Jews (Other Keyword)

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Archaeology of San Francisco Jews (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Praetzellis. Mary Praetzellis.

Archaeological collections from San Francisco’s South-of-Market area speak to the lives of 19th century Jews. We take the position that archaeology can help us understand the effects of the haskalah (the Jewish "enlightenment") on European immigrants’ efforts to divest themselves of their sociological ambivalence. In this way, archaeology can help illuminate one of the most enduring and controversial issues in contemporary Jewish studies: the relationship between identity and religious...


Indexical "Bodies": Violence, Antisemitism, and Multicultural Heritage among the Gravestones and Monuments of Sarajevo's Old Jewish Cemetery (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine E Kolpan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The majority of Sarajevo’s Jewish population arrived at the invitation of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Spain and Portugal by the Inquisitions of the 1490’s. The city’s thriving Jewish population interred their dead in the Old Jewish Cemetery until most of Sarajevo’s Jews were exterminated in...


The Jews in Oklahoma (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Jack. Tobias.

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