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Full-Text Articles in Jewish Studies
Tsen Brider: A Jewish Requiem, Joshua R. Jacobson
Tsen Brider: A Jewish Requiem, Joshua R. Jacobson
Joshua R. Jacobson
In 1939 a Jewish choral conductor imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp organized a clandestine choir. The choir and its conductor managed to rehearse and perform secretly for three years. Sensing that the end was near, in 1942 the ensemble was rehearsing its own "Jewish Requiem" when the deportation order arrived. Neither the conductor nor any of his singers survived, but the "Jewish Requiem" did survive. This article chronicles the origins and fate of this unique composition.
What Is Jewish Liturgical Music?, Joshua Jacobson
What Is Jewish Liturgical Music?, Joshua Jacobson
Joshua R. Jacobson
No abstract provided.
Jewish Women In Music, Joshua Jacobson
Arnold Schoenberg And Ahad Ha‘Am, Joshua R. Jacobson
Arnold Schoenberg And Ahad Ha‘Am, Joshua R. Jacobson
Joshua R. Jacobson
No abstract provided.
Jewish Music Versus Jewish Worship, Joshua Jacobson
Jewish Music Versus Jewish Worship, Joshua Jacobson
Joshua R. Jacobson
No abstract provided.
Ta'amey Hamikra: A Closer Look, Joshua R. Jacobson
Ta'amey Hamikra: A Closer Look, Joshua R. Jacobson
Joshua R. Jacobson
No abstract provided.
The Song Is Not The Same: Jews And American Popular Music, Josh Kun
The Song Is Not The Same: Jews And American Popular Music, Josh Kun
The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
There has been a long-standing relationship between Jewish Americans and the world of American popular music. The essays in this volume blend surveys of music making as a whole with profiles of single artists. This is volume 8 of the annual publication, The Jewish Role in American Life (ISSN 1934-7529), produced by the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life at the University of Southern California.
Contrafaction, Joshua R. Jacobson
Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, And The Jewish Virtue Of Humility, Robert Erlewine
Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, And The Jewish Virtue Of Humility, Robert Erlewine
Scholarship
This paper explores Hermann Cohen’s engagement with, and appropriation of, Maimonides to refute the common assumption that Cohen’s endeavor was to harmonize Judaism with Western culture. Exploring the changes of Cohen’s conception of humility from Ethik des reinen Willens to the Ethics of Maimonides and Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, this paper highlights the centrality of the collective Jewish mission to bear witness against the dominant order of Western civilization and philosophy in Cohen’s Jewish thought.
This article was published as part of a special issue of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, "Ancients and …
Review Of The Book Jewish Responses To Persecution, Vol. I: 1933-1938, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Jewish Responses To Persecution, Vol. I: 1933-1938, John A. Drobnicki
Publications and Research
Review of the book Jewish responses to persecution, Vol. I: 1933-1938.
Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, And The Jewish Virtue Of Humility, Robert Erlewine
Hermann Cohen, Maimonides, And The Jewish Virtue Of Humility, Robert Erlewine
Robert Erlewine
This paper explores Hermann Cohen’s engagement with, and appropriation of, Maimonides to refute the common assumption that Cohen’s endeavor was to harmonize Judaism with Western culture. Exploring the changes of Cohen’s conception of humility from Ethik des reinen Willens to the Ethics of Maimonides and Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, this paper highlights the centrality of the collective Jewish mission to bear witness against the dominant order of Western civilization and philosophy in Cohen’s Jewish thought. This article was published as part of a special issue of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, "Ancients and …
Rites Of Passage: How Today’S Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, And Commiserate, Leonard Greenspoon
Rites Of Passage: How Today’S Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, And Commiserate, Leonard Greenspoon
Studies in Jewish Civilization
Scholars tend to call them “rites of passage.” Most people prefer to speak of them as life-cycle events or milestones. Jews like to speak of simchas, when there is something (a birth, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or a wedding) to celebrate. These are key moments for individuals and for the families and communities of which they are a part.
