Ben-Ur, "The Absorption Of Outsiders: Gibraltarians And North Africans In London's Portuguese Jewish Community" (First Page Only).Pdf, 2017 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Ben-Ur, "The Absorption Of Outsiders: Gibraltarians And North Africans In London's Portuguese Jewish Community" (First Page Only).Pdf, Aviva Ben-Ur
Aviva Ben-Ur
No abstract provided.
100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (179), 2017 University of Massachusetts
100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (179), Keith L. Yoder
Keith L. Yoder
100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (180), 2017 University of Massachusetts
100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (180), Keith L. Yoder
Keith L. Yoder
Finding Lost & Found: Designer’S Notes From The Process Of Creating A Jewish Game For Learning, 2017 Rochester Institute of Technology
Finding Lost & Found: Designer’S Notes From The Process Of Creating A Jewish Game For Learning, Owen Gottlieb
Articles
This article provides context for and examines aspects of the design process of a game for learning. Lost & Found (2017a, 2017b) is a tabletop-to-mobile game series designed to teach medieval religious legal systems, beginning with Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (1180), a cornerstone work of Jewish legal rabbinic literature. Through design narratives, the article demonstrates the complex design decisions faced by the team as they balance the needs of player engagement with learning goals. In the process the designers confront challenges in developing winstates and in working with complex resource management. The article provides insight into the pathways the team …
Introduction: Jewish Gamevironments – Exploring Understanding With Playful Systems, 2017 Rochester Institute of Technology
Introduction: Jewish Gamevironments – Exploring Understanding With Playful Systems, Owen Gottlieb
Articles
The study of Judaism, Jewish civilizationi, and games is currently comprised of projects of a rather small set of game scholars. A sample of our work is included in this issue.
Tastes Of Faith: Jewish Eating In The United States, 2017 University of Southern California
Tastes Of Faith: Jewish Eating In The United States, Leah Hochman
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," wrote the 18th Century French politician and musician Jean Brillat-Savarin, giving expression to long held assumptions about the role of food, taste, and eating in the construction of cultural identities.
Foodways—the cultural, religious, social, economic, and political practices related to food consumption and production—unpack and reveal the meaning of what we eat, our tastes. They explain not just our flavor profiles, but our senses of refinement and judgment. They also reveal quite a bit about the history and culture of how food operates and performs in society. …
December 2017, 2017 University of Southern Maine
December 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Calendar 2017
Italy’S Jews From Emancipation To Fascism, 2017 Chapman University
Italy’S Jews From Emancipation To Fascism, Shira Klein
History Faculty Books and Book Chapters
How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II - during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture - led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. …
Gallaty's "The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow An Eastern Rabbi" (Book Review), 2017 Alaska Christian College
Gallaty's "The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow An Eastern Rabbi" (Book Review), Lindsay Hallam
The Christian Librarian
No abstract provided.
November 2017, 2017 University of Southern Maine
November 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Calendar 2017
Profile Interview With Pamela K. Sari, 2017 Purdue University
Profile Interview With Pamela K. Sari, Keslee Diiorio
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
Pamela K. Sari is a PhD candidate in American studies at Purdue University. She also is affi liated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program and the Anthropology Department. Her research, teaching, and engagement interests relate to how individuals and communities navigate issues of “home” and “belonging.” Her dissertation research examines a transnational connection between a Charismatic megachurch in central Java, Indonesia, and its American church partners, particularly Indonesian immigrant churches in southern California. Through her experience living in Indonesia and the United States where religious practices are prevalent, she is interested in the intersectionality between religion and …
Olam Ha-Zeh V’Olam Ha-Ba: This World And The World To Come In Jewish Belief And Practice, 2017 Creighton University
Olam Ha-Zeh V’Olam Ha-Ba: This World And The World To Come In Jewish Belief And Practice, Leonard Greenspoon
Studies in Jewish Civilization
Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where neither food nor wine would be consumed; instead, …
Entartete Kunst: The War Against Modern Art In The Third Reich, 2017 Bryant University
Entartete Kunst: The War Against Modern Art In The Third Reich, Zeynep Kazmaz
Honors Projects in History and Social Sciences
In July 1937, the Nazi Party exhibited a collection of modern artwork confiscated from museums throughout Germany. This display, entitled the “Degenerate Art Exhibition,” was organized to ridicule the artwork being presented. The events that led to such a breaking point had started forming around the early 20th century. In Germany, after the First World War, the blossoming of modern art had coincided with the forming of a racist ideology. Meanwhile, Hitler was also discovering his own racist views and dislike of modern art. An artist who delved into politics, Hitler integrated his artistic views into his political ideologies. Eventually, …
October 2017, 2017 University of Southern Maine
October 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Rabbi Darah Lerner Visits; Community Notices
Book Review: Representing Genocide: The Holocaust As Paradigm?, 2017 Holocaust Museum Houston
Book Review: Representing Genocide: The Holocaust As Paradigm?, Emily Sample
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Exodus As New Creation, Israel As Foundling: Stories In The History Of An Idea, 2017 Marquette University
Exodus As New Creation, Israel As Foundling: Stories In The History Of An Idea, Christopher Evangelos John Brenna
Dissertations (1934 -)
This study surveys the development of two literary phenomena in early Jewish and Christian tradition. The first is the birth story of a portentous child, exemplified by the birth stories of Moses, Noah, Melchizedek, and Jesus in biblical and Second Temple period literature. The second is the mythical expansion of the exodus tradition, which interprets the crossing of the Red Sea as a recreation of the people of Israel. I examine the appropriation of these two phenomena in the late antique Hellenistic story, Joseph and Aseneth. I contend that (1) the early Jewish birth story paradigm is influenced by the …
September 2017, 2017 University of Southern Maine
September 2017, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Shabbat in the Woods; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices
Music In Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity And The Negotiation Of Boundaries In Greater New York, 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Music In Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity And The Negotiation Of Boundaries In Greater New York, Gordon A. Dale
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation I seek to understand tensions regarding boundary maintenance, music, and cultural continuity among the contemporary Haredi (“Ultra-Orthodox”) Jewish community of Greater New York in the context of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity. While Bauman suggests that modernity has melted familiar institutions and created an unstable and rapidly shifting world, I argue that for Haredim, the non-liberal religious community and its cultural productions solidify social bonds. While many Haredi Jews strive to continue the musical practices of pre-WWII Europe, some Haredi musicians push or disregard the boundaries of accepted practice by experimenting with Western popular music …
Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility In Weimar Germany, 2017 Gettysburg College
Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility In Weimar Germany, Kerry Wallach
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. Being visible as a Jew often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity—and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish. Focusing on racial stereotypes, Kerry Wallach …
Text To Data: Wrangling Early Modern Sources Into A Spreadsheet, 2017 Fordham University
Text To Data: Wrangling Early Modern Sources Into A Spreadsheet, Shawn Hill
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Shawn Hill discusses how to turn historical sources into data. He provides tips for preparing a spreadsheet that can be used in digital humanities.