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  • 1
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    Jewish Lives. Maimonides : Faith in Reason (2023)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300271621
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.) , 16 b-w illus
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Jewish Lives
    Keywords: Jewish philosophers Biography ; Jewish philosophy ; Jewish scholars Biography ; Philosophers Biography ; Philosophy, Medieval ; Physicians Biography ; Rabbis Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
    Abstract: An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138–1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician, Maimonides fled Córdoba with his family when he was thirteen due to Almohad persecution of all non-Islamic faiths. Forced into a long exile, the family spent a decade in Spain before settling in Morocco. From there, Maimonides traveled to Palestine and Egypt, where he died at Saladin’s court. As a scholar of Jewish law, a physician, and a philosopher, Maimonides was a singular figure. His work in extracting all the commanding precepts of Jewish law from the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud, interpreting and commenting on them, and translating them into terms that would allow students to lead sound Jewish lives became the model for translating God’s word into a language comprehensible by all. His work in medicine—which brought him such fame that he became Saladin’s personal physician—was driven almost entirely by reason and observation. In this biography, Alberto Manguel examines the question of Maimonides’ universal appeal—he was celebrated by Jews, Arabs, and Christians alike. In our time, when the need for rationality and recognition of the truth is more vital than ever, Maimonides can help us find strategies to survive with dignity in an uncertain world
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Preface , 1. The Figure of Maimonides , 2. Al-Andalus , 3. North Africa and Palestine , 4. Egypt , 5. Maimonides the Physician , 6. Maimonides the Scholar , 7. Maimonides the Philosopher , 8. Maimonides the Believer , 9. How Should One Live? , 10. Lessons from Exodus , 11. The Talmud , 12. The Law , 13. The Mishneh Torah , 14. The Guide of the Perplexed , 15. What Is Virtue? , 16. Reading Maimonides , Conclusion , Notes , List of Principal Works by Maimonides Acknowledgments , Acknowledgments , Index , In English
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    Elie Wiesel : Confronting the Silence (2023)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300271225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p.) , 1 b-w illus
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Jewish Lives
    Keywords: American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Judaism History ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
    Abstract: An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. How did this frail, soft-spoken man from a small village in the Carpathians become such an influential presence on the world stage? Using Wiesel’s writings and interviews with his family, close friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger presents Wiesel as both revered Nobel laureate and man of complex psychological texture and contradictions. Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years as a teenage orphan in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his fumbling attempts at romance, his hungry years scraping together a living in America as a working journalist, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors, and his difficult final years. Through this fully realized portrait, we see how this teenage survivor from a Hasidic family became the eloquent embodiment of Holocaust remembrance and of forceful opposition to indifference
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , 1. Sighet, My Sighet , 2. Deportation , 3. Camps of Death , 4. Recovering , 5. Cub Reporter , 6. A Hungarian in Paris , 7. Night and Fog , 8. Coming to America , 9. Writer , 10. Survivor , 11. Return to Sighet , 12. A Russian Revolution Perhaps even , 13. Love and War , 14. Transitions , 15. The Israel Conundrum , 16. From Writer to Torchbearer , 17. A Boston Professor , 18. The Holocaust and the Arts , 19. Museums and Memory , 20. World Stage , 21. “To Help the Dead Vanquish Death” , 22. The Bitburg Fiasco , 23. Family Time , 24. Nobelist , 25. Catalyst for Change , 26. Reconciliations and Reprimands , 27. Reversals , 28. Memories , Notes , Credits , Acknowledgments , Index , In English
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    For the freedom of Zion : the great revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE (2022)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300262568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (704 p)
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    Year of publication: 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rogers, Guy MacLean, 1954 - For the freedom of Zion
