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Jewish elder blowing the ram's horn (shofar) Sequence of shofar sounds: tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah The best-known ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from an animal horn.
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914 (2001) Green, Joseph. A Social History of the Jewish East End in London, 1914–1939: A Study of Life, labour, and liturgy (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991) Hirsch, Brett D. "Jewish Questions in Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London." Early Theatre 19.1 (2016): 37-56.
Early in the eighteenth century the Jewish community of London comprised representatives of the chief Jewish financiers in northern Europe; these included the Mendez da Costa, Abudiente (later known as Gideon and Eardley), Salvador, Lopez, Fonseca, and Seixas families. The utility of these prominent Jewish merchants and financiers was widely ...
The Story of the Jews is a television series, in five parts, presented by British historian Simon Schama.It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013 [1] and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014.
GCSE Bitesize was launched in January 1998, covering seven subjects. For each subject, a one- or two-hour long TV programme would be broadcast overnight in the BBC Learning Zone block, and supporting material was available in books and on the BBC website. At the time, only around 9% of UK households had access to the internet at home.
Jewish identity began to gain the attention of Jewish sociologists in the United States with the publication of Marshall Sklare's "Lakeville studies". [20] Among other topics explored in the studies was Sklare's notion of a "good Jew". [21] The "good Jew" was essentially an idealized form of Jewish identity as expressed by the Lakeville ...
The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים , ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation:) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group [14] and nation [15] originating from the Israelites of the historical kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [16] and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
The Windermere Children is a 2020 British biographical drama television film written by Simon Block and directed by Michael Samuels.Based on the experience of child survivors of the Holocaust, it follows the children and staff of a camp set up on the Calgarth Estate in Troutbeck Bridge, near Lake Windermere, England, where the survivors were helped to rehabilitate, rebuild their lives, and ...