Early-Mid 19th Century (Temporal Keyword)
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Transgressions and Atonements: The Mosaic of Frontier Jewish Domestic Religious Practice in the 19th Century (2016)
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The Block Family Farmstead in Washington, Arkansas represents the first Jewish immigrant family to the state and is the most extensively excavated Jewish Diaspora site in North America, dating to the first half of the 19th Century. The site gives unique insight into the domestic practices of a Jewish family in absence of an ecclesiastical support network or coreligionist community. In particular, a pit feature adjacent to the home may indicate the manner in which the Block family transgressed...