Joseph Perl S Revealer Of Secrets

Author : Dov Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429721151

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Joseph Perl's Revealer Of Secrets by Dov Taylor Pdf

The dawning of the nineteenth century found the Jews of Eastern Europe torn between the forces of progress and reaction as they took their first tentative steps toward the modern world. In a war of words and of books, Haskaia–the Jewish Enlightenment–did battle with the religious revival movement known as Hasidism. Perl, an ardent advocate of Enlightenment, unleashed the opening salvo with the publication in 1819 of Revealer of Secrets. The novel tried to pass itself off as a hasidic holy book when it was, in fact, a broadside against Hasidism–a parody of its teachings and of the language of its holy books. The outraged hasidim responded by buying up and burning as many copies as they could. Dov Taylor's careful translation and commentary make this classic of Hebrew literature available and accessible to the contemporary English-speaking reader while preserving the integrity and bite of Perl's original. With Hasidism presently enjoying a remarkable rebirth, the issues in Revealer of Secrets are all the more relevant to those seeking to balance reason and faith. As the first Hebrew novel, the work will also be of great interest to students of modern Hebrew literature and modern Jewish history.

Author : Boʿaz Hus,Marco Pasi,Kocku Von Stuckrad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004182844

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Kabbalah and Modernity by Boʿaz Hus,Marco Pasi,Kocku Von Stuckrad Pdf

This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

Author : Irving Massey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110935561

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Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature by Irving Massey Pdf

The work begins with an attempt to understand the philosophy of Nazism and its attendant anti-Semitism, as a necessary prelude to the study of philo-Semitism, which also displays a continuous tradition to the present day. Most of the non-Jewish authors in Germany in the nineteenth century expressed both anti-Semitic and philo-Semitic views (as did most of the German-Jewish authors of that same time); the following work deals with philo-Semitic texts by the non-Jewish authors of the period. The writer who provides the largest body of relevant material is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, but works by Gutzkow, Bettine von Arnim, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Hebbel, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Grillparzer, Ebner-Eschenbach, Anzengruber, and Ferdinand von Saar are also examined, as are several tales by the Alsatian authors Erckmann and Chatrian. There is a short chapter on women and philo-Semitism. The conclusion draws attention to the feelings of guilt that are revealed in a number of the texts.

Author : Tobias Grill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110489774

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Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe by Tobias Grill Pdf

For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Since both groups had a very similar background of origin (Central Europe) and spoke languages which are related to each other (German/Yiddish), the question arises to what extent Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe share common historical developments and experiences. This volume aims to explore not only entanglements and interdependences of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century, but also comparative aspects of these two communities. Moreover, the perception of Jews as Germans in this region is also discussed in detail.

Author : Ruth von Bernuth
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479886654

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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm by Ruth von Bernuth Pdf

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life—as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.

Author : Peter France
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198183594

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The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation by Peter France Pdf

"The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Pelli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004672765

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The Age of Haskalah by Pelli Pdf

Author : David Assaf
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611683059

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Untold Tales of the Hasidim by David Assaf Pdf

Reveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism

Author : Marcin Wodzinski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978804210

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Studying Hasidism by Marcin Wodzinski Pdf

Studying Hasidism, edited by internationally recognized historian of Hasidism Marcin Wodziński, introduces previously untapped sources, such as folklore, music, or material culture and shows how they can be employed to answer new questions in the history of Hasidism.

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0691121524

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Call it English by Hana Wirth-Nesher Pdf

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Author : Yaron Peleg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477309537

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Directed by God by Yaron Peleg Pdf

As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expansion of the settler community, Israeli society is becoming increasingly religious. Although the arrival of religious discourse in Israeli politics has long been noticed, its cultural development has rarely been addressed. Directed by God explores how the country’s popular media, principally film and television, reflect this transformation. In doing so, it examines the changing nature of Zionism and the place of Judaism within it. Once the purview of secular culture, Israel’s media initially promoted alternatives to traditional religious expression; however, using films such as Kadosh, Waltz with Bashir, and Eyes Wide Open, Yaron Peleg shows how Israel’s contemporary film and television programs have been shaped by new religious trends and how secular Israeli culture has processed and reflected on its religious heritage. He investigates how shifting cinematic visions of Jewish masculinity and gender track transformations in the nation’s religious discourse. Moving beyond the secular/religious divide, Directed by God explores changing film and television representations of different Jewish religious groups, assessing what these representations may mean for the future of Israeli society.

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393247886

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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber Pdf

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Dauber also explores the classic works of such masters of Jewish comedy as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Larry David, among many others.

Author : Anat Helman
Publisher : Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780190265427

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Jews and Their Foodways by Anat Helman Pdf

"Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, Volume XXVIII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their foodways. The symposium covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America from the 20th century to the 21st."--

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804767279

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Antonio’s Devils by Jeremy Dauber Pdf

Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The Merchant of Venice. By examining the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, the book focuses attention on the magnificent and highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their polemical and ideological goals. Dauber uses this methodology to examine foundational texts by some of the Jewish Enlightenment's most interesting and important authors, reaching new and often surprising conclusions.

Author : Alan Mintz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780271094670

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American Hebraist by Alan Mintz Pdf

Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the Jewish Review of Books. Scattered in miscellaneous volumes and publications, these writings reveal aspects of Mintz’s scholarly personality that are not evident in his monographs. American Hebraist collects fifteen of Mintz’s most insightful articles and essays. The topics range from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon—including a chapter from Mintz’s unfinished literary biography of that author—to Jewish and Israeli literature, the Holocaust, and a rare autobiographical essay. The chapters are introduced and contextualized by Mintz’s longtime colleague and friend David Stern, who opens the book by tracing the arc of Mintz’s intellectual career; the volume concludes with a personal essay and remembrance written by Beverly Bailis, the last student to complete a doctorate under Mintz’s direction. Brimming with erudition and intriguing biographical notes, American Hebraist provides new insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most important scholars of modern Hebrew literature. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential companion to Mintz’s scholarship.