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Picturing Purim: Script And Image, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg Apr 2015

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 Apr 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 Jan 2015

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 …