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The Jews Of Harlem, Dimitry Ekshtut Apr 2023

The Jews Of Harlem, Dimitry Ekshtut

Open Educational Resources

This is a syllabus for JWST 31919 - The Jews of Harlem, offered by the Jewish Studies Department at City College of New York. "The Jews of Harlem" is an interdisciplinary class focusing on the story of Jews in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York, their historic connection to the neighborhood (when it was the 3rd largest Jewish community in the world), and the flowering of new Jewish life in Harlem today.


Resisting Nazism Within Hitler’S Germany, Patricia M. Mische Mar 2023

Resisting Nazism Within Hitler’S Germany, Patricia M. Mische

The Journal of Social Encounters

No abstract provided.


All Men Are (Not) My Brothers: Andrea Cooper's Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Dustin Atlas Mar 2023

All Men Are (Not) My Brothers: Andrea Cooper's Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Dustin Atlas

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Jonathan L. Milevsky. Understanding The Evolving Meaning Of Reason In David Novak’S Natural Law Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 146 Pp., Samuel J. Kessler Mar 2023

Jonathan L. Milevsky. Understanding The Evolving Meaning Of Reason In David Novak’S Natural Law Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 146 Pp., Samuel J. Kessler

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


“Do Not Grieve Excessively”: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law And Narrative In Rabbinic Laws Of Mourning And Soloveitchik’S Halakhic Man, Shira Billet Mar 2023

“Do Not Grieve Excessively”: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law And Narrative In Rabbinic Laws Of Mourning And Soloveitchik’S Halakhic Man, Shira Billet

Journal of Textual Reasoning

In “‘Do not grieve excessively’: Rabbis Mourning Children Between Law and Narrative in Rabbinic Laws of Mourning and Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man,” Shira Billet highlights a rabbinic literary trope of rabbis who focus on performing commandments and teaching Torah upon losing a child and analyzes it in relation to a modern example of this trope found in Joseph Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man. Although such stories of diminished mourning for children have been understood negatively by modern readers as touchstones of a general Jewish ethos that prioritizes the observance of commandments over the love of children, this article offers a framework …


“If You Seek It Like Silver”: Illness And Poverty As Metaphors For Obligation In Israel Salanter, Sarah Zager Mar 2023

“If You Seek It Like Silver”: Illness And Poverty As Metaphors For Obligation In Israel Salanter, Sarah Zager

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This article analyzes the role of experiences of illness and poverty in the work of Israel Salanter (1810-1883). It argues that Salanter uses these two experiences, and the emotional responses that they engender, as paradigms for understanding the experience of being obligated to study, and then, change, one’s character. The article shows that obligation played a central role in Salanter’s thought, but that his account of obligation is articulated not against a newly-available form of modern autonomy, but instead, against forms of constraint created by poverty and illness.


“Heaviness Of The Head” And The Unbearable Lightness Of Rejoicing, Erez Degolan Mar 2023

“Heaviness Of The Head” And The Unbearable Lightness Of Rejoicing, Erez Degolan

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This essay draws on affect theory to read a pair of rabbinic terms: koved rosh, literally “heaviness of the head,” and its antonym, qalut rosh, or “lightness of the head.” The affective dimensions of these terms have often been overlooked. This essay argues, however, that they denote, for the rabbis, bodily experiences that epitomize contrasting emotional states, namely, mourning (koved rosh) and rejoicing (qalut rosh). The essay concludes with potential implications of the new understanding of the terms for the study of rabbinic prayer.


Introduction, Deborah Barer, Mark Randall James Mar 2023

Introduction, Deborah Barer, Mark Randall James

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Shame, Blindness, And The Face Of The Other: Emotions In And Out Of Rabbinic Legal Texts, Sarah Wolf Mar 2023

Shame, Blindness, And The Face Of The Other: Emotions In And Out Of Rabbinic Legal Texts, Sarah Wolf

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This article sheds light on the social nature of shame in rabbinic law in its analysis of the Babylonian Talmud’s discussions of legally actionable shame (boshet) and the emphasis therein on visual experience in defining both shame and legal obligation. The article highlights a connection within rabbinic thought between sightedness and what it means to be fully aware of and responsible for others. By exploring these interactions between sight, obligation, and emotion, this article reveals that the rabbinic understanding of vision is at the core of their conception of both the affective and legal dimensions of shame.


