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Lecture — Judaism, Christianity And Medieval Books, Miriamne Krummel, Bobbi Sutherland Apr 2015

Lecture — Judaism, Christianity And Medieval Books, Miriamne Krummel, Bobbi Sutherland

Bobbi Sutherland

Part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Rites. Rights. Writes. series and the Imprints and Impressions events, this lecture discusses the texts of Thomas Aquinas, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank and others. Presenters are Miriamne Ara Krummel, Associate Professor of English, and Bobbi Sutherland, Assistant Professor of History. (Event was held Nov. 4, 2014, in the Kennedy Union Torch Lounge.)


Lecture — Judaism, Christianity And Medieval Books, Miriamne Krummel, Bobbi Sutherland Apr 2015

Lecture — Judaism, Christianity And Medieval Books, Miriamne Krummel, Bobbi Sutherland

Miriamne Ara Krummel

Part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Rites. Rights. Writes. series and the Imprints and Impressions events, this lecture discusses the texts of Thomas Aquinas, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank and others. Presenters are Miriamne Ara Krummel, Associate Professor of English, and Bobbi Sutherland, Assistant Professor of History. (Event was held Nov. 4, 2014, in the Kennedy Union Torch Lounge.)


Isolation And The Law: Germanism And Judaism In Hermann Cohen’S Reading Of Moses Mendelssohn, Robert Erlewine Dec 2013

Isolation And The Law: Germanism And Judaism In Hermann Cohen’S Reading Of Moses Mendelssohn, Robert Erlewine

Robert Erlewine

No abstract provided.


Jewish Christianity Reconsidered : Rethinking Ancient Groups And Texts, Matt Jackson-Mccabe Oct 2012

Jewish Christianity Reconsidered : Rethinking Ancient Groups And Texts, Matt Jackson-Mccabe

Matt Jackson-McCabe

For decades, scholars have used the phrase "Jewish Christianity" and, more recently, "Christian Judaism." But just what do those terms mean? Who were the first Jewish Christians? What counts as Jewish Christianity? Those questions receive current and definitive treatment in essays drawn together by Matt Jackson- McCabe, founder of the consultation on Jewish Christianity at the Society of Biblical Literature.


The Jerusalem Temple In Pesiqta Rabbati: From Creation To Apocalypse, Rivka Ulmer Aug 2012

The Jerusalem Temple In Pesiqta Rabbati: From Creation To Apocalypse, Rivka Ulmer

Rivka Ulmer

No abstract provided.


Turmoil, Trauma, And Triumph: The Fettmilch Uprising In Frankfurt Am Main According To Megillas Vintz. A Critical Edition Of The Yiddish And Hebrew Text Including An English Translation, Rivka Ulmer Aug 2012

Turmoil, Trauma, And Triumph: The Fettmilch Uprising In Frankfurt Am Main According To Megillas Vintz. A Critical Edition Of The Yiddish And Hebrew Text Including An English Translation, Rivka Ulmer

Rivka Ulmer

No abstract provided.


Rabbinic Judaism, Rivka Ulmer Aug 2012

Rabbinic Judaism, Rivka Ulmer

Rivka Ulmer

No abstract provided.


A Synoptic Edition Of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts And The Editio Princeps, Rivka Ulmer Aug 2012

A Synoptic Edition Of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts And The Editio Princeps, Rivka Ulmer

Rivka Ulmer

No abstract provided.


Synagogues And Cemeteries: Evidence For A Jewish Presence In The Fayum,, Kerry Muhlestein, Courtney Innes Dec 2011

Synagogues And Cemeteries: Evidence For A Jewish Presence In The Fayum,, Kerry Muhlestein, Courtney Innes

Kerry Muhlestein

No abstract provided.


Jews Of Color: Sector Meeting, Jesse Benjamin, Sharana B., Shoshana Vogel May 2010

Jews Of Color: Sector Meeting, Jesse Benjamin, Sharana B., Shoshana Vogel

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Pan-African/Palestine Solidarity, Jesse Benjamin, Sharana B. May 2010

Pan-African/Palestine Solidarity, Jesse Benjamin, Sharana B.

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Hidamut Ba`Icurim Ha’Apiyim Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Assimilation In Nasal Consonants In Israeli Hebrew), Shmuel Bolozky Dec 2009

Hidamut Ba`Icurim Ha’Apiyim Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (Assimilation In Nasal Consonants In Israeli Hebrew), Shmuel Bolozky

Shmuel Bolozky

No abstract provided.


Trans-Atlantic Migrations Of The Jewish Soul, Jesse Benjamin May 2009

Trans-Atlantic Migrations Of The Jewish Soul, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


The Stubbornness Of The Jews: Resources And Limitations Of The Jewish-Christian Dialogue Of Rosenstock-Huessy And Rosenzweig, Robert Erlewine Dec 2008

The Stubbornness Of The Jews: Resources And Limitations Of The Jewish-Christian Dialogue Of Rosenstock-Huessy And Rosenzweig, Robert Erlewine

Robert Erlewine

No abstract provided.


Transatlantic Migrations Of The Jewish Soul: Whiteness And The Race/Class Contours Of Modernity, Jesse Benjamin Apr 2008

Transatlantic Migrations Of The Jewish Soul: Whiteness And The Race/Class Contours Of Modernity, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Herman Cohen And The Humane Intolerance Of Ethical Monotheism, Robert Erlewine Dec 2007

Herman Cohen And The Humane Intolerance Of Ethical Monotheism, Robert Erlewine

Robert Erlewine

No abstract provided.


The Brief Eminence And Doomed Fall Of Islamic Zaragoza: A Great Center Of Arabic And Jewish Learning In The Iberian Peninsula In The Eleventh-Century, George Beech Dec 2007

The Brief Eminence And Doomed Fall Of Islamic Zaragoza: A Great Center Of Arabic And Jewish Learning In The Iberian Peninsula In The Eleventh-Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.


“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community”, Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2006

“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community”, Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

This article compares the membership status of Eurafricans in the Portuguese Jewish communities of Curaçao and Suriname. In the former colony, free people of African origin were almost entirely barred from admission, whereas in Suriname manumitted Africans and their descendants were included as members, albeit sidelined to the margins, a phenomenon I term "peripheral inclusion."


“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community”, Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2006

“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community”, Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

This article compares the membership status of Eurafricans in the Portuguese Jewish communities of Curaçao and Suriname. In the former colony, free people of African origin were almost entirely barred from admission, whereas in Suriname manumitted Africans and their descendants were included as members, albeit sidelined to the margins, a phenomenon I term "peripheral inclusion."


Comparing The Anthropology And History Of Bedouin In Israel And Egypt: Representations Of The 'Other' In Middle Easter Societies, Jesse Benjamin Apr 2006

Comparing The Anthropology And History Of Bedouin In Israel And Egypt: Representations Of The 'Other' In Middle Easter Societies, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Judaism And The Racialization Of Ethno-Religious Identity, Jesse Benjamin, Warren Blumenfeld Mar 2006

Judaism And The Racialization Of Ethno-Religious Identity, Jesse Benjamin, Warren Blumenfeld

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


Oskar Blumenthal And The Lessing Theater In Berlin, 1888-1904, William Grange Dec 2003

Oskar Blumenthal And The Lessing Theater In Berlin, 1888-1904, William Grange

William Grange

OSKAR BLUMENTHAL (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In the 1880s Blumenthal himself began writing plays, and he was so successful that many self-appointed cultural guardians accused him of damaging the German theatre beyond repair. His became the most frequently performed plays on any German stage …