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    ISBN: 9781644690109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
    Keywords: HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Quest Begins -- 1993–1996: Relocating to Windsor -- 1996: Travel to Poland -- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland: July 1944 -- Auschwitz-Birkenau: 1996 -- Krosno Airbase, Poland: August 27, 1941 -- Fate of My Father’s Family -- I Receive Unexpected News -- Maidstone, Ontario: Spring 2001 -- New Information Changes Our Course -- December 4, 1939: Zeglarska 7, Lodz, Poland -- Europe: 2001 -- Majdanek -- Lodz -- Postwar Europe -- Maidstone, Ontario: 2001 through 2003 -- Yaron Svoray -- New York: July 2003 -- Maidstone, Ontario: 2003 -- Wednesday April 21, 2004: Maidstone, Ontario -- Poland: April 2004 -- Jedwabne -- Wolf’s Lair -- Berlin: 1946 -- Warsaw: 2004 -- Windsor: Spring/ Summer, 2004 -- Lodz: October 2004 -- Wroclaw -- Gross-Rosen -- The Trip Home -- April 1949, and Beyond: The American Journey -- Back Home: Ontario, 2004 -- Late 2004–Present: Epilogue -- Index
    Abstract: This is the extraordinary story of the author’s twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps. His father survived the war but died when the author was a teenager, leaving him only with the knowledge that he had buried coins somewhere in Poland, and no information about his family. During his quest, Biederman uncovers many interesting and disturbing facts about his father and mother and their families, such as the fact that his father was the third person on Oskar Schindler’s list and had a chance meeting with Adolph Hitler, and that his mother was selected as a cook for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. The book details the author’s quest to unearth his family’s past and hist father’s treasure and continues with his parent’s amazing post-war years in Europe and their eventual arrival in North America
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781618119674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Antisemitism Studies
    Keywords: RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Campbell, Jonathan G. / Klaff, Lesley D. -- Part One. DEFINING ANTISEMITISM -- CHAPTER 1. Contemporary Struggles over Defining Antisemitism / Hirsh, David -- CHAPTER 2. Is Criticism of Israel Antisemitic? What do British and French Jews Think about the Link between Antisemitic and Anti-Israel Attitudes among Non-Jews? / Staetsky, L. Daniel -- CHAPTER 3. Why Present-Day “Anti- Zionism” is Antisemitic / Harrison, Bernard -- Part One. RESPONDING TO ANTISEMITISM -- CHAPTER 4. Using Section 26 Equality Act to Combat Institutional Antisemitism: A Critical Race Perspective on Fraser v University and College Union / Klaff, Lesley D. -- CHAPTER 5. Evading Terror: The European Union’s Response to Lethal Antisemitism / Elman, R. Amy -- CHAPTER 6. Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism / Johnson, Alan -- Part Three. ANTISEMITISM AND EXTREMISM -- CHAPTER 7. Walking a Mile in Asghar Bukhari’s Shoe: Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and Extremism / Rich, Dave -- CHAPTER 8. Antisemitism and Anti- Zionism in the British Pakistani Muslim Community / Jaspal, Rusi -- Part Four. THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS -- CHAPTER 9. The British Left’s Attitudes toward Antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim World / Küntzel, Matthias -- CHAPTER 10. Disavowal, Distinction, and Repetition: Alain Badiou and the Radical Tradition of Antisemitism / Seymour, David -- CHAPTER 11. On the Contemporary Relevance of Arendt’s “Jewish Writings” / Fine, Robert -- Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: This book springs from the Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism at the University of Bristol in September 2015. International experts in Religious Studies, Law, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, and History came together to examine the complexities of contemporary antisemitism. Recent attacks on Jews in European cities have increased awareness of antisemitism and, as this collection shows, such attacks cannot be separated from wider geopolitical and ideological factors. One distinct feature of antisemitism today is its demonization of the State of Israel. Older ideas also feature Jews being blamed for all the world’s ills, thought to possess almost supernatural levels of power and wealth, and conspiring to harm the non-Jewish other. These and other ideas forming the background to antisemitism in Europe and North America are unpacked in this book with a view to understanding—and thereby combating—contemporary antisemitism. A key concern is how unifying features might be isolated amid the diverse manifestations of this oldest of hatreds
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781618118721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
