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A Cultural History Of Jews In California, William F. Deverell

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

The aim of this collection of essays is to stress the cultural aspects of the Jewish experience of coming to, and living in, the Golden State. The contributors explore how the Jews who settled in California helped shape the state's culture and were, in turn, molded by cultural influences that were uniquely Californian. While this volume looks at the Jewish experience in California in general, particular emphasis is placed on Southern California where the Casden Institute, originators of The Jewish Role in American Life series of annual reviews, is based. The collection presents choice snapshots of how life developed and …

Elementary Hebrew I, Howard Ervin, Cheryl Iverson, Marlene Mankins

College of Theology and Ministry Faculty Research and Scholarship

It is the object of this course to provide the student with a basic knowledge of classical Hebrew. It is a practical concern of the instruction to provide the fundamental skills to enable the student to read and interpret the Hebrew text of the Old Testament for teaching and sermonic purposes.

The Social Dimensions Of Fiction: On The Rhetoric And Function Of Prefacing Novels In The Nineteenth-Century Canadas, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 188 pages, bibliography, index. Data and analyses of nineteenth-century English- and French-Canadian prefaces to novels with theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of rhetoric, the sociology of literature, audience research, and genre studies. Copyright of the book was released to Tötösy de Zepetnek by Westdeutscher Verlag in 2003.

Resurrection And Judgment, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 15, 2009: Dn 12:1-3; Ps 146; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Resurrection And Judgment, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 15, 2009: Dn 12:1-3; Ps 146; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32.This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Final Perseverance And A Life Of Service, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for All Saints Day, November 1, 2009: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Final Perseverance And A Life Of Service, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for All Saints Day, November 1, 2009: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Gift Of Sight And Insight Through Faith, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 25, 2009: Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Gift Of Sight And Insight Through Faith, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 25, 2009: Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, 2009: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-16; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Education For Success Or Happiness, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, 2009: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-16; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Biblical Vision Of Marriage, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 4, 2009: Gn 2:18-24; Ps 128; Heb 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Biblical Vision Of Marriage, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 4, 2009: Gn 2:18-24; Ps 128; Heb 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

True Leaders Foster The Dignity Of All, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 27, 2009: Nm 11:25-29; Ps 19:8-14; Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-48.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

True Leaders Foster The Dignity Of All, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 27, 2009: Nm 11:25-29; Ps 19:8-14; Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-48. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Fidelity In The Midst Of Conflict, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 20, 2009: Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Fidelity In The Midst Of Conflict, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 20, 2009: Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Challenging Vocation Of Teacher, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 13, 2009: Isa 50:4-9; Ps 116; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

The Challenging Vocation Of Teacher, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 13, 2009: Isa 50:4-9; Ps 116; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Placed At God's Service, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

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

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 6, 2009: Is 35:4-7; Ps 146:7-10; James 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37.
This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Placed At God's Service, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 6, 2009: Is 35:4-7; Ps 146:7-10; James 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.

Broadsheet Of Koheles Shlomo: Beney Israel Rahmanim Vegomley Hasadim (1738), Shalhevet Dotan-Ofir

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This is a translation of a 1738 Broadsheet of Koheles Shlomo "Beney Israel rahmanim vegomley hasadim"

The Hebrew Library Of A Renaissance Humanist: The Bibliography To Andreas Masius' Edition Of The Book Of Joshua (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1574), Theodor Dunkelgrün

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Andreas Masius' 1574 polyglot edition of the book of Joshua with copious annotations and commentaries is a monument of Renaissance biblical scholarship. In an appendix - the text presented here - Masius recorded the Hebrew and Aramaic books he consulted in preparing his edition. In spite of the brevity of its descriptions, this bibliography has much to tell us about Christian readership of the Hebrew book in the 16th century. It reveals the depth, breadth, and sophistication of Masius' grasp of Jewish literature. It is a snapshot of his own library, but at the same time also a panorama of …

