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Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy 2020 Touro College

Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

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Reviewed by:

  • David B. Levy

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to ModernityEdited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xiv + 269 pp.

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in monsters and the monstrous, but none from the perspective of Jewish studies except for some of the work of David Ruderman, who in a number of pioneering articles in the 1970s and 1980s analyzed early modern Jewish representations of conjoined twins, unicorns, and child …


Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy 2020 Touro College

Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

Bibliography prepared for a permanent exhibit at Museo Castello Aragonese, Piazza Castello - 89125 Reggio Di Calabria (RC) Italy

Citation for exhibit: Penchassi Debora (Scrittrice e ricercatrice storia Ebraica Italiana). Esibizione permanente della copia anastatica “Il Commentario di Rashi al Pentateuco” Il primo libro ebraico datato, stampato in Reggio di Calabria in 1475. Lo stampatore Abraham ben Garton, il commentatore Rabbi Shlomo YItzhaki, De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo ebraista e bibliografo.


Unfit To Parent: American And Jewish Legal Perspectives, Michoel Zylberman, Karen K. Greenberg, Daniel Pollack 2020 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Unfit To Parent: American And Jewish Legal Perspectives, Michoel Zylberman, Karen K. Greenberg, Daniel Pollack

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Spiritual Exploration: Gender, Human Frailty And Interfaith Realities, Elizabeth Iobst 2020 Ursinus College

Spiritual Exploration: Gender, Human Frailty And Interfaith Realities, Elizabeth Iobst

Charles Rice Post-Graduate Research Fellowship

This collection of essays details personal experiences, religious beliefs, gender roles and interviews conducted during a research fellowship in England and Israel.


Book Review Essay: Jewish And American Law: A Comparative Study. (Vols. 1 And 2) By Samuel J. Levine, Marie A. Failinger 2020 Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Book Review Essay: Jewish And American Law: A Comparative Study. (Vols. 1 And 2) By Samuel J. Levine, Marie A. Failinger

Touro Law Review

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Reflections On Jewish And American Disability Law And On The God Who Makes All Things Good, Randy Lee 2020 Commonwealth Law School, Widener University

Reflections On Jewish And American Disability Law And On The God Who Makes All Things Good, Randy Lee

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


January 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center 2020 University of Southern Maine

January 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Shabbat Together; From the Rabbi; President's Message; MLK Day; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


Applying Maimonides’ Hilkhot Teshuvah–Laws Of Repentance – In The Criminal Law System Of The State Of Israel: An Israeli Judge’S Perspectives, Moshe Drori 2020 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Applying Maimonides’ Hilkhot Teshuvah–Laws Of Repentance – In The Criminal Law System Of The State Of Israel: An Israeli Judge’S Perspectives, Moshe Drori

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legal Significance Of Custom In The Halakhic Jurisprudence Of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’S Arukh Hashulchan, Shlomo C. Pill, Michael J. Broyde 2020 Emory Law School

The Legal Significance Of Custom In The Halakhic Jurisprudence Of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’S Arukh Hashulchan, Shlomo C. Pill, Michael J. Broyde

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


"To Bloom In Empty Space": An Introduction And Commentary On The Petichta To Esther Rabbah, Ethan Nosanow Levin 2020 Macalester College

"To Bloom In Empty Space": An Introduction And Commentary On The Petichta To Esther Rabbah, Ethan Nosanow Levin

Religious Studies Honors Projects

The petichta to Esther Rabbah (c. 6th century CE) reflects a pessimistic rabbinic response to the physical and theological displacement of the Jews in an increasingly Christianized Roman Palestine. Using the covenantal curses (specifically Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26) as a frame, the rabbis situate the book of Esther and their current socio-political context into the rabbinic paradigm of the Four Kingdoms, representative of ongoing imperial oppression. According to Esther Rabbah, Jews living under Roman rule–even those in Palestine–are living in a state of “exile” characterized by the ongoing impact of the covenantal curses. For the rabbis, Israel cannot …


Jewish Lawyers And The U.S. Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?, Eli Wald 2020 University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jewish Lawyers And The U.S. Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?, Eli Wald

Touro Law Review

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After The Golem: Teaching Golems, Kabbalah, Exile, Imagination, And Technological Takeover., Temma F. Berg 2020 Gettysburg College