    Keywords: HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments / Bender, Sara -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Jews of Kielce between the World Wars -- CHAPTER 2. From Occupation to Ghettoization (September 1939–April 1941) -- CHAPTER 3. The Ghetto (April 1941–August 1942) -- CHAPTER 3. The Ghetto (April 1941–August 1942) -- CHAPTER 5. The “Small Ghetto” and the Labor Camps (September 1942–August 1944) -- CHAPTER 6. Jews and Poles in Kielce Subdistrict during the German Occupation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. It is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce’s Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation. The book focuses in particular on Jewish-Polish relations in the Kielce region; the deportation of the Jews of Kielce and its surrounding areas to the Treblinka death camp; the difficulties faced by those attempting to help and save them; and daily life in the Small Ghetto from September 1942 until late May 1943
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9781644690598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE -- PHOTOGRAPHS
    Abstract: Meyer Raskin is a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur running a large agricultural estate in Belarus on the western outskirts of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. His wife Chava feels out of place and yearns for the quiet life of a Jewish shtetl. Together they have six children, some of whom help their father on the estate, while others are more interested in pursuing education or getting involved in revolutionary politics. Their lives are interrupted first by the Russian revolution of 1905 and later by World War I, which eventually turns them all into refugees. This is an autobiographical novel based on the author’s family
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9781644691373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    Keywords: God (Judaism) ; Orthodox Judaism Doctrines ; RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Forward -- Introduction -- 1. My Theological Method -- 2. A Perfectly Good Being -- 3. The God Of The Jews -- 4. The Ideological Critique -- 5. The Argument From Evil -- 6. The Humility Response -- 7. A Response to the Present-Day Ideological Critique— The God of the Jews and a Jewish God -- 8. Hasidic Panpsychism: “A Portion Of God From Above” -- 9. The Multiverse: A Possible Theodicy -- Backward -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a “Jewish God,” one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation
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    ISBN: 9781618119728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (498 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Worship of the Heart: The Consciousness of Prayer -- Chapter 1: Nature and Purpose -- Chapter 2: The Consciousness of Prayer: An Outline -- Chapter 3: The Consciousness of Prayer: The Subjective and the Objective -- Chapter 4: The Consciousness of Prayer: The Process of Consolidation -- Chapter 5: The Path of the Consciousness of Prayer to Perfection -- Chapter 6: The Dialectic of Consciousness: Between Reading Shema and Prayer -- Chapter 7: The Interpretation of Reading Shema and Its Blessings: (1) Methodology and Sources -- Chapter 8: The Interpretation of Reading Shema and Its Blessings: (2) Application -- Part II. “Reflections on the Amidah” in Perspective -- Chapter 9: Prayer and Redemption -- Chapter 10: Covering the Profound: The Legal-Halakhic Dimension of the Amidah -- Chapter 11: Interpretation of the Amidah Prayer -- Part III. Community -- Chapter 12: Synagogue and Community -- Summary: The Consciousness of Prayer -- Bibliography
    Abstract: This book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik’s work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a profound insight into its diversity, ranging from existential crisis to communion with God.Through a careful reading of R. Soloveitchik’s texts dealing with this topic, the book follows the consciousness of prayer across its various stages until maturity, starting with an analysis of Worship of the Heart, through to Reflections on the Amidah and other writings
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    ISBN: 9781618119629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (100 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sheer, Charles H., 1942 - Maimonides' grand epistle to the scholars of Lunel
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings ; Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 ; Bible. Pentateuch ; Jüdisches Recht
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Maimonides’ Grand Iggeret to R. Jonathan of Lunel -- Chapter 2. The First Half of the Iggeret in Rhymed Prose -- Chapter 3. Maimonides’ Unanticipated and Problematic Style Reversal -- Chapter 4. Maimonides’ Letter to Judge Anatoli -- Chapter 5. The Letters from R. Jonathan of Lunel -- Chapter 6. The Second Half of the Iggeret in Unadorned Prose -- Chapter 7. Maimonides and the Lunel Scholars—Reconsidered -- Appendix -- Endnotes
    Abstract: When Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Surprisingly, Maimonides’ rejoinder opened with an unusual rhymed prose epistle with effusive praise for his correspondents and artistic and complex language. In this book, Charles Sheer offers the first annotated translation of the entire epistle: he uncovers the biblical and midrashic passages modified by Maimonides that became the language of his Iggeret, and explicates its ideas in the context of Maimonides’ other works and compositions of the late Middle Ages. He illustrates how Maimonides, in a most personal fashion, shared with these scholars his ideological struggle between his love for Torah study and “hokhmah” (philosophy, wisdom). This Grand Epistle reveals much about this towering figure and provides a moving portrait of him during his last decade
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    ISBN: 9781618117526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (580 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction – My Way to (Neo) Ḥasidism -- Early Ḥasidism -- Chapter 1. “What happened, happened”: R. Ya’akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Ḥasidic Interpretation -- Chapter 2. The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early Ḥasidism -- Chapter 3. The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early Ḥasidism -- Chapter 4. The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady -- Chapter 5. Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s “The Tale of the Seven Beggars” -- Later Ḥasidism -- Chapter 6. Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer Emunim -- Chapter 7. The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil -- Chapter 8. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad Messianism -- Chapter 9. Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s Eish Kodesh -- Chapter 10. American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScroll -- Index of Sources -- Index of Names
    Abstract: Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice
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    ISBN: 9781618117502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Foreword -- Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Retrospective View / Greenberg, Irving (Yitz) -- Part One. Law and Theology -- 1. History and Halakhah / Katz, Steven T. -- 2. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s Covenantal Theory of Bioethics / Jotkowitz, Alan -- 3. Irving Greenberg’s Theology of Hybrid Judaism / Kleinberg, Darren -- 4. On the Meaning and Significance of Revelation for Orthodox Judaism / Kugel, James -- 5. Divine Hiddenness and Human Input: The Potential Contribution of a Postmodern View of Revelation to Yitz Greenberg’s Holocaust Theology / Ross, Tamar -- 6. Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Truth / Shapiro, Marc B. -- 7. On Revelation, Heresy, and Mesorah—from Louis Jacobs to the TheTorah.com / Freud-Kandel, Miri -- Part Two. Past and Present -- 8. What Is “Modern” in Modern Orthodoxy? / Brill, Alan -- 9. Can Modern Orthodoxy Survive? / Wertheimer, Jack -- 10. Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? The Changing Character of the Orthodox Rabbinate and its Causes / Heilman, Samuel C. -- 11. Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores / Fishman, Sylvia Barack -- 12. “The Road Not Taken” and “The One Less Traveled”: The Greenberg–Lichtenstein Exchange and Contemporary Orthodoxy / Ferziger, Adam S. -- Editors and Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. The current volume is the fruit of this encounter. The goal of the event was to facilitate in-depth engagement with the thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, concentrating particularly on the historical ramifications of his theological and public stances. Consideration was given to his lifelong and complex encounter with the Modern Orthodox stream of American Judaism and the extent to which his teachings functioned as “the road not taken.” This auspicious gathering was most certainly characterized by deep appreciation for Greenberg’s original outlook, which is predicated on his profound dedication to God, Torah, the Jewish people, and humanity. But this was by no means gratuitous homage or naive esteem. On the contrary, those in attendance understood that the most genuine form of admiration for a thinker and leader of his stature—especially one who continues to produce path-breaking writings and speak out publicly—is to examine rigorously and critically his ideas and legacy. We are confident that the creative process that was nurtured has resulted in a substantive contribution to research on the religious, historical, and social trajectories of contemporary Judaism, and, similarly will engender fresh thinking on crucial theological and ideological postures that will ultimately enrich Jewish life. This volume offers readers a critical engagement with the trenchant and candid efforts of one of the most thoughtful and earnest voices to emerge from within American Orthodoxy to address the theological and moral concerns that characterize our times
