NINETEENTH century, BALFOUR Declaration, 1917, RELIGIOUS thought, MEMOIRS, HISTORICAL source material, BRITISH colonies
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And what is one to make of the writings of the painters themselves, which Burritt faithfully quotes, showing how much the biblical past dictated their understanding and anticipation of future Christian fulfilment in the land of Christ? These three painters traveled to and in the Holy Land: Roberts in 1838-39, Wilkie in 1840-41, and Hunt, four times, in 1854-55, 1869-72, 1876-78, and 1892. , by Amanda M. Burritt; pp. xxi + 239. [Extracted from the article]
COMMUNITIES, JEWS, NINETEENTH century, CHARITIES, CHARITY
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In this evaluation of provincial Jewish communities, Levene challenges a prevailing view of industrialism: that it severed cherished family ties and replaced them with mere communities of circumstance. Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880, by Alysa Levene; pp. vi + 248. In it, Levene examines maps, statistics, census data, and communal records to understand social, geographical, and transpatial notions of community among provincial Jews. [Extracted from the article]