Aminaho, Efenwengbe Nicholas
Published in
Open Health
The health and well-being of some residents in the United Kingdom are quite challenged, as access to some required treatments and support is limited due to some level of deprivation. This study compared the Jewish and other religious groups in England and Wales, to determine households’ deprivation in the health and disability, housing, education, ...
Bro, Naim Morav, Liran
This study examines the relationship between ethnic endogamy and socioeconomic status (SES) within the socioeconomically divergent Jewish and Native-Chilean Mapuche communities of Santiago, Chile. By leveraging the Hispanic naming convention to analyze dual ethnic surnames, we trace endogamy patterns across comprehensive datasets that go back to 18...
Shack, Avram R Fried, Iris Siedner-Weintraub, Yael
Published in
Palliative & supportive care
Pediatric palliative care services improve the quality of life for children with life-limiting and life-threatening diseases, although little has been published about variation based on cultural and religious factors. This article sets out to describe clinical and cultural characteristics of pediatric end-of-life patients in a majority Jewish and M...
Piazza, Elya
Stealth Stamma: Queer Time and Affect in the Babylonian Talmud uses queer theory to tease out overlooked aspects of the Babylonian Talmud, shedding light on specific discursive impulses for meaning-making and, especially, subversion of Torah law. The queer Talmudic methods I draw out and discuss are the stamma’s stealth argumentation, a non-linear ...
Wiberg, Idun
My ethnographic study follows young Swedish Jews as they navigate their lives before and afterthe 7th of October 2023. From eating matzo and gossiping in the synagogue to severing one’s connections with Israel or joining the Israel Defence Forces, these individuals provide a window into the various Jewish experiences in Sweden. Often with notable p...
Yirmiya, Oren
This dissertation examines the intersections of lyric poetry and piyyut (medieval Hebrew liturgical poems) in two historical contexts where the genre of lyric and the notion of the "East" have been placed in a false dichotomy. The first half of the dissertation traces the evolution of the terms "lyric" and "piyyut" in the Middle East and Europe fro...
Robertson, Troy Michael
Over the last five decades, numerous renditions of J.S. Bach's St. John Passion have been met with fervent opposition, eliciting protests, scathing critiques, boycotts, and even the outright cancellation of concerts. These reactions stem from a pervasive perception of embedded anti-Semitism within the text of the composition. While various performa...
Bro, Naim Morav, Liran
Publication status: Published / Abstract
This study examines the relationship between ethnic endogamy and socioeconomic status (SES) within the socioeconomically divergent Jewish and Native‐Chilean Mapuche communities of Santiago, Chile. By leveraging the Hispanic naming convention to analyze dual ethnic surnames, we trace endogamy patterns across c...
Dumont, Gérard-François
Avec onze guerres israélo-arabes depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale - sans oublier les multiples conflits du passé dont ceux explicatifs de la situation présente - le Proche-Orient est une terre très conflictuelle, les périodes de paix n’apparaissant que comme des parenthèses entre des épisodes de violences meurtrières. Tout se passe comme si la gue...
Tolkin, Lior Klein, Vanessa Frankel, Meir Altarescu, Gheona Beeri, Rachel Munter, Gabriel
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Journal of the Endocrine Society
Context Various genes have been associated with familial and sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), including activating mutations of the glial cells missing transcription factor 2 ( GCM2 ) gene. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of the GCM2 p.Tyr394Ser variant in the Jerusalem Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population with ...