Judaism Books
New York University Press The Shtetl
Book SynopsisDating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls - Jewish settlements - in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. This volume takes a look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life.Trade ReviewThis important and comprehensive collection provides a fascinating re-evaluation of one of the main locations of Jewish life in Eastern Europe down to the Holocaust and beyond. -- Antony Polonsky,Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studiesat the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University[A]nyone looking to really understand the Jewish past, not just the romanticized version of it, will find this book a perfect antidote. * The Reporter *Talk about stereotype busting! Not only are we forced to readjust our sights . . . but in the best moments of Katz’s collection we learn how to distinguish what is factually true from what is mythically imagined. Even more importantly, we begin to see . . . the world of the shtetlach that the fog and night of the Holocaust forever destroyed. * New Jersey Jewish News *The quality of the essays is uniformly good, and after reading them, readers will be fully acquainted with the elusive concept of the shtetl. The essays are well documented. * Choice *The book is a must-buy for all libraries. * AJL Newsletter *Table of ContentsEditor's NoteSteven T. KatzIntroduction Samuel Kassow1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East-Central EuropeGershon David Hundert2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva: The Case of Volozhin Immanuel Etkes3 Rebbetzins, Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in HasidismNehemia Polen4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyHenry Abramson5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 Konrad Zieli'nski6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland Samuel Kassow7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic LiteratureJeremy Dauber8 Imagined Geography: The Shtetl, Myth, and Reality Israel Bartal9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish LiteratureNaomi Seidman10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik KipnisMikhail Krutikov11 Agnon's Synthetic ShtetlArnold J. Band12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish FictionKatarzyna Wi?ecl"awska13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust: A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia)Yehuda Bauer14 The World of the Shtetl Elie WieselAbout the Contributors Index
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New York University Press North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century The
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDrawing on French government archives, documents of the Alliance Isralite Universelle (AIU), Israeli archives, interviews and published sources, Laskier provides a readable, well-integrated socio-political history of the Jewish communities of North Africa. * Religious Studies Review *[An] outstanding pioneering effort. . . . Scholars and lay readers with an interest in 20th century North Africa, Jewish community life, Zionism, and political development will find much here that is new and useful. Highly recommended. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
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New York University Press New Perspectives on the Holocaust A Guide for
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New York University Press Still Jewish
Book SynopsisDescribes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried in the twentieth century while placing their decisions in historical contextTrade ReviewThis book is well written and will hold a special appeal for those who are interested in historical narrative as a means of analyzing intermarriage in general and how this impacts on American Jewish women in particular. * INTAMS *Still Jewish is a fascinating read for those interested in Jewish history or women’s history as well as for those concerned about the future of the Jewish community * Jerusalem Post *Great poignancy. * Moment Magazine *McGinity's story has great poignancy. Still Jewish demonstrates how, from insular beginnings surrounded by anti-Semitism to a world of inevitable intermarriage, Jewish women with gentile partners negotiated a new way to be Jewish in America. * Moment *McGinity creatively uses gender as a category of analysis...her approach is novel. * Journal of American Ethnic History *McGinity’s work makes clear the need for further study of intermarriage including experiences of Jewish men; comparisons of intermarried and in-married Jewish women; consideration of same-sex intermarriages; and, finally, larger sociological studies of contemporary women. * Lilith *Historian McGinity (Brown) makes an effort to evoke new perspectives on the intermarriage of US Jewish women during the 20th century.The author offers a brief candid assessment of her own experience, which seems contrary to accepted views that marrying “out” is a prescription for diminished religious and social identity, leading to assimilation. * CHOICE *Throughout her analysis, McGinity shows how the lives of Jewish women who intermarried demonstrate the complexity of Jewish identity in the United States. -- Sarah Imhoff * Religious Studies Review *In [McGinitys] new book Still Jewish, she traces the attitudes of intermarried women toward Judaism throughout the 20th century. * Forward.com *If you thought there was nothing new to say about Jews and intermarriage, think again. McGinity’s well-researched study focuses on American Jewish women who intermarried during the twentieth century and demonstrates that many of them not only remained Jewish but, paradoxically, became more Jewish, perhaps in response to the challenge of having a non-Jewish spouse. An invaluable addition to the scant scholarly literature on intermarriage, this volume shows that in intermarriage, as in so much else, gender matters. -- Jonathan D. Sarna,author of American Judaism: A HistoryThis compelling, impeccably researched book should make a huge difference in how we understand the contentious issue of intermarriage in the Jewish community. By putting Jewish women into the center of the story, McGinity offers a fresh perspective that challenges standard interpretations. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Jewish life in America as well as for all those concerned with present-day patterns, policies, and outreach programs. -- Joyce Antler,Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University“C. Wright Mills used the term “sociological imagination” to describe the insight a person has who “understand[s] the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external career of a variety of individuals.” In this regard McGinity’s book reveals her own strong sociological imagination. * American Jewish History *A fascinating read for those interested in Jewish history or women’s history, as well as for those concerned about the future of the Jewish community. * Washington Jewish Week *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Immigrant Jewesses Who Married "Out" 2. Intermarriage in an Age of Domesticity 3. Intermarriage Was A-Changin' 4. Revitalization from Within Conclusion Afterword Appendix Notes Selected Index About the Author