This volume offers new insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible and as recent as the twenty-first century, in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism. It examines and frequently affirms some of the …
A Rabbi And Twelve-Hundred Missionaries Walk Into A Conference: Philo-Semitism And Anti-Semitism At Edinburgh, 1910, George Faithful
A Rabbi And Twelve-Hundred Missionaries Walk Into A Conference: Philo-Semitism And Anti-Semitism At Edinburgh, 1910, George Faithful
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Had a rabbi attended the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, that rabbi’s ambivalence may have been equaled only by that of the delegates. This presentation will demonstrate how the conference’s first commission report expressed both philo- and anti-Semitism, affirming the value of the world’s Jewish population while portraying it as a threat. This juxtaposition reveals the conference as ahead of its time, in some regards, and an event rooted in the values of its time, in others.
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Sobrevivientes Del Holocausto En Argentina: La Importancia De Sus Testimonios = Holocaust Survivors In Argentina: The Importance Of Their Testimonies, Jessica Michelle Katz
Sobrevivientes Del Holocausto En Argentina: La Importancia De Sus Testimonios = Holocaust Survivors In Argentina: The Importance Of Their Testimonies, Jessica Michelle Katz
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
After World War II ended and Nazi’s prisoners were released from concentration camps, labor camps, and ghettos, many refugees immigrated to Argentina, either to live with a relative who had emigrated before the war or because the language was similar, or because life was easier there, among other reasons. Today there are around 800 Holocaust survivors living in Argentina, 450 of them just in Buenos Aires. Despite the efforts of the testimonial project done by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Visual History Foundation to record oral histories of survivors around the world, including many in Argentina, there is still a …
Merchants And Rabbis - The Family Of Josko Of Lviv, Jerzy Mazur
Merchants And Rabbis - The Family Of Josko Of Lviv, Jerzy Mazur
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Josko of Lviv was one of the most important Jewish entrepreneurs in the late medieval Poland, specifically in the eastern provinces of Polish Kingdom, namely the voievodships of Russia and Lublin. Jossko engaged in the number of profitable commercial activities, but achieved real prominence as the leaseholder of royal customs in such important urban centers as Lviv, Lublin, Chelm and Belz. His successful service to Kazimierz Jagiellon, John Olbracht and Alexander Jagiellon became the point of contention during the session of Polish Diet in Lublin in 1505. In this year Polish parliament demanded that Josko would be removed from his …
A Spiritual Community In The Social World: Lurianic Notions Of Identity And Inter-Subjectivity Within The Community, Assaf Tamari
A Spiritual Community In The Social World: Lurianic Notions Of Identity And Inter-Subjectivity Within The Community, Assaf Tamari
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The importance of Lurianic Kabbalah to the context of early modern Jewish religiosity has been recognized almost unanimously. However, only in recent years scholars acknowledge its highly embodied nature, the specific historical community which lies at the heart of its religious interest, i.e. the Lurianic fellowship. The present presentation will discuss some of the radical notions of identity within the community developed in the writings of Lurianic Kabbalah. Based on its highly complex anthropological theory, and especially its theories of soul transmigration and soul interrelations, Lurianic Kabbalah sees individual action and identity as highly dependent upon the spiritual “soul community” …
Conjugal Disputes At The Jewish Court Of 18th Century Altona, Noa Shashar
Conjugal Disputes At The Jewish Court Of 18th Century Altona, Noa Shashar
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Disputes between married couples in 18th century were sometimes brought before the Jewish court ( the Beit-Din). Analysis of protocols of session which dealt with such disputes reveals facts about tensions caused by contemporary family structure and marriage customs as well as about the means which the court applied to enforce policy. The texts presented here are excerpts from one of the protocol books of the Jewish court of Altona. Altona, at the time subject to the Danish King, shared institutions with the neighboring Jewish communities in Hamburg and Wandsbeck, a union which produced several kinds of documents covering a …