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    Keywords: Jews History Rebellion, 66-73 ; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome ; Jüdischer Krieg ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction: A Small and Insignificant War? -- Part I: The Breakdown of the Herodian Model -- Part II: The War in the North -- Part III: A Tale of Two Temples -- Part IV: Jupiter Capitolinus and the God of Israel -- Part V: God's Plan -- Appendices: Contexts and Contentions -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple "A lucid yet terrifying account of the 'Jewish War'-the uprising of the Jews in 66 CE, and the Roman empire's savage response, in a story that stretches from Rome to Jerusalem."-John Ma, Columbia University This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews' failed revolt against Rome from 66 to 74 CE, including the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Based on a comprehensive study of all the evidence and new statistical data, Guy Rogers argues that the Jewish rebels fought for their religious and political freedom and lost due to military mistakes. Rogers contends that while the Romans won the war, they lost the peace. When the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, they thought that they had defeated the God of Israel and eliminated Jews as a strategic threat to their rule. Instead, they ensured the Jews' ultimate victory. After their defeat Jews turned to the written words of their God, and following those words led the Jews to recover their freedom in the promised land. The war's tragic outcome still shapes the worldview of billions of people today
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    An American Friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501763106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish ; identity politics, origins of multiculturalism, zionism in the harlem renaissance, black-jewish relations, American pragmatist philosophers
    Abstract: In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern multiculturalism. He roots the origins of cultural pluralism in the friendship between two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It is a simple idea: different ethnic groups can and should coexist in America, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment of the country as whole. Cultural pluralism grew out of the lived experience of this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, taught at Howard University, and is best known as the intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and editor of The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford in 1906-1908 and was rekindled during the Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how their understanding of cultural pluralism as friendship offers a new vision for diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity politics that polarize American society today
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Author’s Note , Introduction: What Difference Does the Difference Make? Cultural Pluralism as Friendship , 1. From Berenstadt to Boston , 2. The Talented among the Tenth , 3. Locke and Kallen, Student and Teacher , 4. American Pluralists, Friends at Oxford , 5. The Plural Is Political , 6. Plural in Culture, Universal in Religion , 7. Friendship Rekindled, Pluralism Refined , 8. Locke’s Legacy, Kallen’s Memory , Conclusion: Differences Made , Notes , Index , In English
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    The Literary Mafia : Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature (2022)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300265354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Jewish publishers ; Jewish publishing ; Publishers and publishing History ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Abstract: An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "From the very first page, this book is funnier and more gripping than a book on publishing has any right to be. Anyone interested in America's intellectual or Jewish history must read this, and anyone looking for an engrossing story should."-Emily Tamkin, author of Bad Jews In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a "Jewish literary mafia" were everywhere. Although a conspiracy of Jews colluding to control publishing in the United States never actually existed, such accusations reflected a genuine transformation from an industry notorious for excluding Jews to one in which they arguably had become the most influential figures. Josh Lambert examines the dynamics between Jewish editors and Jewish writers; how Jewish women exposed the misogyny they faced from publishers; and how children of literary parents have struggled with and benefited from their inheritances. Drawing on interviews and tens of thousands of pages of letters and manuscripts, The Literary Mafia offers striking new discoveries about celebrated figures such as Lionel Trilling and Gordon Lish, and neglected fiction by writers including Ivan Gold, Ann Birstein, and Trudy Gertler. In the end, we learn how the success of one minority group has lessons for all who would like to see American literature become more equitable
    Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , INTRODUCTION , Chapter 1. JEWS EDITING JEWS , Chapter 2. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS , Chapter 3. WOMEN AND SHITTY MEDIA MEN , Chapter 4. PARENTS AND CHILDREN , CONCLUSION. We Need More Literary Mafias , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS , NOTES , INDEX , In English
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    The Object of Jewish Literature : A Material History (2022)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300265385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.) , 76 b-w illus
