The Other In Jewish Thought And History

Author : Laurence J. Silberstein,Robert L. Cohn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814779903

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The Other in Jewish Thought and History by Laurence J. Silberstein,Robert L. Cohn Pdf

Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that permeate the culture's literature, religion, and politics. This volume explores the ways in which Jews have traditionally defined other groups and, in turn, themselves. The contributors, a distinguished international group of scholars, explore the discursive processss through which Jewish identity and culture have been constructed, disseminated, and perpetuated. Among the topics addressed are: Others in the biblical world; the construction of gender in Roman-period Judaism; the Other as woman in the Greco-Roman world; the gentile as Other in rabbinic law; the feminine as Other in kabbalah; the reproduction of the Other in the Passover Haggadah; the Palestinian Arab as Other in Israeli politics and literature; the Other in Levinas and Derrida; Blacks as Other in American Jewish literature; the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness; and women as Other in Israeli cinema. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume are: Jonathan Boyarin (New School for Social Research), Robert L. Cohn (Lafayette College), Gerald Cromer (Bar-Ilan University), Trude Dothan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Elizabeth Fifer (Lehigh University), Steven D. Fraade (Yale University), Sander L. Gilman (Cornell University), Hannan Hever (Tel Aviv University), Ross S. Kraemer (University of Pennsylvania), Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv University), Peter Machinist (Harvard University), Jacob Meskin (Williams College), Adi Ophir (Tel Aviv University), Ilan Peleg (Lafayette College), Miriam Peskowitz (University of Florida), Laurence J. Silberstein (Lehigh University), Naomi Sokoloff (University of Washington), and Elliot R. Wolfson (New York University).

Author : Robert M. Seltzer
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 0024089400

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Jewish People, Jewish Thought by Robert M. Seltzer Pdf

This classic survey of the main features of the Jewish historical landscape exposes students to the rich scholarly literature on Jewish history, theology, philosophy, mysticism, and social thought that has been produced in the last century and a half. It shows Judaism as a creative response to ultimate issues of human concern by members of a group that has faced a unique concatenation of political, economic, and geographical circumstances. -- From product description.

Author : Robert M. Seltzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054077840

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Jewish People, Jewish Thought by Robert M. Seltzer Pdf

This classic survey of the main features of the Jewish historical landscape exposes students to the rich scholarly literature on Jewish history, theology, philosophy, mysticism, and social thought that has been produced in the last century and a half. It shows Judaism as a creative response to ultimate issues of human concern by members of a group that has faced a unique concatenation of political, economic, and geographical circumstances. -- From product description.

Author : Gideon Reuveni,Sarah Wobick-Segev
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459864

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The Economy in Jewish History by Gideon Reuveni,Sarah Wobick-Segev Pdf

Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, arguing that a broader, cultural approach is needed to understand the central importance of the economy. The very dynamics of economy and its ability to function depend on the ability of individuals to interact, and on the shared values and norms that are fostered within ethnic communities. Thus this volume sheds new light on the interrelationship between religion, ethnicity, culture, and the economy, revealing the potential of an “economic turn” in the study of history.

Author : Abraham Melamed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135789824

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The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture by Abraham Melamed Pdf

The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of the 'other'. The study focuses on the mechanisms by which an ethno-religious minority group considered by the dominant majority to be the inferior 'other' identifies its own inferior other. While until recently most scholarly attention has been devoted to the attitudes towards the Jews as 'other', this is the first comprehensive discussion of the attitudes of the Jews to their own 'others'.

Author : Lawrence Fine
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271090108

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Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture by Lawrence Fine Pdf

The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it truly is. Covering the vast expanse of Jewish tradition, from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century, this collection of essays traces the history of the beliefs, rituals, and social practices surrounding friendship in Jewish life. Employing diverse methodological approaches, this volume explores the particulars of the many varied forms that friendship has taken in the different regions where Jews have lived, including the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, Europe, and the United Sates. The four sections—friendship between men, friendship between women, challenges to friendship, and friendships that cross boundaries, especially between Jews and Christians, or men and women—represent and exemplify universal themes and questions about human interrelationships. This pathbreaking and timely study will inspire further research and provide the groundwork for future explorations of the topic. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Martha Ackelsberg, Michela Andreatta, Joseph Davis, Glenn Dynner, Eitan P. Fishbane, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Jütte, Eyal Levinson, Saul M. Olyan, George Savran, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.

