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Full-Text Articles in Jewish Studies
On Saints, Sinners, And Sex In The Apocalypse Of Saint John And The Sefer Zerubbabel, Natalie Latteri
On Saints, Sinners, And Sex In The Apocalypse Of Saint John And The Sefer Zerubbabel, Natalie Latteri
Theology & Religious Studies
The Apocalypse of St. John and the Sefer Zerubbabel [a.k.a Apocalypse of Zerubbabel] are among the most popular apocalypses of the Common Era. While the Johannine Apocalypse was written by a first-century Jewish-Christian author and would later be refracted through a decidedly Christian lens, and the Sefer Zerubbabel was probably composed by a seventh-century Jewish author for a predominantly Jewish audience, the two share much in the way of plot, narrative motifs, and archetypal characters. An examination of these commonalities and, in particular, how they intersect with gender and sexuality, suggests that these texts also may have functioned similarly as …
December 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
December 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Chanukah Party; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices
Eleff On Katz, 'Bringing Zion Home: Israel In American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967', Zev Eleff
Eleff On Katz, 'Bringing Zion Home: Israel In American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967', Zev Eleff
Hebrew Theological College Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
October 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
October 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices
September 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
September 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Selichot Service; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Women of Achievement Award; Community Notices
Emotions And Business In A Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Household, Francesca Bregoli
Emotions And Business In A Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Household, Francesca Bregoli
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
These five excerpts come from two letter books that belonged to Joseph Franchetti (ca. 1720-ca. 1794), a successful Jewish merchant of Mantuan origins based in Tunis. At the time of the correspondence (1776-1790), Franchetti was a chief partner in the Salomone Enriches & Joseph Franchetti Company, a family-based trading firm with interests in Tunis, Livorno, and Smyrna. In the 1770s and 1780s, the core of Franchetti’s business was the sale of Tunisian chechias. These hats, made in Tunis with European wool acquired from Livorno, were highly sought after in the Ottoman Empire, with Smyrna serving as key distribution …
Fear In The Archive: Police Dossiers And The History Of Emotions In Old Regime France, Jeffrey Freedman
Fear In The Archive: Police Dossiers And The History Of Emotions In Old Regime France, Jeffrey Freedman
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The following document is a police dossier drawn from the Y series of the Archives Nationales. Compiled by a neighborhood commissioner named Louis- Pierre Regnard, the dossier contains testimony pertaining to the case of François Fromard, a journeyman quarry worker who hanged himself in his apartment in a working-class neighborhood of Paris on 29 May 1750. According to the testimony of his wife and neighbors, Fromard saw police agents everywhere and, before taking his own life, had become convinced that he was going to be arrested and imprisoned. No one, however, gave any indication that the police were really pursuing …
The Quality Of Mercy Strained--Regret And Repentance In Early Modern Law, David Myers
The Quality Of Mercy Strained--Regret And Repentance In Early Modern Law, David Myers
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The following texts come from a trial of Catherine Mundt, tried in 1693, for infanticide, and interrogated under torture. The records are preserved in the Stadt Archiv Braunschweig.
“For We Jews Are Merciful”: Emotions And Communal Identity, Elisheva Carlebach
“For We Jews Are Merciful”: Emotions And Communal Identity, Elisheva Carlebach
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Assigning character traits to national groups was a key pastime in the early modern period, part of a process of consolidation of European national identities. This presentation examines the way emotional characteristics were assigned to emerging national groups. In particular, it focuses on the way in which Jewish communal sources employed language and terms of emotion to characterize Jewish communities. Internally the language often functioned to call notice to an ideal that the community was failing to live up to.
The following texts are excerpts from Jewish communal records, as noted for each excerpt
A Short History Of Horror: Early Modern Jews And Their Monsters, Iris Idelson-Shein
A Short History Of Horror: Early Modern Jews And Their Monsters, Iris Idelson-Shein
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The following sources offer a short survey of one particularly troubling source of fear—and indeed horror—in the early modern period, namely—the womb. A mysterious, uniquely feminine organ, for centuries the womb has been the stuff of fantasies and nightmares. It has been imagined at one and the same time as a haven and a hell, a nest and a tomb, a source of pleasure and pain, life and illness.
