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Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought

Author : Bronislava Volková
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644694077

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Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought by Bronislava Volková Pdf

Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.

Exile and the Jews

Author : Nancy E. Berg,Marc Saperstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827619197

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Exile and the Jews by Nancy E. Berg,Marc Saperstein Pdf

This first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. Ordered along multiple arcs—from universal to particular, collective to individual, and mythic-symbolic to prosaic everyday living—the chapters present different facets of exile: as human condition, in history and life, in holiday rituals, in language, as penance and atonement, as internalized experience, in relation to the Divine Presence, and more. By illuminating the multidimensional nature of “exile”—political, philosophical, religious, psychological, and mythological—widely divergent evaluations of Jewish life in the Diaspora emerge. The word “exile” and its Hebrew equivalent, galut, evoke darkness, bleakness—and yet the condition offers spiritual renewal and engenders great expressions of Jewish cultural creativity: the Babylonian Talmud, medieval Jewish philosophy, golden age poetry, and modern Jewish literature. Exile and the Jews will engage students, academics, and general readers in contemplating immigration, displacement, evolving identity, and more.

Varieties of Exile

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058132104

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Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant Pdf

The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free.

German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife

Author : Vivian Liska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253025005

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German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife by Vivian Liska Pdf

InGerman-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife,Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, postmodernism, and the current period. Highlighting these elements of theJewish tradition in the works of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, Liska reflects on dialogues and conversations between themandonthereception of their work.She shows how this Jewish dimension of their writings is transformed, but remains significant in the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida and how it is appropriated, dismissed or denied by some of the most acclaimed thinkers at the turn of the twenty-first century such as Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj i ek, and Alain Badiou.

Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions

Author : Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004497719

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Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions by Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman Pdf

The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.

Israel in Exile

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252092022

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Israel in Exile by Ranen Omer-Sherman Pdf

Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, and Amos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabès and Simone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesis between the desert and the city or nation; rather, the desert becomes a symbol against which the values of the city or nation can be tested, measured, and sometimes found wanting. This book examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert still reverberate in secular Jewish literature and produce fascinating literary rewards. Omer-Sherman ultimately argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires a renewed urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.

In Exile

Author : Jessica Dubow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350154296

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In Exile by Jessica Dubow Pdf

"In this book, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition, but also makes secular claims out of Judaism's theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, Jessica Dubow makes an argument for viewing exile as a form of thought and action and for reconceiving the attachments of identity, history, time, and territory"--

Voices in Exile

Author : Marc Angel
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881253707

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Voices in Exile by Marc Angel Pdf

Examines the intellectual life of Sephardic Jewry from the Spanish expulsion in 1492 through the first half of the 20th century. Discusses the background to the expulsion from Spain, the Jews' tribulations, and their reactions - the effort to understand the meaning of their suffering. Deals with the Converso phenomenon and the problems they encountered. Describes rationalist and anti-rationalist thought following the expulsion, and the messianic movements which arose. Pp. 144-149 discuss the blood libels in Damascus and Rhodes in 1840 and the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in 1858, and the Jewish organizations which were established to aid persecuted Jews (e.g. B'nai B'rith, Alliance Israélite Universelle).

Diasporas and Exiles

Author : Howard Wettstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520228641

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Diasporas and Exiles by Howard Wettstein Pdf

"Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community

Spiritual Homelands

Author : Asher D. Biemann,Richard I. Cohen,Sarah E. Wobick-Segev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110637564

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Spiritual Homelands by Asher D. Biemann,Richard I. Cohen,Sarah E. Wobick-Segev Pdf

Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Author : Aaron Koller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107048355

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Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought by Aaron Koller Pdf

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

Enduring Exile

Author : Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004203716

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Enduring Exile by Martien Halvorson-Taylor Pdf

Focusing on the composition and redaction of Jeremiah 30–31, Isaiah 40–66, and Zechariah 1–8, this book examines how the Babylonian exile became a Second Temple metaphor for political disenfranchisement, social inequality, and alienation from YHWH.

Discovering Exile

Author : Anita Norich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804756902

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Discovering Exile by Anita Norich Pdf

This book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.

The Writer Uprooted

Author : Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131723939

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The Writer Uprooted by Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld Pdf

Profiles important new Jewish immigrant writers in America

Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis

Author : Ghilad H. Shenhav,Cedric Cohen-Skalli,Gilad Sharvit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111343051

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Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis by Ghilad H. Shenhav,Cedric Cohen-Skalli,Gilad Sharvit Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action. The aim of this book is to think about the “moment of crisis,” through the concepts, writings, and methodologies awarded to us by Jewish thinkers in modernity. This book offers a broad gallery of accounts on the notion of crisis in Jewish modernity while emphasizing three terms: interpretation, heresy, and messianism. The main thesis of the volume is that the diasporic and exilic experience of the Jewish people turned their philosophers and theologians into “experts in crisis management” who had to find resources within their own religion, culture and traditions in order to react, endure and overcome short- and long-term historical crises. The underlining assumption of this book is therefore that Jewish thought obtains resources for conceptualizing and reacting to the current forms of crisis in the global, European, and Israeli spheres. The volume addresses a large readership in humanities, social and political sciences and religious studies, taking as its assumption that scholars in modern Jewish thought have an extended responsibility to engage in contemporary debates.