After The Golem: Teaching Golems, Kabbalah, Exile, Imagination, And Technological Takeover., Temma F. Berg

English Faculty Publications

The golem is an elusive creature. From a religious perspective it enacts spirit entering matter, a creation story of potential salvation crossed with reprehensible arrogance. As a historical narrative, the golem story becomes a tale of Jewish powerlessness and oppression, of pogroms and ghettoization, of assimilation and exile, and sometimes, of renewal. As the subject of a course in women, gender and sexuality studies, the golem narrative can be seen as a relentless questioning of otherness and identity and as a revelation of the complex intersectionalities of gender, class, sexuality, race, disability, and ethnicity. As a philosophical motif, the ambiguous …


“He Denieth None That Come Unto Him” The Mormon-Jewish Relationship During The Holocaust And World War Ii, Erica Lauren Shaw 2020 Eastern Kentucky University

“He Denieth None That Come Unto Him” The Mormon-Jewish Relationship During The Holocaust And World War Ii, Erica Lauren Shaw

Online Theses and Dissertations

The Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ stumbled into fruition and global recognition after decades of oppression and resistance from its contemporaries. Despite its rocky beginnings, the Church’s membership remained largely friendly to anyone who expressed interest in their gospel. Among those whom they shared a positive relationship with were the Jewish people. The research presented here explored the history of that relationship from its doctrinal significance to its greatest test: the Holocaust and World War II.


Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber 2020 Rochester Institute of Technology

Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, a great crossroads of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens …


The Residential Location Choices Of Chabad Households: An Analysis Of Decision Making With Non-Price Constraints, Chasity A. McFadden 2020 Colby College

The Residential Location Choices Of Chabad Households: An Analysis Of Decision Making With Non-Price Constraints, Chasity A. Mcfadden

Honors Theses

Where an individual chooses to live informs many of their economic decisions and may be the single largest economic decision one makes in their lives. Through understanding the way that people choose their residential locations, we are able to better understand the opportunities available to them. Within the Chabad community, there is a large focus on emissary work, which calls Chabad Jews to move outside of large Jewish communities in order to help secular Jews become more religious. There are also certain religious amenities that are necessary to live a Chabad life, such as a local synagogue. So the question …


"'In A Distant Unknown Country': A New Historicist Look At James Joyce’S “Eveline,” Argentina, And The Zwi Migdal In The Early 1900s.", M Laura Barberan Reinares 2020 CUNY Bronx Community College

"'In A Distant Unknown Country': A New Historicist Look At James Joyce’S “Eveline,” Argentina, And The Zwi Migdal In The Early 1900s.", M Laura Barberan Reinares

Publications and Research

This article analyzes James Joyce’s story “Eveline” (1904) looking at the moral panic about “white slavery” in Europe and the new continent, especially focusing on Argentina, the foremost recipient of trafficked women between 1880 and 1930 (and, of course, Joyce’s destination of choice for Eveline). It was precisely at the turn of the twentieth century that, along with the popularity of transatlantic migration, sex trafficking went fully global and news about international “dangers” for single white women reached the general public, provoking all kinds of repressive reactions through what became known as the “social purity” movement.


Is “Vital Motion” A Halakhic Concept?, Ira Bedzow, Noam Stadlan, John Loike 2020 New York Medical College

Is “Vital Motion” A Halakhic Concept?, Ira Bedzow, Noam Stadlan, John Loike

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Was Yosef On The Spectrum By Samuel J. Levine, Ian Hale, Ph.D. 2020 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Book Review: Was Yosef On The Spectrum By Samuel J. Levine, Ian Hale, Ph.D.

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The “Step-Child Of Scholarly Investigation”: Preliminary Observations About The Origins Of Academic Jewish Law Scholarship, David Hollander 2020 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

The “Step-Child Of Scholarly Investigation”: Preliminary Observations About The Origins Of Academic Jewish Law Scholarship, David Hollander

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review Essay: Invisibility, Inclusivity & Fraternity: Was Yosef On The Spectrum? Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash And Classical Jewish Sources (Samuel J. Levine, Urim Publications (2019)), Stephen A. Rosenbaum 2020 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Book Review Essay: Invisibility, Inclusivity & Fraternity: Was Yosef On The Spectrum? Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash And Classical Jewish Sources (Samuel J. Levine, Urim Publications (2019)), Stephen A. Rosenbaum

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


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