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    ISBN: 9781644690406
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (104 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
    Keywords: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Conversation in the Mountains -- 2. The Third-to-Last -- 3. The Sidewalk Across the Street -- 4. Mouths, Rivers, and the Letter R -- 5. The Sidewalk Across the Street, Part 2 -- 6. Forgetting Babel -- 7. Stumbling Block -- References -- Index
    Abstract: Writer, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with fascinating anecdotes. Living bilingually can be uncomfortable, but this strange in-between state can equally serve as a refuge and inspire creativity. Jurgenson sheds light on this little-explored territory with lively prose and a keen awareness of her historical and literary context. Language, identity, translation, and the self: all are intertwined. The ceaseless journey of bilingualism is at last revealed. 2015 winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud
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    ISBN: 9781644690208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (580 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Be-Ron yahad
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reading in Harmony: An Introduction -- Judaism as a Path of Love / Mayse, Ariel Evan / Green, Arthur -- To Be or Not to Be: A Tale of Five Sisters / Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb -- From the Cleft of the Rock: The Eclipse of God in the Bible, Midrash, and Post-Holocaust Theology / Adelman, Rachel -- From Leviticus to Latkes: The Origins of Hanukkah’s Miraculous Oil and the Meaning of the Festival / Rosenberg, Michael -- Between Tradition and Innovation: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Penai Yehoshua / Kanarek, Jane L. -- Rediscovering the Covenant: The Contemporary Hasidic Thought of Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky of Slonim / Goshen-Gottstein, Alon -- Protest or Discernment? Divine Limitation & Mystical Activism in the Qedushat Levi / Rose, Or N. -- Leadership as Individual Relationships: A Close Study of the No‘am Elimelekh / Leader, Ebn -- Letter to Riga: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s Meditative System for a Young Woman / Loewenthal, Naftali -- Hasidic Women: Beyond Egalitarianist Discourse / Kauffman, Tsippi -- Prophecy and Imagination in the Teachings of R. Tzadoq ha-Kohen of Lublin, R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, and R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira / Reiser, Daniel -- Poetics of Exegesis in the Sefat Emet’s Homilies: Semantic Innovations for Discernment and Disclosure / Holzer, Elie -- Transcendent God, Immanent Kabbalah: Polemics and Psychology in the Hasidic Teachings of R. Avraham ha-Malakh / Stillman, Avinoam J. -- Losing the Princess—Returning to Self: Toward An Archetypal Mapping of the Soul / Glazer, Aubrey L. -- Caring for the Graves of the Righteous: The Holocaust in Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin’s Sippurei Ḥasidim / Rosen, Avraham -- “Like a Moth to the Flame”: The Death of Nadav and Avihu in Hasidic Literature / Mayse, Ariel Evan -- Index
    Abstract: The present volume honors Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, a rare scholar whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. With intellectual integrity and remarkable religious insight, Polen’s work expands the reach of Torah into an academic quest for ever-broadening depth and connectivity. The essays in this collection, written by students, colleagues, and friends, are a testament to his enduring impact on the scholarly community. The contributions explore a range of historical periods and themes, centering upon the fields dear to Polen’s heart, but they are united by a common thread: each essay is grounded in deeply engaged textual scholarship casting a glance upon the sources that is at once critical and beneficent. As a whole, they seek to give readers a richer sense of the fabric of Jewish interpretation and theology, including the history of Jewish mysticism, the promise and perils of exegesis, and the contemporary relevance of premodern and early modern texts
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    ISBN: 9781618119056
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 p)
