“Two Jews Walk Into A Coffeehouse”: The “Jewish Question,” Utility, And Political Participation In Late Eighteenth-Century Livorno, 2010 CUNY Queens College
“Two Jews Walk Into A Coffeehouse”: The “Jewish Question,” Utility, And Political Participation In Late Eighteenth-Century Livorno, Francesca Bregoli
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Lechem Hara (Bad Bread), Lechem Tov (Good Bread): Survival And Sacrifice During The Holocaust, 2010 University of South Florida
Lechem Hara (Bad Bread), Lechem Tov (Good Bread): Survival And Sacrifice During The Holocaust, Carolyn S. Ellis
Carolyn Ellis
In Judaism, human nature is understood as existing on a spectrum between yetzer hara (evil inclination) and yetzer tov (good inclination). Jews struggle to suppress the yetzer hara and exercise the yetzer tov. Based on an oral history interview and co-created by a survivor of the Holocaust and a researcher, this story focuses on bread (lechem) and hunger in a Polish ghetto. The narrative encourages reflection about good and evil and about the tangled intermingling of the generosity of self-sacrifice and the instinctive drive for survival.
Christian-Jewish Relations: Theological Issues, 2010 Seton Hall University
Christian-Jewish Relations: Theological Issues, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.
Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.
The major disagreements between Jews and traditional Christians (i.e. those who accept the canon of the New Testament and the theological decisions of the first seven ecumenical Councils) focus on the mystery of God and the person of the Messiah. The antithetical approaches to the questions of three persons in one God and the person of the Messiah, believed by Christians to be Jesus of Nazareth, true God and true man, will not be set aside; however, clarification of the Catholic understanding regarding the Jewish stance can remove generalized accusations of blindness and/or malice. This article examine the key passages …
Polish Influence On American Synagogue Architecture, 2010 Syracuse University
Polish Influence On American Synagogue Architecture, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
Hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland came to America after 1880. Many built synagogues with details recalling synagogues in their homeland. Immigrant artisans brought motifs and methods of Poland. Many of these synagogues were small, so the relationship to Polish art was on the inside in the painted and carved decoration. Established architects also had access to Polish synagogues as sources. With publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-06) images of Polish synagogues, such as the Warsaw’s Tlomackie Street Synagogue, became part of many Jewish libraries. More Polish influence came in the 1950s. Most architects were building modern synagogues, …
Medieval Synagogues In The Mediterranean Region, 2010 Syracuse University
Medieval Synagogues In The Mediterranean Region, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
Throughout the Middle Ages, the synagogue developed as the central identifying institution and physical building for Jews, replacing the still yearned for but increasingly distant Jerusalem Temple as the focus of Jewish identity. Equally important, the synagogue became the symbol par excellance of the Jews and their community for the Christian (or Muslim) majority populations in the countries where Jews were settled. For Christians, the synagogue was a Jewish church, but much more so, it came to symbolize in opposition all that the church represented.
Though relatively little known today, medieval synagogues were not symbolic abstractions to the men and …
My Name And My Face, 2010 CUNY Graduate Center
Legalists, Visionaries, And New Names: Sectarianism And The Search For Apocalyptic Origins In Isaiah 56–66, 2010 George Fox University
Legalists, Visionaries, And New Names: Sectarianism And The Search For Apocalyptic Origins In Isaiah 56–66, Brian R. Doak
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
This essay re-examines the difficult questions concerning the origins of apocalyptic literature and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. Since the publication of O. Plöger’s Theokratie und Eschatologie and P. Hanson’s The Dawn of Apocalyptic, the search for proto-apocalyptic origins in early post-exilic period sectarian conflict has generated a fair amount of debate. The most cogent and sustained response to Hanson’s and Plöger’s theories, S. Cook’s Prophecy & Apocalypticism (1995), attempted to purge the influence of “deprivation theory” from the field of biblical studies, and, more broadly, social anthropology. The present essay makes a fresh study of some central lines of …
Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Sixth Bibliography, 2010 CUNY York College
Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Sixth Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki
Publications and Research
This bibliography is a supplement to five earlier ones that were published in the Bulletin of Bibliography. Holocaust denial is a body of literature that seeks to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen. This bibliography includes both works about Holocaust denial and works of Holocaust denial.
