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| | Secular Jewish culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected to religion. | | | Literary and theatrical expressions of secular Jewish culture may be in specifically Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino, or it may be in the language of the surrounding cultures, such as English or German. | | | Jewish dances both were influenced by surrounding Gentile traditions and Jewish sources preserved over time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Jewish_culture
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| | Mapping Jewish Culture in Europe today: a pilot project |
| | Furthermore, the general decline in religiosity in European Jewish communities is part of a more widespread decline in religious belief, and their integration, or assimilation, into the general population may be encouraging an interest in and need to explore cultural aspects of Jewish life as an 'authentic' alternative to religious practice. | | | First, as noted, Jewish culture is often infused with spiritual traditions. | | | For example, the director of the Simcha—Meeting with Jewish Culture festival in Wroclaw, Karolina Szykierska, explained that her own ideas and visions were stimulated and awakened by the Cracow festival. |
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http://www.jpr.org.uk/Reports/JC_Reports/no_3_2002/main.htm
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| | Secular Jewish practice sees change as a good and positive thing and it accepts all men and women as equal no matter what their culture or country. | | | Because secular Jews do not judge people by their origins or their parents’ deeds, the question of "bastardy" is not relevant to the secular way of life. | | | While secular Jewish culture considers it important to establish criteria for admission into Jewish society, it rejects the notion that people who wish to live a secular Jewish life should be obliged to participate in Orthodox conversion. |
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http://www.tekes.co.il/English-Halacha.html
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| | National Foundation for Jewish Culture |
| | How do we create both authentic religious and secular culture in an age that is marked by both fundamentalism and secularization? | | | At the beginning of the twenty-first century, these and other trends and concerns take on new significance, even salience, as the agenda of Jews (and of other groups) turns from threats to physical security to an internal, endogenous agenda of identity, continuity, and indeed intellectual and spiritual survival. | | | Can an authentic Jewish secular culture, informed by Jewish tradition, be imagined in an age of religious fundamentalism? |
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http://www.jewishculture.org/publications/wtjf/publications_wtjf_chanes.html
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| | Center for Cultural Judaism - Grants |
| | In the pre-modern world Jewish identity was centered on religion but expressed as well in how one made a living, what clothes one wore, and what language one spoke. | | | Bard College is presenting a new core course, Jewishness Beyond Religion: Defining Secular Jewish Culture and three other courses, American Jews, 1880 to the Present, Pluralism and Identity in Israel and Jewish Women: Gender Roles and Cultural Change. | | | While some focused on Judaism as (only) a religion, both the most radical and the most typical way in which Jewishness was redefined was in secular terms. |
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http://www.culturaljudaism.org/ccj/scd/53
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| | Triumph Of The Will: Jewish Cultural Hegemony |
| | The embrace of secular Jewish ideals by the West and the obsession by fundamentalists and Zionists alike with Armageddon brought Zionists and Protestant fundamentalists even closer together. | | | Ironically, though Luther himself loathed Judaism, the Protestant reformation, with its severe style, rejection of icons, and a literal reading of the Bible, is much closer to Judaism than Catholicism. | | | The rest of the world - Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc - outnumber them by almost a factor of 1000, yet seem to be dancing to their tune. |
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http://www.rense.com/general43/triump.htm
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| | He wrote about Jewish communities in turmoil, in drastic upheaval and movement from place to place, from one kind of life to another; and he tried to help his people adapt themselves to their new life. | | | It took the name of one of the foremost Jewish writers, whose Tevye stories were the basis for Fiddler on the Roof, and which means “peace” in Yiddish and Hebrew. | | | His seemingly funny stories fight against backwardness and ignorance; they helped in the cultural and social rebirth of his people. |
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http://www.sholomaleichemclub.org/history.htm
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| | Jewish Culture |
| | Children with special needs experience the cultural aspects of Judaism in a community of peers: holidays, prayer, Bible stories, songs, crafts, and games. | | | Preschool-age children with special needs experience the cultural aspects of Judaism in a community of peers: holidays, prayer, Bible stories, songs, crafts, and games. | | | Self-contained Jewish religious school classes meeting once a week. |
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http://www.jccmidwestchester.org/jewish_culture.htm
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| | Zeek The Other Jews: Secularism, Kabbalah and Radical Poetics |
| | The rejection of religion by secular Jewish culture is a two-dimensional analogue to the supposed radical rejection of traditional poetics. | | | But she is not negating meaning, just rearranging it. | | | The soft borders between Jewish particularism and universalism |
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http://www.zeek.net/books_04123.shtml
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| | Contemporary Posters - CYRK in the news |
