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A Century In The Life Of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye, Ken Frieden
A Century In The Life Of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye, Ken Frieden
Religion - All Scholarship
The thirtieth annual B. G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies was deliv -
ered by Professor Ken Frieden on 5 October 1993. His essay, "A Century
in the Life of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye," inaugurates the new
series of B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies. Founded in 1963 ,
well before the Association for Jewish Studies was established, this series
has included original work by many distinguished scholars.
An Interview With Spencer Klaw, Mary Beth Hinton
An Interview With Spencer Klaw, Mary Beth Hinton
The Courier
Mr. Klaw's recently published book, Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community,1 has provoked varying, but generally enthusiastic, responses jrom coast to coast. A few reviewers took him to task for failing to see Oneida leader,]ohn Humphrey Noyes, as the wicked tyrant that he was. Conversely, one reviewer chided him for judging Mr. Noyes too harshly. Since graduating from Harvard University in 1941, Mr. Klaw has been a writer and editor. His other books include The Great American Medicine Show (1975) and The New Brahmins: Scientific Life in America (1968). Between 1947 and 1952 he was a …
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable And Interminable., Ken Frieden
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable And Interminable., Ken Frieden
Religion - All Scholarship
Review of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's work Freud's Mosses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable.
"This Song" Conspicuous Poetry In Hebrew Prose, James W. Watts
"This Song" Conspicuous Poetry In Hebrew Prose, James W. Watts
Religion - All Scholarship
The Hebrew Bible contains many passages in which prose narrative surrounds conspicuous poetry. The various theoretical and practical difficulties in distinguishing Hebrew prose from verse in other texts do not negate this observation. Explicit genre labels often appear in both the prose frameworks and the beginnings of poems, telling readers that the genre and mode have changed. The interpretive problem then becomes, not whether this is verse, but why poetry appears precisely here. What does poetic expression accomplish that Hebrew prose narrative cannot or will not do?
Comparative study of conspicuous inset poetry suggests that Hebrew narratives use it to …