowth of Lenin’s general policy toward the non-Russian nationalities. In the aftermath of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks faced the difficult task of consolidating their power in the midst of civil war. In order to attract the support of non-Russians, Lenin oversaw the construction of a federal system designed to ease the fears of—and thus appease—non-Russians and to serve as an example of Soviet tolerance toward colonized peoples throughout the world.
  • SELECTED ARTICLES of INTEREST in RECENT VOLUMES of the AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK the American Jewish Family Today Attitudes of A

    SELECTED ARTICLES of INTEREST in RECENT VOLUMES of the AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK the American Jewish Family Today Attitudes of A

    SELECTED ARTICLES OF INTEREST IN RECENT VOLUMES OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK The American Jewish Family Today Steven Martin Cohen 82:136-154 Attitudes of American Jews Toward Israel: Eytan Gilboa 86:110-125 Trends Over Time The Bitburg Controversy Deborah E. Lipstadt 87:21-37 California Jews: Data from the Field Polls Alan M. Fisher and Curtis K. Tanaka 86:196-218 A Century of Conservative Judaism in the Abraham J. Karp 86:3-61 United States A Century of Jewish History, 1881-1981: Lucy S. Dawidowicz 82:3-98 The View from America The "Civil Judaism" of Communal Leaders Jonathan S. Woocher 81:149-169 The Demographic Consequences of U.S. Jewish U.O. Schmelz and Sergio Population Trends DellaPergola 83:141-187 The Demography of Latin American Jewry U.O. Schmelz and Sergio DellaPergola 85:51-102 Israelis in the United States: Motives, Dov Elizur 80:53-67 Attitudes, and Intentions Jewish Education Today Walter I. Ackerman 80:130-148 Jewish Survival: The Demographic Factors U.O. Schmelz 81:61-117 Jews in the United States: Perspectives Sidney Goldstein 81:3-59 from Demography The Labor Market Status of American Jews: Barry R. Chiswick 85:131-153 Patterns and Determinants Latin American Jewry Today Judith Laikin Elkin 85:3^9 541 542 / AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, 1988 Leadership and Decision-making in a Jewish Charles S. Liebman Federation: The New York Federation of 79:3-76 Jewish Philanthropies Los Angeles Jewry: A Demographic Portrait Bruce A. Phillips 86:126-195 The National Gallup Polls and American Alan M.
  • Shana Tova to the Mosaic Community

    Shana Tova to the Mosaic Community

    Kehila magazine is brought to you by KThe Moesaic communhity lmagaazine| Rosh Hashanah 2014/5775 Issue 2 Shana Tova to the Mosaic Community In this Issue The Little Shop of Koppers for Going back to school – 10Shnorrers – 61 years in 22Kindergartens – 32 A lesson in History Stamford Hill Supporting a Ukrainian Community Other days other ways 100th anniversary of 41– A 1936 bar mitzvah 18 WW1 – Still recovering Life on an urban farm – remembered the fallen 28 It’s animal time! . About our members From the editor’s desk Leslie Kopitko, 70 HEMS MOSAIC Michael Reik, 70 HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES IN Pam Henry, 70 SEPTEMBER TO: REFORM WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS: Eunice Carne, 80 Jamie Brooks, 12 Dear Reader Lee Greenfield Iris Cohen, 80 Nicholas Young, 13 Joanne Collett Marie Stillerman, 85 By the time areas of communal life. I hope that Michael Gurner, 70 HIGHLIGHTS Fred Stern, 91 you read this this is reflected in the content of this Samuel Taratooty, 85 magazine, the second edition of Kehila, which I trust MAZEL TOV TO: Lawrie Nerva, 92 Raymond Barda & Karen Graft vote for Scottish has something for everyone. If you 4 Hilda Tichauer, 94 on their recent marriage independence have any ideas for future publications Chairmen’s Reports Debbie Banks & Dan Moualed Humphrey Phillips, 94 will have been please let me know - do keep sending HWPS taken. The your articles, photos and snippets of 8 MAZEL TOV: on the birth of their son, Leo Barbara & Harry Grant on their question for information. Bar mitzvahs Rosemary & Geoff Wolfson on 40th wedding anniversary Anne & Jeremy Banks on the the Scots to The next edition of the magazine the birth of their third grandson Joan & Steve Noble on their 9 birth of their grandson consider was, will be at Chanukah.
  • Jewish Continuity •

