In Europe, Jews formed a distinct community within a Gentile environment for a long time. This was to change as the importance of religion within society declined. Jews gained—at least formally—the opportunity to integrate into society at large. However, this did not mean that they lost their purported otherness. Instead of religion, somatic features came to serve as criteria of Jewish differen...

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Between 1881 and 1914, nearly three million Jews left eastern Europe, of which about 15,000 settled in Glasgow, "second city" of the British Empire. Their integration was cushioned by a Jewish leadership which balanced community discipline with immigrant innovation-in contrast to London which swallowed ten times as many but doled out philanthropy with a large measure of social control. This is ...

OBJECTIVE The Israeli Yemenite Jewish community has displayed an exceptionally rapid increase in the frequency of type 1 diabetes, having the highest rate of all Israeli ethnic groups. We studied the role of the environment, in relation to the nature and frequency of HLA class II genes, to evaluate its possible involvement in the development of diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We intervi...

The year 2014 has certainly been a busy and rewarding year for the journal. It has been dominated by planning and organizing a journal development course for the editors and staff and the celebration of our anniversary, 35 years of continuous publication. On this occasion, we honored the historical achievements of the journal with an official ceremony in the presence of General Director of Medi...

The typology of Yiddish and the name Ashkenaz cannot serve as arguments to support the theory put forward by Das et al. (2016) (Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz. Genome Biol Evol 8:1132-1149.) that the origin of Ashkenazic Jews can be located in ancient Iran. Yiddish is a Germanic, not a Slavic language. The history of the use of the term ...

It is widely known that Jews have lived in Georgia from time immemorial. Later, as a result of external and internal migration waves, the Jewry spread all over Georgia. Kulashi stands out rest Georgian Jewish diaspora due to its unique local color large concentration one small location. also distinguished by fact it has been most important religious spiritual centers for decades. should be part...

Human society and its religions and cultures have laid out numerous guidelines, often involving dietary restrictions (Deut. 14:4-5; Lev. 11:2-7). One such set of restrictions still observed by many Jews today relates to the distinction between pure and impure, edible and forbidden mammals (Talmud Bavli, Avoda Zara 35b). The ancient Jewish dietary laws (kashrut) have often perplexed both gentile...