Europe holds a unique status in Jewish history. For centuries, it played host to the intellectual heart of Jewish life, and provided the backdrop for many of the greatest Jewish cultural developments in the realms of Jewish art, music and literature. It was the cradle of the Enlightenment, the continent which produced the philosophies of Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Descartes and Locke, and the re...

Factor XI deficiency is a rare bleeding diathesis found predominantly in Ashkenazi Jewish kindreds. A recent study of six Jewish patients identified three distinct mutations (Types I, II, and III) in the factor XI gene that were sufficient to fully define the genotypes of the patients. We have investigated 63 patients with factor XI deficiency and find overall allele frequencies of 44% for the ...

Body image dissatisfaction at moderate levels can be a normative experience for many women of current American culture. However, women whose body dissatisfaction exceeds moderate levels are vulnerable to developing an eating disorder. Empirical findings show body dissatisfaction predicts low self-esteem, depression, and overall poor quality of life. Various theories aim to understand factors in...

Two studies examined correlates of belief in a Jewish conspiracy theory among Malays in Malaysia, a culture in which state-directed conspiracism as a means of dealing with perceived external and internal threats is widespread. In Study 1, 368 participants from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, completed a novel measure of belief in a Jewish conspiracy theory, along with measures of general conspiracist i...

Table of content: 1. The frames of the research 2. The historiography of the Romanian and Hungarian Jewish communities; the sources of the research 3. The Jews of Cluj till the WWI 4. The demographical structure and the topography of the Jewish population of Cluj 5. The Jews occupational structure and their role in the economy 6. Interdictions, Segregation and Anti-Semitism in Cluj 7. The Jewis...

1Advanced Genomic Technology, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 2Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 3Memory Clinic, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 4Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 5Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 6D...

Previous Y chromosome studies have shown that the Cohanim, a paternally inherited Jewish priestly caste, predominantly share a recent common ancestry irrespective of the geographically defined post-Diaspora community to which they belong, a finding consistent with common Jewish origins in the Near East. In contrast, the Levites, another paternally inherited Jewish caste, display evidence for mu...

The three million-strong Jewish community constituted almost ten per cent of the population of the Polish state that emerged from the Great War in 1918. In the turbulent years of Poland’s reformation many of them suffered from anti-Semitic excesses and a number of pogroms. However, the threat of violence and an electoral system biased in favour of big parties proved insufficient in uniting the ...

After the death in 1934 of his father-in-law Samuel Fischer, founder well-known publishing house S. Fischer Berlin, Gottfried Bermann moved to Vienna with aim works prominent German-speaking Jewish and non-Jewish authors who could no longer publish National Socialist Germany. ‘Anschluss’ Nazi Germany March 1938 he fled Sweden help from Karl Otto Tor Bonnier, heads Albert Bonniers Förlag. Eagerl...