Essays about: "Jews"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 essays containing the word Jews.

  1. 21. NEVER AGAIN THESSALONIKI – AUSCHWITZ : THE FIRST MEMORY WALK FOR THE JEWS OF SALONICA AND THE REACTIONS OF THE LOCAL PRESS. : A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) AND REFLECTION.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Gleoudi; [2018]
    Keywords : Jews; Thessaloniki; collective memory; national identity; Media; Orthodoxy; Never again; urban identity; Hellenization; social change; critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The end of the Second World War found the city of Thessaloniki devastated by the loss of nearly its total Jewish population in the concentration camps of the Third Reich. A few survivals return to their city just to realize that their fortunes have been confiscated either by the local authorities or by their Christian neighbors. READ MORE

  3. 22. Resisting Assimilation: Ethnic Boundary Maintenance Among Jews in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : David Grobgeld; [2017]
    Keywords : Ethnic boundaries; Ethnic identity; Jews; Swedish Jews; Andreas Wimmer; Antisemitism; Holocaust;

    Abstract : This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Swedish Jews. Wimmer’s theory holds that ethnic conflict and persecution routinizes and entrenches perceptions of ethnic difference; I argue that the antisemitic persecutions of the 20th century has entrenched the perception of the ethnic distinctiveness of Jews among Jews themselves. READ MORE

  4. 23. From invisibility to game changers – Palestinian citizens of Israel

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Shahar Mor; [2014]
    Keywords : Israeli-Arabs; Israeli-Jews; Reconciliation; Narrative containment; intractable conflicts; conflict transformation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores the possibilities of reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the perspective of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, also known as the Israeli-Arabs. The theoretical and empirical frameworks aim to provide further research to the field of reconciliation through peaceful containment of narratives between deeply divided groups in intractable conflict. READ MORE

  5. 24. Why was Paul upset? (Gal. 2.11-14)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Luka Hansen; [2014]
    Keywords : Paul; Peter; apostle; Antioch; church; Galatians; Zetterholm; Nanos; Dunn; Martyn; exegesis; Roman; Greek; Judaism; Gospel; new perspective on Paul; radical perspective on Paul; old perspective on Paul; Vestergaard; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The tension between Jews and Gentiles is a well-recorded and pregnant debate within the field of biblical exegesis today. One of the biblical passages that directly relates to this special situation, often labelled the ‘incident of Antioch’, is Gal 2.11-14. READ MORE

  6. 25. Perceptions of Sacred Hamburgers : Alternation Processes Regarding Food Restrictions in the Apostolic Decree and the Clashes of Symbolic Universes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Niklas Rosenlund; [2013]
    Keywords : Sacred Hamburgers; Symbolic Universes; Sacrificial meat; Antioch; The Apostolic Decree; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The Apostle meeting in Jerusalem is an important event that leads to the Apostle Decree, condensing all rules into four main ones, in order to include the Gentiles. Regarding food restrictions in the Decree, what could have started a Gentile alternation of their old symbolic universe, in order to internalize a new plausibility structure? The focus seems to have been to describe in what way the Gentiles reacted on different sets of rules, thus disregarding the Jewish faction of Jesus-believers that created them. READ MORE