The Function Of Subjectivity In Textual Reasoning, Martin Kavka Mar 2023

The Function Of Subjectivity In Textual Reasoning, Martin Kavka

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Textual Reasoning As Social Performance: Meeting Over The Text, Jim Fodor Mar 2023

Textual Reasoning As Social Performance: Meeting Over The Text, Jim Fodor

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Responses To Cohen, Gibbs, And Ochs, Hyam Maccoby Mar 2023

Responses To Cohen, Gibbs, And Ochs, Hyam Maccoby

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Texts, Reason, And Homo Liber, Or What I Have Learned I’Ve Learned Through Textual Reasoning, Together, Michael Zank Mar 2023

Texts, Reason, And Homo Liber, Or What I Have Learned I’Ve Learned Through Textual Reasoning, Together, Michael Zank

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Fellowship, Recognition And/Or Death, Shalom Carmy Mar 2023

Fellowship, Recognition And/Or Death, Shalom Carmy

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Textual Reasoning, David Novak Mar 2023

Textual Reasoning, David Novak

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


A Response To Peter Ochs, Zachary Braiterman Mar 2023

A Response To Peter Ochs, Zachary Braiterman

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Before The Law: Reflections On Textual (Un)Reasoning, Elliot Wolfson Mar 2023

Before The Law: Reflections On Textual (Un)Reasoning, Elliot Wolfson

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


The Brokenness (And Sacrality) Of The Human Voice: A Response To Aryeh Cohen, Shaul Magid Mar 2023

The Brokenness (And Sacrality) Of The Human Voice: A Response To Aryeh Cohen, Shaul Magid

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


The Ground Of Textual Reasoning: A Response To Robert Gibbs, Randi Rashkover Mar 2023

The Ground Of Textual Reasoning: A Response To Robert Gibbs, Randi Rashkover

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Response To “Why Textual Reasoning?”, Leora Batnitzky Mar 2023

Response To “Why Textual Reasoning?”, Leora Batnitzky

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Behind The Mechitsa: Reflections On The Rules Of Textual Reasoning, Peter Ochs Mar 2023

Behind The Mechitsa: Reflections On The Rules Of Textual Reasoning, Peter Ochs

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Why Textual Reasoning?, Robert Gibbs Mar 2023

Why Textual Reasoning?, Robert Gibbs

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Why Textual Reasoning?, Aryeh Cohen Mar 2023

Why Textual Reasoning?, Aryeh Cohen

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Introducing The Journal Of Textual Reasoning: Rereading Judaism After Modernity, Steven Kepnes Mar 2023

Introducing The Journal Of Textual Reasoning: Rereading Judaism After Modernity, Steven Kepnes

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Between Belief And Wonder, Blaire French Mar 2023

Between Belief And Wonder, Blaire French

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


The Rest Is Jewish History: Using The Rabbinic View Of History As A Response To Blaire French’S D’Var Torah, Jonathan Milevsky Mar 2023

The Rest Is Jewish History: Using The Rabbinic View Of History As A Response To Blaire French’S D’Var Torah, Jonathan Milevsky

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Remembering With Advantages: Chronicles And The Hermeneutics Of Revision And Redaction, Ashleigh Elser Mar 2023

Remembering With Advantages: Chronicles And The Hermeneutics Of Revision And Redaction, Ashleigh Elser

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Total Textual Immersion: Considering Biblical Retellings In Exodus And Chronicles, Emily Filler Mar 2023

Total Textual Immersion: Considering Biblical Retellings In Exodus And Chronicles, Emily Filler

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


“The Cap’N Crunch Effect”: A Response To Blaire French’S Essay, Mark Leuchter Mar 2023

“The Cap’N Crunch Effect”: A Response To Blaire French’S Essay, Mark Leuchter

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.


“But Mordecai Bowed Not, Nor Did Him Reverence”: The Book Of Esther’S Challenge To ‘Secular’ And To ‘Religious’ Jewish Identities, Daniel H. Weiss Mar 2023

“But Mordecai Bowed Not, Nor Did Him Reverence”: The Book Of Esther’S Challenge To ‘Secular’ And To ‘Religious’ Jewish Identities, Daniel H. Weiss

Journal of Textual Reasoning

No abstract provided.