| | The years between the First World War and the Nazi invasion in 1939 were especially rich in diversity, encompassing traditional shtetl life and a vast cosmopolitan secular Jewish culture. | | | The original story tells of a pair of children betrothed at birth by their parents. | | | Above a starkly simple seven-branched menorah seven hands raise up flame-like gestures in a haunting supplication. |
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http://www.contemporaryposters.com/news/news.shtml
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| | Internet Jewish History Sourcebook |
| | See also the Jewish Views of Jesus Homepage for more texts. | | | The Jewish Question in the Russian Orthodox Church, [At OCF] | | | Toledoth Yeshu A Sixth Century Jewish (negative) account of Jesus. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
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| | Jewish Children's Folkshul & Adult Community Links |
| | Camp Shomria promotes a strong commitment to Israel, Jewish continuity, social justice and community responsibility through informal education and fun. | | | Preserving and promoting secular Jewish culture for over 50 years | | | Located on beautiful Lake Otty, Camp Shomria embodies these values, and provides campers ages 7 to 16 with amazing memories, great experiences, and lifetime friendships |
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http://www.folkshul.org/new_links.htm
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| | MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Overview: Secular Jewish Music |
| | By contrast, our knowledge of the secular musical traditions of the Ashkenazic community is sparse before the 19th century. | | | With the emancipation came a desire on the part of "enlightened" Jewish intellectuals to educate the Jewish community in aspects of non-Jewish culture, including music. | | | The category of secular Jewish music is as elusive as it is important. |
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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/Music/Secular_Jewish_Music.htm
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| | Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture |
| | This is the lesson of Jewish history and this is why secular humanist Yidishkayt is at the core of Peretz Centre educational and cultural programs. | | | The Peretz Centre is named after I.L. Peretz (1859-1915), who is, along with Sholem Aleichem and Mendele Mokher Sforim, one of the post-Haskalah (Enlightenment) pillars of modern Yiddish literature, culture and identity. | | | The first secular Jewish organizations arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in both Europe and the Western Hemisphere. |
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http://www.peretz-centre.org/aboutus.html
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| | UPNE In Search of American Jewish Culture |
| | "This is an important text for all who are interested in Jews and American popular culture as well as those who want to know more about what has come to define American Jewish culture in the twentieth century. | | | "Whitfield has written a brilliant analysis of aspects of secular Jewish culture in the US. | | | His approach to dealing with the problem of just what is 'Jewish' in the cultural and artistic work of persons who are Jews expands our understanding of this key issue of ethnic 'contributions' to American culture. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-87451-754-0.html
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| | Web Resources for Jewish Music--Announcement Archive 2001 |
| | The program begins at 12:30 with three FREE workshops on different aspects of the Jewish Wedding: the traditional Jewish wedding banquest at 12:30. | | | Gala opening concert of the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture | | | The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture presents the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir in its Annual Spring Concert at 2:30 p.m. |
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http://www.jmwc.org/announcement_archive/announcement_archive_2001.html
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| | Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture |
| | We provide a quality alternative approach to Jewish life through the appreciation of Jewish history and culture in the context of world history, and the celebration of secular (non-religious) and humanist Jewish traditions. | | | for classes in Jewish heritage, tradition and culture from a | | | We welcome intercultural families (mixed marriages) and anyone who feels a connection with Jewish culture, history and experience. |
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http://www.peretz-centre.org
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| | Five Leaves Publishing - Home Page |
| | "...East End Jewish Radicals,the defninitive and massively authoratative work on the history of immigrant Jews in the East End. | | | Our interests include secular Jewish culture, writers from the East Midlands and... | | | Being small means we can publish non-commercial material which interests us — hence the first British study of Yiddish film and a book about how the ideas of William Morris have come to fruition. |
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http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk
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| | CJh News Articles/Press Releases |
| | Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over sixty books of poetry including Khurbn and Poland/1931 and the editor of one of the most important anthologies of Jewish writings, A Big Jewish Book (or, the abridged version, Exiled in the World). | | | Each share a common vision to preserve and present Jewish culture and history, and to create a meeting place where intellectual inquiries may be exchanged and freely explored, and where the general public can find cultural programs devoted to a wide variety of themes and concerns. | | | From the Center for Jewish History, a new videoconferencing service available to academic, religious and cultural institutions nationwide. |
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http://www.cjh.org/about/news/view_news.cfm?newsid=165
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