The following excerpts come from different genres, spaces, and languages. The first two excerpts are taken from two medical compendiums written around the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The …
For The Love Of God: Spiritual Purpose And Mastering Emotions In The Pietistic Writings Of Moses Hayim Luzzatt, David Sclar
For The Love Of God: Spiritual Purpose And Mastering Emotions In The Pietistic Writings Of Moses Hayim Luzzatt, David Sclar
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
During the early modern period, Jews lived with an assumed religious tenet to love their God. Biblical texts, including verses used in the liturgical Shema, explicitly commanded believers to wholly and actively do so. In the twelfth century, Maimonides had described a love of God driven by rational adoration of the Torah (and God’s works), which, appropriately realized, would result in a sense of intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Early modern kabbalists took the notion further by desiring to commune with the living God (devekut), channeling all of their faculties, including emotions, towards the spiritual. Both conceptions idealized love …
Rebbe Nachman Of Bratslav's Teachings On Melancholy And Joy, Lawrence Fine
Rebbe Nachman Of Bratslav's Teachings On Melancholy And Joy, Lawrence Fine
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The several texts presented here are from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810), great-grandson of the Ba’al Shem Tov, and one of the very most significant figures in the history of early Hasidism. They are from part two (tinyana) of Nachman’s most important published collection of teachings, Liqqutei Moharan. These passages each address the subject of melancholy—marah shechora in Nahman’s language--as well as its antidote, joy, simchah. While the avoidance of sadness, and the cultivation of joy, are common motifs in classical Hasidism, Rebbe Nachman’s discussion of them deserves special attention in any …
Emotions In The Margins: Reading Toledot Yeshu After The Affective Turn, Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Emotions In The Margins: Reading Toledot Yeshu After The Affective Turn, Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
In 826 C.E., Agobard, bishop of Lyon, published a treatise entitled De Judaicis superstitionibus, detailing and ridiculing the ‘superstitions’ of the Jews. The details Agobard recounts make clear that the bishop is referring to a medieval Jewish parody of the story of Jesus’ life, known as Toledot Yeshu (Life of Jesus), composed in Aramaic sometime before the second half of the eighth century and later translated into Hebrew. Toledot Yeshu tells the story of Jesus’ life in a biting, vulgar tone. It was a text composed and used by Jews as an anti-Christian polemic, and as an internal document …
Emotions And Preaching, Sara Lipton
Emotions And Preaching, Sara Lipton
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Jacques de Vitry (b. ca. 1160, d. 1240) was one of the most famous preachers of the high Middle Ages. Born in northern France, he studied at the University of Paris, and in 1210 became a canon regular in the diocese of Liège. Jacques’s most popular collection, the Sermones vulgares vel ad status, contains sermons recorded in Latin but designed to be preached in the vulgar tongue to laypeople, and arranged according the social class and profession of the audience. The sermon transcribed and translated here appears in Jacques’s less popular collection—the Sermones dominicales et festivales. Less popular, because the …
Emw 2016: History Of Emotions/Emotions In History, Fordham University
Emw 2016: History Of Emotions/Emotions In History, Fordham University
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The 2016 Early Modern Workshop on “History of Emotions/Emotions in History” was held at Fordham University.
Alongside earlier “turns” such as the linguistic and the cultural, an “emotional turn” has provided historians with a fresh perspective to consider the past. Emotion structures human experience. But emotions are shaped by languages of expression that can have ramifications for human thought and behavior. Historians pursuing research about emotions tend to follow one of two tacks: either to explore emotions as an object of inquiry in its own right (did people in the past “feel” differently than we do today?) or to use …
August 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
August 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Kiddush Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; L-A Jewish Federation; A Bissel of Maine; Community Notices
July 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
July 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Maine-ly Jewish Storytelling Festival; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices
Jud Ms 07 Casco Bay Tummlers Finding Aid, Natalie Hill
Jud Ms 07 Casco Bay Tummlers Finding Aid, Natalie Hill
Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)
Provenance: The Casco Bay Tummlers Archives represent materials related to the organization Casco Bay Tummlers from 1989-2008. The Archives was donated by Julie Goell of Peaks Island, ME in 2009.
Ownership and Literary Rights: The Casco Bay Tummlers Archives is the physical property of the University of Southern Maine Libraries. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the creator or her/his legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Head of Special Collections susie.bock@maine.edu.
Restrictions on access: Some materials are restricted until the year 2076.
June 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
June 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Shavout; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Communit Notices
May 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
May 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Lag B'Omer, From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices
April 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
April 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Community Passover Seder; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices
March 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
March 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Purim Celebration; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Bissel of Maine; Community Notices
February 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
February 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Touched by Water Screening; From the Rabbi; Announcements; President's Message; Community Notices; Book Group; Hiram Bingham Postage Stamp
Arnold Michael Shankman Papers - Accession 259, Arnold Michael Shankman
Arnold Michael Shankman Papers - Accession 259, Arnold Michael Shankman
Manuscript Collection
The Arnold Shankman Papers are a treasure trove of historical research in a variety of areas. Within the American Civil War era, Shankman had extensively researched the “copperhead” movement of northern opposition to the war and was an expert on one of its leading members, Clement Vallandigham. Pursuing his interest in ethnic history, Dr. Shankman was a pioneer in the study of how ethnic and immigrant groups viewed each other. For example, he was one of the first to use early African-American newspapers to determine the views of blacks toward Italian immigrants and other groups. Shankman also was singularly instrumental …
January 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
January 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: The Mystical Aspects of Tu B’Shavat; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices
The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner
The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner
Ulrich L. Lehner
No abstract provided.