Scotlands Jews

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786455225
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non–Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland’s identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Author : Nathan Abrams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454326
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caledonian Jews written by Nathan Abrams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full history of the Jews in Scotland who lived outside Edinburgh and Glasgow. The work focuses on seven communities from the borders to the highlands: Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Greenock, and Inverness. Each of these communities was of sufficient size and affluence to form a congregation with a functional synagogue and, while their histories have been previously neglected in favor of Jewish populations in larger cities, their stories are important in understanding Scottish Jewry and British history as a whole. Drawn from numerous primary sources, the history of Jews in Scotland is traced from the earliest rumors to the present.

Author : Kenneth E. Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951320549
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Jews written by Kenneth E. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth E. Collins
Publisher : Young Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780955902109
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Jews written by Kenneth E. Collins and published by Young Writers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Holtschneider
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474452612
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland written by Hannah Holtschneider and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book analyses the religious aspects of this transition through a transnational perspective on migration in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Ethel G. Hofman
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841831107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mackerel at Midnight written by Ethel G. Hofman and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethel Hofman grew up in the only Jewish family on Shetland. This is the story of her family and childhood, and of the meeting of two diverse cultures in a unique landscape. Fleeing Russia a century ago, Ethel's father, Harry Greenwald, found a safe haven in Lerwick, Shetland. Liking the place, he brought over Jean after an arranged marriage and they set up a shop, Greenvald's, soon popular with the locals as a gathering place. Despite the hardships of living on a remote island, good food and good company were always available, and the recipes for the Jewish and island dishes prepared by Jean are woven throughout the touching, affectionate narrative. As a unique blend of memoir and cookbook, Mackerel at Midnight shows how food can strengthen family and cultural bonds, and celebrates the tolerance and warmth of one Jewish family and the community that embraced them.

Author : Kenneth E. Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951320594
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Experience in Scotland written by Kenneth E. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M.D. Gilfillan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476680
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Edinburgh written by M.D. Gilfillan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots. Smaller than its Glasgow counterpart, the Jewish community in Edinburgh took on greater national significance in part through the career of "Scotland's Rabbi," Dr. Salis Daiches of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. The community would also contribute Scotland's first Jewish member of parliament, as well as the first Jewish president of the Scottish Football League.

Author : Yvette Alt Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441110232
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angels at the Table written by Yvette Alt Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative and personal, this is an introduction to all aspects of a traditional Jewish Shabbat, providing both an inspirational call to observe this weekly holiday and a comprehensive resource.

Author : Andrew Porwancher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123728X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton written by Andrew Porwancher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. With a detective’s persistence and a historian’s rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption and revolutionizes our understanding of an American icon. This radical reassessment of Hamilton’s religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge. Although he didn’t identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. In a new nation torn between democratic promises and discriminatory practices, Hamilton fought for a republic in which Jew and Gentile would stand as equals. By setting Hamilton in the context of his Jewish world for the first time, this fascinating book challenges us to rethink the life and legend of America's most enigmatic founder.