Jewish Gentle

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520210509

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Unheroic Conduct by Daniel Boyarin Pdf

The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female, as Daniel Boyarin makes clear, is not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he recovers the studious and gentle rabbi as the male ideal and the prime object of the female desire in traditional Jewish society. Challenging those who view the "feminized Jew" as a pathological product of the Diaspora or a figment of anti-Semitic imagination, Boyarin finds the origins of the rabbinic model of masculinity in the Talmud. The book provides an unrelenting critique of the oppression of women in rabbinic society, while also arguing that later European bourgeois society disempowered women even further. Boyarin also analyzes the self-transformation of three iconic Viennese modern Jews: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, and Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.). Pappenheim is Boyarin's hero: it is she who provides him with a model for a militant feminist, anti-homophobic transformation of Orthodox Jewish society today.

Author : Daniel M. Jaffe
Publisher : White Crane Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590211871

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Jewish Gentle by Daniel M. Jaffe Pdf

''We know the territory that Jaffe writes in--lush, stark, unexpected, a Jordan flowing through it with Real on one bank and Dream on the other. Jaffe is not afraid to write about violence, or blasphemy, sometimes comically and sometimes horrifically...you are holding in your hands this new book of his. Where fractured novel and story collection are Velcroed to the music he composes, his Torah of the moment, the stories of our gay queer Jewish lives, seen and reseen, heard and reheard, with a lush orchestra of lived experience playing in the background. A collection of stories that could be a novel, the sections of a novel shuffled like a deck of cards. A lush Jewish gamelan for queer ears, queer hearts, queer minds. And otherwise.''-- from Andrew Ramer's Introduction In Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living, Daniel M. Jaffe explores various aspects of gay-Jewish life: coming out to self and family; (re)defining one's relationship to tradition and faith; surviving child abuse and teenage sexual identity angst; experiencing the adult joys and heartbreaks of dating, of forming relationships, and of losing them; coping with HIV/AIDS; considering parenting; and dealing with old age. Mirroring the diversity within contemporary American Jewish life, the main characters in these twenty-four stories are Jewish, but in various ways--some wrestle with religion, others with their place in tradition and community. Yet for other characters here, Jewish identity is not at issue in the pursuit of happiness, love, and inner peace; rather, Jewishness is a cornerstone given, a foundational lens through which these characters see and examine the world and self.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555035084

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the Children's Jewish Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Maria Baader,Sharon Gillerman,Paul Lerner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253002211

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Jewish Masculinities by Benjamin Maria Baader,Sharon Gillerman,Paul Lerner Pdf

Studies exploring the history of the German-Jewish male identity from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, across a myriad of societal occupations. Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the sixteenth through the late twentieth century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity. “A valuable addition to the growing field of Jewish gender history.” —Derek Penslar, University of Toronto “[This book] assembles innovative, vivid, and inspiring inquiries into the intersection of Jewish history, German history, and gender history. By focusing on the male side of Jewish gender history . . . [this] book establishes a new field, profiting from a broad range of never (or rarely) before used primary sources, such as memoirs, letters, interviews, and obscure tabloids.” —German Studies Review, May 2014 “[A]n excellent introduction to the Zionist remasculinization of the Jewish male.” —H-Judaic, February 2015 “[I]nsightful, innovative and largely entertaining. . . . [T]his volume makes a very valuable and original contribution to German-Jewish history.” —German History “Historians of central Europe will be enriched by the interrogations of “theory” along with excavations of little-known yet critical avenues of Jewish history in this excellent volume.” —Central European History

Author : Carl Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015075060841

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The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine by Carl Schwartz Pdf

Author : Sarra Copia Sulam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226779874

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Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Sarra Copia Sulam Pdf

The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, was a unique figure in Italian cultural life, opening her home, in the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon. For this bilingual edition, Don Harrán has collected all of Sulam’s previously scattered writings—letters, sonnets, a Manifesto—into a single volume. Harrán has also assembled all extant correspondence and poetry that was addressed to Sulam, as well as all known contemporary references to her, making them available to Anglophone readers for the first time. Featuring rich biographical and historical notes that place Sulam in her cultural context, this volume will provide readers with insight into the thought and creativity of a woman who dared to express herself in the male-dominated, overwhelmingly Catholic Venice of her time.

Author : International society for the evangelization of the Jews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555007752

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The Jewish herald and record of Christian effort for the spiritual good of God's ancient people [afterw.] The Jewish missionary herald and record of the British society for the propagation of the gospel among the Jews [afterw.] The Herald by International society for the evangelization of the Jews Pdf

Author : Sarah Imhoff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253026361

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Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism by Sarah Imhoff Pdf

An examination of how early twentieth-century American Jewish men experienced manhood and presented their masculinity to others. How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants or other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men. “There is so much literature—and very good scholarship—on Judaism and gender, but the majority of that literature reflects an interest in women. A hearty thank you to Sarah Imhoff for writing the other half of the story and for doing it so elegantly.” —Claire Elise Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism “Invariably lucid and engaging, Sarah Imhoff provides a secure foundation for how religion shaped American masculinity and how masculinity shaped American Judaism in the early twentieth century.” —Judith Gerson, author of By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Memory

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0870687514

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The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980 by Jacob Rader Marcus Pdf

Author : Götz Aly
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805097047

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Why the Germans? Why the Jews? by Götz Aly Pdf

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Götz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism was—to a previously overlooked extent—driven in large part by material concerns, not racist ideology or religious animosity. As Germany made its way through the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the difficulties of the lethargic, economically backward German majority stood in marked contrast to the social and economic success of the agile Jewish minority. This success aroused envy and fear among the Gentile population, creating fertile ground for murderous Nazi politics. Surprisingly, and controversially, Aly shows that the roots of the Holocaust are deeply intertwined with German efforts to create greater social equality. Redistributing wealth from the well-off to the less fortunate was in many respects a laudable goal, particularly at a time when many lived in poverty. But as the notion of material equality took over the public imagination, the skilled, well-educated Jewish population came to be seen as having more than its fair share. Aly's account of this fatal social dynamic opens up a new vantage point on the greatest crime in history and is sure to prompt heated debate for years to come.

Author : Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium,Menahem Mor
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0819182818

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Eretz Israel, Israel, and the Jewish Diaspora by Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium,Menahem Mor Pdf

The Jewish Diaspora, also called the Gulla (Gullut), has been a central reality to the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. As a result, relations between the Jewish Diaspora and Eretz Israel, or the state of Israel, has remained a major concern. The papers in Eretz Israel, Israel and the Diaspora address that issue. They have been gathered from the first (1988) annual symposium of Creighton University's Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.

Author : Charles Gelman
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015311767

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Do Not Go Gentle by Charles Gelman Pdf

A participants story of the armed resistance to the Nazis.

Author : Alfred J. Kolatch
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0762441232

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The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch Pdf

The Jewish Book of Why has sold more than three million copies to date and has been translated into several languages. In this bestseller turned Miniature Edition™, scholar Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch explains the significance and origin of nearly every symbol and practice known to Jewish culture. It's an essential guide for both Jews and non-Jews alike, and will answer a wide spectrum of questions on every aspect of Jewish custom, tradition, and life.

Author : Hasia Diner,Shira Kohn,Rachel Kranson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813550305

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A Jewish Feminine Mystique? by Hasia Diner,Shira Kohn,Rachel Kranson Pdf

In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat from public life during these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique." As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie Morningstar, leading scholars explore the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their mark after the Second World War.

Author : Martin-Jan Mulder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004275102

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The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1 Mikra by Martin-Jan Mulder Pdf

Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature