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Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997)

Menorah Review

The Jewish Image in American Fiction -- An Endless Journey? -- A Summer's Game -- The Exilic Home of Jewish Literature -- Book Listing -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997)

Menorah Review

An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book Briefings

Sigmund Freud's Passover Dream Responds To Theodor Herzl's Zionist Dream, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Menorah Review (No. 38, Fall, 1996)

Menorah Review

Jews and the New Christian Right -- A Time To Kill and a Time to Heal -- The Wisdom Tradition -- Among the Saints -- Full Circle -- Teaching Civics and Culture -- What Is a Community? -- From Israel with Love -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 37, Spring/Summer, 1996)

Menorah Review

What Do You Say That I Am? -- Taking the Plunge -- Freudian Identity -- Poetic Faith -- The First Arab-Israeli Talks: An Anti-Zionist's Perspective -- Love and Death in the Jewish Exegetical Tradition -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 36, Winter, 1996)

Menorah Review

Surviving the Twentieth Century -- On Jewish Art: "Wherefore Art Thou?" -- Leah -- The Message of Kohelet -- Holocaust Texts: A "Newer Testament" -- Jewish Women and Jewish Writers -- Places -- Book Briefings

The Presence Of The Covenant Motif In Amos 1:2-2:16, Reinaldo W. Siqueira

Dissertations

The presence and use of the OT covenant(s) in the book of Amos has been a highly debated issue for the last century among OT scholars. The dissertation attempts to address this issue through an exegetical study of the "Oracles Against the Nations" of Amos 1:2-2:16. This pericope of Amos was chosen because it has played a central role in the argumentation that denies the existence of any notion of covenant in the book.

Chapter 1 introduces the controversy that surrounds the issue of the presence or absence of covenant in Amos, while chapter 2 surveys the scholarly debate and …

Menorah Review (No. 33, Winter, 1995)

Menorah Review

Current Feminist Critiques -- Ideological Passion -- The Voices of Silent Dialogues -- The Covenantal Relationship: Ethical Implications -- The Perennial Shylock -- Talmud -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 34, Spring, 1995)

Menorah Review

A "Between" Between Martin Buber's I and Thou? -- The Philistines: Not So Philistine? -- On Jews and Gentiles in Antiquity -- A Mosaic of War Philosophies -- Redemption-Pesach, 1985 -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995)

Menorah Review

Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet? -- Sparks of Light -- Jewish-Americans and American Sports: Memory, Identity and Assimilation -- How to Develop the Moral Personality -- Political and the Nationalist Judaism -- Litigation -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 30, Winter, 1994)

Menorah Review

Louis D. Brandeis and the Empowering of American Jewery (Part 2 of 2) -- Christian Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust (Part 2 of 2) -- The "Why" of Creation -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 32, Fall, 1994)

Menorah Review

A Jewish View of Christianity: Recognition Without Surrender -- The Evolving Jewish West -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Confessions of a Conservative Scholar -- Biblical Perspectives on the Human Quest -- Psalm -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 31, Spring, 1994)

Menorah Review

A Noble Past? -- Freud Frenzy... -- Fictive Relations in Fiction -- Another Trip -- Dilemmas of an American Jewish Journalist -- Rock of Ages -- Book Briefings

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.

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.

Menorah Review (No. 29, Fall, 1993)

Menorah Review

Louis D. Brandeis and the Empowering of American Jewery (Part 1 of 2) -- Christian Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust (Part 1 of 2) -- The Enigma of Mass Death -- The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith: Critical Investigation and Confession in the Classroom -- Balancing -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 27, Winter, 1993)

Menorah Review

Transcending Tolerance -- In the Lifeboat Together: American Protestants and Jews -- Great Jewish Thinkers -- Beyond Words -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 28, Spring, 1993)

Menorah Review

Counterpart Communities -- Peace and Existenz -- The Meaning is in the Meeting -- Judenthum As the Quintessential Other -- Focusing -- Book Briefings

The Life And Work Of S.M. Dubnov: Disapora Nationalism And Jewish History, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Sophie Dubnov-Erligh's work The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History. Translated by Judith Vowles, and edited by Jeffrey Shandler.

Hebrew Poetry Written With A Gothic Script, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Else Lasker-Schueler's work A Study in German-Jewish Literature.

Menorah Review (No. 25, Spring, 1992)

Menorah Review

The Influence of Russian Emigres on American Policy Toward Russia and the USSR, 1900-1933, With Observations on Analogous Developments in Great Britain (Part 2 of 2) -- Christian Theological Anti-Semitism: Jewish Values Turned Upside-Down -- Faith Saving -- Letter to the Editor -- Kindling -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 26, Fall, 1992)

Menorah Review

Evangelicals and Jews: The Odd Couple's Partnership -- Psalm -- Il Duce and Der Fuhrer -- From Peor's Heights to Crown Heights: The Continuity of Anti-Semitism -- Talmud -- Americanism and Judaism -- Saving Face -- Balancing -- Book Briefings

A Daughter Of The Mother Tongue, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Irena Klepfisz works, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New, and Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes

Menorah Review (No. 21, Winter, 1991)

Menorah Review

Van Gogh: A Case History in Religion and Art -- Book Briefings -- Lesson From the Holocaust -- Evil Is Alive and Well -- Religion and State: The Israel Model -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 22, Spring, 1991)

Menorah Review

The Christian-Jewish Encounter -- Hooked on Academic Freedom and Integrity -- Genesis and Semiosis: Structural Reading of a Biblical Book -- Book Briefings

Menorah Review (No. 23, Fall, 1991)

Menorah Review

Acts of Faith and Compassion: Some Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust -- Jewish Mysticism, Mystical Cosmology and Mystical Experience -- Schvere un zein a Yid -- Arguing With God in the Age of Dilemma -- New Insights Into an Ancient People -- Book Briefings

The Father Of Modern Yiddish Literature, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Ruth R. Wisse's works, I.L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, and The I.L. Peretz Reader.

The Future Of Jewish Monuments, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber

Religion - All Scholarship

Exhibition essay from first exhibition focused on the documentation, protection and preservation of Jewish monuments and historic sites. The exhibition opened in conjunction with the international conference "The Future of Jewish Monuments," organized by the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund. The exhibition focused on the needs of historic sites in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the united States and elsewhere, and made the case for international support.

Forgetting Jerusalem, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Book review on Clive Sinclair's Cosmetic Effects.

Taking The Mother Tongue To Task, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Benjamin Harshav's work The Meaning of Yiddish.