But Where Will They Build Their Nest? Liberalism And Communitarian Resistance In American Cinematic Portrayals Of Jewish-Gentile Romances, 2010 Wilfrid Laurier University
But Where Will They Build Their Nest? Liberalism And Communitarian Resistance In American Cinematic Portrayals Of Jewish-Gentile Romances, Holly A. Pearse
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation analyzes approximately fifty American films that feature predominantly heterosexual interfaith/intercultural romantic, sexual or marital relations between Jewish and Gentile protagonists. It asks what political or social ideals can be illustrated by these portrayals, and how these films can be taken cumulatively to explore trends in modern life. The author places liberalism at the heart of the mainstream Hollywood discourse on intermarriage, and shows how films that run counter to the expectations of liberal romances may reflect communitarian critiques of liberal tenets.
The issue of intermarriage is contextualized with a discussion of the endogamous tradition in Judaism, and by …
Interview No. 1639, 2010 University of Texas at El Paso
Interview No. 1639, Itzhak Kotkowski
Combined Interviews
Itzhak Kotkowski is an author that wrote about his experiences in the Holocaust during World War II; he was born in Warsaw, Poland on December 25, 1921; his family was Jewish, attended private school; Mr. Kotkowski addresses anti-Semitism among Polish people, personally never experienced it; he lived in the Jewish section, enjoyed life there until the German invasion on September 1, 1939; he recalls being at home when Warsaw was occupied, had always respected German culture; he explains his father worked hard to give them an education; he describes his three sisters, one was in Mexico, one immigrated to the …
The "Place" Of Rhetoric In Aggadic Midrash, 2010 Old Dominion University
The "Place" Of Rhetoric In Aggadic Midrash, David Metzger, Steven B. Katz
English Faculty Publications
An essay is presented on the examination of Aggadic midrash as a particular mode of Jewish rhetoric. It offers a discussion of the utility and merit of aggadah within rabbinic literature which require a cluster of analysis of a larger collection of imagery to identify the dominant themes. The author explores on how textualization is treated as steps in the establishment of discursive spaces, which is limited by scripture, tradition, or the authority of the rabbis.
The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets And Campus Politics, 2009 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets And Campus Politics, Olga Gershenson
Olga Gershenson, PhD
No abstract provided.
Hidamut Ba`Icurim Ha’Apiyim Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Assimilation In Nasal Consonants In Israeli Hebrew), 2009 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Hidamut Ba`Icurim Ha’Apiyim Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Assimilation In Nasal Consonants In Israeli Hebrew), Shmuel Bolozky
Shmuel Bolozky
No abstract provided.
Nitpa`El Vehitpa`El Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Nitpa`El And Hitpa`El In Israeli Hebrew.), 2009 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Nitpa`El Vehitpa`El Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Nitpa`El And Hitpa`El In Israeli Hebrew.), Shmuel Bolozky
Shmuel Bolozky
No abstract provided.
A Temple For All The Nations: Jewish-Christian Cooperation For The Construction Of The Third Temple, 2009 University of North Carolina at Pembroke
A Temple For All The Nations: Jewish-Christian Cooperation For The Construction Of The Third Temple, Motti Inbari
Motti Inbari Dr.
No abstract provided.
“Architecture Of Autonomy: The Blessing And Peace Synagogue Of Suriname”, 2009 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
“Architecture Of Autonomy: The Blessing And Peace Synagogue Of Suriname”, Aviva Ben-Ur, Rachel Frankel
Aviva Ben-Ur
No abstract provided.