Sefer Or Le-Et Erev: A History Of A Misunderstanding, Pawel Maciejko

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This presentation explores the boundaries of the concept of the ‘Jewish book’ on the basis of Yiddish and Hebrew texts distributed by Protestant missionaries among the Jews in 18th-century East Central Europe. Such texts were not always recognised as Christian by their Jewish readers. The case in point is the brochure Or le-Et Erev circulated by the Halle Pietists. The Yiddish text does not give the name of the author or the place of publication; it does not refer explicitly to Jesus’s identity with the Jewish Messiah until the final pages; and it bases much of its argument on Jewish …

Early Modern Yiddish Readers: Immoderately Addicted To Rhyme?, Ruth Von Bernuth

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Roughly one third of Old Yiddish literature is based on traceable European literary sources, mainly German. Given how close Old Yiddish is to Early New High German, some of these Old Yiddish texts with European sources feel like mere transcriptions, others more like legitimate translations and yet others more like free adaptations. From the Yiddish reader's perspective, the texts become accessible through transcription into Hebrew characters and more accessible the more that the translator engages the text as representative Jewish reader. A large proportion of these Yiddish books with German sources are prose novels–a genre newly popular with German readers …

From Apologetics To Polemics: Isaac Orobio De Castro’S Defences Of Judaism And Their Use In The French Enlightenment, Adam Sutcliffe

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This presentation explores the use by non-Jews in eighteenth-century France of controversialist works written primarily for manuscript circulation within the seventeenth-century Sephardic communities of the Netherlands. In response to sustained theological doubts regarding Judaism posed by Sephardim deeply conditioned by having lived as outward Catholics in the Iberian peninsula, several community leaders in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, such as the doctor and controversialist Isaac Orobio de Castro (c.1617-1687), authored trenchant attacks on Christian doctrine, in particular emphasizing the enduring validity of Jewish law and the superiority of Jewish biblical exegesis. French translations of some of these texts - which circulated in Paris …

The Power Of Texts In The Conversion Of An Old Christian Hebraist, Miriam Bodian

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Lope de Vera y Alarcón was an Old Christian Hebraist at the University of Salamanca in the late 1630s. In his professional training, he had access to texts that few people in Spain were permitted to see. His subversive reading of Erasmus and the Hebrew diary of David Reuveni, among other works, were not the only factors in his becoming a "judaizer," but by his own account they were of great importance. The texts I will present are excerpts from his Inquisition trial (1639-1644).

This presentation is for the following text(s):

• Inquisition file of Lope de Vera y Alarcón (1639-1644)

Jews Under Surveillance: Censorship And Reading In Early Modern Italy, Federica Francesconi

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This talk explores how Counter-Reformation’s dynamics affected the readings of Italian Jews, after the political changes of the 1550s and the promulgation of the Index by Clement VIII in 1596 (with the ban of the Talmud). Dealing with censorship, expurgation and banning of books, in fact, Italian Jews found themselves caught up between the intricate and often conflicting positions between the Congregation of the Index and the Office of the Inquisition. Based on the analysis of both Inquisitorial sources (proceedings, guidelines and censors’ reports) and biographical accounts, I will explore how rabbis and converts, who worked as appointed censors for …

Putting Hebrew Books In Order: The First Printed Hebrew Bibliography, Avri Bar-Levav

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Siftey yeshenim (The lips of those who are asleep, Amsterdam 1680) is the first printed Hebrew bibliography. In his introduction,the author, Shabtai Meshorer Bas of Prague (1641-1718), explains why such a novel book is needed, and what are its usages for Heberw readers and writers with various interests.

This presentation is for the following text(s):

• Siftey yeshenim (The lips of those who are asleep, Amsterdam 1680)

The Paratexts Of Jacob Marcaria: Addressing The (Imagined) Reader In Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy, Adam Shear

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

For a few years in the middle of the sixteenth century (1557-1564), a Hebrew press was active in Riva del Garda (Riva di Trento) under the management of Jacob Marcaria, a physician. The business arrangements of the press seem complicated and difficult to reconstruct (having only the evidence of the printed editions): Marcaria was printer for most of the books and may be considered the publisher of some; for others, he was in partnership with Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi of nearby Cremona. The activities of Marcaria and Ottolenghi were undertaken with the permission of the Prince-Bishop of Trent, Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo …