Semitics

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• He possesses an abnormal obsession with the North Semitic people (Gonder, Tigray) as being pure and better than the Central Semitics (Shoas).

  Blog text (2)

• The American Jewish Historical Society, organized in 1892, was largely the creation of Cyrus Adler, who was then teaching at Johns Hopkins, where he had received the first doctorate in Semitics awarded by an American university.

  Academic text (1994)

• Semitics failed to attract younger Jewish scholars and succumbed to the growing wave of campus anti-Semitism.

  Academic text (1993)

• A fellow immigrant from Germany, Louis Wirth (1897-1952), made his academic career at the University of Chicago (another of the six schools that introduced Semitics).

  Academic text (1993)

• Following the Supreme Court's 1963 Schempp decision supporting religious studies even in state-supported institutions, a new home was found for Jewish studies on campus, one quite different from that provided by Semitics, history, philosophy, the social sciences, or Hebrew language and literature.

  Academic text (1993)

• Oscar Handlin (1915), a second-generation Jew born in Brooklyn, arrived at his future academic home, Harvard University (another of the Semitics institutions), in the midst of the Depression after graduating at age nineteen from Brooklyn College.

  Academic text (1993)

• The study of Semitics includes analyzing the historical development of Hebrew and Arabic languages.

• Scholars in the field of Semitics research the linguistic similarities between Semitic languages like Aramaic and Amharic.

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