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New York University Press American Jewish Womens History A Reader
Book SynopsisThis anthology, which covers colonial times to the present, illuminates the diverse and changing roles that American Jewish women have filled.Trade Review"A vibrant collection of classic and recent essays in American Jewish womens history that form the perfect starting point toexplore this burgeoning field. From the feminist politics of kosher meat boycotts and garment union organizing to the Jewish dimensions of modern dance and teenage diaries, this readable volume reveals the breadth and excitement of American Jewish women's history." -- Deborah Dash Moore,co-editor of Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia"An impressive compendium of essays, American Jewish Women's History paints a broad and diverse portrait of American Jewish women. Written by some of the most incisive historians of the American Jewish community, the chapters examine Jewish women in many different venues: the home and the marketplace, religious and secular institutions, and picket lines and cultural institutions." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt,Emory University"It's a thought-provoking book that should be read by women and men alike." * Booklist *"This anthology conveys the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women." * Jewish Advocate *"Nadell makes explicit the diverse roles and experiences of Jewish women in the United States." * History Reviews of New Books *
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New York University Press New Perspectives on Israeli History The Early
Book SynopsisA group of international scholars, applying insights drawn from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, cultural criticism and literary theory, re-examines critical issues surrounding the birth of Israel.Table of ContentsPart I Frameworks and perspectives: reading perspectives/perspectives on reading - an introduction, Laurence J. Silberstein. Part II The transition to statehood - Jews and Arabs in conflict: the transition from Yishuv to state - social and ideological changes, Jehuda Reinharz; the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem, Benny Morris; early state policy towards the Arab population, 1948-1955, Don Peretz; one hundred years of social change - the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem, Kenneth W. Stein; initial Israeli policy guidelines towards the Arab minority, 1948-1949, Elie Rekhess; Arab historiography of the 1948 War - the quest for legitimacy, Avraham Sela. Part III Myths, symbols, values - the struggle for national identity: attitudes of the young state of Israel toward the Holocaust and its survivors - a debate over identity and values, Dina Porat; myths, symbols and rituals of the emerging state, Myron J. Aronoff; new beginning, old past - the collective memory of pioneering in Israeli culture, Yael Zerubavel; at half-mast myths, symbols, and rituals of the emerging state - a personal testimony of an "Israeli Arab", Anton Shammas. Part IV Conflicts within and conflicts wihout - diplomacy and foreign policy: Israel's global foreign policy, 1948-1956, Uri Bialer; Zionist-Arab diplomacy - patterns and ambiguities on the eve of statehood, Neil Caplan; Israel-Diaspora relations in the early years of the state, Ronald W. Zweig.
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New York University Press Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and
Book SynopsisRepresents a sample of the most penetrating and provocative scholarly interpretations of Jewish messianic movement from various perspectives- historical, sociological, psychological, and religious.
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New York University Press The Other in Jewish Thought and History
Book SynopsisThis text explores the ways Jews have defined other groups and themselves. Topics include: the construction of gender; the gentile as Other; the Palestinian as Other; blacks as Other in American Jewish literature; the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness; and women as Other in Israeli cinema.
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New York University Press The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During
Book SynopsisThis title reclaims the distinctive culture of thousands of Jewish communities lost during the Holocaust. It chronicles the people, habits and customs of more than 6500 thriving Jewish communities. It clarifies locations of settlements based on documents and maps found in recently opened archives.Trade Review"An outstanding tribute to the vanished communities as well as a valuable document . . . . The editors have created a valuable resource for students, scholars, genealogists, and anyone interested in modern history. They have given the dead a monument and a name." * Booklist,starred review *"Eagerly awaited." * Library Journal,April 15, 2002 *"A major contribution to modern Jewish history. The entries are precise, clear and reliable. The photos are priceless and often rare." -- Jehuda Reinharz,Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and President, Brandeis University"There's been so much written about the Holocaust itself, but this will show the great sweep of Jewish culture that existed before." -- Francine Klagsbrun,author of Jewish Days"Majestic." * Publishers Weekly,starred review *
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New York University Press Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry From the Golden Age
Book SynopsisSephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers, poets, biblical commentators, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development of Jewish mysticism. This book presents an introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years.Trade ReviewYounger scholars have much to gain by their encounter with these brilliant essays especially where the authors generously gesture precisely to those lacunae in excisting scholarship that may prove to be the foundations of future careers. * Midwest Jewish Studies Association - Shofar Book Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I1 A Global Perspective on Sephardic and Mizrahi JewryZion Zohar2 The Origins of Sephardic Jewry in the Medieval Arab WorldMark R. Cohen3 The Judeo-Arabic Heritage Norman A. Stillman4 Judeo-Spanish Culture in Medieval and Modern Times David M. Bunis5 Literatures of Medieval Sepharad Jonathan P. Decter6 Medieval Sephardic-Oriental Jewish Bible ExegesisIsaac Kalimi7 Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah in Spain Moshe IdelPart II8 Hispanic Culture in Exile: Sephardic Life in the Ottoman Balkans Annette B. Fromm9 Sephardic Jurisprudence in the Recent Half-Millennium Zvi Zohar10 Safed Kabbalah and the Sephardic Heritage Morris M. Faierstein11 Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire Pamela Dorn SezginPart III12 Early Modern Sephardim and Blacks: Contact and Con?ict between Two Minorities Jonathan Schorsch13 Diversity and Uniqueness: An Introduction to Sephardic Liturgical Music Mark Kligman14 A Double Occlusion: Sephardim and the Holocaust Henry Abramson15 Sephardim and Oriental Jews in Israel: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Paradigm Zion ZoharAbout the Contributors Index
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New York University Press The Fighting Rabbis Jewish Military Chaplains
Book SynopsisAmerican Jews and their rabbis are not normally associated with warfare, but Jewish chaplains have played a significant and sometimes heroic role in defence of the nation. This history has been written by one of their number who is in the US Navy.Trade Review"The Fighting Rabbis surges with true and exciting stories of faith and fortitude little known to the American public. How I wish it were required reading for all military chaplains, and for all clergy and military leaders who care about God's ministry among our men and women in the armed services. Rabbi Slomovitz has granted us a record of great significance." * Rear Admiral Donald K. Muchow *"Chaplain Slomovitz has opened the door to a previously undocumented, untold chapter of the history of the Jews in America. The Fighting Rabbis should be read with great pride by the Jewish American community, and with admiration by all others." -- Vice Admiral Bernard M. Kauderer(Ret.)"Slomovitz has pointed the way towards what could become a new and fascinating dimension of Jewish military history." * H-Net reviews *"[A] useful history of American rabbis serving as chaplains in the country's armed forces.. . . Utilizing archival materials and interviews with past and present chaplains, the author has enriched his work." * Journal of American History *"Very readable . . .an inspiring testimonial of heroic behavior and of ongoing Jewish commitment to the US and its military." * Choice *
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MI - New York University Impossible Images
Book Synopsis"Impossible Images" brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments.Trade Review"(Makes) a cogent case for a deeper, unmastered engagement with Holocause trauma." * Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Framing the Holocaust: Contemporary Visions I. GEOGRAPHIES OF THE HEART: PLACES/SPACESOF REMEMBRANCE1. Archiving an Architecture of the Heart 2. Haunted by Memory: American Jewish Transformations 3. A House for an Uninhabitable Memory (The Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University) II. ISRAEL AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY4. The Return of the Repressed 5. Racism and Ethics: Constructing Alternative History 6. "Don't Touch My Holocaust"-Analyzing the Barometer of Responses: Israeli Artists Challenge the Holocaust Taboo III. TRANSGRESSING TABOOS7. Holocaust Toys: Pedagogy of Remembrance through Play8. The Nazi Occupation of the "White Cube": Piotr Uklan'ski's The Nazis and Rudolf Herz's Zugzwang 9. On Sanctifying the Holocaust: An Anti-Theological Treatise IV. CURATING MEMORY10. Holocaust Icons: The Media of Memory11. Sense and/or Sensation: The Role of the Body in Holocaust Pedagogy Artists' Works A selection of works by artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago,Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel, who participated in theBerman Center's conference, "Representing the Holocaust:Practices, Products, Projections."About the Artists About the Editors About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Impossible Images Contemporary Art After the
Book Synopsis"Impossible Images" brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments.Trade Review"(Makes) a cogent case for a deeper, unmastered engagement with Holocause trauma." * Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Framing the Holocaust: Contemporary Visions I. GEOGRAPHIES OF THE HEART: PLACES/SPACESOF REMEMBRANCE1. Archiving an Architecture of the Heart 2. Haunted by Memory: American Jewish Transformations 3. A House for an Uninhabitable Memory (The Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University) II. ISRAEL AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY4. The Return of the Repressed 5. Racism and Ethics: Constructing Alternative History 6. "Don't Touch My Holocaust"-Analyzing the Barometer of Responses: Israeli Artists Challenge the Holocaust Taboo III. TRANSGRESSING TABOOS7. Holocaust Toys: Pedagogy of Remembrance through Play8. The Nazi Occupation of the "White Cube": Piotr Uklan'ski's The Nazis and Rudolf Herz's Zugzwang 9. On Sanctifying the Holocaust: An Anti-Theological Treatise IV. CURATING MEMORY10. Holocaust Icons: The Media of Memory11. Sense and/or Sensation: The Role of the Body in Holocaust Pedagogy Artists' Works A selection of works by artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago,Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel, who participated in theBerman Center's conference, "Representing the Holocaust:Practices, Products, Projections."About the Artists About the Editors About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Holocaust Justice
Book SynopsisDiscusses the enduring legacy of Holocaust restitution litigation, which is already being used as a model for obtaining justice for historical wrongs on both the domestic and international stageTrade ReviewA masterly study of the search for justice against long odds. Its analysis is compelling, its importance immense. It is also a fascinating read. -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,author of Hitlers Willing Executioners and A Moral ReckoningAn incisive work of legal history and an invaluable guide to the litigation involving Holocaust-era assets. Bazyler offers an elegant and up-to-date study that will prove indispensable for those interested in restitution law, the Holocaust, and the issue of historical injustice. -- Jonathan Petropoulos,former Research Director, Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.An indispensable guide to the complex and controversial struggle for justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust. -- Michael Berenbaum,The University of JudaismMichael Bazyler brings the passion of a child of Holocaust survivors and the tenacious investigative skills of a lawyer in addressing the complexities of Holocaust restitution. The result is courageous, provocative, and sobering. -- Rabbi Abraham Cooper,Simon Wiesenthal CenterThis book should be read by everyone interested in how some measure of justice was obtained for victims of the Holocaust and about how issues of historical injustice should be addressed by the international community. -- Paul Hoffman,Chair, Amnesty InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1 Suing the Swiss Banks2 German Industry and Its Slaves 3 Reclaiming Prewar Insurance Policies 4 Confronting the French Banks 5 Litigating Holocaust Looted Art 6 The Distribution Controversies 7 The Legacy and Consequences of Holocaust Restitution 8 The Post-Holocaust Restitution Era: Holocaust Restitution As a Model for Addressing Other Historical Injustices Notes Relevant Web Sites Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Sephardic Jews in America A Diasporic History
Book SynopsisA rare look at the history of Sephardic Jews during the age of mass immigration to the USTrade ReviewThe book contains a great deal of information about relatively recent Sephardic immigration, much of it from interviews. . .and her research in obscure newspaper sand other printed and manuscripted sources that will be of value to any person who attempts such a history, which is surely one of the more apparent gaps in American Jewish history. -- Roger Daniels,University of CincinnatiThe obscure documentary evidence Ben-Ur has unearthed gives the content of this book a provocative critical edge...this book brings to the fore issues of race, identity, marginalization, and displacement, which in a globalized world are issues of profound and enduring relevance. -- George Lee Cuellar * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Sephardic Jews in America is...a scholarly landmark...[its] multilayered trove of ethnographic and historical detail will interest scholars of ethnicity as a rich basis for comparative studies. -- David Graizbord * Journal of American Ethnic History *In this excellent book, Ben-Ur helps address a severe gap in the historical scholarship of American Jewry, and blazes a trail for other scholars to follow. . . . Scholars in the field will no longer have an excuse not to mention or give significant space in their works to Sephardic Jewry within American Jewry. Sephardic Jews in America will be of use in any course concerning immigration, ethnic identity, American and Jewish American history, and Ladino culture, as well as Spanish Diasporas. -- Zion Zohar,Director and Chair, President Navon Program for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, Florida International UniversityThis wonderfully researched book can help to reconfigure ethnic studies and, certainly, represents the broadening of the Latino heritage in the United States. Ben-Ur’s exhaustive search for the ignored or forgotten Sephardic legacy has gone beyond the printed and academic sources to interviews of survivors and the recovery of all types of manuscript sources literally from coast to coast in the United States. The only term I can conjure up to adequately describe this work is: landmark. -- Nicolas Kanellos,Brown Foundation Professor and Director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, University of HoustonOffers refreshing new insights into the Sephardic migration from Ottoman lands to America in the early twentieth century. Drawing heavily upon the unknown riches of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) press, Ben-Ur illuminates many unknown aspects of the Jewish immigrant experience. She sheds new light on American Jewry, providing a different narrative that will be especially welcome to students of ethnicity and immigration in general as well as readers seeking information on the Hispanic-Jewish encounter. -- Jane S. Gerber,Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies, City University of New YorkNow, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * Reporter *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * Intermountain Jewish News *The story Ben-Ur has to tell . . . is largely one of miscommunication. But failures to communicate can be as revealing, in their way, as successes, and the ways Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews thought about one another in the early 20th century offers some surprising insights into the construction of modern American Jewish identity. That is why Sephardic Jews in America offers so much food for thought. * Jewish Tribune *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * JJ Monthly Magazine *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * Heritage Florida Jewish News *An intriguing and academically rigorous book. . . It provides an invaluable survey into an overlooked component of the Jewish American experience and it provides keen insights into the religious dislocation between Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews in the US. * History In Review *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * Greater Phoenix Jewish News *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * New Jersey Jewish News *The most detailed and thoughtful discussion on why Sephardic Jews have been excluded from mainstream Jewish life in the United States. * Moment *Carefully documented with particular reliance on the Ladino press, this book addresses a shortcoming involving both scholarly and communal engagement. Ben-Ur underscores the failure of academics and Ashkenazic Jews to acknowledge Sephardic Jews, which has resulted in historic oblivion. * CHOICE *Ben-Ur’s book is a valuable contribution to American Jewish historiography, within which treatments of the Sephardic experience have either focused exclusively on the “Old” Sephardic “Grandees” who came to the America before 1776 or, in a contemporary context, have limited themselves to a primarily ethnographic concentration on the folkways of particular communities. * American Historical Review *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * American Israelite *A landmark contribution to the history of those Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who were all too often invisible to the mainstream Jewish community and to the historiography of American Judaism. * American Jewish Archives Journal *Now, more than five centuries later, dozens of musicians, writers, poets . . . are reclaiming that culture to create a veritable Sephardic renaissance. Many artists mine Sephardic culture because they want to popularize a lesser-known Jewish heritage. * Buffalo Jewish Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Jews Who Weren't There: Scholarly and Communal Exclusion 1 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity 2 Hebrew with a Sephardic Accent: A Test Case for Impact 3 East Meets West: Sephardic Strangers and Kin 4 Ashkenazic-Sephardic Encounters 5 The Hispanic Embrace 6 Conclusion: A View from the Margins Appendix: Population Statistics of Non-Ashkenazic Jews in the United States of AmericaAbbreviations NotesIndex About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig
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University of Minnesota Press The Spectral Jew
Book SynopsisThrough incisive readings of a range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, this book traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities.
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The University of Alabama Press Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy Judaic Studies
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The University of Alabama Press Stepping into Zion Hatzaad Harishon Black Jews
Book SynopsisBy studying the multiracial Jewish organisation Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimerâs Stepping into Zion considers the question âœWho is a Jew?â - a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike. Hatzaad Harishon (âœThe First Stepâ) was a New York-based, multiracial Jewish organisation that worked to increase recognition and legitimacy of black Jews in the sixties and seventies. In Stepping into Zion, Janice W. Fernheimer examines the history and archives of Hatzaad Harishon to illuminate the definition and borders of Jewish identity, which have critical relevance to Jews of all traditions as well as to non-Jews. Fernheimer focuses on a period when white Jewish identity was in flux and deeply influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In 1964, white and black Jews formed Hatzaad Harishon to foster interaction and unity between black and white Jewish communities. They raised the question of who or what constitutes Jewishness
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The University of Alabama Press We Shall Build Anew
Book SynopsisExplores how Rabbi Stephen S. Wise entirely changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century.
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UNIV OF ALABAMA PR Between Two Homelands
Book SynopsisExamines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines who built their life trajectories through migrations to and from Israel. Based on archival documents in English, Spanish, and Hebrew, as well as on interviews, Adrian Krupnik’s study gives voice to Argentine migrants to and from Israel.Trade ReviewThe little-known case studies of the journals La Luz and Aurora, of Argentine and Israeli cartoons, as well as the case study of moshav Kochav Sobel, are some of the best parts of the book, illuminating microhistories, which allow us to see the general narrative in a close-up. Krupnik manages to uncover how individual actors benefited from the migration-influenced developments that began to shape their lives." - Mariusz Kałczewiak, author of Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
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University of Alabama Press Translating the Ketubah
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The University of Alabama Press A Place of Our Own The Rise of Reform Jewish
Book SynopsisContains seven essays, which commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first Reform Jewish educational camp in the United States. This book covers topics related to both the Reform Judaism movement and the development of the Reform Jewish camping system in the United States.Trade ReviewThis book makes a significant contribution to understanding a major development in American Reform Judaism and the use of organized camping for children and youth as a valuable educational tool. - Burton I Cohen, author of Case Studies in Jewish School Management
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The University of Alabama Press Nationalizing a Borderland War Ethnicity and AntiJewish Violence in East Galicia 19141920 Judaic Studies Series
Book SynopsisNationalizing a Borderland enriches understanding of ethnic conflict by examining the factors in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920 that led to the rise of xenophobic nationalism and to the ethnocide of World War II. From Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Austrian archival sources, Prusin argues that while the violence inflicted upon Jews during that period may at first seem irrational and indiscriminate, a closer examination reveals that it was generated by traditional negative views of Jews and by the security concerns of the Russian and Polish militaries in the front zone. This violence, Prusin contends, served as a means of reshaping the socio-economic and political space of the province by diminishing Jewish cultural and economic influence.Trade Review“While a regional study, [Nationalizing a Borderland] is all the more important for locating the intersection between war, ethnicity, imperial collapse—and one should add collective psychic disturbance—in the creation of nation-states and the degree to which such a combination may have entirely fatal consequences for ethno-religious communities most marginal to the struggle.” —Nations and Nationalism “Prusin has produced a well-researched monograph that should be consulted by students of the Great War, twentieth-century ethnic cleansing, and Christian-Jewish relations in Eastern Europe.” —American Historical Review "The author explores the 'dynamics of persecution' of Galician Jewry (a very sizeable community) from the side of the Russian Empire and the emergent independent Polish state. He demonstrates that there was an interesting symmetry between their attitudes, both coming to see the Jews as a universal and lethal threat to their national interests." —John Klier, author of Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881"Nationalizing a Borderland is a fascinating, if harrowing case study. Making intensive use of primary and secondary sources, including the national archives of Poland and Ukraine, Prusin focuses his attention on a particular place and time – Galicia between 1914 and 1920 – in order to explore how empires fall and nation-states arise from their ashes. — Jildy Sauce
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University of Alabama Press The Sephardim in the Holocaust A Forgotten People
Book SynopsisDocuments the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes. The book embraces the Sephardim of all the countries shattered by the Holocaust and pays tribute to the memory of the more than 160,000 Sephardim who perished.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in the Sephardic context. This is a momentous monograph that encompasses 40 years of research by an eminent and trailblazing researcher." —Shmuel Refael, author of Conceptualizing the Unconceptualized: La Vida de Adolf Hitler, El Haman Moderno (The Life of Adolf Hitler, The Modern Haman)Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Journey to the Death Camps Chapter 2. Living and Dying in Hell Chapter 3. The Revolt of October 7, 1944 Chapter 4. Medical Experiments Chapter 5. The Death March Chapter 6. Albania, the Mufti, and the Ustashas Chapter 7. Jews from North Africa and Libya, the Invisible Jews Chapter 8. The Place of God in the Holocaust Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Memories of Two Generations
Book SynopsisPresents the 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history.Trade Review“The text itself is an insightful description of events experienced in a life lived in great extremes. . . . Gurwitz’s recollections of his days in Europe give the reader insight into a world lost to Nazi destruction. Thankfully, Bryan Stone’s commentary adds an explanative background such that the reader gains an understanding of the interaction of ideas of the times. In as much as Jewish life in Texas is still very much yet-to-be recorded history, these writings open new windows on traditional observance influenced by new Jewish movements, particularly in the United States.”— American Jewish Archives Journal“This exceptionally rich memoir will immediately captivate readers with an introduction that appeals to the interests of academics, yet is accessible to general readers. Poetic, with scenes of tension that impel one to keep reading, the story sustains interest throughout.”—Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of Orthodox Jews in America“Gurwitz's memoir provides an almost unmatched glimpse into the daily life, folk and foodways, educational system, and family patterns of traditional East European Jews of the place and time—a real-life Fiddler on the Roof. The detail of the life of a yeshivah student and young Jewish functionary, as well as of Hassidic life are extraordinary yet this story goes beyond that to show Gurwitz’s middle age attempts to maintain tradition after immigrating to San Antonio, Texas. Bryan Edward Stone’s outstanding introduction and commentary places the memoir in historical context and highlights the important themes.”—Mark K. Bauman, editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and coeditor of The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
£26.36
The University of Alabama Press Soloveitchiks Children
Book SynopsisThe story of religious life and Judaism in America is incomplete without an understanding of how three of the most consequential Jewish thinkers of this generation adapted the teachings of one of the most consequential Jewish thinkers of the previous generation. Soloveitchik’s Children tells this gripping intellectual and religious story.Trade Review“In his important study of the great twentieth-century Orthodox Jewish theologian Joseph Soloveitchik and his enduring legacy, Daniel Ross Goodman gives us profound and fascinating insights. His book is a highly original analysis of contemporary trends in Jewish thought.” —Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College
£23.36
University of Pittsburgh Press Emergence Of Modern Jewish Politics The Bundism And Zionism In Eastern Europe Russian and East European Studies
Book SynopsisNew in Paper Collection of essays by prominent historians, political scientists, and professors of literature that examine the political, social, and cultural impact of Zionism and Bundism on Jewish society.
£37.95
Fordham University Press Dynamic Judaism
Book SynopsisKaplan's concept of Judaism as an "evolving religious civilization" was widely influential in 20th-century American Jewish life, and his founding of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College created a new denomination. This book contains a biographical essay and excerpts from all his major works.Trade Review"Intelligently organized... An excellent introduction to Reconstructionism." -Library Journal
£21.59
Fordham University Press Modern Yiddish Culture The Story of the Yiddish
Book SynopsisThe phenomenal rise of Yiddish language and culture is one of the most interesting and colorful sagas of modern Jewish history.Trade Review"Of great value. I recommend it to everyone interested in Yiddish and Jewish culture." -- -Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel Prize Laureate
£31.50
Fordham University Press Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the 20th
Book Synopsis"A book of great interest for anyone interested in the meaning of prayer."-Jewish Book NewsTrade Review“A book of great interest for anyone interested in the meaning of prayer.” * —Jewish Book News *...makes a useful contribution to shedding light on questions about prayer with which humans have struggled from time immemorial. * —Jerusalem Post *
£25.19
Fordham University Press Guides For an Age of Confusion
Book Synopsis"This book is a thoughtful and thorough exploration."-Jewish Book CouncilTrade Review“This book is a thoughtful and thorough exploration.” * —Jewish Book Council *
£25.19
Fordham University Press Heschel Hasidism and Halakha
Book SynopsisSamuel Dresner, a former student and lifelong friend of Heschel's, gives a personal insight into his life and views into the Hasidic movement and the important concept of halakha.Trade Review"An admirable exercise in hagiography, that reverential genre dedicated in Christian tradition to celebrating the lives of saints...A Small but wonderful tribute to Abraham Joshua Heschel." -Shofar
£27.90
Fordham University Press Language Eros Being
Book SynopsisExplores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists.Trade Review"Wolfson subjects the sexual elements to an unprecedented, and radical examination. This book is sure to be controversial and generate much discussion." -Choice Elliot R. Wolfson's _Language, Eros, and Being_ is a prodigy of scholarship. From the book's core, the construction of sexuality in religious consciousness and practice, three voices radiate: Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis; mysticism in Hellenistic, Christian; Islamic, and Buddhist traditions; and the esoteric dimension within Judaism known as Kabbalah. Because of the artful way in which Wolfson orchestrates the polyphony of their fugue-like conversation, the voices converge, dissolving into concord, without ever losing their definitive particularity. Read one way, Wolfson allows Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Maurice Blanchot to introduce and clarify the poetics of Sufi or Kabbalistic thought. Read another way, Wolfson allows Zen masters, Gnostic myths, Ibn al-Arabi, Rabbi Hayyim Vital and authors of the Zohar to introduce and clarify poststructuralism. Throughout the conversation, Wolfson never indulges in apologetics or New Age gobbledygook. He never stumbles into the trap of ahistorical, apolitical, disembodying "mystocentrism." He never loses sight of his polemical focus on Judaism's lamentable androcentrism. He never compromises the most rigorous demands of historical-philological argumentation. Making the opposites of diverse discourses to coincide, Wolfson has rendered Kabbalah intelligible and useful to the world of critical learning. -- -Kalman P. Bland Duke University "In Wolfson's work each tradition and each field of thought retains its specificity and yet they all come together on the page to talk with each other." -Modern Theology "One is tempted to say that Wolfson's Language, Eros, Being is alchemical: Amazingly, it transforms the base metals of hermetically sealed Jewish studies into the gold of exoteric humanities." -AJS Review "Elliot Wolfson's new volume is massive in every respect: it is massive in scope, in intellectual reach, in methodological range, and in thematic sweep. Readers will be especially interested in his formulation of a poetics of Jewish mystical language, and in the new and strong articulation of his insights into the topics of gender and the dialectics of absence and presence in the sources. This is a major work that will certainly stimulate much discussion and interest." -- -Michael Fishbane Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies The University of Chicago The University of Chicago Divinity School
£40.50
Fordham University Press Judeities Questions for Jacques Derrida
Book SynopsisWhat is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion of "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? This title addresses these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem.Trade Review"Essays on the relationship between the writings of the French philosopher and multiple understandings of Jewish identity; also includes the first English translation of Derrida's essay 'Abraham, the Other'." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "...An impressive collection of essays stemming from a colloquium held in Paris in December 2000, addressing the work of Jacques Derrida...All essays are strong and provide for a text rich in material for fruitful contemplation." -Choice "In this volume sparks fly and cast unexpected light. Judeities represents a new phase in the difficult work of bringing together the speaking of Jewishness and the speaking of theory. If Derrida can be said to remain for us literally, in his writings, here is at once a candid self-portrait and a set of vigorous, equally courageous critical reflections thereof. This is the kind of work that makes us want to keep talking and thinking." -- -Jonathan Boyarin University of Kansas "A work of ground-breaking scholarship that brings together some of today's most prominent thinkers in continental philosophy, literary theory, and religious studies." -- -Ulrich Baer New York University
£27.90
Fordham University Press A Scholars Tale
Book SynopsisDescribes author's early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. This title looks back at how author's career who was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kinder transport.Trade Review"[Hartman] has written a rather different book: the record of a stellar career as a scholar, critic, and teacher that spans decades of changes in the academy to be sure, but one which insists on the primacy of the intellectual life." -Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature "Long before TV reality shows, Hartman questioned the show of reality." -The Wordsworth Circle "The journey detailed here is at once intensely personal and curiously remote." -American Book Review "Casting a critical backward glance, Hartman delineates the evolution of a life of and in learning over five remarkably productive decades." -- -Elizabeth Freund Partial Answers "A Scholar's Tale begins to unravel the mask of impersonality that allowed Hartman, a brilliant reader, to dismiss the personal dimension of literary criticism a quarter-century ago." -Southern Humanities Review "Hartman's tale doesn't disappoint." -Arcade "Hartman's unsentimental tale plots a fascinating course through a critic's mind." -Forward "In the end, what is perhaps most compelling about Professor Hartman's story is his life-long engagement with the matter of Judaism, his own complex relation to Jewish identity." -Jewish Book World "[A] lucid and intriguing autobiographical memoir." -London Review of Books
£21.59
Fordham University Press The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of
Book SynopsisExploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site in the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions at stake in the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be.Trade Review"Goetschel persuasively argues for Jewish philosophy as a field that does not articulate the meaning of an identity-stance, but as a mode of inquiry that shows how the practice of philosophy has not yet, and perhaps never will, reach the universality at which it aims. For him, only such a critical spirit can portend a better future and produce a robust civil society. He shows us how his view continues the arguments of the earliest strata of modern Jewish philosophy, how many contemporary academics have gone wrong in thinking that Jewish philosophy is a discipline that puts forth a unique positive content, and offers readers two Swiss Jewish exemplars -- Margarete Susman and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt -- from whom scholars can reclaim the field's original critical energy." -- -Martin Kavka Florida State University "Goetschel's new book is provocative, compelling, and profound. Tracing the influence of the thought of Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Susman, among others, he shows how philosophy's claim to universality is necessarily undermined through its complex and troubled relation to Jewish philosophy This book dramatically and definitively refigures the distinction between Greek and Hebrew thought upon which contemporary Western philosophy rests... Essential reading for anyone interested in how philosophy became what it is ... what it still could become." -- -Moira Gatens -University of Sidney "In this stunningly erudite and imaginative study, Willi Goetschel argues that it is precisely because the very notion of a Jewish philosophy is contested that one may discern its overarching significance. While dilating on the "particularistic" concerns of their community from the perspective of universal reason, Jewish philosophers in effect challenge philosophy to revise its conception of the unity of truth and to embrace difference and alterity as defining constituents of the universal." -- -Paul Mendes-Flohr Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A lively and intriguing account of many of the leading thinkers and controversies in Jewish philosophy, the text never fails to be both intelligent and provocative." -- -Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky
£22.49
Fordham University Press Giving Beyond the Gift
Book SynopsisExplores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers - Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.Trade Review"This is a wonderful contribution to the field of philosophy and theology by one of the most important thinkers writing in English. His command of the material is masterful and his argument persuasive. It is outstanding and a real intellectual tour de force." -- -Aaron W. Hughes University of Rochester "We are used to apophatic theology in the service of Christianity. Here, though, Elliot Wolfson brings his deep knowledge of Kabbalah and modern Jewish thought to a rich consideration of apophaticism in Judaism. His readings of Buber, Cohen, Derrida, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Wyschogrod are nothing less than riveting, as are his readings of thinkers such as Heidegger and Marion. This is a book that all students of modern Jewish thought and its interactions with European philosophy will want to read." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia "This book, at once meticulous and daring, makes an important contribution to theology-one that may end up, uncomfortably, moving the discourse beyond itself. The argument is developed through a remarkable combination of reason, mysticism, analysis of experience, and historical knowledge." -- -Karmen MacKendrick Le Moyne CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination and the Prism of the Inapparent 1. Via Negativa and the Imaginal Configuring of God 2. Apophatic Vision and Overcoming the Dialogical 3. Echo of the Otherwise and the Lure of Theolatry 4. Secrecy of the Gift and the Gift of Secrecy 5. Immanent Atheology and the Trace of Transcendence 6. Undoing (K)not of Apophaticism: A Heideggerian Afterthought Notes Bibliography Index
£102.60
Fordham University Press Giving Beyond the Gift
Book SynopsisExplores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers - Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.Trade Review"This is a wonderful contribution to the field of philosophy and theology by one of the most important thinkers writing in English. His command of the material is masterful and his argument persuasive. It is outstanding and a real intellectual tour de force." -- -Aaron W. Hughes University of Rochester "We are used to apophatic theology in the service of Christianity. Here, though, Elliot Wolfson brings his deep knowledge of Kabbalah and modern Jewish thought to a rich consideration of apophaticism in Judaism. His readings of Buber, Cohen, Derrida, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Wyschogrod are nothing less than riveting, as are his readings of thinkers such as Heidegger and Marion. This is a book that all students of modern Jewish thought and its interactions with European philosophy will want to read." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia "This book, at once meticulous and daring, makes an important contribution to theology-one that may end up, uncomfortably, moving the discourse beyond itself. The argument is developed through a remarkable combination of reason, mysticism, analysis of experience, and historical knowledge." -- -Karmen MacKendrick Le Moyne CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination and the Prism of the Inapparent 1. Via Negativa and the Imaginal Configuring of God 2. Apophatic Vision and Overcoming the Dialogical 3. Echo of the Otherwise and the Lure of Theolatry 4. Secrecy of the Gift and the Gift of Secrecy 5. Immanent Atheology and the Trace of Transcendence 6. Undoing (K)not of Apophaticism: A Heideggerian Afterthought Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Fordham University Press Bestiarium Judaicum Unnatural Histories of the
Book SynopsisThrough close textual analysis, detailed historical contextualization, and critical animal theory Bestiarium Judaicum examines how and to what ends German-Jewish writers (including Freud, Heine, and Kafka) drew upon the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals disseminated for millennia to bestialize, debase, and justify the persecution of Jews.Trade Review"Jay Geller's Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews is a remarkable monograph that has no parallel in scholarly literature. The author offers a sophisticated conceptual and historical account of how the longstanding discourse about the animality of the Jew is accompanied by an iconography of an unnatural Jewish bestiary. The racial anti-Semitism that fueled the horrors of the Holocaust is contextualized in a new and thought-provoking way." -- -Elliot R. Wolfson University of California, Santa Barbara
£62.10
Fordham University Press The Banality of Heidegger
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger's recently published Black Notebooks. Nancy refers to a philosophical or historial anti-Semitism marked, nonetheless, by the banality of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. Heidegger's thought is placed in the broader context of the European (especially Christian) impulse toward new beginnings.Trade Review"A relentlessly powerful probe, masterfully cast, soundly translated. Rezoning Arendt's sense of banality, the work commits itself to handling the disturbingly blithe crudeness of anti-semitism in philosophical headquarters. One of the greatest philosophers of our time, Jean-Luc Nancy tracks Heidegger's descent, addressing the scandalous incompatibility of racist outburst and the question of Being. Covering a range of assault from the euphemization and derealization of anti-Semitic stances to the tragic consequences of juridical logic, Nancy goes after a traumatically enduring record of human/inhuman failure." -- -Avital Ronell New York UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface. Both/And: Heidegger's Equivocality One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Coda Supplement Acknowledgments Notes
£19.79
Fordham University Press Freud and Monotheism
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis''s relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud's masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely recognized. Freud and Monotheism critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point Freud's relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud's book and the modern world with whichTable of ContentsIntroduction Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit “Why [the Jews] have Attracted this Undying Hatred” Richard Bernstein “Geistigkeit”: A Problematic Concept Joel Whitebook Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History Willi Goetschel Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging Gabriele Schwab A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention Yael Segalovitz Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses Jan Assmann Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea Ronald Hendel Is Psychic Phylogenesis only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance Catherine Malabou Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible Gilad Sharvit Notes List of Contributors Index
£71.10
Fordham University Press Jewish Studies as Counterlife A Report to the
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction | 1 Interchapter I: JS Davka | 30 1. Jewish Studies as Lever | 35 Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership | 55 2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork | 60 Interchapter III: “Past its own aim, out to another side” | 83 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities | 87 Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes | 123 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS | 127 Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins | 161 5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers | 165 Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi | 191 Notes | 201 Works Cited | 239 Index | 273
£25.19
Fordham University Press Jewish Studies as Counterlife
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction | 1 Interchapter I: JS Davka | 30 1. Jewish Studies as Lever | 35 Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership | 55 2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork | 60 Interchapter III: “Past its own aim, out to another side” | 83 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities | 87 Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes | 123 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS | 127 Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins | 161 5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers | 165 Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi | 191 Notes | 201 Works Cited | 239 Index | 273
£89.10
University of Hawai'i Press Kasulis Zen Action Paper
Trade ReviewFor the thoughtful Westerner this must be one of the most clear and perceptive accounts of Zen available. Thoroughly new is Kasulis' attempt to locate the Zen understanding of the person in secular Japanese assumptions."" --Times Literary Supplement
£45.00
Kregel Publications,U.S. The New Complete Works of Josephus
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£35.46
Jewish Publication Society The Wars of the Lord Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis is the major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence, one of the outstanding philosophers of the medieval world. This work examines in detail most of the controversial issues that had preoccupied the medieval mind: immortality of the human soul, prophecy, human freedom, divine providence, creation of the world, miracles.Table of Contentsv. 1. bk. 1. Immortality of the soul -- v. 2. bk. 2. Dreams, divination, and prophecy. bk. 3. Divine knowledge. bk. 4. Divine providence -- v. 3. bk. 5. The heavenly bodies and their movers, the relationships amongst these movers, and the relationship between them and God. bk. 6. Creation of the universe.
£31.50
Jewish Publication Society Pesikta DeRab Kahana
Book SynopsisLong known only to scholars and specialists, this title is a masterpiece of midrashic literature. It is a collection of discourses for special Sabbaths and festival days compiled and organized during the fifth century. It was well known and studied from the end of fifth century until it disappeared sometime in the sixteenth century.
£67.15
