... in the country from which my ancestors had departed more than a hundred years before. It would be different from my first visit to the Soviet Union, back in August 1970 for the Lnternational Congress of Historical Sciences. Then I had not sought out a synagogue. I was not doing any work on Jewish...

... of this volume. Entitled "Yom Kippur in Moscow, 5750," Davis's article describes her visit to Moscow's synagogue during a historians' congress last year. As both a radical histarian and Jewherself, Davis, in a personal essay, hies to assess and reconcile the history and extent of Russian anti...

... and let live, openly but quietly. They want to survive the McCarthy era without losing their jobs. They want to pursue happiness without the humiliation of psychiatric labelling. They want to play in the NFX, serve in the military, and worship in every church and synagogue in the land. 'We...

..." (98). In 1938, days after Kristallnacht (the massive government-sponsored Nazi attacks on synagogues and Jewish property throughout Germany), Ben-Gurion acknowledged that he was "more worried THE POLITICS OF MEMORY/219 about the elections at the [Mapai...

... Jewishness. Her films preserve growing anti-Semitic propaganda, street ordinances, park regulations, and graffiti demanding death to the Jews, while her diary notes more frequent atten- dance at synagogue. By the late 1930s, she and most of her immediate family have...

..., the work of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society and Hebrew University focused, by and large, on Jewish remains (mostly synagogues and tombs) that dated to Roman through Byzantine times in the history of Palestine. In addition, there was some attention paid...

... the shameless Vietnam war pro- pagandist, New York's Cardinal O'Connor, and all the other clerical friends of big business (and weapons systems enthusiasts) from synagogue to mosque to chapel. 17. Secret Agents appeared just a bit too early for the revelations of coded Soviet cables suggesting...

... of the famine traveled from Ireland to London, New York, Port Elizabeth, Bombay, and elsewhere, prompting a wide-ranging relief effort. Worshipers at churches and synagogues contributed generously to the appeals of the BRA and the NYGRC. Indeed, most people who contributed to famine relief did so...

...—and how! We’d open a cooperative store, establish a school, maybe even a synagogue. There would be political parties here. They’d debate all sorts of things. They would plow fields, and sow, and reap, and do great things. Long live Hebrew Khizeh! Who, then, would ever imagine that once there had been some...

... to collect himself in Madrid’s main synagogue, why not stress the joint’suffering of Jews and Moors following the 18/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW edict of mass expulsion from Spain in 1492? After 900 years, why not emphasize that Jews and Moslems were kindred victims of the sacralized fury...

... to substantive activism. “Passionately interested in the shouting . . . in the thrilling of his spine to ‘Washed in the Blood’ at the Baptist synagogue,” the hillbilly was unconcerned with his “need of a bathtub,” with “such prosaic problems as his economic status.” “The peon,” Cash concluded, “is always...

.... It wasn‘t my Jewish past speaking to me, though I did go through a period of going to Sunday School and to synagogue. My grandparents had never communicated anything to me about the old country, and my parents were very present-minded. It wasn’t the past of my classmates speaking to me either...

... by activists in the gay liberation movement, Harwood explained that “we two still lacked the courage to openly declare our sexual identity.” 71 That changed in 1982 when SAGE held a surprise party for Harwood and Mero’s fiftieth anniversary at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay-affirming synagogue...

... assault, 11 baccano, and 10 pimping; 30 of those charged had participated in some form of group violence: ms. 3, ff. 5r, 15v; ms. 4, ff. 1r – 113r. 29. Siegmund, Medici State. The ghetto had twenty-­four shops, a synagogue, and forty-­four apartments. It housed 390 in 1632, and 559 by 1642...

..., as well as founder of The Committee for a Progressive Middle East, clearly saw himself as also speaking for others when he said that the ”demand of the Jewish radical must be, ’Shut down the synagogues, so that Judaism may have a chance Only extreme measures might rescue American...

... in the synagogue to the prophet Isaiah and proclaimed the “acceptable year of the Lord.” The Geneva Bible of 1560 noted in its margins to Jesus’s first preaching, ”He alludeth to the yere of Jubilee, which is mentioned in the Law, whereby this great deliuerance was figured.” Then Jesus said, ’Today...

..., and educational institutions, not to mention churches and synagogues. They were, accordingly, to use Gramscian language, hegemonic. The Palestinian people hardly fit into the equation, erased from the picture and rendered invisible. But the limits to the Arab boycott were clear: the economic basis...