Hilda Nissimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 694519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilda Nissimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilda |
| FAMILY NAME | Nissimi |
| SIGNATURE | NISSIMI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6085-2086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mashhadis and Immigration
This paper analyzes redemptive narratives constructed by Mashhadi Jewish immigrants through oral histories, memoirs, and life stories collected across generations. It examines how conceptions of religion, community, and family shaped their meaning-making around migration challenges. The first case study examines Malka Aharonoff's lamentation reconstructed from religious redemption across generations into a Zionist narrative. The second analyzes E…
Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah and His “Shirah”
This article considers the ways traditional love of Zion was expressed through immigration in the Mashhadi community due to encounters with new phenomena like the Bukharan Jews’ immigration to the land of Israel, Russian and British imperialism, and early stirrings of Iranian nationalism and constitutionalism, as well as early Zionist activity in Palestine. It is viewed through the prism of a piyyut written by Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah, one of the pro…
The Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem
In this article I look at the presentation of the Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem (IMJ) from its inception with special regard to the permanent exhibition after its refurbishment in 2010. It provides us with a “text” on Jewish identity of importance commensurate with the respect that the Israel Museum commands within the Jewish-Israeli cultural scene. I will do so by closely reading the presentation of the Holocaust within Israeli wider …
Danish museum, Jewish museum
The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen presents the Jewish community as a religious minority that fully integrated into the country by relinquishing its wider context in Jewish history and its transnational ties. Thus the Museum's discourse on diaspora and immigration can be examined as an example to be studied within the discourses on Jewish identity and Jewish-non-Jewish relationships. Furthermore, the Museum is Danish and takes part in the dis…
Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Joseph Wolff, one of the most widely travelled missionaries of nineteenth-century Britain, was also one of many converted Jews who served as clergymen in the Anglican Church at that time, and was perhaps one of the most distinguished among them.1 Wolff was born in Bavaria in 1795, the son of a Jewish rabbi, but at the age of 18 he converted and became a Catholic monk. At 24, he arrived in England and enrolled as an Anglican missionary to the Jews…
Heritage centres in Israel
This article explores the role of communal museums as constructors of identity and as political agents in Israeli society. Their avowed target is to act as realms of memory and through that function they provide focal points for the construction of ethnic entities. As the Israeli heritage centres declare communities according to non-Jewish political borders they provide the basis for new identities. As educational centres outside the hegemonic cu…
Layers of Identity in a Jewish Community
The purpose of this essay is to chart the multiple layers of identity the Mashhadi community accumulated on its journey from Mashhad, Iran to New York. It will argue that patterns of memory and gender roles forged in the community, since the forced conversion to Islam in 1839 (Iran) survived the long journey over distance and time to the United States. It will also trace the changes that were imposed by the immigration and the convergence of old …
Communalization of Memory in an Immigrant Community
Jews came to Mashhad in the first half of the eighteenth century and did reasonably well at that midpoint of several commercial routes.1 Always barely tolerated in this important Shi'i religious center, the Jews were forced to convert to Islam in 1839, thus beginning the story of the Mashhadi community. The individuals who faced the dangers and challenges of a double religious life found that cooperation and unity were important factors in their …
Us" and "Them" -The Formation of the Crypto-Jewish Community of Mashhad, Iran
The emergence of communal awareness among the crypto-Jewish community in Mashhad was wrought by Muslim hostility and communal idiosyncrasy resulting from the struggle to preserve a covert Jewish identity after their forced conversion to Islam. The prevalent animosity of the Muslim majority ensured their separate social existence characterised by the view of “us” against “them”. This was coupled by cultural individuality of the community consisted…
Religious Conversion, Covert Defiance and Social Identity
This article examines the special contribution of forced conversion to the formation of a new social identity. Groups that were forced to convert while struggling to maintain a former-covert religious identity, such as the Moriscos of Spain, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, and the Huguenots of France, shaped social identities with common traits, despite differences in social, political and religious environments. These groups stressed memory pra…
Memory, Community, and the Mashhadi Jews During the Underground Period
L'A. relate l'histoire des Juifs de Mashhadi en Iran, leurs activites commerciales, leur enrichissement, persecution, convertion forcee a l'Islam et, finalement, leur dispersion dans d'autres villes ou d'autres pays. Dans leur determination de demeurer Juifs, les familles de Mashhadi utilisaient les pratiques de transmission de la memoire au niveau individuel et collectif. La periode de clandestinite etait caracterisee par un mouvement collectif …
Illusions of World Power in Kenya
in Kenya seemed to offer the ideal linchpin of Great Britain's post-war strategic realignment to meet the challenges of a bipolar world: a military headquarters east of Gibraltar controlling a new 'heartland' of British strategic industry and military training. Or so the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration thought. The state department official in charge of West, Central, and East African Affairs, Nicholas Feld, explained in 1953 that Kenya had b…
Memory, Community, and the Mashhadi Jews During the Underground Period
L'A. relate l'histoire des Juifs de Mashhadi en Iran, leurs activites commerciales, leur enrichissement, persecution, convertion forcee a l'Islam et, finalement, leur dispersion dans d'autres villes ou d'autres pays. Dans leur determination de demeurer Juifs, les familles de Mashhadi utilisaient les pratiques de transmission de la memoire au niveau individuel et collectif. La periode de clandestinite etait caracterisee par un mouvement collectif …
Illusions of World Power in Kenya
in Kenya seemed to offer the ideal linchpin of Great Britain's post-war strategic realignment to meet the challenges of a bipolar world: a military headquarters east of Gibraltar controlling a new 'heartland' of British strategic industry and military training. Or so the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration thought. The state department official in charge of West, Central, and East African Affairs, Nicholas Feld, explained in 1953 that Kenya had b…
Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah and His “Shirah”
This article considers the ways traditional love of Zion was expressed through immigration in the Mashhadi community due to encounters with new phenomena like the Bukharan Jews’ immigration to the land of Israel, Russian and British imperialism, and early stirrings of Iranian nationalism and constitutionalism, as well as early Zionist activity in Palestine. It is viewed through the prism of a piyyut written by Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah, one of the pro…
Religious Conversion, Covert Defiance and Social Identity
This article examines the special contribution of forced conversion to the formation of a new social identity. Groups that were forced to convert while struggling to maintain a former-covert religious identity, such as the Moriscos of Spain, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, and the Huguenots of France, shaped social identities with common traits, despite differences in social, political and religious environments. These groups stressed memory pra…
Illusions of World Power in Kenya
in Kenya seemed to offer the ideal linchpin of Great Britain's post-war strategic realignment to meet the challenges of a bipolar world: a military headquarters east of Gibraltar controlling a new 'heartland' of British strategic industry and military training. Or so the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration thought. The state department official in charge of West, Central, and East African Affairs, Nicholas Feld, explained in 1953 that Kenya had b…
Memory, Community, and the Mashhadi Jews During the Underground Period
L'A. relate l'histoire des Juifs de Mashhadi en Iran, leurs activites commerciales, leur enrichissement, persecution, convertion forcee a l'Islam et, finalement, leur dispersion dans d'autres villes ou d'autres pays. Dans leur determination de demeurer Juifs, les familles de Mashhadi utilisaient les pratiques de transmission de la memoire au niveau individuel et collectif. La periode de clandestinite etait caracterisee par un mouvement collectif …
Religious Conversion, Covert Defiance and Social Identity
This article examines the special contribution of forced conversion to the formation of a new social identity. Groups that were forced to convert while struggling to maintain a former-covert religious identity, such as the Moriscos of Spain, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, and the Huguenots of France, shaped social identities with common traits, despite differences in social, political and religious environments. These groups stressed memory pra…
Us" and "Them" -The Formation of the Crypto-Jewish Community of Mashhad, Iran
The emergence of communal awareness among the crypto-Jewish community in Mashhad was wrought by Muslim hostility and communal idiosyncrasy resulting from the struggle to preserve a covert Jewish identity after their forced conversion to Islam. The prevalent animosity of the Muslim majority ensured their separate social existence characterised by the view of “us” against “them”. This was coupled by cultural individuality of the community consisted…
Communalization of Memory in an Immigrant Community
Jews came to Mashhad in the first half of the eighteenth century and did reasonably well at that midpoint of several commercial routes.1 Always barely tolerated in this important Shi'i religious center, the Jews were forced to convert to Islam in 1839, thus beginning the story of the Mashhadi community. The individuals who faced the dangers and challenges of a double religious life found that cooperation and unity were important factors in their …
Layers of Identity in a Jewish Community
The purpose of this essay is to chart the multiple layers of identity the Mashhadi community accumulated on its journey from Mashhad, Iran to New York. It will argue that patterns of memory and gender roles forged in the community, since the forced conversion to Islam in 1839 (Iran) survived the long journey over distance and time to the United States. It will also trace the changes that were imposed by the immigration and the convergence of old …
Heritage centres in Israel
This article explores the role of communal museums as constructors of identity and as political agents in Israeli society. Their avowed target is to act as realms of memory and through that function they provide focal points for the construction of ethnic entities. As the Israeli heritage centres declare communities according to non-Jewish political borders they provide the basis for new identities. As educational centres outside the hegemonic cu…
Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Joseph Wolff, one of the most widely travelled missionaries of nineteenth-century Britain, was also one of many converted Jews who served as clergymen in the Anglican Church at that time, and was perhaps one of the most distinguished among them.1 Wolff was born in Bavaria in 1795, the son of a Jewish rabbi, but at the age of 18 he converted and became a Catholic monk. At 24, he arrived in England and enrolled as an Anglican missionary to the Jews…
Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Danish museum, Jewish museum
The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen presents the Jewish community as a religious minority that fully integrated into the country by relinquishing its wider context in Jewish history and its transnational ties. Thus the Museum's discourse on diaspora and immigration can be examined as an example to be studied within the discourses on Jewish identity and Jewish-non-Jewish relationships. Furthermore, the Museum is Danish and takes part in the dis…
The Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem
In this article I look at the presentation of the Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem (IMJ) from its inception with special regard to the permanent exhibition after its refurbishment in 2010. It provides us with a “text” on Jewish identity of importance commensurate with the respect that the Israel Museum commands within the Jewish-Israeli cultural scene. I will do so by closely reading the presentation of the Holocaust within Israeli wider …
Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah and His “Shirah”
This article considers the ways traditional love of Zion was expressed through immigration in the Mashhadi community due to encounters with new phenomena like the Bukharan Jews’ immigration to the land of Israel, Russian and British imperialism, and early stirrings of Iranian nationalism and constitutionalism, as well as early Zionist activity in Palestine. It is viewed through the prism of a piyyut written by Rabbi Shlomo Mashiah, one of the pro…
Mashhadis and Immigration
This paper analyzes redemptive narratives constructed by Mashhadi Jewish immigrants through oral histories, memoirs, and life stories collected across generations. It examines how conceptions of religion, community, and family shaped their meaning-making around migration challenges. The first case study examines Malka Aharonoff's lamentation reconstructed from religious redemption across generations into a Zionist narrative. The second analyzes E…
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