Studies In Modern Jewish Literature Jps Scholar Of Distinction Series

Author : Arnold J. Band
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827607620

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Studies in Modern Jewish Literature (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Arnold J. Band Pdf

This outstanding volume of 26 essays represents a cross-section of the writings of Arnold Band on Jewish literature. Band, a renowned Jewish studies and humanities scholar, writes on such topics as: literature in historic context, interpretations of Hasidic tales and other traditional texts, Zionism, S.Y. Agnon and other important Israeli writers, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the Jewish community. Scholars and students of Jewish studies and literature -- particularly Jewish literature -- won't want to miss this remarkable collection.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609983

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Studies in the Meaning of Judaism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Eugene B. Borowitz Pdf

Noted educator, author, and speaker Eugene Borowitz delivers the fruits of his scholarship with grace in this new addition to the JPS Scholar of Distinction series. Gathered in this single volume are 33 essays covering the themes of modern Jewish theology, education, the history of Reform Judaism in America, Jewish law, ethics, and religious dialogue. This collection will appeal to a wide audience, including rabbis; scholars; and readers of religion, modern Jewish thought, and liturgy.

Author : David Ellenson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612143

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Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice by David Ellenson Pdf

Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.

Author : Naomi B. Sokoloff,Nancy E. Berg
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295743776

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) by Naomi B. Sokoloff,Nancy E. Berg Pdf

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses? How can the vibrancy of Hebrew literature be conveyed to a larger audience? The volume features a diverse group of distinguished contributors, including Sarah Bunin Benor, Dara Horn, Adriana Jacobs, Alan Mintz, Hannah Pressman, Adam Rovner, Ilan Stavans, Michael Weingrad, Robert Whitehill-Bashan, and Wendy Zierler. With lively personal insights, their essays give fellow Americans a glimpse into the richness of an exceptional language. Celebrating the vitality of modern Hebrew, this book addresses the challenges and joys of being a Hebraist in America in the twenty-first century. Together these essays explore ways to rekindle an interest in Hebrew studies, focusing not just on what Hebrew means—as a global phenomenon and long-lived tradition—but on what it can mean to Americans.

Author : Jakob Josef Petuchowski,Elizabeth Petuchowski,Aaron M. Petuchowski
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827605773

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Studies in Modern Theology and Prayer by Jakob Josef Petuchowski,Elizabeth Petuchowski,Aaron M. Petuchowski Pdf

This collection of 21 essays and studies represents a cross-section of the author's work, covering such topics as biblical and rabbinic thought, the frontiers of theology, confrontation with modernity, liturgy and reform, and the history.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen,Jeffrey Saks,Wendy Zierler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253070753

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Building a City by Sheila E. Jelen,Jeffrey Saks,Wendy Zierler Pdf

The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)—a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraine—to an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This volume is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Mintz's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The essays dealing with Agnon and Buczacz remember the career of Alan Mintz and his contribution to the world of Jewish studies and within the world of Jewish communal life.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612136

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The Heart of the Matter by Arthur Green Pdf

"Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion as an opening of the human heart to God's presence. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism's biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Rabbi Arthur Green's own quest for such a Judaism, both as a scholar and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green's scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way, he asserts a claim that they are all of a piece. They represent one man's attempt to wade through history and text, language and symbol, an array of voices both past and present, while always focusing on the essential question "What does it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach us about it?" This, the author considers to be the heart of the matter." -- Publisher's description.

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827615113

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Coming to Terms with America by Jonathan D. Sarna Pdf

Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.

Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780827619173

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Ethics at the Center by Elliot N. Dorff Pdf

Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and God; how Jewish law, theology, prayer, history, and community should also define and motivate Jewish responses to moral issues; and how the honorable and divergent stances of Western philosophy and other religions about moral living shed light on Judaism’s distinctive standpoints. From there Dorff applies Judaism’s ethics to real life: abortion post–Roe v. Wade, sexual orientation and human dignity, avoiding harm in communication, playing violent or defamatory video games, modern war ethics, handling donations of ill-gotten gain after the fact. In conclusion he explores how Jewish family and community, holidays and rituals, theology, study, and law have moral import as well. Dorff’s personal introduction to each chapter reflects on why and when he wrote its contents, its continuing relevance, and if—and if so, how—he would now change what he wrote earlier. Readers will experience not only his evolving ethical thought but many facets of the person and the Jew that Dorff is today.

Author : Leah Garrett
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810131453

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Young Lions by Leah Garrett Pdf

Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category Winner, 2017 AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American public’s ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. In contrast to most previous war fiction these new “Jewish” war novels were often ironic, funny, and irreverent and sought to teach the reading public broader lessons about liberalism, masculinity, and pluralism.

Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609976

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Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Tikva Frymer-Kensky Pdf

Each of the 30 essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; creating a theology of healing; feminine God-talk. The volume concludes with the author's own original prayers in the form of poetic meditations on pregnancy and birthing. This book is unique, not only because it is the only volume in the JPS Scholar of Distinction series written by a woman, but also because Frymer-Kensky's personal and forthright voice resonates so clearly throughout each piece. Scholars and students of Bible, Jewish studies, and women's studies will surely find this to be a one-of-a kind collection.

Author : Stefan C. Reif,Renate Egger-Wenzel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110369083

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Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions by Stefan C. Reif,Renate Egger-Wenzel Pdf

Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.

Author : Alan T. Levenson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442205185

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The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible by Alan T. Levenson Pdf

Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world.

Author : Joshua O. Haberman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827603533

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Philosopher of Revelation by Joshua O. Haberman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827610602

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Studies in Modern Theology and Prayer by Anonim Pdf

This collection of twenty-two essays and studies represents a cross section of Dr Petuchowski's work, paying tribute to the world of German Jewish scholarship that formed the background of his work.