    Year of publication: 2022
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    Keywords: Jewish literature History and criticism ; Books ; Material culture ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Abstract: A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the ";death of the book" has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists' books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature's objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books-bindings, covers, typography, illustrations-but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Introduction. The Object Matter of Modern Jewish Literature , Chapter 1. Jewish Imagism , Chapter 2. The Little Magazine: From Font to Network , Chapter 3. "Good to think with": The Fictional Work of Objects , Chapter 4. Between Sefer and Bukh: Holocaust Memorial Books , Chapter 5. From Maus to The Rabbi's Cat: The Jewish Graphic Novel , Chapter 6. On the Seam: Artists' Books and the Unmaking of the Book , Notes , Credits , Index , In English
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    The Salvation of Israel : Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501764769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.) , 17 b&w halftones, 8 color halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cohen, Jeremy, 1953 - The salvation of Israel
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    Keywords: Antichrist History of doctrines ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; End of the world History of doctrines ; Judaism (Christian theology) History of doctrines ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; RELIGION / Judaism / General ; judeo-centrism, christian eschatology, jews and Christianity ; Christentum ; Eschatologie ; Juden ; Geschichte -1700
    Abstract: The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew, the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the seventeenth century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward non-believers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds.Cohen's close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days. For rejecting belief and salvation in Jesus Christ, they have been linked to the false messiah, the Antichrist, the agent of Satan and the exemplary embodiment of evil. Yet from its inception, Christianity has also hinged its hopes for the Second Coming on the enlightenment and repentance of the Jews; for then, as Paul prophesized, "all Israel will be saved."In its vast historical scope, from the ancient Mediterranean world of early Christianity to seventeenth century England and New England, The Salvation of Israel offers a nuanced and insightful assessment of Christian attitudes toward Jews, rife with inconsistency and complexity, thus contributing significantly to our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Introduction , Part I. All Israel Will Be Saved , 1. Paul and the Mystery of Israel’s Salvation , 2. The Pauline Legacy , 3. The Latin West , Part II. The Jews and Antichrist , 4. Antichrist and the Jews in Early Christianity , 5. Jews and the Many Faces of Antichrist in the Middle Ages , 6. Antichrist and Jews in Literature, Drama, and Visual Arts , Part III. At the Forefront of the Redemption , 7. Honorius Augustodunensis, the Song of Songs, and Synagoga Conversa , 8. Jewish Converts and Christian Salvation , 9. Puritans, Jews, and the End of Days , Afterword , Notes , Bibliography , Index , In English
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    Ruth : A Migrant's Tale (2022)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300268911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.) , 12 b-w illus
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish Lives
    Keywords: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
    Abstract: A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty “A virtuoso exploration of the Book of Ruth as an admirable touchstone in the realms of literature, art, and human values. Ilana Pardes foregrounds the timeless emergency of migrants and refugees with compassion and depth.”—Galit Hasan-Rokem, author of Web of Life The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume, Ilana Pardes invites us to marvel at the ever-changing perspectives on Ruth’s foreignness. She explores the rabbis’ lauding of Ruth as an exemplary convert, and the Zohar’s insistence that Ruth’s Moabite background is vital to her redemptive powers. In moving to early modern French art, she looks at pastoral paintings in which Ruth becomes a local gleaner, holding sheaves in her hands. Pardes concludes with contemporary adaptations in literature, photography, and film in which Ruth is admired for being a paradigmatic migrant woman. Ruth’s afterlives not only reveal much about their own times, but also shine new light upon this remarkable ancient tale and point to its enduring significance. In our own era of widespread migration and dislocation, Ruth remains as relevant as ever
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction: Preliminary Gleanings , 1. The Moabite , 2. The Convert , 3. The Shekhinah in Exile , 4. The Pastoral Gleaner , 5. The Zionist Pioneer , 6. The American Outcast , Epilogue: Remainders , Notes , Acknowledgments , Credits , Index , In English
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    Autobiographies of an Angel : A Novel (2022)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300264951
