Jewish Women, Identity, and the Aufklärung: The German-speaking Enlightenment around 1800 by Josephine Porter

“…During the process of writing, it developed into a wider exploration of female Jewish identity. This revised and lengthened paper, therefore, has become a critical analysis of civil society’s perception of Jewish female participants and their unique identity in nineteenth-century Germany. …”
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Jewish Women, Identity, and the Aufklärung: The German-speaking Enlightenment around 1800 by Josephine Porter

“…During the process of writing, it developed into a wider exploration of female Jewish identity. This revised and lengthened paper, therefore, has become a critical analysis of civil society’s perception of Jewish female participants and their unique identity in nineteenth-century Germany. …”
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“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”:Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime United States by Stefano Luconi

“…The article uses her experience as a case study for the intertwinement between political exile and economic migration, in addition to shedding light on Jewish identity in exile.…”
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The reception of the Deuteronomic social law in the primitive church of Jerusalem according to the Book of Acts by A. Friedl

“… The Book of Deuteronomy was extant in the Jewish cultural memory and played an important role in shaping Jewish identity. Its concept of the holy people of God, who live according to the social order given by YHWH and who stand in contrast to the pagan world, forms the social model for the Primitive Church in Jerusalem. …”
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Secular-Believing Diasporic Jews: The Grassroots Theology of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen by Hagar Lahav

“…These narratives offer viable and meaningful models for secular-believer Jewish identity and suggest possible foundations for a contemporary secular Jewish existence in the diaspora.…”
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Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…Indeed, it is when the hero learns about his true Jewish identity that all the scattered elements of his literary existence fall into place — he now unerringly senses that he must embark on a Zionist expedition to the East after marrying Mirah, a Jewess he met. …”
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Vilnius as a Center of the Jewish Bund by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…He urged his associates to give up cosmopolitanism and to focus on their Jewish identity on the basis of the Yiddish language. …”
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