    Jewish Continuity •

    .. .. Jc,sh Contin ui ty .!11 .. • • • .•- •"' •' • •- •~ • •- Change in Continuity Report of the Review into Jewish Continuity • . • . • •' • • • March 1996 •.., •- J J ' •' Change in Continuity Report of the Review into Jewish Continuity Chairman: Professor Leslie Wagner Secretary: Mr Perry Goodman March 1996 CONTENTS PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECO.MMENDATIONS .................... (i) PREFACE (ix) 1. BACKGROUND TO ESTABLISHING JEWISH CONTINUITY ............................................................................ JEDT Enquiry A New Chief Rabbi 2. THE FIRST TWO YEARS ................. ......... ........................ ...... .......... 3 Establishing Jewish Continuity Progress Through 1994 Jewish Continuity in 1995 Overview ofJewish Continuity's Activities 3. ISSUES AND ATTITUDES EMERGING FROM RESPONDENTS ............................................................................. 10 · Function and Role Funding Religious Complexion Governance and Decision-Making Summary 4. THE ISSUES EXAMINED .... ..... ..... .... ...................... ............ ......... ..... 20 Function and Role Funding Religious Complexion . Governance and Decision-Making 5. THE WAY FORWARD ·································································· 46 Options For Change The Process of Transition APPENDICES ························································································ 55 •- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GENERAL This Review of Jewish Continuity's function, role, funding, religious complexion and governance has been conducted to
  • IN the SOVIET FAR-EAST: HANNES MEYER’S SCHEME for the JEWISH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST of BIROBIDZHAN (1933-1934) Dr

    IN the SOVIET FAR-EAST: HANNES MEYER’S SCHEME for the JEWISH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST of BIROBIDZHAN (1933-1934) Dr

    15th INTERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY CONFERENCE PLANNING THE CAPITAL CITY OF A «COMMUNITY OF FORTUNE» IN THE SOVIET FAR-EAST: HANNES MEYER’S SCHEME FOR THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS OBLAST OF BIROBIDZHAN (1933-1934) dr. arch. AXEL FISHER Affiliation: Researcher, Faculty of Architecture – ULg (Liège) http://www.archi.ulg.ac.be Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture – ULB (Brussels) http://www.archi.ulb.ac.be Address: ave. des Cerisiers, 132/15 B-1200 Bruxelles BELGIUM e-mail: [email protected] // [email protected] ABSTRACT The creation of the first modern-era Jewish state, Birobidzhan, in early 1930s’ Soviet Union, can be considered as a curtain- raiser attempt to propose a socialist solution to the “Jewish Question” which, as a second thought, also had a part in the regime’s propagandistic maneuvers enacted to downsize the rising influence of Zionism in the country. Nevertheless, this experiment aroused a widespread enthusiasm and called for the participation of both Jews and non-Jews to this “small step in the realization of the Leninist policy on nationalities”. Among these stood Hannes Meyer (1889-1954), the Swiss-born Marxist architect and former director of Dessau’s Bauhaus (1928-1930), which – assisted by his “planning brigade” – offered its expertise to the Soviet Institute for Urban Planning (GIPROGOR) from 1930 to 1936 as chief-planner for Siberia and the Far East. Within this context, Meyer’s brigade was entrusted with the preparation of a scheme for the transformation of the small town of Tikhonkaya situated along the Trans-Siberian Railway into the new Capital of Birobidzhan.
  • A Romance with Yiddish: from Birobidzhan to New York

