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Full-Text Articles in Jewish Studies
Picturing Purim: Script And Image, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg
Picturing Purim: Script And Image, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg
Lander College of Arts and Sciences Publications and Research
The author discusses Jewish and Christian depictions of Megillat Esther in 17th century Holland.
Conscious Community: Paintings Inspired By The Writings Of The Piaseczno Rebbe, Atara Grenadir
Conscious Community: Paintings Inspired By The Writings Of The Piaseczno Rebbe, Atara Grenadir
Lander College of Arts and Sciences Publications and Research
The author discusses the work of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, particularly his concept of "conscious community", and presents paintings inspired by that concept.
Intermarriage In The Early Modern Period, Judith Bleich
Intermarriage In The Early Modern Period, Judith Bleich
Graduate School of Jewish Studies Publications and Research
The author discusses the history of intermarriage and Jews.
Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy
Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture.
Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy
Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought.
Book Review: On Goldman's The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, David B. Levy
Book Review: On Goldman's The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author provides a review of the book The American Jewish Story through Cinema, written by Eric Goldman.
Book Review: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel Of Love, The Talmud, And Sorcery, David B. Levy
Book Review: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel Of Love, The Talmud, And Sorcery, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author presents a review of Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery.
Dressing Up: Religion And Ethnicity In Israeli National Dolls, Maya Balakirsky Katz
Dressing Up: Religion And Ethnicity In Israeli National Dolls, Maya Balakirsky Katz
Graduate School of Jewish Studies Publications and Research
This article considers Israel’s national image both at home and abroad through the framework of Israeli costume dolls, looking specifically at the way that gender played a role in Israel’s national image as it travelled from domestic production to international reception. Initially, predominantly female doll makers produced three main types of Israeli dolls, but over time the religious Eastern European male doll triumphed in the pantheon of national types. Produced for retail sale to non-Hebrew speaking tourists by immigrant woman, the Eastern European religious male doll came to represent Israel abroad while the market pushed representations of the Middle Eastern …
God, Man, Chaos And Control: How God Might Control The Universe, Alan H. Kadish
God, Man, Chaos And Control: How God Might Control The Universe, Alan H. Kadish
Office of the President Publications and Research
The purpose of this article is to review the problem of free will and divine intervention from the prism of Jewish sources, within the context of modern science. Among the many lenses the Jewish tradition provides for us to frame history is the division between times of open miracles and hidden miracles. The Bible is full of open miracles, divine revelation, and prophecies. Whereas there is controversy among rabbinic scholars and theologians about whether the miracles happened through natural or supernatural forces, either way, the miracles were still immediately recognizable as acts of God. However, since the destruction of the …