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  • 1
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    Speaking Yiddish to chickens : Holocaust survivors on South Jersey poultry farms (2023)
    New Brunswick, Camden : Rutgers University Press$
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    ISBN: 9781978831612 , 9781978831629
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 313 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2023
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stern, Seth, 1975 - Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
    DDC: 974.9/004924
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    NY 4900
    Keywords: Jews History 20th century ; Poultry farms History 20th century ; Jewish farmers History 20th century ; Immigrants Social conditions ; Holocaust surviors Social conditions ; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte ; HISTORY / Holocaust ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) ; Holocaust ; Jewish studies ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Regional & national history ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies ; Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften ; The Holocaust ; Vineland (N.J.) Social life and customs 20th century
    Abstract: Passage -- New York -- Finding a Farm -- Settling In -- Small Town Jews -- Word of Mouth Migration -- Mixed Reception -- Getting Noticed -- Vicissitudes -- Comfort Zones -- Community Building -- New Connections -- Family & Friends -- Downturn -- Rural Childhoods -- Hurricanes -- Coping -- Grief & Faith -- Feed Men & A Record Breaking Hen -- Laborers -- The Golden Egg -- Seeking Help -- Alternative Livelihoods -- Teenagers -- Valedictory -- After Farming.
    Abstract: "Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this little-known chapter in American Jewish history when these mostly Eastern European refugees - including the author's grandparents - found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms. They gravitated to a section of south Jersey anchored by Vineland, a small rural city where previous waves of Jewish immigrants had built a rich network of cultural and religious institutions. This book relies on interviews with dozens of these refugee farmers and their children, as well as oral histories and archival records to tell how they learned to farm while coping with unimaginable grief. They built small synagogues within walking distances of their farms and hosted Yiddish cultural events more frequently found on the Lower East Side than perhaps anywhere else in rural America at the time. Like refugees today, they embraced their new American identities and enriched the community where they settled, working hard in unfamiliar jobs for often meager returns. Within a decade, falling egg prices and the rise of industrial-scale agriculture in the South would drive almost all of these novice poultry farmers out of business, many into bankruptcy. Some hated every minute here; others would remember their time on south Jersey farms as their best years in America. They enjoyed a quieter way of life and more space for themselves and their children than in the crowded New York City apartments where so many displaced persons settled. This is their remarkable story of loss, renewal, and perseverance in the most unexpected of settings"
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  • 2
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    The no-state solution : a Jewish manifesto (2023)
    New Haven$oLondon : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300251289
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 180 Seiten , 22 cm
    Year of publication: 2023
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boyarin, Daniʾel, 1946 - The no-state solution
    DDC: 305.8924
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Zionism ; Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History of religion ; Jewish studies ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften ; Judentum ; Diaspora ; Identität ; Nation ; Staat
    Abstract: A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation based on Jewish ethnicity. The latter position is commonly known as Zionism, and all articulations of a political theory of Zionism are taken to be variations of that view. In this provocative book, based on his decades of study of the history of the Jews, Daniel Boyarin lays out the problematic aspects of this binary opposition and offers the outlines of a different-and very old-answer to the question of the identity of a diaspora nation. He aims to drive a wedge between the "nation" and the "state," only very recently conjoined, and recover a robust sense of nationalism that does not involve sovereignty
    Note: Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
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    England's Jews : finance, violence, and the Crown in the thirteenth century (2023)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9781512823899
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 252 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tolan, John Victor, 1959 - England's Jews
    DDC: 941/.004924
    Keywords: Geschichte 1200-1300 ; 13. Jahrhundert (1200 bis 1299 n. Chr.) ; c 1000 CE to c 1500 ; Jews History To 1500 ; Jews History To 1500 ; Jews History Expulsion, 1290 ; Antisemitismus ; Juden ; Geschichte der Religion ; HIS015020 ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History of religion ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485 ; England Ethnic relations ; England ; England ; England
    Abstract: "In thirteenth-century England, Jews played important roles in English society. Yet Church authorities feared the consequences of Jewish contact with Christians and tried to limit it, to little avail. Some circulated vicious rumors, accusing Jews of capturing and crucifying Christian children. All of these factors led Edward I to expel the Jews from England in 1290. Paradoxically, thirteenth-century England is both the theater of deep and fruitful economic and social exchange between Jews and Christians and one of the crucibles of European Antisemitism"--
    Abstract: In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England's Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English history-one whose remembrance is more important than ever today, as antisemitism and other forms of racism are on the rise.Historian John Tolan tells the story of the thousands of Jews who lived in medieval England. Protected by the Crown and granted the exclusive right to loan money with interest, Jews financed building projects, provided loans to students, and bought and rented out housing. Historical texts show that they shared meals and beer, celebrated at weddings, and sometimes even ended up in bed with Christians.Yet Church authorities feared the consequences of Jewish contact with Christians and tried to limit it, though to little avail. Royal protection also proved to be a double-edged sword: when revolts broke out against the unpopular king Henry III, some of the rebels, in debt to Jewish creditors, killed Jews and destroyed loan records. Vicious rumors circulated that Jews secretly plotted against Christians and crucified Christian children. All of these factors led Edward I to expel the Jews from England in 1290. Paradoxically, Tolan shows, thirteenth-century England was both the theatre of fruitful interreligious exchange and a crucible of European antisemitism
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen
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    Jüdische Geschichte in Thüringen : Strukturen und Entwicklungen vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (2023)
    Wien : Böhlau Verlag
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    ISBN: 9783412525910 , 341252591X
    Language: German
    Pages: 491 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Thüringen Band 64
    Series Statement: Kleine Reihe
    DDC: 900
    RVK:
    NR 6395
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    NY 4620
    Keywords: Jews History ; European history ; Europäische Geschichte ; Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History of religion ; Jewish studies ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften ; Deutschland ; Germany ; Konferenzschrift Historische Kommission für Thüringen 2021 ; Konferenzschrift Verein für Thüringische Geschichte 2021 ; Thüringen ; Juden ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten hat die Erforschung der jüdischen Geschichte Thüringens einen grossen Aufschwung genommen. Der Band gibt einen Einblick in die Entwicklung jüdischen Lebens in der Region vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Die Beiträge befassen sich u.a. mit der Blütezeit jüdischen Lebens in Thüringen im Mittelalter, mit der Entwicklung des Landjudentums in der Frühen Neuzeit und der Rolle der Hofjuden in den zahlreichen thüringischen Residenzen, dem Kampf um die rechtliche Emanzipation im 19. Jahrhundert, der Verfolgung und Vernichtung während der Zeit des Dritten Reiches und dem Neubeginn jüdischen Lebens in Thüringen nach 1945. Anhand ausgewählter Themenfelder bietet der Band sowohl eine Bilanz der bisherigen Forschung als auch einen Einblick in aktuelle Projekte und einen Ausblick auf künftige Forschungsperspektiven
    Note: "Neun Jahrhunderte jüdisches Leben in Thüringen. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung. 28. Tag der Thüringischen Landesgeschichte, 23.-25. September 2021 in Schmalkalden" (http://www.historische-kommission-fuer-thueringen.de/fileadmin/HiKo-Veranstaltungen_PDF/TLG/TLG_2021.pdf, Zugriff am 12.06.2023) , "Der Band geht auf eine Tagung zurück, die im September 2021 von der Historischen Kommission für Thüringen und dem Verein für Thüringische Geschichte [...] in Schmalkalden veranstaltet worden ist." (Vorwort, Seite [9]) , Literaturangaben in Fußnoten , Mit Registern
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    Schicksale und ihre Bücher : deutsch-jüdische Privatbibliotheken zwischen Jerusalem, Tunis und Los Angeles (2023)
    Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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    ISBN: 9783525500316 , 3525500319
    Language: German
    Pages: 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2023
    Series Statement: Jüdische Religion, Geschichte und Kultur Band 34
    Series Statement: Jüdische Religion, Geschichte und Kultur
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 2022
    DDC: 290
    Keywords: Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History of religion ; Judaism ; Judentum ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Verlagsinfo: Julia Schneidawind rekonstruiert die Überlieferungsgeschichte deutsch-jüdischer Privatbibliotheken. Während eine nicht bezifferbare Masse an jüdischem Buchbesitz durch Raub, Verfolgung, und Krieg nach 1933 unwiederbringlich zerstört wurde, sind heute wenige Sammlungen über die Welt verstreut erhalten geblieben. So befindet sich die Sammlung Franz Rosenzweigs (1886-1929) heute in Tunesien; die Bibliothek Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948) zwischen Jerusalem und Deutschland; die Sammlung Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) in Nürnberg: die Bücher des Schriftstellers Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) zwischen Salzburg, London und Petrópolis in Brasilien sowie die Bibliothek Lion Feuchtwangers (1884-1958) in Los Angeles. Folgt man den Spuren der Sammlungen von ihrem Entstehungskontext an ihre heutigen Verwahrungsorte, eröffnen sich wichtige Erkenntnisse mit Blick auf die Frage nach Translokation materieller Kultur, aber auch dem Nachwirken deutsch-jüdischen Büchererbes heute in unterschiedlichen Räumen und Kontexten.Julia Schneidawind ist nicht auf eine einzelne Sammlung beschränkt, sondern kann durch die exemplarische Gegenüberstellung auch die geographische Überlieferungsbreite sowie die Diversität der Überlieferungswege der Privatbibliotheken aufzeigen. Auch die Diskrepanz mit Blick auf die Wahrnehmung, welche die Sammlungen an ihren unterschiedlichen Verwahrungsorten heute als deutsch-jüdisches Büchererbe erfahren, kommt in der synoptischen Darstellung zum Ausdruck. Zudem hat Schneidawind erstmals die Sammlungen Franz Rosenzweig in Tunis einer Bestandsaufnahme vor Ort unterzogen sowie die Überlieferungsgeschichte der Bibliothek anhand von Quellenmaterial rekonstruiert. Auch die Bibliothek Jakob Wassermanns wurde von der Autorin erstmals inhaltlich sowie mit Blick auf die Rezeptionsgeschichte untersucht.
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    The medieval postcolonial Jew, in and out of time (2022)
    Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132379
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Krummel, Miriamne Ara, 1966- Medieval postcolonial Jew, in and out of time
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Krummel, Miriamne Ara The medieval postcolonial Jew, in and out of time
    DDC: 909/.04924
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    NY 4550
    Keywords: Jews History 70-1789 ; Jews History ; Jewish calendar ; Church calendar ; HISTORY / Europe / Medieval ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Europa ; Juden ; Chronologie
    Abstract: "The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior. Jewish temporality, in turn, records a marginalized people who work to rescue their embattled temporality from becoming a time forgotten and colonized. Through a select group of literature in Middle English, Latin, and Hebrew, as well as sixteen manuscript pictorials, author Miriamne Ara Krummel confronts the notion that annus domini time (whether disguised as CE or AD) figures as the universal standard. Krummel's argument details how Other temporalities-ones outside and not like annus domini time-are cast as nonstandard and imagined as wholly devised out of stories that promote fear and terror, and are positioned as putative threats to the fabric of the temporal empire of Latin Christendom. Ultimately, the book reflects on the ways in which "common" time both marks and silences marginal identities and cultures and shows to what extent the dynamics of the medieval environment materialize in our modern world"--
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    The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE : Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations (2022)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110787450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 316 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Studia Judaica 118
    Series Statement: Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums
    Keywords: Antiochos IV ; Hasmonäer ; Herodes I ; Historische Soziologie ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Levante Süd ; Juden ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialgeschichte 200 v. Chr.-132 ; Antike ; Judentum ; Kulturelle Identität ; Geschichte 200-132
    Abstract: Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts
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    Jews and American Public Life : Essays on American Jewish History and Politics (2022)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644698822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: North American Jewish Studies
    Keywords: Jews Biography ; Jews History ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual life, and sports, and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of Church and State and a prescient 1980 essay about the limits of free speech and the goal of Neo-Nazis to stage a march in Skokie, Illinois, are especially noteworthy. Here for the first time are a collection of sixteen of his essays which portray American Jews who have left their mark on American public life and politics
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Foreword , Acknowledgments , Introduction , Part One. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and American Jews , 1 The Founding Fathers and American Jews* , 2 Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews , 3 The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court , Part Two German-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life , 4 Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life , 5 Patron par Excellence— Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary , 6 Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party , 7 The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald , 8 Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions , 9 Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Scholars , Part Three. Church-State Relations and American Jews , 10 How High the Wall? American Jews and the Church-State Debate , Part Four Jews and Civil Liberties , 11 Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties , Part Five. Jews and City Politics , 12 Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911–1963 , Part Six. Jewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public , 13 From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect , 14 The Jewish Historiography of Hannah Arendt , Part Seven. Jews, Baseball, and American Public Life , 15 Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstar , 16 A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can’t Forget Sandy Koufax , Index , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781644698822
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    Samuel Hirsch : Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer (2022)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110476392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 355 pages)
    Edition: Issued also in print
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Studia Judaica 97
    Series Statement: Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Samuel Hirsch
    RVK:
    BD 6289
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / History ; 19th century ; Luxembourg ; Reform Judaism ; philosophy of religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hirsch, Samuel 1815-1889 ; Luxemburg ; Judenemanzipation ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Politische Philosophie ; Reformjudentum
    Abstract: Verlagsinfo: Rabbi Samuel Hirsch (Thalfang 1815 - Chicago 1889) was instrumental in the development of Reform Judaism in Europe and the USA. This volume is the first lengthy publication devoted to this striking personality whose significance was no less than that of his contemporaries Abraham Geiger and David Einhorn.En route from Thalfang via Dessau and Luxembourg to Philadelphia, Hirsch left his mark on societal, religious, and philosophical developments in manifold ways. By the time he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Luxembourg in 1843, he had already written many of his most important works on the philosophy of religion. In them he engaged in debate with the Young Hegelians on the importance of Judaism, the religion that, more than any other, enabled the human actualization of freedom so central to Hegel’s philosophy.Over time Hirsch took an increasingly radical stance on issues such as Jewish rituals and mixed marriage. The goal of his reforms was not assimilation. He strove to strengthen Judaism to meet the demands of modernity and enable its survival in the modern era.Hirsch’s story is key to understanding the transnational history of Reform Judaism and the struggle of Jews to secure a place in history and society.
    Note: Frontmatter , Table of Contents , Introduction and Acknowledgements , Part I: From Thalfang to Philadelphia: An Introduction to Samuel Hirsch's Life and Times , "An Intimate Friendship with Modernity". Samuel Hirsch’s Reform Philosophy in the Context of the Ideological Controversies of the Times , Part II: Hegelian and Defender of the Faith: The Fundamentals of Samuel Hirsch's Philosophy , Samuel Hirsch in Dessau (June 1838 - June 1843). Freedom, Emancipation and the Christian State , Back to Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy. Hirsch’s Criticism of Modern Times , Judaism Transformed and the Divine on Earth. Samuel Hirsch's Appropriation of the Hegelian Ideal State , Part III: Edifying the Congregation: Jewish Answers to Pressing Societal Questions , The Challenges of Alterity: Notes on Samuel Hirsch's Contemporaneity , Religious Borders of Reason and Sentiment: Samuel Hirsch and Abraham Geiger on Jewish Education , “Humankind is Advancing”. Samuel Hirsch’s Rediscovery of Messianism and its Consequences for Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy , Part IV: Samuel Hirsch’s Luxembourg: Industrialization, Emancipation and Community , Between Recognition and Exclusion. The Effects of the Décret Infâme on Jewish Emancipation in Luxembourg , Between Acceptance and Aversion. Jews and Christians in Luxembourg in the 19th and Early 20th centuries , Part V: From Luxembourg to Philadelphia. Samuel Hirsch’s Transnational Reform Judaism , “One Always Panders to the Basest Jew-Hatred”. Samuel Hirsch, Der Volksfreund and Luxemburger Wort’s Campaign against Secularization and Jewish Emancipation 1848–50 , A Sense of Loneliness. Samuel Hirsch’s American Years , Bibliography , Contributors , Index of Names , Index of Places , Index of Topics , Biblical and Rabbinic Sources , Issued also in print , In English
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    Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II (2021)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644694947
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (658 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Soviet Union Ethnic relations ; World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance ; World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Jewish ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Fighting Jews ; Jewish Resistance to the Nazis ; Nazis ; Partisans ; Poland ; Soviet Union ; Ukraine ; WW II ; anti-Nazi
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- BOOK ONE -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Combined Volume -- Preface to 1st Edition -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction to the Original 1948 Russian Edition -- Introduction: Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union -- Part One Prologue -- The Partisan Tales of Shmuel Persov -- A. “Your Name – A People” -- B. Herschel, The Oven Builder -- C. Forty-Two -- D. Reisel and Hannah -- Remember! -- The Partisan Mine and Abraham Hirschfeld, the Watchmaker -- Part Two Initiatives -- The Partisan Oath -- The Partisan Oath -- Friendship -- Without Fire… -- Partisan Friendship -- The Avengers of the Minsk Ghetto -- Part Three Partisan Society -- In the Forests of Bryansk -- Meetings and Events -- A Civilian Camp in the Forest -- Partisan Alexander Abugov -- The Partisan Filmmaker -- Women Spies -- Part Four Partisan Warfare -- David Keimach -- The Partisans of the Kaunas Ghetto -- Talking of Friends -- They Were Many -- In the Tunnels of Odessa -- Sonya Gutina -- The Davidovich Family -- Part Five Epilogue -- Soviet Jews during and after the War of the Fatherland -- Our Place -- BOOK TWO -- Preface -- The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust -- Part one Jewish Partisans in the Soviet Union: Latvia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia 1941-1944 -- The Kovpak Men -- My Comrades in Arms -- In the Struggle for Soviet Latvia -- In White Russia -- Three Fighters of My Unit -- Victor Spotman -- Typical Biographies -- Two Partisans -- Commissar Naum Feldman -- The Lermontov Company -- The Commander of the Boevoi Unit -- Editor’s Notes -- Part Two Jewish Partisans in Volyn and Polesia, Ukraine 1941-1944 -- In the Family Camp under Max’s Command -- A Partisan’s Testimony -- Stages in the Organization of the Partisan Fighting -- In the Forest with Grandfather -- A Town in the Woods -- The First Days in the Woods -- Exemplary Fighters -- The Heroic Death of Two Young Friends -- Deeds of a Child -- I Decided to Defend My Life -- A Commander Practices What He Preaches -- A Hungry Boy -- From a Partisan’s Notebook -- My Life Under the Ukrainian-German Occupation -- At Their Death They Ordered Us to Take Revenge -- About Kruk — The Secret Is Out -- The First Action: Mahmed-Melamed’s Character -- Interviews with Jewish Partisans -- Editor’s Notes -- Appendix -- Additional Copyright Information -- Introduction Footnotes -- Book One Footnotes -- Sources -- Annotated Bibliography on Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust -- Book II Annotated Bibliography -- New Books and Sources on Jewish Partisans and Resistance -- Glossary -- Photos, Maps, & Charts -- Index of Partisan Names & Groups
    Abstract: Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II compiled by Jack Nusan Porter with the assistance of Yehuda Merin, is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. After thirty years, Dr. Porter has compressed two volumes into one, added a new preface, an updated bibliography and filmography, over 100 new photos plus 12 new maps. This new volume is essential for scholars, teachers, and students of the Shoah, Russian history, and World War II
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    Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (2021)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110705454
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 532 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2020/2021
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    Keywords: Hebräische Bibel ; Jüdische Geschichte ; Literatur des Zweiten Tempels ; Antike ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Christian Historiography ; Hebrew Bible ; models of time
    Abstract: A comprehensive investigation of notions of "time" in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires further scholarship. The aim of this collection of articles is to contribute to a better understanding of "time" in deuterocanonical literature and pseudepigrapha, especially in Second Temple Judaism, and to provide criteria for concepts of time in wisdom literature, apocalypticism, Jewish and early Christian historiography and in Rabbinic religiosity.Essays in this volume, representing the proceedings of a conference of the "International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature" in July 2019 at Greifswald, discuss concepts and terminologies of "time", stemming from novellas like the book of Tobit, from exhortations for the wise like Ben Sira, from an apocalyptic time table in 4 Ezra, the book of Giants or Daniel, and early Christian and Rabbinic compositions. The volume consists of four chapters that represent different approaches or hermeneutics of "time:" I. Axial Ages: The Construction of Time as "History", II. The Construction of Time: Particular Reifications, III. Terms of Time and Space, IV. The Construction of Apocalyptic Time. Scholars and students of ancient Jewish and Christian religious history will find in this volume orientation with regard to an important but multifaceted and sometimes disparate topic
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    The Jewish Metropolis : New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century (2021)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644694909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p)
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews Social life and customs ; New York (State) Ethnic relations ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; American history ; Ethnicity ; Immigration ; Intergroup relations ; Jewish Americans ; Jewish History ; Jewish community ; Jewish culture ; Jews ; Judaism ; New York History ; New York ; Religion ; Urban History ; Yiddish
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: New York as a Jewish City -- Important Note -- 1 Colonial Jews in New Amsterdam, New York, and the Atlantic World -- 2 New York Jews and the Early Republic -- 3 The Other Jews: Jewish Immigrants from Central Europe in New York, 1820-1880 -- 4 From the Pale of Settlement to the Lower East Side: Early Hardships of Russian Immigrant Jews -- 5 Yiddish New York -- 6 "Impostors": Levantine Jews and the Limits of Jewish New York -- 7 Jewish Builders in New York City, 1880-1980 -- 8 New York Jews and American Literature -- 9 "I Never Think About Being Jewish-Until I Leave New York": Jewish Art in New York City, 1900 to the Present -- 10 Jewish Geography in New York Neighborhoods, 1945-2000 -- 11 New York and American Judaism -- 12 Jews and Politics in New York City -- 13 How Are New York City Jews Different from Other American Jews? -- Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. It provides an introduction to many facets of that history, including the ways in which waves of immigration shaped New York's Jewish community; Jewish cultural production in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and German; New York's contribution to the development of American Judaism; Jewish interaction with other ethnic and religious groups; and Jewish participation in the politics and culture of the city as a whole. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and includes a bibliography for further reading. The Jewish Metropolis captures the diversity of the Jewish experience in New York
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    Beyond the synagogue : Jewish nostalgia as religious practice (2021)
    New York, NY : New York University Press
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    ISBN: 9781479803361
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 20 b/w illustrations
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    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: North American Religions
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gross, Rachel B. Beyond the synagogue
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Homesickness ; Jews ; Jews Identity ; Judaism ; Nostalgia ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; PJ Library ; camp ; children’s books ; deli ; delis ; dolls ; food studies ; genealogy ; institutions ; irony ; lived religion ; memory ; museum studies ; popular culture ; public history ; restaurant ; secular ; synagogue ; USA ; Judentum ; Kultur ; Religionsausübung
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Feeling Jewish -- 1. How Do You Solve a Problem like Nostalgia? -- 2. Give Us Our Name: Creating Jewish Genealogy -- 3. Ghosts in the Gallery: Historic Synagogues as Heritage Sites -- 4. True Stories: Teaching Nostalgia to Children -- 5. Referendum on the Jewish Deli Menu: A Culinary Revival -- Conclusion: The Limits and Possibilities of Nostalgia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
