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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812297522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 45 illus (color throughout)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: Jewish way of life History To 1500 ; Jews History To 1500 ; Jews Social life and customs To 1500 ; Judaism History To 1500 ; Women in Judaism History To 1500 ; Women in the Bible ; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice ; Abigail ; Bible ; Deborah ; Eve ; History ; Jephthah's daughter ; Jewish Studies ; Jewish law ; Medieval Jewish womens history ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Religious Studies ; Torah ; biblical narrative ; charity ; daily life ; gender and Judaism ; liturgy ; matriarch ; medieval Ashkenaz ; non elite religious ritual practice ; piety ; women
    Abstract: In Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Elisheva Baumgarten seeks a point of entry into the everyday existence of people who did not belong to the learned elite, and who therefore left no written records of their lives. She does so by turning to the Bible as it was read, reinterpreted, and seen by the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz. In the tellings, retellings, and illustrations of biblical stories, and especially of those centered around women, Baumgarten writes, we can find explanations and validations for the practices that structured birth, marriage, and death; women's inclusion in the liturgy and synagogue; and the roles of women as community leaders, givers of charity, and keepers of the household.Each of the book's chapters concentrates on a single figure or a cluster of biblical women—Eve, the Matriarchs, Deborah, Yael, Abigail, and Jephthah's daughter—to explore aspects of the domestic and communal lives of Northern French and German Jews living among Christians in urban settings. Throughout the book more than forty vivid medieval illuminations, most reproduced in color, help convey to modern readers what medieval people could have known visually about these biblical stories. "I do not claim that the genres I analyze here—literature, art, exegesis—mirror social practice," Baumgarten writes. "Rather, my goal is to examine how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible offers a window onto aspects of the daily lives and cultural mentalités of Ashkenazic Jews in the High Middle Ages."In a final chapter, Baumgarten turns to the historical figure of Dulcia, a late twelfth-century woman, to ponder how our understanding of those people about whom we know relatively more can be enriched by considering the lives of those who have remained anonymous. The biblical stories through which Baumgarten reads contributed to shaping a world that is largely lost to us, and can help us, in turn, to gain access to lives of people of the past who left no written accounts of their beliefs and practices
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , 1 Cultural Paradigms: Blessed Like Eve , 2 Personal and Communal Liturgy: Prayers to the Matriarchs , 3 At Her Husband’s Behest: Deborah and Yael , 4 Women as Fiscal Agents: Charitable like Abigail , 5 A Woman of Every Season: Jephthah’s Daughter , 6 From Medieval Life to the Bible . . . and Back , Notes , Bibliography , Index , Acknowledgments , In English
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  • 2
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9781512822762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dauber, Jonathan Secrecy and esoteric writing in kabbalistic literature
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    Keywords: Cabala History ; Jewish literature History and criticism ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Mysticism Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Secrecy in literature ; Secrecy Religious aspects ; Judaism ; RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism ; Abraham b. David ; Asher b. David ; Esotericism ; Ezra b. Solomon of Gerona ; Isaac the Blind ; Kabbalah ; Leo Strauss ; Secrecy ; anagram ; code ; literary device ; medieval Jewish history ; mysticism ; occult ; Avraham ben Daṿid mi-Posḳir ; Yitsḥaḳ Sagi Nahor 1165-1235 ; Ezra ben Solomon -1238 ; Ǎšēr ben Dāwid ; Untergrundliteratur ; Kabbala
    Abstract: Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the internal meaning. In addition to a broad description of esoteric writing throughout the long literary history of Kabbalah, this work analyzes kabbalistic secrecy in light of contemporary theories of secrecy. It also presents case studies of esoteric writing in the work of four of the first kabbalistic authors—Abraham ben David, Isaac the Blind, Ezra ben Solomon, and Asher ben David—and thereby helps recast our understanding of the earliest stages of kabbalistic literary history.The book will interest scholars in Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy, as well as those working in medieval Jewish history. Throughout, Jonathan V. Dauber has endeavored to write an accessible work that does not require extensive prior knowledge of kabbalistic thought. Accordingly, it finds points of contact between scholars of various religious traditions
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Note on Translations of Biblical Verses , Introduction. The Writing of Secrets , Chapter 1. Secrets and Secretism , Chapter 2. A Typology of Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature , Chapter 3. Abraham ben David as an Esoteric Writer , Chapter 4. Isaac the Blind’s Literary Legacy , Chapter 5. Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona as an Esoteric Writer , Chapter 6. Esotericism and Divine Unity in Asher ben David , Conclusion , Appendix 1 , Appendix 2 , Appendix 3 , Notes , Bibliography , Index , In English
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
    ISBN: 9781399503235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 443 pages)
    Year of publication: 2023
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Śnir, Reʾuven, 1953 - Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures
    Keywords: Arabic literature History and criticism 20th century ; Jews in literature ; Jews Identity ; History ; Judaism in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern ; Arabisch ; Literatur ; Judentum ; Juden ; Identität
    Abstract: Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of commitment and hybridization and the interactions between themDiscusses the role of the 1948 Nakba in shaping Palestinian culture and literaturePresents the contribution of Maḥmūd Darwīsh in the process of Palestinian nation-buildingSheds light on the emergence of Palestinian theatrical movementProvocatively rereads the history of Jewish involvement in Arabic literatureLaments the demise of Arab-Jewish culture following the clash between Zionism and Arab national movementPart of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literature and Arab-Jewish culture and the interactions between them. Reuvin Snir studies the contribution of Palestinian literature and theatre to Palestinian nation-building, especially since the 1948 Nakba. Becoming an essential part of the vocabulary of Arab intellectuals and writers, since the 1950s commitment (iltizām) has been employed to indicate the necessity for a writer to convey a message rather than merely create an imaginative work for its own sake. As for hybridization, the author focuses on the role Jews have played in Arabic literature against the backdrop of their contribution to this literature since the pre-Islamic period, and in light of the gradual demise of Arab-Jewish culture in recent years. The blending of elements from different cultures is one of the major phenomena in Arabic literature, certainly in light of its relationship with Islam and its cultural heritage, which has been extending during the last one-and-half millennia
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Preface , Acknowledgments , Technical Notes , Notes on Transliteration , Introduction , Part I Occupation, Domination, and Commitment , Introduction , Chapter 1 Performance: In the Service of the Nation , Chapter 2 Commitment: Verse Drama and Resistance , Chapter 3 Chronicle: The Ongoing Nakba , Chapter 4 Bilingualism: Palestinians in Hebrew , Part II Hybridization, Exclusion, and Demise , Introduction , Chapter 5 Pluralism: Arabs of Mosaic Faith , Chapter 6 Spring: “We Were Like Those Who Dream” Spring: “We Were Like Those Who Dream” , Chapter 7 Demise: The Last of the Mohicans , Chapter 8 Identity: Inessential Solidarities , Epilog “Trailed Travellers”: Between Fiction, Meta-Fiction, and History , References , Index , In English
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812298314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource ([3], 216 pages)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Berns, Andrew D., 1980 - The land is mine
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc 15th century ; History ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc 16th century ; History ; Bible Commentaries ; History and criticism ; Jews History 15th century ; Jews History 16th century ; Land use History 15th century ; Land use History 16th century ; Land use Biblical teaching ; Land use in the Bible ; HISTORY / Jewish ; European History ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Religion ; World History ; Sephardim ; Bibel ; Kommentar ; Renaissance
    Abstract: "The Land Is Mine presents Iberian Jewish intellectuals as deeply concerned with questions about human relationships to land. Based on the biblical commentaries of Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama, rabbis and writers who were exiled from Spain in 1492, the book grounds Jewish exegesis in the moral philosophy, political economy, and environmental changes of this turbulent period"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , In English
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780812299571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (464 p.) , 0
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish ; European History ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Religion ; World History
    Abstract: The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill-understood.Through fine-grained analyses of people, texts, movements, and worldviews in motion, the scholars assembled in From Europe's East to the Middle East—hailing from Europe, Israel, Japan, and the United States—rediscover a single transnational Jewish history of surprising connections, ideological cacophony, and entangled fates. Against the view of Israel as an outpost of the West, whether as a beacon of democracy or a creation of colonialism, this volume reveals how profoundly Zionism and Israel were shaped by the assumptions of Polish nationalism, Russian radicalism, and Soviet Communism; the unique ethos of the East European intelligentsia; and the political legacies of civil and national strife in the East European "shatter-zone." Against the view that Zionism effected a complete break from the diaspora that had birthed it, the book sheds new light on the East European sources of phenomena as diverse as Zionist military culture, kibbutz socialism, and ultra-Orthodox education for girls. Finally, it reshapes our understanding of East European Jewish life, from the Tsarist Empire, to independent Poland, to the late Soviet Union. Looking past siloed histories of both Zionism and its opponents in Eastern Europe, the authors reconstruct Zionism's transnational character, charting unexpected continuities across East European and Israeli Jewish life, and revealing how Jews in Eastern Europe grew ever more entangled with the changing realities of Jewish society in Palestine
    Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , Introduction , Part I. Imperial and National Crucibles , Chapter 1. “ Little Russia” in Palestine? Imperial Past, National Future (1860–1948) , Chapter 2. From Hyphenated Jews to Independent Jews: The Collapse of the Rus sian Empire and the Change in the Relationship Between Jews and Others , Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Eu rope: I Am in the East and My Heart Is in the West , Chapter 4. Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism , Part II. Groups and Institutions , Chapter 5. The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Ha- Shomer Ha-Tsa‘ir from the USSR , Chapter 6. Triumphs of Conservatism: Beit Yaakov and the Polish Origins of Haredi Girls’ Education in Israel , Chapter 7. Hasidic Leadership: From Charismatic to Hereditary and Back , Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine: The Organizational Model of He-Haluts , Part III. Formations of Political Culture , Chapter 9. Israel’s Polish Heritage , Chapter 10. Violenceas Political Experience Among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland , Chapter 11. From Zionism as Ideology to the Yishuv as Fact: Polish Jewish Re orientations Toward Palestine Within and Beyond Zionism, 1927–1932 , Chapter 12. Hero Shtetls: Reading Civil War Self- Defense in the Yishuv , Part IV. Soviet Interludes , Chapter 13. American Jews and the Zionist Movements in the Soviet Union: The Joint and He- Haluts in Crimea in the 1920s , Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement , List of Contributors , Index , Acknowledgments , In English
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    Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 9780253069665 , 9780253069672
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 Seiten cm
    Year of publication: 2024
    Series Statement: Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moreno, Aviad Entwined homelands, empowered diasporas
    Keywords: Jews Migrations ; Jews Migrations ; Sephardim History ; Jewish diaspora History ; HISTORY / Jewish ; HISTORY / Africa / North ; Amerikanische Geschichte ; Afrikanische Geschichte ; African history ; HISTORY / Latin America / South America ; History of the Americas ; Jewish studies ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Spain Emigration and immigration ; History ; Morocco Emigration and immigration ; History ; North Africa ; South America
    Abstract: "The 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and with the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. Most were native speakers of Haketia -a North African Judeo-Spanish dialect. They began leaving in the nineteenth century, becoming the largest Moroccan group that departed for South America. A Hispanic Moroccan Jewish diaspora, as this group is often called by scholars and its community leaders, became highly mobile in the twentieth century, with major hubs in Spain, Venezuela, and Israel, and smaller ones in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, and the U.S among others. Drawing on an array of communal sources from across this diaspora and privileging the voices and agency of individual players, Aviad Moreno examines how its leaders came to maintain narratives of common ancestry in multiple homelands, and today participate in an interconnected, worldwide diaspora. In the twenty-first century, global networks empower the diaspora's hubs locally, facilitating integration into their respective national settings and with Hispanic Moroccan Jews from other diaspora hubs"--
    Abstract: "Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic Moroccan Jewish diaspora, as this group is often called by its scholars and its community leaders, also became one of the most mobile and globally dispersed North African groups in the twentieth century, with major hubs in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Israel, Canada, France, and the US, among others. Drawing on an array of communal sources from across this diaspora, Aviad Moreno explores how narratives of ancestry in Spain, Israel, Morocco, and several Latin American countries interconnected the diaspora, empowering its hubs across the globe throughout the twentieth century and beyond. By investigating these mechanisms of diaspora formation in a small community that once shared the same space in Morocco, Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas challenges national accounts of the broader Jewish diasporas and adds complexity to the annals of multilayered ethnic communities on the move"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Hispanic Jews in Morocco -- In (re)search of origins -- Morocco in Latin America, Latin America in Morocco -- Zionism and the Hispanic Moroccan diaspora -- Moroccans in Venezuela : a new global hierarchy -- Spain and the postcolonial diaspora -- Hispanic Moroccans in Israel -- A global Hispanophone diaspora.