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary's Jewish community and the nation's deep complicity in the Holocaust Born in 1723 in a small German town, Johann Klarfeld is thirteen when his father dies. He is taken in by a kind Italian painter to live with him and his daughter in The Hague. But the daughter, beautiful and blind, has a secret. Two centuries later, Berta Jósza is born during World War II in a village in northern Hungary. The daughter of a police officer, Berta watches chaos unfold through her father's eyes, from the plundering of the possessions of murdered Jews to the carnage of the 1956 Revolution. When she happens upon an enigmatic autobiography in a secondhand bookshop, she can't shake the sense that she somehow knows the author. Lyrical and haunting, this is an unforgettable story about the spirit of history and the individual fates that make up the whole-the entwinements of the past and their unshakable hold on the present
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Prologue , 1 Fleeings , 2 With Weary Eyes, Blinking , 3 Things Near and Far Away , 4 A Present for Father Dolphus , 5 In the Garb of Babel , 6 The Report of a Pistol , 7 Secret Theater , 8 The Mouths of the Sacks Are Loosened , 9 Concealed Map , 10 The Beautiful Harmonies of Ruin , Closing Addresses , Translatorʼs Notes , In English
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    Introduction to the Apocrypha : Jewish books in Christian bibles (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300258769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p) , 18 b-w illus
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wills, Lawrence M., 1954 - Introduction to the Apocrypha
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    Keywords: RELIGION / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament / Apocrypha & Deuterocanonical
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE Novellas -- TWO Historical Texts -- THREE Wisdom Texts -- FOUR Apocalypses and Visionary Literature -- FIVE Psalms, Prayers, and Odes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources
    Abstract: An ambitious introduction to the Apocrypha that encourages readers to reimagine what "canon" really means Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious introduction to the deuterocanonical texts of the Christian Old Testaments. Lawrence Wills introduces these texts in their original Jewish environment while addressing the very different roles they had in various Christian canons. Though often relegated to a lesser role, a sort of "Bible-Lite," these texts deserve renewed attention, and this book shows how they hold more interest for both ancient and contemporary communities than previously thought
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    A Fortress in Brooklyn : Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300258370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p) , 28 b-w illus
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map -- Introduction An American Epic -- 1. A Land Not Sown -- 2. Paths of Heave -- 3. The Politics of Poverty -- 4. Chaptsem! -- 5. The Gentrifier and the Gentrified -- 6. The War Against the Artists -- 7. A Fruit Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- 8. The Holy Corner -- 9. Two-Way Street -- 10. New Williamsburg -- Conclusion The Camp in the Desert -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
    Abstract: The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn Hasidic Williamsburg is famous as one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy communities in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods during an era of steep decline, only to later oppose and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg's Hasidim avoided assimilation, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood
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    From Sarah to Sydney : The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300258363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p) , 26 b-w illus
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Keywords: Authors, American Biography 20th century ; Children's literature, American History and criticism ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Family Background in the Old Country: 1880-1900 -- Two. Sarah's Childhood on the Lower East Side: 1901-1910 -- Three. Gateways to a Wider World: 1910-1916 -- Four. Sarah Becomes Sydney: 1916-1920 -- Five. Romance and the New Woman: 1920-1923 -- Six. Political Awakening and Contentious Courtship: 1923-1925 -- Seven. Performance at Home and on Stage: 1925-1935 -- Eight. Progressive Motherhood: 1935-1950 -- Nine. Camp Cejwin: 1942-1960 -- Ten. Award-Winning Author: 1950-1960 -- Eleven. Personal Loss and Artistic Anxiety: 1960-1970 -- Twelve. Last Years and Legacy: 1970-1978 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: The untold life story of All-of-a-Kind Family author Sydney Taylor, highlighting her dramatic influence on American children's literature This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children. The family-based on Taylor's own as a child-includes five sisters, each two years apart, dressed alike by their fastidious immigrant mother so they all look the same: all-of-a-kind. The four other sisters' names were the same in the books as in their real lives; only the real-life Sarah changed hers to the boyish Sydney while she was in high school. Cummins elucidates the deep connections between the progressive Taylor's books and American Jewish experiences, arguing that Taylor was deeply influential in the development of national Jewish identity. This biography conveys the vital importance of children's books in the transmission of Jewish culture and the preservation of ethnic heritage
