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Spiritual Light In Time Of Crisis, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle A liturgical readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 26, 2014: Is 8:23-9:3; Ps 27; 1 Cor 1:10-17; Mt 4:12-23. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Baptism And Righteousness, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.

Cycle A liturgical readings for the Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2014: Is 42:1-9; Ps 29; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Baptism And Righteousness, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle A liturgical readings for the Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2014: Is 42:1-9; Ps 29; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Gifts And Their Responsible Use, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.

Cycle A liturgical readings for the Epiphany of the Lord, January 5, 2014: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72; Eph 3:2-6; Mt 2:1-12.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Gifts And Their Responsible Use, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle A liturgical readings for the Epiphany of the Lord, January 5, 2014: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72; Eph 3:2-6; Mt 2:1-12. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Dolmetscher, Spione Und Mörder: Südtiroler Im Sicherheitsdienst Des Reichsführers Ss In Italien 1943-45, Gerald Steinacher

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Bei Kriegsende 1945 blickte die Welt entsetzt auf das Ausmaß der NS-Verbrechen. Auf die Frage, wie konnte das geschehen und wer war verantwortlich für Völkermord und Krieg, verwies man meist auf eine kleine Clique (größen-) wahnsinniger Führer und ihre fanatische und mörderische SS-Gefolgschaft. Alle anderen - etwa die Angehörigen der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS - hatten mit den Verbrechen nichts zu tun, hieß es zumeist. Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich diese Sichtweise in Deutschland und Österreich deutlich geändert. Das jahrzehntelange Schweigen der deutschen Gesellschaft während des Kalten Krieges bezüglich der NS-Täter wurde durchbrochen. Ausstellungen wie "Verbrechen der Wehrmacht" und …

Jorge Luis Borges’S Poetic Response To The Arab-Israeli Six Day War, Stephen Silverstein

Hipertexto

At variance with the pro-Arab stance that most Latin American intellectuals assumed during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967), Jorge Luis Borges’s life-long connection to “lo hebreo,” as he called it, translated into “an immediate taking of sides” with Israel (“Autobiographical Essay” 257). As war erupted between Israel and its Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian neighbors, Borges expressed his felt kinship to the Jewish state in the poem “A ISRAEL.” In the war’s aftermath he penned a second poem, “ISRAEL.” Whereas the Jewish motifs that proliferate in Borges’s prose have been well studied, his poetry has received much less critical …

Holocaust Denial Literature Twenty Years Later: A Follow-Up Investigation Of Public Librarians' Attitudes Regarding Acquisition And Access, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

This study was undertaken to learn about public librarians' attitudes and opinions concerning the sometimes conflicting issues of intellectual freedom, collection balance, and controversial materials, and whether those attitudes and opinions have changed over twenty years. The investigation focused on Holocaust denial literature, a body of work which ranges from minimizing the Holocaust to outright denying that it happened. Public librarians in Nassau County, New York, were surveyed, and the results were compared with a similar survey from 1992. The results indicate that librarians are even more open to Holocaust denial literature than they were twenty years ago and, regardless …

Sexuality And Textuality (Fall 2014), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

"Sexuality and Textuality" serves as an introduction to gay and lesbian literary studies and queer theory. It looks at questions of sexuality and literature in ancient and early modern texts (from the Hebrew, Greek and English traditions), as well as in modern texts (from German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and English traditions). In addition to literary texts, students will work with a number of cinematic representations of queer sexuality. Besides these primary texts, students will work with important secondary literature about sexuality."

A photo of this Fall 2014 class was taken as part of Professor Bob Tobin's ongoing class photo tradition.

Book Review: The Most Tenacious Of Minorities: The Jews Of Italy, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy.

Film Review: The Rabbi's Daughter And The Midwife, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author presents a review of the film The Rabbi's Daughter and the Midwife.

Book Review: Maimonides: Life And Thought, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Maimonides: Life and Thought.

Front-Page Jews: Doris Wittner's (1880-1937) Berlin Feuilletons, Kerry Wallach

German Studies Faculty Publications

In ‘Die jüdische Frau und das jüdische Buch’ (The Jewish woman and the Jewish book), an article published 18 March 1931 on the front page of the Jüdisch-liberale Zeitung, Doris Wittner included the following lines that concisely sum up her pioneering ideological and political agendas: ‘Aber bis der endgültige Rechtspruch über des Weibes Ruf und Berufung erfolgt, werden wir jedem Frauengeist, der “strebend sich bemüht”, Anerkennung und Ehrerbietung zollen. […] Insbesondere unsere Glaubensgenossinnen, die gewohnt sind, Menschenlose nur nach Jahrtausenden zu messen.’ With such feuilleton articles, Wittner worked to validate women’s contributions to professional spheres, particularly literature and journalism; to …

The Kabbalah Of Forgiveness, Henry M. Abramson

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Books

The Kabbalah of Forgiveness is a translation of the first chapter of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s classic work Date Palm of Devorah (Tomer Devorah) with a commentary by Dr. Henry Abramson. Emerging from the 16th-century Safed Circle of Jewish mystics, this book earned a rare exception to the centuries-old ban on the study of Kabbalah by students under 40 because of its profound ethical value.

Creating Knowledge, Volume 7, 2014

Creating Knowledge

Dear Students, Faculty Colleagues and Friends, It is my great pleasure to introduce the seventh volume of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Creating Knowledge—our undergraduate student scholarship and research journal. First published in 2008, the journal is the outcome of an initiative to enhance and enrich the academic quality of the student experience within the college. Through this publication, the college seeks to encourage students to become actively engaged in creating scholarship and research and gives them a venue for the publication of their essays.

Beginning with the sixth volume of the journal, we instituted a major …

Printing, Fundraising, And Jewish Patronage In Eighteenth-Century Livorno, Francesca Bregoli

Publications and Research

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Grafting Onto `The Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity, Joan Blackwell Wedes

Wayne State University Dissertations

The dissertation examines how Jewish figures in early modern plays, prose, and poetry moved beyond the uncomplicated medieval image of murderous villain and towards a more reasoned consideration of the Jew's position in Christianity as well as in English life. While there has been significant scholarship on early modern representations of Jews, particularly in drama, these studies have not examined how Paul's Letter to the Romans, in forming much of Reformation doctrine, was also crucial in forming attitudes towards and representations of literary and living Jews. My project uniquely combines history, biblical studies, and literary analysis to reveal how early …

The Usefulness Of Genealogy Newsletters And Blogs, James Gross

James Gross

Discuss the usefulness of reading genealogy newsletters and blogs by genealogists. The genealogist can use these resources to help them improve and enhance their existing information seeking skills. These printed and virtual publications can help researchers by making them aware of potentially useful genealogical reference resources.

Advantages Of Joining A Genealogy Society, James Gross

James Gross

Discussion of the many advantages gained by joining a genealogy society. One can share and learn useful research tips by engaging with one's peers. Genealogy meetings can be a way to socialize and network with fellow genealogists. Genealogy newsletters and meetings can be good sources of research and reference information.

Dead Or Alive: Researching Israeli Relatives, James Gross

James Gross

Article discusses using Google Translate and Facebook as two tools to help in contacting known or possible relatives where the language barrier prevents communication. Examples are given where one or both of these resources were used to help the author, an English speaker, crossed the hebrew language barrier. Google Translate is referenced as a useful language translation tool.