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674276352
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; History ; Judaism Relations 1945- ; Christianity ; Reconciliation Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Reconciliation Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Religious pluralism Catholic Church ; Religious pluralism Judaism ; RELIGION / Christian Church / History ; Anti-Christian ; Anti-Judaism ; Benedict XVI ; Catholic theology ; Inter-religious ; John Paul II ; Mission ; Nostra Aetate ; Orthodox Judaism ; Political theology ; Rabbi Kook ; Religious tolerance ; Replacement theology ; Six Day War ; Soloveitchick ; Supersessionism ; Zionism
    Abstract: A revealing account of contemporary tensions between Jews and Christians, playing out beneath the surface of conciliatory interfaith dialogue. A new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God. In a few carefully phrased statements, two millennia of deep hostility were swept into the trash heap of history. But old animosities die hard. While Catholic and Jewish leaders publicly promoted interfaith dialogue, doubts remained behind closed doors. Catholic officials and theologians soon found that changing their attitude toward Jews could threaten the foundations of Christian tradition. For their part, many Jews perceived the new Catholic line as a Church effort to shore up support amid atheist and secular advances. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary rabbinical literature, Karma Ben-Johanan shows that Jewish leaders welcomed the Catholic condemnation of antisemitism but were less enthusiastic about the Church’s sudden urge to claim their friendship. Catholic theologians hoped Vatican II would turn the page on an embarrassing history, hence the assertion that the Church had not reformed but rather had always loved Jews, or at least should have. Orthodox rabbis, in contrast, believed they were finally free to say what they thought of Christianity. Jacob’s Younger Brother pulls back the veil of interfaith dialogue to reveal how Orthodox rabbis and Catholic leaders spoke about each other when outsiders were not in the room. There Ben-Johanan finds Jews reluctant to accept the latest whims of a Church that had unilaterally dictated the terms of Jewish-Christian relations for centuries
    Note: In English
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    In:  Juden in der DDR (2021), Seite 117-127 | year:2021 | pages:117-127
    ISBN: 9783955654658
    Language: German
    Year of publication: 2021
    Titel der Quelle: Juden in der DDR
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Hentrich & Hentrich, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021), Seite 117-127
    Angaben zur Quelle: year:2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: pages:117-127
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    Keywords: Biografie ; Heym, Stefan 1913-2001 ; Deutschland ; Judentum
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501760235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 190 Seiten, 20 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Balint, Ruth Destination elsewhere
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    Keywords: Refugees Government policy 20th century ; History ; Refugees History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees ; West European History ; World War II ; History ; HISTORY / Military / World War II ; Refugee history before 1951, The International Refugee Organization, Postwar migration to australia, The international tracing service and displaced persons, modern refugee crisis ; Europa ; Internationale Flüchtlingsorganisation ; Displaced Person ; Flüchtlingspolitik ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1945-2020
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Author’s Note -- Introduction -- 1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe -- 2. “There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here” -- 3. Housewives and Opportunists -- 4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers -- 5. The Children Left Behind -- 6. “The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel” -- 7. Address Unknown -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
    Abstract: In this unique "history from below," Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between Displaced Persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a Displaced Person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and governments. What has not adequately been recognized is that Displaced Persons also actively participated in this emerging refugee conversation. Displaced Persons endured war, displacement, and resettlement, but these experiences were not defined by passivity and speechlessness. Instead, they spoke back, creating a dialogue that in turn helped shape the modern idea of the refugee. As Ruth Balint shows, what made a good or convincing story at the time tells us much about the circulation of ideas about the war, about the Holocaust, and about the Jews. Those stories depict the emerging moral and legal distinction between economic migrants and political refugees. They tell us about the experiences of women and children in the face of new psychological and political interventions into the family. Stories from Displaced Persons also tells us something about the enduring myth of the new world for people who longed to leave the old. Balint focuses on those whose storytelling skills became a major strategy for survival and escape out of the Displaced Persons' camps and out of the Europe. Their stories are brought alive in Destination Elsewhere, alongside a new history of immigration, statelessness, and the institution of the postwar family
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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    In:  The Routledge History of Antisemitism (2024) 277-283
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2024
    Titel der Quelle: The Routledge History of Antisemitism
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2024) 277-283
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 20th century ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945 ; History
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