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    The Spirit within Me : Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300262964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Newsom, Carol Ann, 1950 - The spirit within me
    Keywords: Self Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Agent (Philosophy) History To 1500 ; Self History To 1500 ; Self History To 1500 ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Israel ; Frühjudentum ; Selbst
    Abstract: The first full-length study of the evolution of self and agency in ancient Israelite anthropology Conceptions of “the self” have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto the cultures of antiquity. While acknowledging such difference is vital, it can lead to an inaccurate flattening of the ancient self. In this study, Carol A. Newsom explores the assumptions that govern ancient Israelite views of the self and its moral agency before the fall of Judah, as well as striking developments during the Second Temple period. She demonstrates how the collective trauma of the destruction of the Temple catalyzed changes in the experience of the self in Israelite literature, including first‑person-singular prayers, notions of self‑alienation, and emerging understandings of a defective heart and will. Examining novel forms of spirituality as well as sectarian texts, Newsom chronicles the evolving inward gaze in ancient Israelite literature, unveiling how introspection in Second Temple Judaism both parallels and differs from forms of introspective selfhood in Greco‑Roman cultures
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    Founding God's Nation : Reading Exodus (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (640 p.) , 1 b-w illus
    Year of publication: 2021
    Keywords: RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
    Abstract: A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, biblical scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt through their liberation under Moses's leadership to their covenantal founding at Sinai and the building of the Tabernacle. In Kass's analysis, these events begin the slow process of learning how to stop thinking like slaves and become an independent people. The Israelites ultimately found their nation on three elements: a shared narrative that instills empathy for the poor and the suffering, the uplifting rule of a moral law, and devotion to a higher common purpose. These elements, Kass argues, remain the essential principles for a liberal nation today
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Preface , About the Text , Introduction , PART ONE Out of Egypt: Slavery and Deliverance Exodus 1-15 , 1 Into the House of Bondage , 2 The Birth and Youth of the Liberator , 3 Moses Finds God and (Reluctantly) Accepts His Mission , 4 Egyptian Overtures: Hitting Bottom , 5 To Go Against Pharaoh: Ordering the Team , 6 The Contest with Egypt , 7 Exodus , 8 "Who Is Like You Among the Gods?": The Lord, Egypt, and Israel at the Sea of Reeds , PART TWO From the Mountain: Covenant and Law exodus 15-23 , 9 The Murmurings of Necessity , 10 "Is the Lord Among Us or Not?": The Battle with Amalek , 11 Jethro's Visit: Justice and the Need for Law , 12 Covenant from the Mountain: A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation , 13 Principles for God's New Nation , 14 Ordinances for God's New Nation: Justice and the Civil Law , 15 Beyond Civil Law, Beyond Justice , PART THREE To the Tabernacle: Worship and Presence exodus 24-40 , 16 Strange Goings-On: "Blood of the Covenant" and "Seeing God" , 17 "Let Them Make Me a Sanctuary" , 18 "That I May Dwell Among Them": God's Prime Ministers and the Tent of Meeting , 19 Beyond Animal Sacrifice: Human Art, Divine Rest , 20 The Covenant on Trial: The Golden Calf , 21 The Forgiving God and the Glorious Moses , 22 The Completion(s) of the Tabernacle , Epilogue , Notes , Acknowledgments , Index , In English
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    Destination elsewhere : displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    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
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    The House of Fragile Things : Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France (2021)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300252545
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Keywords: Antisemitism History ; Art and society History ; Art Collectors and collecting ; Biography ; Art Private collections ; Art Protection ; History ; Jewish art Private collections ; Jews Social conditions 19th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions ; HISTORY / Europe / France
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Genealogies -- Introduction: A Letter -- 1 Portraits of a Milieu: A Jewish Elite in Crisis -- 2 Dreyfus and Drumont: Towards a Material Antisemitism -- 3 ‘Apogee of the Israélite’: Jewish Collectors and the First World War -- 4 Moïse de Camondo: Chaos and Control -- 5 Théodore Reinach: Jewish Past, French Future -- 6 Béatrice Éphrussi de Rothschild: A Woman Collects -- 7 Museums of Memory: From Private Collections to National Bequests -- 8 To the End of the Line: Drancy and Auschwitz -- 9 ‘La Petite Irène’: Th e Afterlife of a Portrait -- Conclusion: A Death Certificate -- Notes -- Index