    Abstract: Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuityIn 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints of congregants past have worn down the soft pinewood. Here, many feel a palpable connection to the history surrounding them.Beyond the Synagogue argues that nostalgic activities such as visiting the Museum at Eldridge Street or eating traditional Jewish foods should be understood as American Jewish religious practices. In making the case that these practices are not just cultural, but are actually religious, Rachel B. Gross asserts that many prominent sociologists and historians have mistakenly concluded that American Judaism is in decline, and she contends that they are looking in the wrong places for Jewish religious activity. If they looked outside of traditional institutions and practices, such as attendance at synagogue or membership in Jewish Community Centers, they would see that the embrace of nostalgia provides evidence of an alternative, under-appreciated way of being Jewish and of maintaining Jewish continuity. Tracing American Jews’ involvement in a broad array of ostensibly nonreligious activities, including conducting Jewish genealogical research, visiting Jewish historic sites, purchasing books and toys that teach Jewish nostalgia to children, and seeking out traditional Jewish foods, Gross argues that these practices illuminate how many American Jews are finding and making meaning within American Judaism today
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    Prague and Beyond : Jews in the Bohemian Lands (2021)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812299595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p) , 14 map2s, 24 tables, 28 halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews Social conditions ; History ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Bohemia ; Bohemian Lands ; Franz Kafka ; Hapsburg Empire ; Jewish History ; Jews and Czechoslovakia ; Jews and Prague ; Jews in Eastern Europe ; Masaryk and Jews ; Moravia ; Slovakia ; Theresienstadt
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowl edgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times -- Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eigh teenth Century -- Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790–1860 -- Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861–1917 -- Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917–38 -- Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia -- Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Pre sent -- Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no comprehensive account in English of the region's Jews.Prague and Beyond presents a new and accessible history of the Jews of the Bohemian Lands written by an international team of scholars. It offers a multifaceted account of the Jewish people in a region that has been, over the centuries, a part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, was constituted as the democratic Czechoslovakia in the years following the First World War, became the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and later a postwar Communist state, and is today's Czech Republic. This ever-changing landscape provides the backdrop for a historical reinterpretation that emphasizes the rootedness of Jews in the Bohemian Lands, the intricate variety of their social, economic, and cultural relationships, their negotiations with state power, the connections that existed among Jewish communities, and the close, if often conflictual, ties between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors.Prague and Beyond is written in a narrative style with a focus on several unifying themes across the periods. These include migration and mobility; the shape of social networks; religious life and education; civic rights, citizenship, and Jewish autonomy; gender and the family; popular culture; and memory and commemorative practices. Collectively these perspectives work to revise conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and present, and more fully capture the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands
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    The Concept of ›Ruach Ra‘ah‹ in Contemporary Rabbinic Responsa (1945–2000) : Possible Relations between Knowledge of the Physical World and Traditional Knowledge in Rabbinic Judaism (2021)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110699883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 387 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Studia Judaica 112
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mock, Leon, 1968 - The concept of "Ruach Ra‘ah" in contemporary rabbinic responsa (1945–2000)
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    Keywords: Rabbinical literature History and criticism ; Religiöse Praxis ; Rabbinische Responsen ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Ritual ; Religious practice ; Rabbinic Responsa ; Dämon ; Ritus ; Responsum ; Rabbinische Literatur ; Orthodoxes Judentum ; Geschichte 1945-2000
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Responsa Literature, Selection of the Corpus, and Substantive Aspects of the Texts -- Chapter 2 The Ruach Ra‘ah in Premodern Sources -- Chapter 3 Central Texts on the Ruach Ra‘ah in the Responsa of the Corpus -- Chapter 4 Nine Paradigmatic Texts from the Corpus -- Chapter 5 Ruach Ra‘ah: Explanatory Models between the Material and the Spiritual World -- Chapter 6 Theologies of the Corpus -- Chapter 7 The Ruach Ra‘ah: Sociological and Anthropological Aspects -- Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks -- Literature -- Index
    Abstract: The concept of ‘Ruakh Ra‘ah’ (Evil Spirit), is extremely rare in the Tanach, but is found much more frequently in post-Biblical rabbinic literature and even more in publications by rabbis of the last two centuries. This study focuses on the quite neglected period of responsa literature after the Second World War until the present. This literature consist fo answers given to questions about religious rules. The notion of the 'evil spirit' is strongly connected to the ritual of washing hands in the morning, but also before a meal, in connection with sexual relations and with visiting a graveyard. The washing of hands is supposed to be necessary to ward off bad influences. This ritual can be understood in between mysticism, gender studies, magic and embodied religion. This book analyses the meaning and role of the ‘Ruakh Ra‘ah’ in a corpus of almost 200 rabbinic orthodox response from 1945-2000. What happens to the term Ruakh Ra‘ah in these modern responsa? Does the ritual persist without being associated with the Ruakh Ra‘ah, or does the term continue to be linked to the ritual, but reinterpreted in cause of the possible tension between the traditional rabbinic paradigm and the modern scientific knowledge paradigm. The connection between this ritual and the stratification of the (ultra) orthodox society and cosmological representations offers a clue to the rationale of this practice. Questions of identity, gender and community boundaries that divide insiders from outsiders (Jewish and non-Jewish) seem to be related to the discourse in the corpus on this ritual. As the Ruakh Ra‘ah stands at the intersection between magical perceptions, religion (ritual), and premodern science (medicine) it is suitable as a possible test case for the way in which modern rabbinic responsa deal with other archaic terms and concepts that are related or comparable to the Ruakh Raah. This book is relevant to the debate on the relation of religion to the modern world as it provides insights into the ways contemporary believers deal with the modern world, and the various mechanisms to deal with potential discrepancies
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    Jews and Journeys : Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity (2021)
    Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297935
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 352 pages)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jews and journeys
    Keywords: Jewish literature History and criticism ; Jewish literature Themes, motives ; Jewish travelers ; Jews Identity ; Jews Travel ; Travel in literature ; Travel writing Jewish authors ; Travelers' writings History and criticism ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Cultural Studies ; Jewish Studies ; Literature ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Juden ; Reise ; Identität ; Geschichte ; Reisebericht ; Reiseliteratur ; Jüdische Literatur
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowl edgments -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Departures -- Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel— and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? -- Part II. Traveling with the Bible -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham -- Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives -- Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part III. Jewish Orientalism -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts -- Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth Century: Marco Navarra’s Lettere orientali -- Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations -- Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries -- Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration -- Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru -- Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements -- Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books -- Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck -- Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Con temporary Israeli Cinema -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others.How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity
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    Thy Father’s Instruction : Reading the Nuremberg Miscellany as Jewish Cultural History (2021)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110414196 , 9783110414288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 615 p.)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Rethinking Diaspora 2
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi, 1953 - Thy father’s Instruction
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    Keywords: Jewish religious literature Manuscripts ; Manuscripts, Hebrew ; Alltagskultur ; Diaspora ; Religiöse Praxis ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Jewish Art and Visual Culture ; Jewish History ; Nuremberg Miscellany ; Southern Germany ; Gebetbuch Hs. 7058 ; Jüdische Erziehung ; Religiöses Leben ; Alltagskultur
    Abstract: The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Bibliothek, 8° Hs. 7058 (Rl. 203)] is a unique work of scribal art and illumination. Its costly parchment leaves are richly adorned and illustrated with multicolour paint and powdered gold. It was penned and illustrated in southern Germany – probably Swabia – in 1589 and is signed by a certain Eliezer b. Mordechai the Martyr. The Miscellany is a relatively thin manuscript. In its present state, it holds a total of 46 folios, 44 of which are part of the original codex and an additional bifolio that was attached to it immediately or soon after its production. The book is a compilation of various Hebrew texts, most of which pertain to religious life. Others are home liturgies, Biblical exegeses, comments on rites and customs, moralistic texts, homiletic and ethical discourses, and an extensive collection of home liturgies, its major part being dedicated to the life cycle. The unparalleled text compilation of the Nuremberg Miscellany on the one hand, and the naïve, untrained illustrations on the other hand, are puzzling. Its illustrations are hardly mindful of volume, depth or perspective, and their folk-art nature suggests that an unprofessional artist, possibly even the scribe himself, may have executed them. Whoever the illustrator was, his vast knowledge of Jewish lore unfolds layer after layer in a most intricate way. His sharp eye for detail renders the images he executed a valid representation of contemporary visual culture. The iconography of the Nuremberg Miscellany, with its 55 decorated leaves, featuring 25 text illustrations, falls into two main categories: biblical themes, and depictions of daily life, both sacred and mundane. While the biblical illustrations rely largely on artistic rendering and interpretation of texts, the depictions of daily life are founded mainly on current furnishings and accoutrements in Jewish homes. The customs and rituals portrayed in the miscellany attest not only to the local Jewish Minhag, but also to the influence and adaptation of local Germanic or Christian rites. They thus offer first-hand insights to the interrelations between the Jews and their neighbors. Examined as historical documents, the images in the Nuremberg Miscellany are an invaluable resource for reconstructing Jewish daily life in Ashkenaz in the early modern period. In a period from which only scanty relics of Jewish material culture have survived, retrieving the pictorial data from images incorporated in literary sources is of vital importance in providing the missing link. Corroborated by similar objects from the host society and with descriptions in contemporary Jewish and Christian written sources, the household objects, as well as the ceremonial implements depicted in the manuscript can serve as effective mirrors for the material culture of an affluent German Jewish family in the Early Modern period. The complete Nuremberg Miscellany is reproduced in the appendix of this book
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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)
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    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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    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)
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    Year of publication: 2020
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    DDC: 296.18092
    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
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    Judaism for the world : reflections on god, life, and love (2020)
    New Haven : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300256000
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 391 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2020
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Grin, Artur, 1941 - Judaism for the world
    DDC: 296
    Keywords: Judaism 21st century ; Spiritual life Judaism ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Judentum ; Judentum ; Mystizismus ; Spiritualität
    Abstract: An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times Judaism, one of the world’s great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist, where we are going, and how to live. Drawing on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher, he shows us a Judaism that cultivates the life of the spirit, that inspires an inward journey leading precisely toward self-transcendence, to an awareness of the universal Self in whose presence we exist. As a neo-hasidic seeker, he is both devotional and boldly questioning in his understanding of God and tradition. Engaging with the mystical sources, he translates the insights of the Hasidic masters into a new religious language accessible to all those eager to build an inner life and a human society that treasures the divine spark in each person and throughout Creation
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- To the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Neo- Hasidism: A Judaism for Monists -- How I Practice Judaism—and Why -- How I Pray -- Barukh Atah: Reflections on the Prayer Book -- The Seeker Returns -- All about Being Human: The Commandment to Remember -- Judaism as a Path of Love -- Seasons: A Reflection on the Jewish Year -- Shabbat: A New Introduction -- Rosh Hashanah: A Season of Rebirth -- Yom Kippur: Learning to Respond -- Sukkot: Dwelling in God’s Shade -- Simḥat Torah: The Word as Tree of Life -- Ḥanukkah: All about the Light -- Purim: Living in an Upside- Down World -- Pesaḥ: Some Questions of My Own -- Shavu‘ot: Speaking in Thunder -- Tish‘ah be- Av: Struggles with Sacred Space -- Creation: Awakening to God’s World -- Religion and Environmental Responsibility: An Address to Jews and Christians -- Judaism as Counterculture -- Wandering Jews -- Scholarship Is Not Enough -- Dear Brothers and Sisters: A Letter to Israelis -- American Jews after Pittsburgh . . . and Monsey . . . and . . . : Where Do We Stand? -- Jewish Mysticism and Its Healing Power -- My Own Jewish Education: A Memoir -- My Rabbinate: A Fiftieth- Anniversary Reflection -- Pilgrimage 2019 -- Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms -- Notes -- Inde x
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    Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis : The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p) , 7 illus
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his impact on Jewish-Christian relationsIn Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. He and his family resided there for nearly a decade, which afforded him the opportunity to become a scholar of Hebrew and rabbinic texts. Returning to England, he quickly rose up through the ranks of missionaries to become a leading figure and educator in the organization and eventually a professor of post-biblical studies at Kings College, London. In 1837, McCaul published The Old Paths, a powerful critique of rabbinic Judaism that, once translated into Hebrew and other languages, provoked controversy among Jews and Christians alike.Ruderman first examines McCaul in his complexity as a Hebraist affectionately supportive of Jews while opposing the rabbis. He then focuses his attention on a larger network of his associates, both allies and foes, who interacted with him and his ideas: two converts who came under his influence but eventually broke from him; two evangelical colleagues who challenged his aggressive proselytizing among the Jews; and, lastly, three Jewish thinkers—two well-known scholars from Eastern Europe and a rabbi from Syria—who refuted his charges against the rabbis and constructed their own justifications for Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century.Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis reconstructs a broad transnational conversation between Christians, Jews, and those in between, opening a new vista for understanding Jewish and Christian thought and the entanglements between the two faith communities that persist in the modern era. Extending the geographical and chronological reach of his previous books, Ruderman continues his exploration of the impact of Jewish-Christian relations on Jewish self-reflection and the phenomenon of mingled identities in early modern and modern Europe
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: Alexander McCaul and His Assault on Rabbinic Judaism -- Chapter 2. Sketches of Modern Judaism in McCaul’s Other Writings -- Chapter 3. From Missionizing the Jews to Defending Biblical Inerrancy: The Last Years of McCaul’s Life -- Chapter 4. The Intellectual and Spiritual Journey of Stanislaus Hoga: From Judaism to Christianity to Hebrew Christianity -- Chapter 5. The Christian Opponents of McCaul and the London Society: John Oxlee and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna -- Chapter 6. Moses Margoliouth: The Precarious Life of a Scholarly Convert -- Chapter 7. The Jewish Response to McCaul: Isaac Baer Levinsohn -- Chapter 8. From Vilna to Aleppo: Two Additional Responses to McCaul’s Assault -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Sampling of Contemporary Christian Authors Cited in Isaac Baer Levinsohn’s Polemical Writings -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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    Rabbi Leo Baeck : living a religious imperative in troubled times (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812299519
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p) , 13
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meyer, Michael A., 1937 - Rabbi Leo Baeck
    Keywords: Jews History 19th century ; Jews History 20th century ; Rabbis Biography ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Baeck, Leo 1873-1956 ; Reformjudentum ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. An Unconventional Student and Rabbi -- Chapter 2. Restoring the Dignity of Judaism -- Chapter 3. Rabbi in the World War -- Chapter 4. A Thinker Engaged -- Chapter 5. The Burden of Leadership -- Chapter 6. Enmeshed -- Chapter 7 Theresienstadt -- Chapter 8. Reality After Catastrophe -- Epilogue. The Icon and the Person -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry.Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck's place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck's own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age
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    What Are Jews For? : History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (2020)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9780691201931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 p)
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Keywords: Jews Election, Doctrine of ; Jews Historiography ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God’s “chosen people,” but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. What Are Jews For? traces the history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. Adam Sutcliffe delves into the links between Jewish and Christian messianism and the association of Jews with universalist and transformative ideals in modern philosophy, politics, literature, and social thought.The Jews have been accorded a crucial role in both Jewish and Christian conceptions of the end of history, when they will usher the world into a new epoch of unity and harmony. Since the seventeenth century this messianic underlay to the idea of Jewish purpose has been repeatedly reconfigured in new forms. From the political theology of the early modern era to almost all domains of modern thought—religious, social, economic, nationalist, radical, assimilationist, satirical, and psychoanalytical—Jews have retained a close association with positive transformation for all. Sutcliffe reveals the persistent importance of the “Jewish Purpose Question” in the attempts of Jews and non-Jews alike to connect the collective purpose of particular communities to the broader betterment of humanity.Shedding light on questions of exceptionalism, pluralism, and universalism, What Are Jews For? explores an intricate question that remains widely resonant in contemporary culture and political debate
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction. What Are Jews For? History and the Purpose Question -- 1. Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism -- 2. Reason, Toleration, Emancipation -- 3. Teachers and Traders -- 4. Light unto the Nations -- 5. Normalization and Its Discontents -- Conclusion. So What Are Jews For? Jews and Contempor ary Purpose -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
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    The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess : The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297508
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p) , 12 illus
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Keywords: Antisemitism History ; Jewish Christians ; Jewish women ; Jews in literature ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction. Saming the Jew -- Part I. The Potential of Sameness -- Historiae. The Friar and the Foundling -- Chapter 1. The Same, but Not Quite -- Chapter 2. English “Jews” -- Part II. The Unmarked Jewess -- Historiae. The Convert and the Cleaner -- Chapter 3. Anglo- Jewish Women -- Chapter 4. Mothers and Cannibals -- Chapter 5. Figures of Uncertainty -- Conclusion. Sameness and Sympathy -- Appendix 1. Sampson Son of Samuel of Northampton -- Appendix 2. Jurnepin/Odard of Norwich -- Appendix 3. Alice the Convert of Worcester -- Appendix 4. The Jewess and the Priest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan friar and preaching false Christianity. He was sentenced to walk for three days through the centers of London, Canterbury, Oxford, Lincoln, and Northampton carrying the entrails and flayed skin of a calf and exposing his naked, circumcised body to onlookers. Sampson's crime and sentence, Williams Boyarin argues, suggest that he made a convincing friar—when clothed. Indeed, many English texts of this era struggle with the similarities of Jews and Christians, but especially of Jewish and Christian women. Unlike men, Jewish women did not typically wear specific identifying clothing, nor were they represented as physiognomically distinct. Williams Boyarin observes that both before and after the periods in which art historians note a consistent visual repertoire of villainy and difference around Jewish men, English authors highlight and exploit Jewish women's indistinguishability from Christians. Exploring what she calls a "polemics of sameness," she elucidates an essential part of the rhetoric employed by medieval anti-Jewish materials, which could assimilate the Jew into the Christian and, as a consequence, render the Jewess a dangerous but unseeable enemy or a sign of the always-convertible self.The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess considers realities and fantasies of indistinguishability. It focuses on how medieval Christians could identify with Jews and even think of themselves as Jewish—positively or negatively, historically or figurally. Williams Boyarin identifies and explores polemics of sameness through a broad range of theological, historical, and literary works from medieval England before turning more specifically to stereotypes of Jewish women and the ways in which rhetorical strategies that blur the line between "saming" and "othering" reveal gendered habits of representation
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    Two gods in heaven : Jewish concepts of God in antiquity (2020)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9780691199894
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p)
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    Uniform Title: Zwei Götter im Himmel
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schäfer, Peter, 1943 - Two gods in heaven
    Keywords: Son of God (Judaism) ; Christianity and other religions Judaism ; God (Judaism) History of doctrines ; Monotheism ; Son of God (Judaism) ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Gottesvorstellung ; Polytheismus ; Frühjudentum ; Rabbinische Literatur
    Abstract: A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism, showing how this idea was embraced by rabbis and Jewish mystics in the early centuries of the common era and casting Judaism's relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light.Drawing on an in-depth analysis of ancient sources that have received little attention until now, Peter Schäfer demonstrates how the Jews of the pre-Christian Second Temple period had various names for a second heavenly power-such as Son of Man, Son of the Most High, and Firstborn before All Creation. He traces the development of the concept from the Son of Man vision in the biblical book of Daniel to the Qumran literature, the Ethiopic book of Enoch, and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. After the destruction of the Second Temple, the picture changes drastically. While the early Christians of the New Testament took up the idea and developed it further, their Jewish contemporaries were divided. Most rejected the second god, but some-particularly the Jews of Babylonia and the writers of early Jewish mysticism-revived the ancient Jewish notion of two gods in heaven.Describing how early Christianity and certain strands of rabbinic Judaism competed for ownership of a second god to the creator, this boldly argued and elegantly written book radically transforms our understanding of Judeo-Christian monotheism
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: One God? -- 1. The Son of Man in the Vision of Daniel -- 2. The Personified Wisdom in the Wisdom Literature -- 3. The Divinized Human in the Self-Glorification Hymn from Qumran -- 4. The Son of God and Son of the Most High in the Daniel Apocryphon from Qumran -- 5. The Son of Man-Enoch in the Similitudes of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch -- 6. The Son of Man-Messiah in the Fourth Book of Ezra -- 7. The Firstborn in the Prayer of Joseph -- 8. The Logos according to Philo of Alexandria -- Transition: From Pre-Christian to Post-Christian Judaism -- 9. The Son of Man in the Midrash -- 10. The Son of Man-Messiah David -- 11. From the Human Enoch to the Lesser God Metatron -- Conclusion: Two Gods -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The patrons and their poor : Jewish community and public charity in early modern Germany (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297263
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p) , 20 illus
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ḳaplan, Devorah The patrons and their poor
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    Keywords: Deutschland ; Fürsorge ; Judentum ; Jüdische Gemeinde ; Sozialgeschichte ; Spende ; Wohltätigkeit ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Deutschland ; Jüdische Gemeinde ; Wohltätigkeit ; Geschichte 1450-1650 ; Judentum ; Wohlfahrt ; Fürsorge ; Spende ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Hamburg-Altona ; Wandsbek ; Frankfurt am Main ; Worms ; Jüdische Gemeinde ; Wohltätigkeit ; Geschichte 1450-1650
    Abstract: A pregnant mother, a teacher who had fallen ill, a thirty-year-old homeless thief, refugees from war-torn communities, orphans, widows, the mentally disabled and domestic servants. What this diverse group of individuals—mentioned in a wide range of manuscript and print sources in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish—had in common was their appeal to early modern Jewish communities for aid. Poor relief administrators, confronted with multiple requests and a finite communal budget, were forced to decide who would receive support and how much, and who would not. Then as now, observes Debra Kaplan, public charity tells us about both donors and recipients, revealing the values, perceptions, roles in society, and the dynamics of power that existed between those who gave and those who received.In The Patrons and Their Poor, Kaplan offers the first extensive analysis of Jewish poor relief in early modern German cities and towns, focusing on three major urban Ashkenazic Jewish communities from the Western part of the Holy Roman Empire: Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek, Frankfurt am Main, and Worms. She demonstrates how Jewish charitable institutions became increasingly formalized as Jewish authorities faced a growing number of people seeking aid amid limited resources. Kaplan explores the intersections between various sectors of the population, from wealthy patrons to the homeless and stateless poor, providing an intimate portrait of the early modern Ashkenazic community
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Currencies and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Modern Jewish Communities and Their Records -- Chapter 2. Something Happened to Charity in Early Modern Eu rope -- Chapter 3. Charity, Economy, and Communal Discipline -- Chapter 4. The Residential Poor -- Chapter 5. The Transient Poor -- Chapter 6. Constructing a Community of Donors -- Epilogue. Charity Across Borders -- Appendix. Foreign Jews in Frankfurt’s Judengasse, 1694 -- Notes -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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    Bastards and Believers : Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812296754
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p) , 1 illus
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bastards and believers
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    Keywords: Jewish converts from Christianity ; Jews Conversion to Christianity ; Conversion Judaism ; History ; Christian converts from Judaism ; Conversion Christianity ; History ; Jewish Christians ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Juden ; Konversion ; Christentum ; Geschichte ; Proselyt ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish historyTheodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities.Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions.Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Term Ger and the Concept of Conversion in the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 2. Ex- Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other -- Chapter 3. Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France -- Chapter 4. Of Purity, Piety, and Plunder: Jewish Apostates and Poverty in Medieval Eu rope -- Chapter 5. “Cleanse Me from My Sin”: The Social and Cultural Vicissitudes of a Converso Family in Fifteenth- Century Castile -- Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Chris tianity as a Theologico- political Problem -- Chapter 7. Return by Any Other Name: Religious Change Among Amsterdam’s New Jews -- Chapter 8. The Persuasive Path: Giulio Morosini’s Derekh Emunah as a Conversion Narrative -- Chapter 9. “Precious Books”: Conversion, Nationality, and the Novel, 1810–2010 -- Chapter 10. Between European Judaism and British Protestantism in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 11. When Life Imitates Art: Shtetl Sociability and Conversion in Imperial Russia -- Chapter 12. Opposition, Integration, and Ambiguity: Toward a History of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Policies on Conversion to Judaism -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
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    Petitioners, penitents, and poets : on prayer and praying in Second Temple Judaism (2020)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110624526
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 288 p)
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 524
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Petitioners, penitents, and poets: on prayer and praying in Second Temple Judaism (Veranstaltung : 2019 : Fort Worth, Tex.) Petitioners, penitents, and poets
    Keywords: Judaism Congresses History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D ; Prayer Congresses Judaism ; History ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Konferenzschrift 21.05.2019-22.05.2019 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frühjudentum ; Literatur ; Gebet ; Bibel ; Gebet ; Gebet ; Judentum ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources -- Introduction -- Pastiche, Hyperbole, and the Composition of Jonah’s Prayer -- Psalms: Sitz im Leben vs. Sitz in der Literatur -- “If I had said …” (Ps 73:15): Retrospective Introspection in Didactic Psalmody of the Second Temple Period -- Agur’s Words to God in Proverbs 30 and Prayerful Study in the Second Temple Period -- Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Apotropaic Function of the Final Hymn in the Community Rules -- The Absence of Prayer in the Temple Scroll -- On Amulets, Apotropaic Prayers, and Phylacteries: The Contribution of Three New Texts from the Judean Desert -- Prayer in 2 Baruch -- The Prayers of Eve in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve -- “I Have Prayed for You ... Strengthen Your Brothers” (Luke 22:32): Jesus’s Proleptic Prayer for Peter and Other Gendered Tropes in Luke’s War on Satan -- Praying the Lord’s Prayer in (Some Sort of) Tameion (Matt 6:6) -- Ancient Sources Index -- Subject Index
    Abstract: This volume contributes to the growing interest in understanding the phenomenon of prayer and praying in the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. Papers by the leading scholars in these fields revisit long-standing questions and chart new paths of inquiry into the nature, form, and practice of addressing the divine in the ancient world. The essays in this volume deal with particular texts of and about prayer, practices of prayer, as well as figures and locations (historical and literary) that are associated with prayer and praying. These studies apply a range of methods and theoretical approaches to prayer and the language of prayer in literatures of Early Judaism and Christianity. Some studies apply the classical methods of biblical studies to Second Temple texts of prayer, including form critical and text critical approaches; others engage in literary and narrative analysis of ancient works that recount discourse directed to the divine. Still other studies draw on anthropological and sociological analyses of prayer or marshal particular theories of discourse, ethics, and moral agency to offer fresh interpretations of address to God in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity
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    Defenders of the Faith : Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy and Reform (2020)
    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644691458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (440 p)
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    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Touro University Press
    Keywords: Judaism 19th century ; Judaism 20th century ; Orthodox Judaism Relations ; Nontraditional Jews ; Orthodox Judaism ; Reform Judaism ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries: From Pessimism to Optimism -- 1. Rabbinic Responses to Nonobservance in the Modern Era -- 2. The Emergence of an Orthodox Press in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- 3. The Circumcision Controversy in Classical Reform in Historical Context -- 4. Clerical Robes: Distinction or Dishonor? -- 5. Intermarriage in the Early Modern Period -- 6. Military Service: Ambivalence and Contradiction -- 7. The Testament of a Halakhist -- 8. Between East and West: Modernity and Traditionalism in the Writings of Rabbi Yehi'el Ya'akov Weinberg -- 9. Liturgical Innovation and Spirituality: Trends and Trendiness -- Index
    Abstract: The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged. The emergence of modern traditionalism was fraught with obstacles. The essays published in this collection eloquently depict the passion underlying the disparate views, the particular areas of vexing confrontation and the hurdles faced by champions of tradition.The author identifies and analyzes the many areas of sociological and religious tension that divided the competing factions, including synagogue innovation, circumcision, intermarriage, military service and many others. With compelling writing and clear, articulate style, this illuminating work provides keen insight into the history and development of the various streams of Judaism and the issues that continue to divide them in contemporary times
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    Land and Temple : Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism (2020)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 287 p)
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    Series Statement: Studia Judaica 87
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    Keywords: Land tenure Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Sacred space Social aspects ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Field Consecrations in Leviticus 27 -- Chapter 3: The Sacred Reserve of Yahweh in Ezekiel’s Temple Vision -- Chapter 4: Hellenistic Rulers, Jewish Temples, and Sacred Land -- Chapter 5: Field Consecrations in the Late Second Temple Period -- Chapter 6: Herem Property and Landholding by Priests in the Late Second Temple Period -- Chapter 7: An Allusion to a Sacred Tree in Paul’s Letter to the Romans -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects
    Abstract: This exploration of the Judean priesthood’s role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE–70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible’s assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple
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    Isaac Polqar : a Jewish philosopher or a philosopher and a Jew? Philosophy and religion in Isaac Polqar's ʿEzer ha-dat and Tešuvat Epiqoros (2020)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110569599 , 9783110568820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 262 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion 3
    Series Statement: Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haliva, Racheli Isaac Polqar
    Keywords: God (Judaism) ; Jewish philosophy To 1500 ; Philosophy and religion To 1500 ; Philosophy, Medieval ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Polgar, Isaak Ibn- ; Jüdische Philosophie
    Abstract: To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar’s thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar’s thought in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and contextualizing both Polqar’s Islamic sources (al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes) and his Jewish sources (Maimonides and Isaac Albalag). The study brings to light three of Polqar’s main purposes; (1) seeking to defend Judaism as a true religion against Christianity; (2) similarly to his fellow Jewish Averroists, Polqar wishes to defend the discipline of philosophy. By philosophy, Polqar means Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle. As a consequence, he offers an Averroistic interpretation of Judaism and becomes one of the main representatives of Jewish Averroism; (3) defending his philosophical interpretation of Judaism. From a social and political point of view, Polqar's unreserved embrace of philosophy raised problems within the Jewish community; he had to refute the Jewish traditionalists’ charge that he was a heretic, led astray by philosophy. The main objective guiding this study is that Polqar advances a systematic naturalistic interpretation of Judaism, which in many cases does not agree with traditional Jewish views. -- De Gruyter website (accessed 6.4.2020)
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    Connecting histories : Jews and their others in early modern Europe (2019)
    Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812296037
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Jewish culture and contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 940/.04924
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Geschichte 1500-1750 ; History ; Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Religious Studies ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Jews Identity To 1500 ; History ; Jews Social life and customs To 1500 ; Judaism Relations To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Juden ; Kulturaustausch ; Judentum ; Identität ; Christentum ; Kulturkontakt ; Mobilität ; Gesellschaft ; Beziehung ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Juden ; Geschichte 1500-1750 ; Europa ; Juden ; Gesellschaft ; Beziehung ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Identität ; Mobilität ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Europa ; Judentum ; Kulturaustausch ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Europa ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Kulturaustausch ; Identität
    Abstract: Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social, economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and exposures to novel cultural settings created new allegiances as well as new challenges, resulting in constructive relations in some cases and provoking strife and controversy in others.The essays collected by Francesca Bregoli and David B.
    Abstract: Ruderman in Connecting Histories show that while it is not possible to speak of a single, cohesive transregional Jewish culture in the early modern period, Jews experienced pockets of supra-local connections between West and East—for example, between Italy and Poland, Poland and the Holy Land, and western and eastern Ashkenaz—as well as increased exchanges between high and low culture.
    Abstract: Special attention is devoted to the impact of the printing press and the strategies of representation and self-representation through which Jews forged connections in a world where their status as a tolerated minority was ambiguous and in constant need of renegotiation.Exploring the ways in which early modern Jews related to Jews from different backgrounds and to the non-Jews around them, Connecting Histories emphasizes not only the challenging nature and impact of these encounters but also the ambivalence experienced by Jews as they met their others.Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Francesca Bregoli, Joseph Davis, Jesús de Prado Plumed, Andrea Gondos, Rachel L. Greenblatt, Gershon David Hundert, Fabrizio Lelli, Moshe Idel, Debra Kaplan, Lucia Raspe, David B. Ruderman, Pavel Sládek, Claude B. Stuczynski, Rebekka Voß
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812296037
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    Die Handschriften aus der Judäischen Wüste : die Texte außerhalb Qumrans : Einführung und deutsche Übersetzung (2019)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110639612 , 9783110636345
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 552 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2019
    Series Statement: Fontes et subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes Band 9
    Series Statement: Fontes et subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Die Handschriften aus der Judäischen Wüste
    Keywords: Manuscripts ; RELIGION / Judaism / History
    Abstract: Die Handschriften aus der Judäischen Wüste sind eine wichtige Quelle für die ausgehende biblische Zeit. In diesem Band sind erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung die nicht-biblischen Texte vereint, die nicht aus Qumran stammen. Im Gegensatz zu den Qumran-Texten stammen diese Texte nicht von einer religiösen Sondergruppe, sondern aus dem Alltagsleben oder dem Leben während eines Aufstands. Die meisten Manuskripte entstanden in der Zeit von etwa 50 – 135 n.Chr., der Zeit der beiden Jüdischen Aufstände und der Abfassung des Neuen Testaments, die anderen aus der vorexilischen bis zur islamischen Zeit. Sie sind auf Hebräisch, Aramäisch, Nabatäisch, Griechisch, Lateinisch und Arabisch geschrieben. Die Übersetzung macht die Texte denen zugänglich, denen es die Originale nicht sind. Die nah am Original gehaltene Übersetzung soll denjenigen, die über Grundkenntnisse der jeweiligen Sprache verfügen, den Zugang　zum Text erleichtern. Einführungen in die verwendeten Sprachen, die benutzten Formulare, einzelne Dokumentengruppen, die belegten Datierungssysteme, die Personen- und Ortsnamen sowie in Münzen und Maße erschließen die Texte
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- Tabellarische Übersicht -- Rechte -- Teil 1: Materialien zur Erschließung der Texte -- 1. Sprachen -- 2. Formulare -- 3. Dokumentengruppen -- 4. Datierungen -- 5. Personen und Personennamen -- 6. Orte -- 7. Münzen und Maße -- Teil 2: Die Texte -- 1. WDSP (Wadi Daliyeh Samaria Papyri) -- 2. Mich (Naḥal Michmas / Wadi Suweinit) -- 3. Jer (Jericho) -- 4. Muk (Wadi Mukellik / Naḥal ʾOg) -- 5. 4Q -- 6. Fesh (Ein Feschcha) -- 7. Mird (Chirbet Mird) -- 8. Wadi Nar -- 9. Ein al-Ghuweir -- 10. Her (Herodion) -- 11. Mur (Wadi Murabbaʿat) -- 12. Sdeir (Wadi Sdeir) -- 13. En-Gedi -- 14. 5/6Ḥev (Naḥal Ḥever) -- 15. 8Ḥev (Naḥal Ḥever) -- 16. XḤev/Se (Naḥal Ḥever / Wadi Seiyâl) -- 17. 1Mish (Naḥal Mischmar) -- 18. 34Ṣe (Naḥal Ṣeʾelim) -- 19. Masada -- 20. Mach (Machärus) -- 21. Dokumente unbekannter Herkunft -- Abkürzungen -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Index der zitierten Bibelstellen
    Abstract: The manuscripts from the Judaean desert are an important source for understanding the late Biblical period. This volume includes for the first time a German translation of all of the non-Biblical texts not originating from Qumran. Unlike the Qumran texts, they were not written by a religious sect, but are by and large texts about everyday life. The texts are accompanied by a detailed introduction
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 546-550 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In German
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    The Zionist ideas : visions for the Jewish homeland - then, now, tomorrow (2018)
    Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society
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    ISBN: 9780827612556
    Language: English
    Pages: lix, 538 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2018
    Series Statement: JPS anthologies of Jewish thought
    DDC: 320.54095694
    Keywords: Zionism History ; Sources ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel ; Zionism ; Jewish nationalism ; Zionism Sources History ; Judentum ; Ideologie ; Zionismus ; Staat ; Gründung ; Berühmte Persönlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Geistesgeschichte ; Ideengeschichte ; Europa ; Israel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Zionismus ; Geschichte 1880-2017
    Note: "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book." , Pioneers: political zionism , Pioneers: labor zionism , Pioneers: revisionist zionism , Pioneers: religious zionism , Pioneers: cultural zionism , Pioneers: diaspora zionism , Builders: political zionism , Builders: labor zionism , Builders: revisionist zionism , Builders: religious zionism , Builders: cultural zionism , Builders: diaspora zionism , Torchbearers: political zionism , Torchbearers: labor zionism , Torchbearers: revisionist zionism , Torchbearers: religious zionism , Torchbearers: cultural zionism , Torchbearers: diaspora zionism
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    Ze’enah u-Re’enah : a critical translation into English (2017)
    Berlin ;Boston : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110461039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1253 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Studia Judaica 96
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ze’enah u-Re’enah
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    Keywords: Bibelkommentar. ; Jiddische Literatur. ; Judentum. ; Jüdische Kultur. ; Biblical Commentary. ; Early Modern Yiddish Literature. ; Judaism. ; Popular Jewish culture. ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Quelle ; Kommentar ; Yaʿaḳov ben Yitsḥaḳ mi-Yanov 1550-1623 Ze'enah u-Re'enah ; Jiddisch ; Rabbinische Literatur ; Bibel Altes Testament ; Geschichte 1616-1622 ; Haftara ; Bibel Megillot ; Betrachtung ; Geschichte 1616-1622
    Abstract: This book is the first scholarly English translation of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, a Jewish classic originally published in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and was the first significant anthological commentary on the Torah, Haftorot and five Megillot. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah is a major text that was talked about but has not adequately studied, although it has been published in two hundred and seventy-four editions, including the Yiddish text and partial translation into several languages. Many generations of Jewish men and women have studied the Torah through the Rabbinic and medieval commentaries that the author of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah collected and translated in his work. It shaped their understanding of Jewish traditions and the lives of Biblical heroes and heroines. The Ze’enah U-Re’enah can teach us much about the influence of biblical commentaries, popular Jewish theology, folkways, and religious practices. This translation is based on the earliest editions of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, and the notes annotate the primary sources utilized by the author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Contents -- -- Introduction -- -- Part I: Torah -- -- 1. Genesis -- -- 2. Exodus -- -- 3. Leviticus -- -- 4. Numbers -- -- 5. Deuteronomy -- -- Part II: Megillot -- -- The Song of Songs -- -- Ruth -- -- Lamentations -- -- The Destruction of the Temple -- -- Ecclesiastes -- -- Megillat Esther -- -- Part III: Special Haftorot -- -- Sabbath and Rosh Hodesh -- -- When Rosh Hodesh occurs on Sunday (this haftorah is read on the previous Sabbath) -- -- Parshat Shekalim -- -- Parshat Zachor -- -- Parshat Parah -- -- Parshat Ha-Hodesh -- -- Shabbat Ha-Gadol -- -- First Day of Passover -- -- Second Day of Passover -- -- Intermediate Sabbath of Passover -- -- Seventh Day of Passover -- -- Last Day of Passover -- -- First Day of Shavuot -- -- Second Day of Shavuot -- -- Tisha B’av -- -- First Day of Rosh Hashanah -- -- Second Day of Rosh Hashanah -- -- Fast of Gedaliah -- -- Shabbat Shuvah -- -- Shaharit for Yom Kippur -- -- Minhah of Yom Kippur -- -- First Day of Sukkot -- -- Second Day of Sukkot -- -- Intermediate Sabbath of Sukkot -- -- Shemini Azeret -- -- Shabbat of Hanukkah -- -- Second Shabbat of Hanukkah -- -- Appendix -- -- Ze’enah u-Re’enah – Title Pages – Basel/Hanau, 1622 -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index of Sources
    Note: Enthält Teil 1-3 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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    A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide (2014)
    New Haven : Yale University Press
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    ISBN: 9780300188547 , 9780300212518
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 284 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2014
    DDC: 940.53/18
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    NQ 2360
    Keywords: HISTORY / Holocaust ; HISTORY / Jewish ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany ; Judentum ; Judenverfolgung ; Kriegsvorgeschichte ; Völkermord ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Judentum ; Judenvernichtung ; Politik ; Jews History 1933-1945 ; Jews Persecutions ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; HISTORY / Holocaust ; HISTORY / Jewish ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany ; Nationalsozialismus ; Judenvernichtung ; Ideologie ; Deutschland ; Europa ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945 ; Germany History 1933-1945 ; Germany Ethnic relations ; History ; Nationalsozialismus ; Ideologie ; Judenvernichtung
    Abstract: "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable"..
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    Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history : festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan (2012)
    Leiden : BRILL
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    ISBN: 9789004222366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages) , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2012
    Series Statement: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy v. 15
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan
    Keywords: Rashi ; Jews History To 1500 ; Tosafists ; Martyrdom Judaism ; Jewish law ; RELIGION / Judaism / History ; Europe Ethnic relations To 1500 ; History
    Abstract: Preliminary Material /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade /Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Rashi’s Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash /Ivan G. Marcus -- The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate /Avraham Grossman -- Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe /Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries /Daniel J. Lasker -- Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages /Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists /Gérard Nahon -- Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text /David Berger -- Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with Christianity /Elliot R. Wolfson -- The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 /William Chester Jordan -- The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder /Kenneth Stow -- From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah /Jeremy Cohen -- Salo Baron’s View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources /David Engel -- Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan /Yechiel Y. Schur -- Index /David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson.
    Abstract: For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies
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