    A Romance with Yiddish: from Birobidzhan to New York

    the 48th and 49th parallels north lati- In 1936, as the clouds of Nazism the war, Birobidzhan might prove tude. A 1929 commission compared darkened over Europe and Jews to be “the logical Palestine of this it, topographically, to Ontario and sought sanctuary wherever they unhappy era. In this new potential Michigan. Indeed, the commission could find it, Edward E. Grusd, the haven, the Jewish people are free was headed by Franklin S. Harris, editor of B ’nai B ’rith Magazine, to develop their inherent spiritual an agronomist who had lived in Al- remarked that those Jews “who still and intellectual gifts as well as their berta, where, he said, “the climate believe in the value of prayer should industrial and agricultural aptitudes, and conditions were similar to Bi- thank God that in today’s mad world” and enjoy freedom and abundance in robidzhan.” there is a Birobidzhan, “a great land ever increasing measure.” Unlike the parched Middle East, beckoning to them, challenging Grusd and Weber were wrong, there’s no shortage of water: The their best energies and talents.” In of course. Birobidzhan never came Amur River, separating Birobidzhan such days of distress for the Jewish even close to rivaling the Zionist from Chinese Manchuria to its south, people, he concluded, Birobidzhan yishuv in Eretz Israel. Today the connects the region to the Pacific “may well turn out to be their one Jewish population of the JAR is Ocean. Other rivers include the Bira, sure haven.” about six thousand, according to the Bidzhan, Birakan, Urmi and Ikura. In 1943, in the middle of the Ho- Jewish community, which survives The Trans-Siberian Railway links locaust, the Polish-born American as a living footnote to history and the region with Russia, East Asia, Jewish artist Max Weber, a protege another far-flung outpost of the Jew- and the Pacific.
  • The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR in the Documents of He

    The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR in the Documents of He

    Accepted, unedited articles published online and citable. The final edited and typeset version of record will appear in future SCRIPTA JUDAICA CRACOVIENSIA Vol. 17 (2019) pp. 105–120 doi:10.4467/20843925SJ.19.010.12233 www.ejournals.eu/Scripta-Judaica-Cracoviensia The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR in the Documents of the British Foreign Office (1952–1958) Artur Patek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6435-142X (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) e-mail: [email protected] Keywords: Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Birobijan, Foreign Office, Jews in the USSR Abstract: The Jewish Autonomous Oblast known as Birobijan in the USSR attracted the interest of the British diplomacy. This is reflected in the correspondence between British missions in the USSR and Israel and the Foreign Office. This analysis covers five documents from 1952–1958 kept in the National Archives in London. The documents pertain to two matters: (1) a discussion about the cur- rent status of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (whether rumours of its disappearance were true) and (2) reflections on the actual character of the oblast (to what extent it was Jewish and autonomous). The significance of these documents can be analysed on several levels – from the viewpoint of Birobijan’s history, the nature of British-Soviet relations, and the operating methods of diplomatic services. Reading the documents leads to several questions: why was Great Britain interested in the oblast? How was it perceived in the West? How did the VIEWForeign Office obtain information about it? The propagandist image of Birobijan as the proletariat homeland of Jews in the USSR captured the imagination of journalists and politicians, as well as ordinary people.
  • A World in Flux: Jewish Journalism Struggles to Survive / Shalom Hartman Institute / 2018

    A World in Flux: Jewish Journalism Struggles to Survive / Shalom Hartman Institute / 2018

