Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

The study of Jewish History is one of the foundation stones of the national identity of the Jewish People as a group, and of the personal identity of the individual member of that nation. The academic research of Jewish history has always been a key part of Judaic Studies.

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The Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry deals with the history of the Jewish people, from ancient times to the present day, and researches thousands of years of activity, culture and history of the Jewish communities in different parts of the world and…
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Dr. Guy Bracha Academic Staff
Dr. Guy Bracha
Research: Fields of Interest Social and political history of the Syrian and Lebanese Jewry in the modern period intellectual history of the Jews in the…
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'Wisdom and Greatness in one Place' The Alexandrian Trader Moses ben Judah and his Circle Publications
'Wisdom and Greatness in one Place' The Ale…
Author: Dotan Arad and Esther-Miriam Wagner (authors)
The manuscript collections of the Bodleian Library contain a corpus of dozens of documents from the…
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