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Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection of essays on this subject matter with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. The manuscript does not attempt to foreground any one critical...
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While most people view the Palestinian conflict as the greatest threat to Israel's survival, it is in fact only one of the nation's long-term concerns. Aside from terrorists seeking to destroy it, Israel must contend with tensions between religious and secular Jews, the demographic issues posed by a quickly growing Arab population, internal political divisions, and disputes over the water sources that are critical to its survival. In the face of these...
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Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century version of that exodus, escaping oppression and persecution in Germany for Cuba and ultimately a life of freedom and happiness in the United States. Behrend's...
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A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother's and her husband's egos to preserve their family. Stories such as these enliven the pages of the Talmud, the great repository of ancient wisdom that is one of the sacred texts of the Jewish people. Comprised of the Mishnah, the oral law of...
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Get the Summary of Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Amen Effect" by Sharon Brous is a profound exploration of the human need for connection, both in times of joy and sorrow. Rabbi Brous shares stories of comforting the bereaved, like Gail, whose children were killed by a drunk driver, emphasizing the importance of presence over wisdom. She reflects on the ancient Mishnah text...
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Taking S. An-sky's expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement as its point of departure, the volume explores the dynamic and many-sided nature of ethnographic knowledge and the long and complex history of the production and consumption of Jewish folk traditions. These essays by historians, anthropologists, musicologists, and folklorists showcase some of the finest research in the field. They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation...
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Toulouse mars 2012, Bruxelles mai 2014, Paris janvier 2015, Copenhague février 2015. On tue à nouveau des Juifs en Europe, soixante-dix ans après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'effondrement de l'Allemagne hitlérienne. On y profane des cimetières juifs et on y moleste des personnes – dont des enfants – simplement parce qu'elles sont juives. Il arrive même qu'on y force l'entrée d'un appartement occupé par une famille juive ou...
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Antisemitism from Muslims has become a serious issue in Western Europe, although not often acknowledged as such. Looking for insights into the views and rationales of young Muslims toward Jews, Günther Jikeli and his colleagues interviewed 117 ordinary Muslim men in London (chiefly of South Asian background), Paris (chiefly North African), and Berlin (chiefly Turkish). The researchers sought information about stereotypes of Jews, arguments used to...
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Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, the novel Albertine, and On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis in the Modern World (Princeton).
Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial...
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En Cruzar fronteras, reclamar una nación, Sandra McGee Deutsch analiza cómo un grupo de inmigrantes doblemente marginal-las mujeres judías-logró crear su identidad nacional argentina, forjar relaciones sociales, comunitarias y laborales, y contribuir de este modo a consolidar la comunidad judía más grande de América Latina en un contexto político cambiante y en ocasiones adverso.
Desde esta perspectiva, aporta una mirada diferente a la que...
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A distinguished Jewish leader and philanthropist argues for openness and joy to reinvigorate Judaism in America.
After a lifetime of fighting the persecution of Jews, Edgar M. Bronfman has concluded that what North American Jews need now is hope, not fear. Bronfman urges North American Jewry "to build, not fight. We need to celebrate the joy in Judaism, even as we recognize our responsibility to alleviate suffering and to help heal a broken world....
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David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. His books include Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians and Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America.
The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularism
Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its...
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Moshe Halbertal is professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and the Gruss Professor at New York University Law School. He is the author of People of the Book and the coauthor (with Avishai Margalit) of Idolatry.
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each...
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Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual...
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Paul Reitter is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe.
A new intellectual history that looks at "Jewish self-hatred"
Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate...
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How Judaism and food are intertwined
Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews?...
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Marx widmet sich in der Schrift "Zur Judenfrage" der Frage nach politischer und menschlicher Emanzipation, wobei wie schon in der zuvor verfassten Schrift Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie das widersprüchliche Verhältnis von politischem Staat und bürgerlicher Gesellschaft, wie dessen Lösung, zentral für die Argumentation ist. Einleitend stellt Marx Bruno Bauers Lösung der Judenfrage dar. Nach Marx fasse Bauer die Judenfrage auf als...
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A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.
What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations' answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies" Moulie Vidas is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University.
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized...
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A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past
As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating.
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