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Alabama
American south
antisemitism
ashkenazic
Ashkenazim
Author_Robert Friedenberg
Category=QRJ
Chasid
chasidim
civil rights
civil war
colonialism
confederacy
csa
dixie
Dixieland
eastern Europe
emancipation
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heart of dixie
Hebrew
Israel
Israeli
Jew
jewry
Judaism
magen David
north America
old southwest
Palestine
secession
Sephardic
Sephardim
slavery
southeastern united states
Southern history
the South
torah
war between the states
white settlers
Yiddish
Product details
- ISBN 9780817311957
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 177 x 212mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2002
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Biblical passages indicate that as early as the return to Palestine from Babylon, Hebrew was no longer understood by the masses, which necessitated the use of vernacular translations to explain the Torah. Thus, the preaching tradition was well established in Judaism during the biblical period, predating Christianity, and long before the New World was explored and colonized. However, for reasons that have never been fully explained, sermons largely disappeared from European Jewish services in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. “Hear O Israel” is the only examination of the history of American Jewish preaching, from the settlement of the first Jews in the United States until 1970. Drawing on three centuries of American Jewish sermons, this study addresses two principal questions. First, how did the American Jewish preaching tradition evolve? Second, how have national and international events been treated in Jewish sermons, and in turn, how have these events affected Jewish preaching?
Robert V. Friedenberg is Professor of Communication at Miami (Ohio) University.
