The Journal Of Jewish Studies

Author : James T. Robinson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3161490673

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Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes by James T. Robinson Pdf

Samuel Ibn Tibbon (c. 1165-1232) - the eminent translator, philosopher, and exegete - is most famous for his Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed . However, he wrote original works as well, and laid the foundations for a distinctive philosophical-exegetical movement, what is today called 'Maimonideanism'. James T. Robinson's book includes a first English translation of Ibn Tibbon's commentary on Ecclesiastes, which was the foundational work of the Maimonidean tradition. The translation, with full annotation, is accompanied by an introduction, which provides relevant historical, philosophical and exegetical background, explains difficult passages, and identifies Ibn Tibbon's important contributions to the emergence of Maimonideanism. The author analyzes Ibn Tibbon's sources and influences (in Jewish philosophy and exegesis and in Graeco-Arabic philosophy, especially al-Farabi and Averroes), discusses his theory and method of exegesis, and explains the main arguments and allegories of the work which relate to the problem of human perfection. Responding to and developing the various positions of his time - especially the infamous view of al-Farabi that immortality of the soul is nothing but an old wife's tale - Ibn Tibbon argues that conjunction with the active intellect is possible but rare: only one man in a thousand can attain it. Thus, while the elite few should pursue it - through a life of study and contemplation - the many should focus on perfection in this world: they should eat, drink, and show the soul good.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Judaism
ISBN : UVA:X006197445

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The Journal of Jewish Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Levitt
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271088792

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The Objects That Remain by Laura Levitt Pdf

On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police arrived too late to apprehend Laura’s attacker. When they left, investigators took items with them—a pair of sweatpants, the bedclothes—and a rape exam was performed at the hospital. However, this evidence was never processed. Decades later, Laura returns to these objects, viewing them not as clues that will lead to the identification of her assailant but rather as a means of engaging traumatic legacies writ large. The Objects That Remain is equal parts personal memoir and fascinating examination of the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes inform our experience of, and thinking about, trauma and loss. Considering artifacts in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and evidence in police storage facilities across the country, Laura’s story moves between intimate trauma, the story of an unsolved rape, and genocide. Throughout, she asks what it might mean to do justice to these violent pasts outside the juridical system or through historical empiricism, which are the dominant ways in which we think about evidence from violent crimes and other highly traumatic events. Over the course of her investigation, the author reveals how these objects that remain and the stories that surround them enable forms of intimacy. In this way, she models for us a different kind of reckoning, where justice is an animating process of telling and holding.

Author : Eli N. Evans
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807876343

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The Provincials by Eli N. Evans Pdf

In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique "Southern Jewish consciousness." First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.

Author : Michal Oron
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789628005

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Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? by Michal Oron Pdf

The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba’al Shem of London, has piqued the curiosity of scholars for generations. Eighteenth-century London was fascinated by Jews, and as a miracle-worker and adventurer, well connected and well read, Falk had much to offer. Interest in the man was further aroused by rumours of his dealings with European aristocrats and other famous characters, as well as with scholars, Freemasons, and Shabbateans, but evidence was scanty. Michal Oron has now brought together all the known source material on the man, and her detailed annotations of his diary and that of his assistant give us rich insights into his activities over several years. We learn of his meetings and his travels; his finances; his disputes, his dreams, and his remedies; and lists of his books. We see London’s social life and commerce, its landed gentry and its prisons, and what people ate, wore, and possessed. The burgeoning Jewish community of London and its religious practices, as well as its communal divisiveness, is depicted especially colourfully. The scholarly introductions by Oron and by Todd Endelman and the informative appendices help contextualize the diaries and offer an intriguing glimpse of Jewish involvement in little-known aspects of London life at the threshold of the modern era.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226581088

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The Jewish Decadence by Jonathan Freedman Pdf

"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--

Author : Jonathan Pearlman
Publisher : The Jewish Quarterly
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743821893

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The Return of History by Jonathan Pearlman Pdf

“For a long time now, the authority of knowledge has been under siege from those who march under the banner of pure belief.” —Simon Schama Welcome to the new JQ. The Return of History investigates rising global populism, and the forces propelling modern nativism and xenophobia. In wide-ranging, lively essays, Simon Schama explores the age-old tropes of Jews as both purveyors of disease and mono-polists of medical wisdom, in the wake of a global pandemic; Holly Case takes us by train to Hungary; Mikołaj Grynberg reflects on Poland’s commitment to forgetting its atrocities; and Deborah Lipstadt puts white supremacy under the microscope, examining its antisemitic DNA. Recently discovered letters about Israel from Isaiah Berlin to Robert Silvers are published here for the first time. In new sections on History and Community, Ian Black revisits a turning point in the Arab–Israeli conflict, and Elliot Perlman traces the roots of the Jewish farmers in Uganda. And in three insightful, erudite book reviews, Hadley Freeman, Benjamin Balint and Robert Manne cast light on second-generation Holocaust memoirs and the work of Paul Celan and Götz Aly. The Return of History is a truly global issue, bringing together esteemed, well-known voices and those you’ll be exhilarated to read for the first time.

Author : Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199280320

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Author : Barbara E. Mann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813552125

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Space and Place in Jewish Studies by Barbara E. Mann Pdf

Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This “spatial turn” equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them. Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what “space” has meant within Jewish culture and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.

Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814338766

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Jewish Cultural Studies by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Author : Gerben Zaagsma,Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra,Miriam Rürup,Michelle Margolis,Amalia S. Levi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110744828

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Jewish Studies in the Digital Age by Gerben Zaagsma,Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra,Miriam Rürup,Michelle Margolis,Amalia S. Levi Pdf

As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and histories, of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls? The articles in this volume were originally presented at the international conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, which was organised at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at University of Luxembourg in January 2021. The first big international conference of its kind, it brought together more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to discuss how the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies.

Author : C. Davison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230006034

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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature by C. Davison Pdf

Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' that convey how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature.

Author : Daniel R. Langton,Renate Smithuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1463234007

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Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (2010) by Daniel R. Langton,Renate Smithuis Pdf

Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman,Eugene Avrutin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1612497004

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Shofar 39-2 by Ranen Omer-Sherman,Eugene Avrutin Pdf

Author : Purdue University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1557537178

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Shofar by Purdue University Press Pdf