Search results for "Judaism"
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Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents
2017
This chapter analyzes the contribution to the debates on labor and immigration of a group of Jewish academicians and reformers who, during the second half of the Progressive Era, explicitly took a stance against the racialist and eugenic rhetoric of the period. This group includes first-rank economists like Edwin R. A. Seligman, Jacob H. Hollander, and Emanuel A. Goldenweiser; influential field specialists such as Isaac A. Hourwich and Isaac M. Rubinow; and relatively less known figures like Max J. Kohler and Samuel K. Joseph. By focusing on the voices of these dissenters, this chapter enriches the emerging picture of Progressive Era eugenic and racial thought.
Identidad, sometimiento y exclusión. Vicisitudes de la tolerancia en el mundo antiguo.
2020
La tolerancia es un rasgo definitorio de la sociedad moderna que surge como reacción a una situación anterior contraria a ella y que, a su vez, definió a las sociedades humanas desde el principio de los tiempos. Esta situación anterior y contraria a la tolerancia es la de sociedades definidas por identidades colectivas. Estudiar el colectivismo identitario es una buena manera de conocer la idea, exigencias y límites de la tolerancia en nuestras sociedades. Este trabajo pretende hacerlo analizándolo en las primeras sociedades históricas del ámbito europeo. Tolerance is a defining feature of modern society. It arose as a reaction to a previous situation contrary to it and which, in turn, defi…
Der Philosoph W. Solowioff und das Judentum [Philosoph W. Solowjow und das Judentum]
1927
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorwort 5 l. W. Solowioffs und das Judentum ll. W. Solowioffs Protest gegen den Antisemitismus 17 111. Das religiöse Gewissen erweckt in W. S. lnteresse für das Judentum 22 IV. W. Solowioffs Interesse für Juden 29 V. Die Bekanntschaft mit Juden macht W. S. zu ihrem Apologeten 32 VI. Juden zuverteidigen war für W. S. religiöse und patriotische Pflicht 35 Vll. W. Solowioffs jüdische Apologie 39 Vlll. W. S. über das Verhältnis des Christentums zum Judentum 46 IX. W. S. über die Beziehungen der Evangelien zum Talmud 57 X. W. Solowioffs originelle Polemik. 65 Xl. Widerlegung der nationalen Beschuldigungen 74 Xll. Widerlegung der ökonomischen Beschuldigung 77 Xlll. Wideflegung…
Creencias religiosas <i>versus</i> gestión del patrimonio arqueológico: el Caso del cementerio Judío de Valencia
2001
Archaeological heritage ownership is a controversial subject under the influence of both ethnic and religious claims. In 1996, a group of Jewish communities finally were able to interrupt the archaeological excavation under way at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Valencia. In this manner they did not allow the anthropological analysis of human remains recovered at the site that were reburied at the Jewish cemetery of Barcelona. Both administrations, local and regional, prioritized religious claims of the communities involved with respect to the archaeological heritage. As a consequence of a complaint filed by a group of citizens, the Sindic of Greuges of the Valencian Community (regional omb…
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
2021
For a site as famous as Masada (Arabic es-Sebba), we have been lacking a good overview. There is a popular treatment of the excavations (Yadin 1966), a resume of the excavations in light of the fin...
Tales of saviours and iconoclasts. On the provenance of "the Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism"
2021
Academic research on newly discovered ancient Buddhist manuscripts is largely based on objects that come from the antiquities market and to a much lesser degree on objects coming from documented and controlled archaeological excavations. Despite their being unprovenanced, collectors and scholars often present such objects with narratives mimicking provenance. The use of the label "Dead Sea Scrolls" attached to archaeological material without connections to Judaism or early Christianity is a prevalent example of this scholarly praxis. In this article, we deconstruct provenance narratives associated with the undocumented Buddhist manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection and discuss their implica…
Is our brain hardwired to produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive God? A systematic review on the role of the brain in mediating religious…
2009
To figure out whether the main empirical question "Is our brain hardwired to believe in and produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive and experience God?" is answered, this paper presents systematic critical review of the positions, arguments and controversies of each side of the neuroscientific–theological debate and puts forward an integral view where the human is seen as a psycho-somatic entity consisting of the multiple levels and dimensions of human existence (physical, biological, psychological, and spiritual reality), allowing consciousness/ mind/spirit and brain/body/matter to be seen as different sides of the same phenomenon, neither reducible to each other. The emergence …
Introduction: Jewish cultural heritage, space and mobility in Spain, Portugal and North Africa
2021
Jewish Tetouan: place, community, and ethnic boundaries from the Minutes Book of the community board, 1929-46
2021
De la aljama a la corte: aproximación biográfica del médico converso valenciano Pere Pintor (<em>ca</em>. 1423-1508)
2019
This paper deals with the biography of the doctor from Valencia Pere Pintor, a member of a family of Valencian Jewish conversos. He was a doctor who, after training at the Estudi General in Lleida, worked for nearly thirty years in the city of Valencia, in the service of the municipal council, numerous noblemen, and the royal household. As a doctor, he became very successful and well known, and he amassed great wealth in parallel to his social advancement. All this was placed in jeopardy with the establishment, in 1481, of the court of the Holy Inquisition in the kingdom of Valencia, which fiercely attacked and repressed Pintor and his family. As a result of this he left Valencia and moved …