Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd had gathered to hear the story of Frank Lavine, a Massachusetts resident and survivor of the Exodus ship, which carried Jewish Holocaust survivors in their attempt to immigrate to Palestine after the end of World...
...members of the Jewish underground found a need for the ship in the confused days after V-E Day, when many concentration camp survivors were living in displaced persons camps, waiting for admission to Palestine...
...shul that include the title story, in which a rabbi grants an unhappy husband permission to visit a prostitute. Yet Englander's apostasy is always affectionate and imaginative. The Gilgul of Park Avenue, for example, offers up a Wall Street Wasp who inexplicably discovers that he has a Jewish soul. The domestic and professional ramifications read like a collaboration between Cynthia Ozick and Mel Brooks...
...JEWISH HERITAGE...
These sites are attuned to specific patterns and customs, such as the Habsburg and Russian mandates that Jews adopt national surnames, the early Jewish tradition of passing on the mother's maiden name in a religious marriage rather than the father's in a civil one, and the tendency among early Jewish immigrants to Americanize their long, ethnic-sounding names. Begin your search at www.jewishgen.org or www.yad-vashem.org...