Yiddish And Power

Author : D. Katz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137475756

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Yiddish and Power by D. Katz Pdf

Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307533135

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Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets. Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace. And then she draws a persuasive parallel to the United States today, as it struggles to figure out how a liberal democracy can face off against enemies who view Western morality as weakness. This deeply provocative book is sure to stir debate both inside and outside the Jewish world. Wisse's narrative offers a compelling argument that is rich with history and bristling with contemporary urgency.

Author : Gary Barwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780345815514

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Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin Pdf

In the years around 1492, Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy, leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. 2016.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805211740

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Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets. Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace. And then she draws a persuasive parallel to the United States today, as it struggles to figure out how a liberal democracy can face off against enemies who view Western morality as weakness. This deeply provocative book is sure to stir debate both inside and outside the Jewish world. Wisse's narrative offers a compelling argument that is rich with history and bristling with contemporary urgency.

Author : D. Katz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137475756

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Yiddish and Power by D. Katz Pdf

Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.

Author : Shalom Aleichem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:902303106

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Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son by Shalom Aleichem Pdf

Author : Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135048556

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures by Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth Pdf

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.

Author : David B. Ruderman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295805597

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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era by David B. Ruderman Pdf

In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pin as Hurwitz published one of the best-selling Hebrew books of the modern era. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, The Book of the Covenant was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral behavior. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to present the scientific advances and moral cosmopolitanism of its day in the context of Jewish legal and mystical tradition. Describing the latest developments in science and philosophy in the sacred language of Hebrew, Hurwitz argued that an intellectual understanding of the cosmos was not at odds with but actually key to achieving spiritual attainment. In A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era, David B. Ruderman offers a literary and intellectual history of Hurwitz�s book and its legacy. Hurwitz not only wrote the book, but was instrumental in selling it as well and his success ultimately led to the publication of more than forty editions in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish. Ruderman provides a multidimensional picture of the book and the intellectual tradition it helped to inaugurate. Complicating accounts that consider modern Jewish thought to be the product of a radical break from a religious, mystical past, Ruderman shows how, instead, a complex continuity shaped Jewish society�s confrontation with modernity.

Author : Jordan D. Finkin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271071978

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An Inch or Two of Time by Jordan D. Finkin Pdf

In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary. As members of a national-ethnic-religious community long denied the rights and privileges of self-determination, with a dramatically internalized sense of exile and landlessness, the Jewish writers at the core of this investigation reimagined their spatial and temporal orientation and embeddedness. They set as the fulcrum of their imagery the metaphorical power of time and space. Where non-Jewish writers might tend to view space as a given—an element of their own sense of belonging to a nation at home in a given territory—the Jewish writers discussed here spatialized time: they created an as-if space out of time, out of history. They understood their writing to function as a kind of organ of perception on its own. Jewish literature thus presents a particularly dynamic system for working out the implications of that understanding, and as such, this book argues, it is an indispensable part of the modern library.

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1371091495

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College Yiddish by Uriel Weinreich Pdf

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300108877

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History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich Pdf

Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich's copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.

Author : J. Frakes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137046550

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The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe by J. Frakes Pdf

A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Yiddish language and literature.

Author : Marc Dollinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479826889

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Black Power, Jewish Politics by Marc Dollinger Pdf

"Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a foreword by Jews of Color Initiative founder Ilana Kaufman that all reflect on Blacks, Jews, race, white supremacy, and the civil rights movement"--

Author : David Biale
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307772534

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Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History by David Biale Pdf

To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical past": the anachronistic interpretation that the Diaspora, which occurred between the fall of an independent Jewish commonwealth in A.D. 70 and the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, was politically impotent, and, conversely, that the First and Second Temple periods were eras of full Jewish national sovereignty.

Author : Amelia Glaser,David Weintraub,Yankl Salant
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299208035

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Proletpen by Amelia Glaser,David Weintraub,Yankl Salant Pdf

This anthology presents a rich but little-known body of American Yiddish poetry from the 1920s to the early 1950s by thirty-nine poets who wrote from the perspective of the proletarian left. Presented on facing pages in Yiddish and English translation, these one hundred poems are organized thematically under such headings as Songs of the Shop, United in Struggle, Matters of the Heart, The Poet on Poetry, and Wars to End All Wars. One section is devoted to verse depicting the struggles of African Americans, including several poems prompted by the infamous Scottsboro trial of nine African American men falsely accused of rape. Home to many of the writers, New York City is the subject of a varied array of poems. The volume includes an extensive introduction by Dovid Katz, a biographical note about each poet, a bibliography, and a timeline of political, social, and literary events that provide context for the poetry. Winner of the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for Outstanding Translation A Choice Outstanding Academic Title