A Y-chromosome portrait of the population of Jerba (Tunisia) to elucidate its complex demographic history by Franz Manni, Pascal Leonardi, Étienne Patin, Alain Berrebi, Houssein Khodjet el Khil, Karl Skorecki, Dror Rosengarten, Hassan Rouba, Evelyne Heyer, Marc Fellous

“…Since geographic isolation plays no role, the different allelic profiles of the three ethnic groups are related to their different geographic origins, which are likely to have been maintained by the cultural differences existing between Arabs, Berbers and Jews.By comparing the observed haplogroup profiles with 19 reference populations located around the Mediterranean basin, we confirm a North African origin for the Berber and Arab sample and a Middle Eastern ancestral population for Jerban Jews.…”
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Dva příběhy z kriminálního podsvětí – padělatelé peněz na hradě Žampachu a přepadání Židů v roce 1542 by František Šebek

“…When interrogated on the rack, both confessed to having been involved in an attack on a convoy of Jews who, at the order of the Bohemian Landtag and King Ferdinand I, were being forced to leave the country. …”
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Part-of-Speech and Morphological Tagging of Algerian Judeo-Arabic by Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Michal Kessler, Oren Becker, Yonatan Belinkov

“… Most linguistic studies of Judeo-Arabic, the ensemble of dialects spoken and written by Jews in Arab lands, are qualitative in nature and rely on laborious manual annotation work, and are therefore limited in scale. …”
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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…Given later, the contribution is divided into two parts, the first presents the blessed martyrs, that those who died as martyrs and the second part is devoted to individuals who risked their lives while were exposed to the death for rescuing Jews.…”
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Vilnius as a Center of the Jewish Bund by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…Five of the 9 participants in the 1st Congress of the RSDWP were Jews, with 3 representatives among them of the Bund from Vilnius. …”
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Spirituality as "good Christian citizenship" in the Pastoral Epistles? by Lloyd K. Pietersen

“…This paper, drawing on both Taylor’s understanding of the “social imaginary” and Waaijman’s understanding of spirituality, examines Dibelius’ contention by revisiting the concept of eusebeia (godliness/piety), which is prevalent in the Pastorals, in the light of the lived experience of pagans, Jews and Christians in first-century Ephesus. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“…Taking a distinct turn from the religious prejudice suffered by many Jews in what became the German Empire, a new form of racialized antisemitism emerged and created a legacy of racialized hatred that was most commonly associated with the Third Reich. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“…Taking a distinct turn from the religious prejudice suffered by many Jews in what became the German Empire, a new form of racialized antisemitism emerged and created a legacy of racialized hatred that was most commonly associated with the Third Reich. …”
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The Language Shift Origins of Judeo-Spanish by Mahir Şaul

“… This article proposes that the Judeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews of the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean involved at its origin a language shift that occurred after emigration from the Iberian Peninsula, in non-Hispanic environment; that a form of Castilian was adopted as a deliberate act and rapidly in the early period of exile, to change a prior situation of Romance language pluralism within and among the transplanted Jewish communities. …”
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L’ennemi dans l’après-guerre espagnole, 1939-1945 by Javier Domínguez Arribas

“…Leftists, separatists, Freemasons, and Jews are taken into consideration, and particular attention is paid to the disproportion between the levels of both repression and rhetoric, regarding the persecution they suffered and the discourse that stigmatized them. …”
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Jewish Law-Observance in Paul by Paul T. Sloan

“…This article challenges these views by situating supposedly “negative” statements on the Law within Paul’s discourse on justification (Gal 2) and freedom from the Law of sin and death (Rom 7), and argues that aspects of 1 Cor 7, Gal 2–3, and Rom 3–4 imply Paul expected even believing Jews to remain Law-observant.…”
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L’ennemi dans l’après-guerre espagnole, 1939-1945 by Javier Domínguez Arribas

“…Leftists, separatists, Freemasons, and Jews are taken into consideration, and particular attention is paid to the disproportion between the levels of both repression and rhetoric, regarding the persecution they suffered and the discourse that stigmatized them. …”
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Finanční zajištění židovských uprchlíků v době první světové války v Čechách by Klára Habartová

“…Relations between the refugees and the resident population, including the local assimilated Jews, varied from place to place in Bohemia and changed often during the war. …”
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Ander weë tot God? Calvyn oor nie-Christelike godsdienste by P. C. Potgieter

“…This study explores John Calvin’s views on the religion of Gentiles (paganism), Turks (Islam), and Jews (Judaism). Calvin refers to these religions not only in the consecutive editions of his Institutes, but also in a number of other writings. …”
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«THE CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD» OR «CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE»? TO THE ANNIVERSARIES OF THE EVIAN AND BERMUDA CONFERENCES by D. V. Ivanov, A. V. Krylov, V. M. Morozov, V. O. Pechatnov, S. A. Sklyarov, E. O. Shebalina

“…The author concludes that the unpreparedness of European states and the United States to accept ethnic Jews from German-occupied countries on their territory became one of the reasons for their mass death. …”
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The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… Herod the Great, Idumean by birth, was king of the Jews from 40BC to AD 4. An able statesman, builder and warrior, he ruthlessly stamped out all perceived opposition to his rule. …”
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Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman by P. Rule

“…Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman (John 4:1-42) sheds light on his attitude towards, and his engagement with her as a conventional “other” for Jews. This article aims to explain their dialogic encounter as an informal teaching and learning event against the backdrop of Jew-Samaritan relations and the status and roles of women in New Testament times. …”
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Les rencontres entre communautés dans l’Acre latine du xiiie siècle : l’exemple de Saliba, marchand et bourgeois by Florian Besson

“…This document reveals the complexity of his identity : he works with oriental merchants – Jews, Armenians, Damascenes, Mongols, etc – and at the same time with Italians ones, in particular with Genoese. …”
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Jesus in the Ṣūfī Interpretations by Selim Çakıroğlu

“…The fact that the verses in the Qur’an that mention the Jews wanting to kill him (as well as other verses) do not state what his ultimate fate was has been the focus of much discussion. …”
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“Relief is a political gesture:” The Jewish Labor Committee’s interventions in war-torn Poland, 1939-1945 by Catherine Collomp

“…In the context of the division and occupation of Poland by the USSR and by Nazi Germany, the JLC’s help materialized in two ways: relief (generally in kind) was sent to Jewish refugees in Russia; money was sent for relief and for weapons to Jews in the General Government region under German rule. …”
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