    Abstract: A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them
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    Hitler's Jewish Refugees : Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300249507
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jews History 20th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: A Personal Word -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Escaping Terror and the Terror of Escaping: Before and After the War Turned West -- 2. The Exasperations and Consolations of Refugee Life After 1940: Fear of Portugal's Regime and Appreciation of Its People -- 3. "Lisbon Is Sold Out": Relief and Hope, Nazis and Dictatorship -- 4. Emotional Dissonance: Adults Mourn Losses, Their Children Look Forward -- 5. Sites of Refuge and Angst: Consulates and Confinements -- 6. Sharing Feelings in Letters and in Person -- 7. Final Hurdles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Decolonizing Palestine : Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501752766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p) , 12 b&w halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Israelis Colonization ; Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine ; Liberation, Hamas, Coexistence of the antocolonial and postcolonial, colinization, settler colonialism
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Decolonizing Palestine -- 2. On the Settler Colonial Elimination of Palestine -- 3. Palestinian Postcoloniality -- 4. Anticolonial Violence and the Palestinian Struggle to Exist -- 5. Postcolonial Governance -- 6. The Palestinian Moment of Liberation -- 7. On Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas following the organization's unexpected victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council election.Despite the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected between 2013 and 2016 in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, Decolonizing Palestine argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing or process of its abandonment of either role. The challenge instead lies in explaining how and why it maintains both, and what this implies for the study of liberation movements and postcolonial studies more generally
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    Stan Lee : a life in comics (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300252262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Lives
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    Keywords: Comic books, strips, etc Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Comic books, strips, etc Religious aspects ; Judaism ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. So What’s the Risk? -- 2. Stan Lee Is God -- 3. Getting in the Way -- 4. Playwright -- 5. The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine! -- 6. I Don’t Need You! -- 7. With Great Power -- 8. We Only Fight in Self-Defense! -- 9. Face Front! -- 10. My Own Power Has Never Been Fully Tested! -- 11. This Long-Awaited Leap -- 12. Part of a Bigger Universe -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
    Abstract: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created—Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four—occupy Hollywood’s imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee’s ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee’s work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel’s history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian
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    The Christians Who Became Jews : Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300252187
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p)
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Synkrisis
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Jews in the New Testament ; Jews Identity ; Biblical teaching ; RELIGION / Bible / Biography / New Testament
    Abstract: A fresh look at Acts of the Apostles and its depiction of Jewish identity within the larger Roman era When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Stroup’s innovative work explores the depiction of Jewish and Christian identity by analyzing ethnicity within a broader material and epigraphic context. Examining Acts through a new lens, he shows that the text presents Jews and Jewish identity in multiple, complex ways, in order to legitimate the Jewishness of Christians
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction. Jews and Christians in the Polis -- One. Recontextualizing Acts: Religious, Ethnic, and Civic Identity -- Two. Collecting Ethnē in Aphrodisias and Acts 2:5–13 -- Three. The Jerusalem Council and the Foundation of Salutaris -- Four. Moving Through the Polis, Asserting Christian Jewishness -- Conclusion. Christian Non-Jews and the Polis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources
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    Survivors : Children's Lives After the Holocaust (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300255850
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p) , 16 b-w illus
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Holocaust survivors Biography ; Holocaust survivors Psychology ; Holocaust survivors Psychology ; Holocaust survivors Rehabilitation ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects ; Jewish children in the Holocaust ; HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- On Names -- Introduction -- 1. Another War Begins -- 2. The Adult Gaze -- 3. Claiming Children -- 4. Family Reunions -- 5. Children of the Château -- 6. Metamorphosis -- 7. Trauma -- 8. The Lucky Ones -- 9. Becoming Survivors -- 10. Stories -- 11. Silences -- Conclusion: The Last Witnesses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age. Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them—as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children—often branded “the lucky ones”—had to struggle to be able to call themselves “survivors” at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford’s powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss
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    Regular Soldiers, Irregular War : Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501750458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p) , 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map, 3 charts
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Soldiers Attitudes ; Palestinian Arabs Violence against ; Soldiers Social conditions ; Palestinian Arabs Violence against ; Military offenses ; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000- Atrocities ; Command of troops Psychological aspects ; Military ethics ; Soldiers Moral conditions ; HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other) ; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Civil war, military, counterinsurgency ; Political violence
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations and Pseudonyms -- Introduction: The Production and Restraint of Military Violence -- 1. Participation in Counterinsurgency -- 2. Narrating Conflict and Violence: Ex-Combatant Accounts as Data -- 3. IDF Counterinsurgency in the Second Intifada -- 4. The Production of Strategic Violence -- 5. The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Violence -- 6. The Production and Control of Opportunistic Violence -- 7. Beyond Israel: Counterinsurgent Violence and Restraint in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: Violence and Restraint in Counterinsurgency -- Appendix: Characteristics of the Sample -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices.Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level.Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency
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    Comrades Betrayed : Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501751035
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p) , 22 b&w halftones, 1 map
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
    Keywords: World War, 1914-1918 Veterans ; Masculinity Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Jewish veterans Social conditions 20th century ; Antisemitism History 20th century ; Jews, German History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; HISTORY / Jewish ; Antisemitism, comradeship, front experience, Frontkämpfer, German Jewish veterans, Wannsee Conference, Theresienstadt
    Abstract: At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming "evacuations". Why this was so, and how Jewish veterans were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis – at least, initially – is the subject of Comrades Betrayed.Michael Geheran deftly illuminates how the same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstrate bravery in the front lines in World War I made it impossible for them to accept passively, let alone comprehend, persecution under Hitler. After all, they upheld the ideal of the German fighting man, embraced the Fatherland, and cherished the bonds that had developed in military service. Through their diaries and private letters, as well as interviews with eyewitnesses and surviving family members, and police, Gestapo, and military records, Michael Geheran presents a major challenge to the prevailing view that Jewish vets were left isolated, neighborless, and had suffered a social death by 1938.Tracing the path from the trenches of the Great War to the extermination camps of the Third Reich, Geheran exposes the painful dichotomy that, while many Jewish former combatants believed that Germany would never betray them, the Holocaust was nonetheless a horrific reality. In chronicling Jewish veterans' appeal to older, traditional notions of comradeship and national belonging, Comrades Betrayed forces reflection on how this group made use of scant opportunities to defy Nazi persecution and, for some, to evade becoming victims of the Final Solution
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Reappraising Jewish War Experiences, 1914–18 -- 2. The Politics of Comradeship: Weimar Germany, 1918–33 -- 3. “These Scoundrels Are Not the German People”: The Nazi Seizure of Power, 1933–35 -- 4. Jewish Frontkämpfer and the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft -- 5. Under the “Absolute” Power of National Socialism, 1938–41 -- 6. Defiant Germanness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The Wondering Jew : Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300255997
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: A Twenty- First-Century Dilemma -- PART I THE CLASH OF IDENTITIES THAT RUPTURED ISRAELI JUDAISM -- Introduction -- 1 The Great Revolt -- 2 The New Orthodoxy -- PART II ALTERNATIVE SECULARISM -- Introduction -- 3 Cultural Secularism -- 4 Mystical Secularism -- 5 Halakhic Secularism -- 6 Is Secular Judaism Still Judaism? -- PART III ALTERNATIVE RELIGIOSITY -- Introduction -- 7 Messianic Religious Zionism -- 8 Non- Diasporic Judaism -- 9 Sephardic Rabbis and Traditionalist Judaism -- PART IV TOWARD A REVITALIZED JUDAISM -- Introduction -- 10 Parallel Worlds, Parallel Divisions -- 11 Self- Confidence and Fears About Identity -- 12 The Israeli Middle Ground -- Afterword: A Digital- Free Sabbath -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
    Abstract: A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage-without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from the other's messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by extremism
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    Nahmanides : Law and Mysticism (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300257014
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (456 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Naḥmanides ; Cabala History ; Judaism History of doctrines ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Tradition (Judaism) ; Mysticism Judaism ; History ; Jewish law ; Mysticism Judaism ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: A broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194–1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides was a distinguished kabbalist and mystic, and in his commentary on the Torah he dispensed esoteric kabbalistic teachings that he termed “By Way of Truth.” This broad, systematic account of Nahmanides’s thought explores his conception of halakhah and his approach to the central concerns of medieval Jewish thought, including notions of God, history, revelation, and the reasons for the commandments. The relationship between Nahmanides’s kabbalah and mysticism and the existential religious drive that nourishes them, as well as the legal and exoteric aspects of his thinking, are at the center of Moshe Halbertal’s portrayal of Nahmanides as a complex and transformative thinker
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Nahmanides’s Philosophy of Halakhah -- 2 Custom and the History of Halakhah -- 3 Death, Sin, Law, and Redemption -- 4 Miracles and the Chain of Being -- 5 Revelation and Prophecy -- 6 Nahmanides’s Conception of History -- 7 The Reasons for the Commandments -- 8 Esotericism and Tradition -- Conclusion: Nahmanides between Ashkenaz and Andalusia -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Sources
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2020) , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.12987/9780300257014
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    Jewish Christianity : the making of the Christianity-Judaism divide (2020)
    New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300182378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jackson-McCabe, Matt, 1967 - Jewish Christianity
    Keywords: Christianity and other religions Judaism ; Christianity Origin ; Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 ; Judaism Relations ; Christianity ; Jewish Christians History Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Messianic Judaism ; RELIGION / Christian Theology / History ; Judenchristentum ; Frühchristentum ; Apologetik ; Kirchengeschichtsschreibung ; Geschichte 1700-2010
    Abstract: A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates For hundreds of years, historians have been asking fundamental questions about the separation of Christianity from Judaism in antiquity. Matt Jackson-McCabe argues provocatively that the concept “Jewish Christianity,” which has been central to scholarly reconstructions, represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created this category as a means of isolating a distinctly Christian religion from what otherwise appeared to be the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Tracing the development of this patently modern concept of a Jewish Christianity from its origins to early twenty-first-century scholarship, Jackson-McCabe shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative “original Christianity” continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity. He draws on promising new approaches to Christianity and Judaism as socially constructed terms of identity to argue that historians would do better to leave the concept of Jewish Christianity behind
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Invention of Jewish Christianity: From Early Christian Heresiology to John Toland’s Nazarenus -- 2. Jewish Christianity, Pauline Christianity, and the Critical Study of the New Testament: Thomas Morgan and F. C. Baur -- 3. Apostolic vs. Judaizing Jewish Christianity: The Reclamation of Apostolic Authority in Post-Baur Scholarship -- 4. The Legacy of Christian Apologetics in Post-Holocaust Scholarship: Jean Daniélou, Marcel Simon, and the Problem of Definition -- 5. Problems and Prospects: Jewish Christianity and Identity in Contemporary Discussion -- 6. Beyond Jewish Christianity: Ancient Social Taxonomies and the Christianity-Judaism Divide -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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