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    language written by Jewish writers. Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature and rabbinic literature. Medieval Jewish literature includes not only...
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    Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily...
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    Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. However, the term often refers specifically...
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    American Jewish literature and cinema, the Jewish nose has been a defining characteristic – for better or for worse – of the American Jewish identity...
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    to deed, practice, and identity. Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media, and cinema, art and architecture...
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    ideal world. The Jewish mother became one of two stock female Jewish characters in literature in the 20th century, the other being the Jewish-American princess...
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    would sustain the fall of the Second Temple. Jewish messianism has its root in the apocalyptic literature of the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE, promising a...
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    less-neutral terms with Jewish or Christian connotations (e.g., Tanakh or Old Testament). The Society of Biblical Literature's Handbook of Style, which...
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  • The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by...
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  • studies; Jewish art and visual culture; Jewish history; Jewish literature; Jewish philosophy; Jewish studies and public administration; Jewish studies...
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    Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians...
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  • Historically, the portrayals of Jesus in the Talmud and Jewish literature were used to justify anti-Jewish sentiments. Maimonides lamented the pains that Jews...
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    Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though...
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  • in Jewish literature (including such non-religious Jewish authors as Philip Roth and Amos Oz), the consumption of Jewish food, the use of Jewish humor...
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  • National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. They are awarded by the Jewish Book...
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  • The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously...
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    The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out...
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    David's "Dark Talmud"; or Kafka in prime time". Studies in American Jewish Literature. 32 (2): 167–186. doi:10.5325/studamerjewilite.32.2.0167 – via go...
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    Jewish writers in England during the pre-expulsion period of the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries produced different kinds of writing in Hebrew...
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  • structure (cosmography) of the cosmos in the Hebrew Bible. Early Jewish apocalyptic literature represents the beginning of a systematic or scientific curiosity...
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    Virtual Jewish History Tour, France". Jewish Virtual Library. For the largest online collection of Sephardic folk literature, visit Folk Literature of the...
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    Garden of Eden (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    examples, pardes clearly means 'orchard' or 'park', but in the Jewish apocalyptic literature and in the Talmud paradise gains its associations with the Garden...
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    influential of these Jewish authors. Secular literature in this period was not produced in equal quantity as religious literature. The earliest tales are...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    Jewish philosophy, Jewish ethics and Jewish literature, as well as specific trends in Jewish culture, including in Jewish art, Jewish music, Jewish humor...
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    Jewish ethics is the ethics of the Jewish religion or the Jewish people. A type of normative ethics, Jewish ethics may involve issues in Jewish law as...
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    the Visiting Scribe series, and Jewish Book Month. It previously sponsored the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. It publishes an annual literary...
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    The Haskalah, often termed the Jewish Enlightenment (Hebrew: הַשְׂכָּלָה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), was an intellectual movement...
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    and researcher of Hebrew and Russian literature. He is Full Professor of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. Katsman...
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    Bukharian Jewish culture in the Soviet Union. One significant attempt was the establishment[when?] of a council for Bukharian Jewish literature in the Uzbekistan...
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    philosophy Jewish culture Jewish denominations Jewish ethics Jewish existentialism Jewish feminism Jewish folklore Jewish history Jewish literature Jewish mysticism...
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