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    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kashrut and Jewish food ethics
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox ; Speisegebot ; Judentum
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION 1: Kashrut Dynamics -- CHAPTER 1. On the Ethics and Politics of Kosher Food Supervision / Leibowitz, Rabbi Aaron -- CHAPTER 2. Are You Really Eating Kosher? On Camouflage, Hypocrisy, and Hiding Behind the Kashrut Laws / Cardozo, Nathan Lopes -- CHAPTER 3. Milk and Meat / Cardozo, Nathan -- SECTION 2. Bridging Kashrut with Ethical & Spiritual Concerns -- CHAPTER 1. The Moral Underpinnings of Kashrut Rabbi / Yanklowitz, Shmuly -- CHAPTER 2. Eating Our Way from Holiness to Justice / Kasher, David -- CHAPTER 3. Increasing Holiness in Life / Greenberg, Irving (Yitz) -- SECTION 3. Spirituality of Eating -- CHAPTER 1. Eating as a Sacrament– The Eating Table and the Coffin / Sperber, Daniel -- CHAPTER 2. Food for Thought / Mayse, Ariel Evan -- CHAPTER 3. Holy Eating in Jewish Thought and Practice / Shafner, Rabbi Hyim -- CHAPTER 4. Too Much of Everything is Just Enough / Jaffe, Rabbi David -- SECTION 4. Health & Consumption -- CHAPTER 1. Towards a Jewish Nutrition Ethic / Goodman, Daniel R. -- CHAPTER 2. Why Are We So Hungry? Our Betrayal of Eating, Being Satisfied and Blessing and The Way Back / Landes, Rabbi Daniel -- CHAPTER 3. Your Grains, Your Grape Juice, and Your Oil / Lopatin, Rabbi Asher -- SECTION 5. Worker Rights, Equality, & Hunger -- CHAPTER 1. The Divine Image / Mayse, Ariel Evan -- CHAPTER 2. Judaism and The Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South / Odenheimer, Rabbi Micha -- CHAPTER 3 Let Them Have a Little Bread / Gitler, Rabbi Marc -- SECTION 6. Animal Welfare -- CHAPTER 1. םייח ילעב רעצ יניינעב הבושת / Bigman, Rabbi David -- CHAPTER 2. Animal Suffering and the Rhetoric of Values and Halakhah / Linzer, Rabbi Dov -- CHAPTER 3. The Commandments Were Only Given for the Purpose of Refining People / Rosen, David -- CHAPTER 4. The Case for Limiting Meat Consumption to Shabbat, Holidays, and Celebrations / Potek, Rabbi Aaron -- SECTION 7. Environmentalism, Conservation, and GMOs -- CHAPTER 1. Ethical Eating and the Impact on Our Environment / Gottlieb, Mel -- CHAPTER 2. Humanity and the Tree of the Field / Najman, Rosh Kehillah Dina -- CHAPTER 3. Divine Wisdom or Altering Creation? A Torah Perspective on GMOs / Greenberg, Rabbi Gabe -- Conclusion / Yanklowitz, Shmuly -- Index
    Abstract: Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as workers’ rights, animal welfare, environmental protection, among others, intersect with basic Jewish food ethics: while Jewish communities respect ancient laws, they also appreciate the importance of progress and look forward to a more repaired world. In these pages, readers will have the unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the brightest Modern Orthodox thinkers of the current generation. The contributions contained in Kashrut & Jewish Food Ethics by members of the progressive Orthodox Jewish association Torat Chayim are rich in detail and offer new paradigms for the practical observance of kashrut that have swirled in the ether for generations
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    ISBN: 9781644690376
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (140 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrayer, Maxim D., 1967 - A Russian immigrant
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bohemian Spring -- Brotherly Love -- Borscht Belt -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Praise for A Russian Immigrant
    Abstract: No longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer’s A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Unresolved feelings about his Jewish (and American) present and his Russian (and Soviet) past prevent Reznikov from easily putting down roots in his new country. A visit to a decaying summer resort in the Catskills, now populated by Jewish ghosts of Soviet history, which include a famous émigré writer, reveals to Reznikov that he, too, is a prisoner of his past. An expedition to Prague in search of clues for an elusive Jewish writer’s biography exposes Reznikov’s own inability to move on. A chance reunion with a former Russian lover, now also an immigrant living in an affluent part of Connecticut, unearths memories of Reznikov’s last Soviet summer while reanimating many contradictors of a mixed, Jewish-Russian marriage.Told both linearly and non-linearly, with elements of suspense, mystery and crime, these three interconnected novellas gradually reveal many layers of the characters’ Russian, Jewish, and Soviet identities. Vectors of love and desire, nostalgia and amnesia, violence and forgiveness, politics and aesthetics guide Shrayer’s immigrant characters while also disorienting them in their new American lives. Set in Providence, New Haven and Boston, but also in places of the main character’s pilgrimages such as Estonia and Bohemia, Shrayer’s book weaves together a literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