    A WORLD IN FLUX JEWISH JOURNALISM Around the World JEWISH JOURNALISM STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE Jewish media outside North America reflect the countries and communities in which they work. With few exceptions, they face existential struggles. They wish for and need more resources, influence, and contact with Israel and North America. ALAN D. ABBEY MAX MOSER Shalom Hartman Institute Jerusalem, Israel June 2018 A World in Flux: Jewish Journalism Struggles to Survive / Shalom Hartman Institute / 2018 Authors Alan D. Abbey is Director of Media at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which he joined in 2008 after a 30-year career in journalism in the U.S. and Israel. He founded Ynetnews.com, the English-language website of Israel’s largest media company, Yedioth Ahronoth, and was Executive Vice President for Electronic Publishing at the Jerusalem Post. Alan is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at National University of San Diego, and ethics lecturer for the Getty School of Citizen Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a leader of the Online News Association's digital ethics team, which created the “Build Your Own Ethics Code” course and website and chaired the Hartman Institute-American Jewish Press Association Ethics Project. Alan is the author of Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel's First Astronaut. He has a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon. He is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. [email protected] | @alanabbey Max Moser was a 2016-2017 Begin Fellow and research and marketing associate at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
  • The UK Jewish Community

    The UK Jewish Community

    ישראל והקהילה היהודית הבריטית יחסים ממושכים סדר היום •מבנה הקהילה •סיכונים מול הקהילה •יהודי בריטניה - המציאות •יהודי בריטניה וישראל •מעורבות בין ישראל והתפוצות הצהרת בלפור היתה מופנית לראשי הציונות בבריטניה 270-300 אלף יהודים בבריטניה האוכלוסייה היהודית ה5- בגדולה בעולם קהילות קטנות אך הפעילים סקוטלנד, ויילס וצפון אירלנד 75% ב לונדון רבתי והסביבה מרכזי מפתח נוספות: מנצ'סטר (30000) לידס (9000) ליברפול (3000) ברמינגהאם (2000) גייטסהד (700) גלזגו (5000) בורנמות תשתיות קהילתיות: מועצת המנהיגות היהודית • מגדיר סדרי עדיפויות מרכזיים ומתאם פעילות קולקטיבית • מגיב לסיכונים ע"י הובלת תכנון לטווח ארוך • קבוצה ביקורת פוליטית מוסדות מרכזיים מועצת Board of המנהיגות היהודית Deputies • מאפשר פעולה קולקטיבית ע"י המוסדות • ייצוג פרטני המרכזיים • סוגיות מיידיות ויום יומיות • התמונה הגדולה / סוגיות אסטרטגיות • מונע על ידי צירים נבחרים ארוכי טווח • לנהוג לפי אינטרסים מוסדיים ממשלה, פוליטיקה, בטחון, סינגור Jewish Leadership Council (Political Oversight Group) •BOD •CST •Trade Union FoI •BICOM •CFI, LFI, Lib Dem FoI •Holocaust Ed Trust •London Jewish Forum •PCAA •Regional Rep. Councils •UJS •Zionist Federation •Office G Janner •Fair Play CG •“We Believe” מועצת Board of המנהיגות Deputies היהודית ישראל ממשלה, פוליטיקה, בטחון, •UJIA .…Friends of• סינגור •JAFI Jewish Leadership Council •KKL UK (Political Oversight Group) •JNF •MDA •BOD •NIF •CST •WIZO UK •Trade Union FoI •Zionist Federation •BICOM •Hadassah •CFI, LFI, Lib Dem FoI •Yachad – Likud UK etc •Holocaust Ed Trust •London Jewish Forum •PCAA •Regional Rep. Councils •UJS •Zionist Federation •Office G Janner •Fair Play CG •“We Believe” מועצת Board of המנהיגות Deputies היהודית ישראל ממשלה, פוליטיקה, בטחון, UJIA• סינגור •Friends of…. Jewish Leadership Council •JAFI •KKL UK (Political Oversight Group) •JNF •BOD •MDA •CST •NIF •Trade Union FoI •WIZO UK •BICOM •Zionist Federation •Hadassah •CFI, LFI, Lib Dem FoI •Yachad – Likud UK etc •Holocaust Ed Trust •London Jewish Forum •PCAA •Regional Rep.