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Internet Sacred Text Archive Home Ha Gallil Chassidismus Die wirtschaftliche Situation der Juden zur Zeit der Entstehung des Chassidismus Die Bewegung des Chassidismus entstand Mitte des 18.Jahrhunderts in Wolynien und Podolien / Ukraine. Zu dieser Zeit dienten zahlreiche Juden den polnischen Feudalherren. Diese hatten ihre Besitzungen den Juden verpachtet, die ihrerseits die vom Adel auferlegten Summen aus den Bewohnern - den Zoporager Kosaken - herauswirtschafteten mussten. ezug gegen die Juden. Die Ideenwelt des Chassidismus Im Chassidismus lässt sich der Gedanke der Demokratie in geistiger und ökonomischer Hinsicht feststellen. Der radikale gesellschaftliche Demokratismus zeigte sich bei den ersten Führern, den Zaddikim. Die Betonung der Kontemplation ( Gedankenversunkenheit) Für den Chassiden ist alles auf die Erkenntnis Gottes abgestellt, die mit Freude, Kawwana und Hitlahabut ("inneres Brennen") erworben wird. Chassidistischer Humor( nach Rabbi Shmuel Avidor Hacohen ) Der Niedergang des Chassidismus Zur Startseite

FERRARA In the Thirteenth Century. City in central Italy; capital of the province and former duchy of the same name. The Jewish community of Ferrara was one of the most flourishing and important in Italy, and it gave to Judaism a number of prominent men. It would seem that Jews existed at Ferrara in 1088, but not until the thirteenth century was their number large enough to give them a status in history. In 1275 an edict was issued in their favor, with a clause providing that neither the pope nor the duke nor any other power might relieve the authorities of their duties toward the Jews. The community must have been of importance at that time, because many well-known men became residents of the city with the view of winning members of the community to support one side or the other of the controversies then raging among the Jews. Under the Dukes of Este. Under the dukes of Este in the fifteenth century the community developed rapidly. Settlement of Maranos. The Earthquake of 1570. The Ghetto.

Virtual Shtetl Center for Jewish History • Essays YIVO & the Greening of Yiddish Consciousness: Pt. 2: the World of Landsmanshaftn Perhaps no American Jewish communal institution paved the way for citizenship as effectively as the Landsmanshaftn. These mutual aid societies, voluntary associations based on members’ shared origins in an Eastern European city or town, proved to be incubators of democracy, nurturing new storm-tossed arrivals into a world of American freedom and enfranchisement. Fordham University history professor Daniel Soyer, whose "Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York 1880-1939" was awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Prize by Harvard University and the Saul Viener Prize by the American Jewish Historical Society, conducted most of the research for his book at YIVO. Soyer discovered Jewish New York burgeoned with around 3000 Landsmanshaftn numbering over 400,000 members during its heyday in the early twentieth century. No human requirement went untended.

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