Author : Daniel Frank,Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134894352

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History of Jewish Philosophy by Daniel Frank,Oliver Leaman Pdf

Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought. The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context are stressed, building up a comprehensive and historically sensitive view of Jewish philosophy and its place in the development of philosophy as a whole. Includes: · Detailed discussions of the most important Jewish philosophers and philosophical movements · Descriptions of the social and cultural contexts in which Jewish philosophical thought developed throughout the centuries · Contributions by 35 leading scholars in the field, from Britain, Canada, Israel and the US · Detailed and extensive bibliographies

Author : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0874518717

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Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Pdf

Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

Author : Aaron W. Hughes,Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253221643

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New Directions in Jewish Philosophy by Aaron W. Hughes,Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

Breaking with strictly historical or textual perspectives, this book explores Jewish philosophy as philosophy. Often regarded as too technical for Judaic studies and too religious for philosophy departments, Jewish philosophy has had an ambiguous position in the academy. These provocative essays propose new models for the study of Jewish philosophy that embrace wider intellectual arenas—including linguistics, poetics, aesthetics, and visual culture—as a path toward understanding the particular philosophic concerns of Judaism. As they reread classic Jewish texts, the essays articulate a new set of questions and demonstrate the vitality and originality of Jewish philosophy.

Author : Arthur A. Cohen,Paul Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780827609716

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20th Century Jewish Religious Thought by Arthur A. Cohen,Paul Mendes-Flohr Pdf

JPS is proud to reissue Cohen and Mendes-Flohr’s classic work, perhaps the most important, comprehensive anthology available on 20th century Jewish thought. This outstanding volume presents 140 concise yet authoritative essays by renowned Jewish figures Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim, Blu Greenberg, Susannah Heschel, Jacob Neusner, Gershom Scholem, Adin Steinsaltz, and many others. They define and reflect upon such central ideas as charity, chosen people, death, family, love, myth, suffering, Torah, tradition and more. With entries from Aesthetics to Zionism, this book provides striking insights into both the Jewish experience and the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Author : Kari H. Tuling
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780827618466

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Thinking about God by Kari H. Tuling Pdf

A Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry from the Academy of Parish Clergy Who--or what--is God? Is God like a person? Does God have a gender? Does God have a special relationship with the Jewish people? Does God intervene in our lives? Is God good--and, if yes, why does evil persist in the world? In investigating how Jewish thinkers have approached these and other questions, Rabbi Kari H. Tuling elucidates many compelling--and contrasting--ways of thinking about God in Jewish tradition. Thinking about God addresses the genuinely intertextual nature of evolving Jewish God concepts. Just as in Jewish thought the Bible and other historical texts are living documents, still present and relevant to the conversation unfolding now, and just as a Jewish theologian examining a core concept responds to the full tapestry of Jewish thought on the subject all at once, this book is organized topically, covers Jewish sources (including liturgy) from the biblical to the postmodern era, and highlights the interplay between texts over time, up through our own era. A highly accessible resource for introductory students, Thinking about God also makes important yet challenging theological texts understandable. By breaking down each selected text into its core components, Tuling helps the reader absorb it both on its own terms and in the context of essential theological questions of the ages. Readers of all backgrounds will discover new ways to contemplate God. Access a study guide.

Author : Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451418590

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The Jewish Experience by Steven Leonard Jacobs Pdf

Explores the richness and meaning of Jewish life through history, introducing the basics of Jewish history, the tradition of texts, key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers, the Judaic calendar, contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism. Original.

Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691130729

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How Judaism Became a Religion by Leora Batnitzky Pdf

A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth century Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality—or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period—and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea. Ever since the Enlightenment, Jewish thinkers have debated whether and how Judaism—largely a religion of practice and public adherence to law—can fit into a modern, Protestant conception of religion as an individual and private matter of belief or faith. Batnitzky makes the novel argument that it is this clash between the modern category of religion and Judaism that is responsible for much of the creative tension in modern Jewish thought. Tracing how the idea of Jewish religion has been defended and resisted from the eighteenth century to today, the book discusses many of the major Jewish thinkers of the past three centuries, including Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Zvi Yehuda Kook, Theodor Herzl, and Mordecai Kaplan. At the same time, it tells the story of modern orthodoxy, the German-Jewish renaissance, Jewish religion after the Holocaust, the emergence of the Jewish individual, the birth of Jewish nationalism, and Jewish religion in America. More than an introduction, How Judaism Became a Religion presents a compelling new perspective on the history of modern Jewish thought.

Author : Simon Dubnow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041475372

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Jewish History by Simon Dubnow Pdf

Author : Svante Lundgren
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158684105X

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Particularism and Universalism in Modern Jewish Thought by Svante Lundgren Pdf

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.