Layered Networks: Functioning Across Communities, Shuki Ecker
Layered Networks: Functioning Across Communities, Shuki Ecker
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
A considerable part of Rabbi Abraham Joseph Canette s book includes autobiographical material. It sheds light on the life of an orphaned son who became a travelling rabbi. He describes the circumstances of his life in Safed, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Candia, Venice, Livorno, Algiers and Constantinople, and praises his benefactors and patrons in each. While much of his writing is stylized praise for these individuals, he also portrays his own personal life in great detail. His life story and the networks it reveals offer a view of individuals in communities and between communities. I intend to focus on several overlapping networks …
Communication And Community : Multiplex Networks In The 18th Century Sephardi Diaspora, Evelyne Oliel Grausz
Communication And Community : Multiplex Networks In The 18th Century Sephardi Diaspora, Evelyne Oliel Grausz
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
In many aspects, the Sephardi diaspora functioned as a combination of overlapping circulations and networks, its many levels of communication and interaction involving family ties, economic partnerships, and official intercommunal links. Whereas the question of intercommunal networks has recently attracted some topical studies, little attention has been paid to the articulation between these various levels of circulation and interaction. I propose to explore this idea of a multiplex diaspora through a selection of documents emanating from the Amsterdam and London Sephardic community, essentially letters, addressed to Bordeaux, Safed, Surinam and Ferrara : these documents describe several paradigmatic situations of interaction …
The Early Modern Jewish Parliament: The Council Of Four Lands In Poland, Adam Teller
The Early Modern Jewish Parliament: The Council Of Four Lands In Poland, Adam Teller
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
This presentation will examine the structure, functions, and internal tensions of the Council of Four Lands, based on a set of regulations drawn up in Polish by the Council at the request of the Treasury Commissioner, Dzialynski, in 1739. It will also attempt to examine the Council in its Polish and European contexts.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Regulations of the Jewish Council in Jaroslaw
The Price Of Power: Financing A Jewish Community, Cornelia Aust
The Price Of Power: Financing A Jewish Community, Cornelia Aust
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The communal pinkas (logbook) of the Jewish community in Frankfurt on the Oder from the second half of the eighteenth century provides a glimpse into the ways of the communal leaders – usually the wealthiest merchants of the community – to raise the increasing taxes and dues demanded by the Prussian state. It, thus, allows us to examine, first, the interrelation between economic position and social power within the Jewish community and what this power meant taking into account the limited degree of communal autonomy of Prussian Jews. Secondly, it helps us to explore the trans-regional networks Jewish merchants used …
Rabbinic Authority And Community In 18th Century Germany: Moses Brandeis Levi And The Jewish Community Of Mainz, Stefan Litt
Rabbinic Authority And Community In 18th Century Germany: Moses Brandeis Levi And The Jewish Community Of Mainz, Stefan Litt
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Moses Brandeis Levi (d. 1767) was one of the important rabbis of the early modern community in Mainz. Besides his local duties, he was also in charge for the rural communities in the territory of the archbishopric of Mainz. A number of sources indicate that his relations both to the local community and to the Gentile authorities were all but easy. In my presentation, I will introduce an unknown source from the records of the Jewish community in Mainz (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, D/Ma7/5, pp. 100-102). This Yiddish text is about a sharp dispute …
The Struggle To Transcend Differences And Conflicts Among Early American Jewry, Eli Faber
The Struggle To Transcend Differences And Conflicts Among Early American Jewry, Eli Faber
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Exploration of two contrary tendencies among colonial American Jews to achieve consensus within their religious fellowship. In one case, they relied upon European precedent by attempting to recreate the kehilla in America, while in the other they rejected European precedents that forbade commonality among Ashkenazim and Sepharadim. The outcome was a new kind of community: the voluntary one.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Minute Book of the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York (1730-1760)
