Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
48 (2017) 105-126
Keywords:
Joseph Ḥayyim ben Elijah al-Ḥakam,
;
Talmud Bavli. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Jews History
;
Travel in literature
;
Travel (Jewish law)
;
Time Religious aspects
;
Judaism
Abstract:
In this article I juxtapose the wandering experience that developed as part of the growth of the modern European city in the nineteenth century with a similar experience that emerged during the urbanization of Ottoman Baghdad during this period. We find an expression of the Baghdadi experience in one of the Talmudic exegeses of R. Yosef Haim – one of the great nineteenth-century halakhic adjudicators and philosophers in the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire – in which he distinguished between the characters of “one who is walking along the way” and ”those who pass by the way”. Like Charles Baudelaire’s “flâneur,” R. Yosef Haim’s “one who walks along the way” challenges the urban rhythm that creates a style of walking with a defined destination and that neutralizes the effect of the events that occur along the way. “The one who walks along the way” is the one who wishes to redeem the divine sparks (nitzotzot) that “those who pass by the way” have left behind them. I discuss the experience expressed in R. Yosef Haim’s words regarding the urbanization processes in Baghdad in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through this context, I argue that we can see in R. Yosef Haim the creator of a new model of wandering in the city – that is, a new model of flânerie.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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