    ISBN: 9781644690055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Foreboding and Wishful Thinking in a Town with a Difference -- Chapter 2. Our Mother Eve on a Death Train -- Chapter 3. The Prophet of Wrath and Lamentation -- Chapter 4. The Shoah as an Asylum -- Chapter 5. And He Survived “Planet Auschwitz” -- Chapter 6. A Funny and Sensitive Story about Holocaust Memory in Israel -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah, and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful analysis of the author’s individual opus, accompanied by a comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy that befell their people
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
    ISBN: 9781618119025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Keywords: HISTORY / Holocaust
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Spring Meeting -- 2. Promise of the Night -- 3. Encountering Pista -- 4. In the Garden -- 5. The First Visit -- 6. The Rise of Terror -- 7. Fear -- 8. Hunger -- 9. The Wedding -- 10. Shadows and Light -- 11. The Railed Cot -- 12. Quiet Happiness -- 13. Under Terror -- 14. Living for the Moment -- 15. Playmates -- 16. Dangerous Winds -- 17. Deportations -- 18. A Decision -- 19. Voyage to the East -- 20. New Circumstances -- 21. Across the Border -- 22. New Life -- 23. Waiting for a Miracle -- 24. Hamburg -- 25. First Steps -- 26. Crisis -- 27. Major Changes -- 28. New Life -- 29. A Terrible Event -- 30. Becoming Parents -- 31. Pleasure and Grief -- 32. At Home -- 33. Teaching and Fulfillment -- 34. Past and Present -- 35. Threats -- 36. The Crush of the World -- 37. Life with and without Pista -- Index
    Abstract: In the spring of 1944, nearly 500,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian countryside and killed in Auschwitz. In Budapest, only 150,000 Jews survived both the German occupation and dictatorship of the Hungarian National Socialists, who took power in October 1944. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s family belonged among the survivors. This memoir begins with the the author’s childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues with her and her husband’s flight to Germany and eventually the United States. Ozsváth’s poignant story of survival, friendship, and love provides readers with a rare glimpse of an extraordinary journey
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
    ISBN: 9781618118905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: North American Jewish Studies
    Keywords: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From Russia to Mississippi -- Chapter 2: A Merchant, After All -- Chapter 3: Fear in Low Profile: An Incident in the 1930s -- Chapter 4: Our Home -- Chapter 5: Surviving the Depression, Finding Acceptance, Anticipating War -- Chapter 6: Breaking the Silence about Segregation -- Chapter 7: Fear in High Profile: Terrorism in the 1960s -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: Through the story of his Russian–Jewish parents’ arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts with the author’s father arriving in 1924 to become a peddler and then a merchant, joined by his mother in 1925, and follows the author himself as he searches into the history of his parents and the Jewish community, as well as a variety of its members: a young Jewish man who is tried and convicted of murder; Arthur Brodey, a Reform rabbi who gains wider acceptance for the congregation; Charles Mantinband, a rabbi whose civil rights activities won national recognition but stirred fears of Klan violence in his congregation; and Waldoff’s brother-in-law “B” Botnick of the Anti-Defamation League, whose work made him a target of assassin Byron de la Beckwith
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
    ISBN: 9781644691328
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Touro University Press
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A century of Jewish life in Shanghai
    Keywords: HISTORY / Jewish ; Konferenzschrift Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE) Juni 2015 ; China ; Schanghai ; Juden ; Flüchtling ; Auswanderer ; Segregation ; Geschichte 1930-1950
    Abstract: For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. They built hotels and stood in bread lines, hobnobbed with the British and Chinese elites and were confined to a wartime ghetto. Jews taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sold Viennese pastries, and shared the worst slum with native Shanghainese. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution together.In this book, we hear their own words and the words of modern scholars explaining how Baghdadi, Russian and Central European Jews found their way to Shanghai, created lives in the world’s most cosmopolitan city, and were forced to find new homes in the late 1940s
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface / Citron, Rodger -- Introduction -- How Many Shanghai Jews Were There? / Hochstadt, Steve -- Shanghai before the War -- Shanghai Remembered: Recollections of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews / Meyer, Maisie -- The Burak Family: The Migration of a Russian Jewish Family Through the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Atkinson, Anne -- Russian Jews in Shanghai 1920–1950: New Life as Shanghailanders / Willens, Liliane -- Shanghai and the Holocaust -- Desperate Hopes, Shattered Dreams: The 1937 Shanghai–Manila Voyage of the “Gneisenau” and the Fate of European Jewry / Goldstein, Jonathan -- Diplomatic Rescue: Shanghai as a Means of Escape and Refuge / Ho, Manli -- 305/13 Kungping Road / Marcus, Lotte -- Survival in Shanghai 1939–1947 / Rubin, Evelyn Pike -- What I Learned from Shanghai Refugees / Hochstadt, Steve -- Chinese responses to the Holocaust: Chinese attitudes toward Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s / Xin, Xu -- Looking Back at Shanghai -- Imagined Geographies, Imagined Identities, Imagined Glocal Histories / Ben-Canaan, Dan -- Ephemeral Memories, Eternal Traumas and Evolving Classifications: Shanghai Jewish Refugees and Debates about Defining a Holocaust Survivor / Abram, Gabrielle -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781618119612 , 9781618119605
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 81 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sheer, Charles H Maimonides’ Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel
    DDC: 296.1/81
    Keywords: Maimonides, Moses ; Responsa 1040-1600 ; Hebrew language Prosodic analysis ; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) ; Jewish scholars Correspondence ; Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 ; Bible. Pentateuch ; Jüdisches Recht
    Abstract: Introduction: Maimonides and the Lunel scholars -- The correspondence between Maimonides and French scholars -- 1. Maimonides' grand Iggeret in rhymed prose -- 2. The first half of the Iggeret in rhymed prose -- 3. Maimonides' unanticipated and problematic style reversal -- 4. Maimonides' letter to Judge Anatoli -- 5. The letters from R. Jonathan of Lunel -- 6. The second half of the Iggeret in unadorned prose -- 7. Maimonides and the Lunel scholars-reconsidered.
    Abstract: "When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Surprisingly, Maimonides' rejoinder opened with an unusual rhymed prose epistle with effusive praise for his correspondents and artistic and complex language. In this book, Charles Sheer offers the first annotated translation of the entire epistle: he uncovers the biblical and midrashic passages modified by Maimonides that became the language of his Iggeret, and explicates its ideas in the context of Maimonides' other works and compositions of the late Middle Ages. He illustrates how Maimonides, in a most personal fashion, shared with these scholars his ideological struggle between his love for Torah study and "hokhmah" (philosophy, wisdom). This Grand Epistle reveals much about this towering figure and provides a moving portrait of him during his last decade"--
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    ISBN: 9781618114778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (492 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
    Keywords: Jews History ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Dates, Spelling, and Names -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The History of Jews in Kiev from the Tenth Century to 1660 -- Chapter Two. The Jews of Kiev in the Embrace of the Russian Empire (1794–1859). -- Chapter Three. The Jewish Right of Residence in Kiev in 1859–1917 -- Chapter Four. The Kiev Jewish Community and its Leaders -- Chapter Five. The Wealth and Poverty of Jews in Kiev -- Chapter Six. Jewish Pogroms and the Beilis Affair -- Chapter Seven. How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev -- Chapter Eight. Jewish Culture in Kiev -- Chapter Nine. Between Tradition and Modernity: Jewish Religious Life in Kiev -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Dmitrii Bogrov and the Assassination of Stolypin -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
    Abstract: This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9781618117892 , 9781618112019
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 473 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2015
    Series Statement: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Judaism as philosophy
    Keywords: Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 ; Provence ; Jüdische Philosophie
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