Regulating Communal Space: Mikvaot In Seventeenth-Century Altona, Debra Kaplan
Regulating Communal Space: Mikvaot In Seventeenth-Century Altona, Debra Kaplan
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Over the course of a few years in the latter half of the seventeenth century, the community of Altona made several changes in the administration of local ritual baths. A series of entries in the communal pinkas, or logbook, elucidates how the community raised funds from mikvaot, how lay and rabbinic leaders worked together, and how communal leaders regulated ritual space both in homes and in communal space.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Pinkas/Communal Logbook of Altona (CAHJP AHW 14 [50])
- Pinkas/Communal Logbook of Altona (CAHJP AHW 14 [90])
- Pinkas/Communal Logbook of Altona (CAHJP AHW 14 [91])
Minhag And Migration: A Yiddish Custom Book From Venice, 1553, Lucia Raspe
Minhag And Migration: A Yiddish Custom Book From Venice, 1553, Lucia Raspe
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
This presentation focuses on a Yiddish book of customs written in Venice in the mid-sixteenth century, which describes synagogue and home observances over the course of the Jewish year. Comparing MS Oxford Can. Or. 12 to the fifteenth-century Hebrew custumal it is based on (MS Frankfurt hebr. oct. 227), the presentation will discuss the efforts of Ashkenazic émigrés to northern Italy trying to preserve their identity in the face of a Jewish world suddenly become complex.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Book of Customs (MS Frankfurt hebr. oct. 227)
- Book of Customs (MS Oxford Can. Or. 12)
Communities Developing In Association With Place: Testament Of Ginebra Blanis, 1574, Stefanie Siegmund
Communities Developing In Association With Place: Testament Of Ginebra Blanis, 1574, Stefanie Siegmund
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Recent attention to Jewish demography and to the spatial characteristics of Jewish residential patterns has demonstrated that in more than one region, Early Modern Jews were associated with each other more loosely, and less locally, than has previously been imagined. The "communities" to which Jews may have felt they belonged are difficult to know as they are likely to have varied with economic or social status, gender, age, and ethnic origin. The testament translated below is that of a merchant woman in the first years of the existence of the Florentine ghetto (founded 1571). The study of early modern bequests …
Jewish Community And Identity In The Early Modern Period, Emw 2010
Jewish Community And Identity In The Early Modern Period, Emw 2010
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The 7th Early Modern Workshop took place from August 15-17, 2010 at Wesleyan University. The topic was “Jewish Community and Identity in the Early Modern Period.”
The traditional approach to “Jewish community” has been focused on the formal communal structures of Jewish self-government. This approach often traced the presence of “autonomous” Jewish self-government in the diaspora from antiquity till the modern times, when, it was stressed, these “autonomous” structures were shattered by the interference of modern states in Jewish communal affairs.
Scholars discussed takkanot (decisions and regulations by Jewish community leaders), privileges granted to Jews, correspondence between Jews across different …
Short Piece On Moacyr Scliar, Stephen A. Sadow
Sadow List Of Publications And Course Work 2002/2003, Stephen A. Sadow
Sadow List Of Publications And Course Work 2002/2003, Stephen A. Sadow
Stephen Sadow
No abstract provided.
Saints In Sin City: Religion And Community Building In Twentieth Century Las Vegas, Matthew R. Davis
Saints In Sin City: Religion And Community Building In Twentieth Century Las Vegas, Matthew R. Davis
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Due to an absence of social and religious tradition, Las Vegas provided the perfect setting for Jewish and Mormon faiths to create communities closely linked to their own spiritual doctrine. This thesis traces the evolution of these groups from the turn of the twentieth-century to the present, focusing on issues such as education, geographic location, and business acumen as avenues for personal and spiritual growth. This thesis also considers the relatively small number of religious studies conducted in the American West, and serves as a possible example for future study by using an urban religious framework to synthesize the dearth …