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Free Download Rosemary Wenzerul, "Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors)"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1473821274 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.8 mb
This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul’s lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain and looks at practical issues of research – how to get started, how to organize the work, how to construct a family tree and how to use the information obtained to tell the story of a family. In addition she describes, in practical detail, the many sources that researchers can go to for information on their ancestors, their families and Jewish history.

Free Download Adele Reinhartz professor and chair Department of Classics and Religious Studies Universi, "The Gospel of John and Jewish-Christian Relations"
English | ISBN: 1978703481 | 2018 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 3 MB
The Fourth Gospel is at the same time a sublime work that has inspired and enriched the faith of countless Christians and a problematic text that has provided potent anti-Jewish imagery exploited in anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic discourse over the course of two millennia. The Fourth Gospel contains approximately 70 references to hoi ioudaioi, a designation most often (and best) translated as "the Jews." Several of these references are neutral or descriptive, referring to Jewish festivals or specific practices, and some depict individual Jews or Jewish groups as interested in Jesus’ message. The vast majority, however, express a negative or even hostile stance towards the Jews. These passages express several themes that became central to Christian anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic discourse. These include the charge of deicide – killing God – and the claim that the Jews have the devil as their father (8:44).

Free Download Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400-1700
by Katherine Aron-Beller
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1512824100 | 440 Pages | True ePUB | 33 MB

Free Download Marla Brettschneider, "Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century "
English | ISBN: 1438496265 | 2024 | 174 pages | EPUB, PDF | 689 KB + 2 MB
Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.

Free Download The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C83M8BSY | 2024 | 10 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa
Narrator: Gilli Messer
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg-a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat-drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance.

Free Download Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine: Distribution and Population Density During the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate Period by David Grossman, translated by Marcia Grossman
English | January 15, 2011 | ISBN: 1412814669, 1138514306 | True EPUB | 246 pages | 3.9 MB
This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (1917-1948). The book focuses on demography, specifically migrations, population size, density, growth, and the pattern of distribution in rural Palestine before the inception of Jewish settlement (1882). Grossman traces little-known Muslim ethnic groups who settled in Palestine’s rural areas, primarily Egyptians, but also Algerians, Bosnians, and Circassians.

Free Download Benjamin E Fisher, "Amsterdam’s People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century"
English | ISBN: 0878201882 | 2020 | 330 pages | PDF | 20 MB
The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community’s rabbis produced creative, and often unprecedented scholarship on the Jewish Bible as well as the New Testament Amsterdam’s People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centered culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community’s Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live. Studying Amsterdam’s Jews offers an early window into the prioritization of the Bible over rabbinic literature – a trend that continues through modernity in western Europe. It allows us to see how Amsterdam’s rabbis experimented with new historical methods for understanding the Bible, and how they grappled with doubts about the authority and truth of the Bible that were growing in the world around them. Amsterdam’s People of the Book allows us to appreciate how Benedict Spinoza’s ideas were in fact shaped by the approaches to reading the Bible in the community where he was born, raised, and educated. After all, as Spinoza himself remarked, before becoming Amsterdam’s most famous heretic and one of Europe’s leading philosophers and biblical critics, he was "steeped in the common beliefs about the Bible from childhood on."

Free Download Paolo L. Bernardini, "Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations"
English | ISBN: 144389950X | 2016 | 225 pages | PDF | 897 KB
The history of the Christian-Jewish relations is full of curious, intense, and occasionally tragic episodes. In the dialectical development of the Western monotheistic religions, Judaism plays the role of the thesis, of the origins and background for the rise of Christianity and Islam. With the rise of Christianity, Judaism was progressively marginalized, since it was denied the same essence and validity of Christianity, which grew immensely in terms of spiritual and secular power. Christian scholars since the Middle Ages looked at Judaism as at the broken staff in the evolutionist line of religion, to quote the insightful work of the late Frank E. Manuel. At the same time, while re-discovering Judaism, Christian scholars redefined themselves, and Christianity as well. However, while Christianity encompassed many sects and many nations, the relatively weak diversity within Judaism, the religion of a single nation, seemed to hinder its evolution and development. While the intellectual battle was fought in a scholarly way, the emergence of the Christian State condemned the Jews to perpetual discrimination and occasional toleration, until a lay State, Nazi Germany, threatened the survival of the Jewish people. Neutral controversial works became powerful extermination tools when used in the political arena. This volume casts light on some crucial episodes in the long dialectics within the same intellectual and religious framework, touching upon themes such as the conception of time future in the age of Spinoza, the early encounters of Judaism and Christianity in eighteenth-century England, the memory of the Shoah, and the political revolution present in the system of the Jewish Commonwealth. From early to late Modernity, there is a history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.

Free Download Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler
English | 1999 | ISBN: 025333490X | 515 Pages | PDF | 24.4 MB
No other text has affected women in the western world as much as the story of Eve and Adam.

Free Download Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture by Glenda Abramson
English | 2004 | ISBN: 041529813X | 1078 Pages | PDF | 10.0 MB
The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout.