Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Jewish

Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and models for reflection on the teacher/student relationship in the Jewish tradition and in contemporary culture with special emphasis on the hevruta mode of Jewish learning, a collaborative process that invites the reader into a dialogue with teachers past and present.

Susan Handelman considers how teacher/student relations sustain...

After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric. "The Conflagration of Community "challenges Theodor Adorno s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller masterfully considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it, and uses theories of community from Jean-Luc Nancy and Derrida to explore the dissolution of community bonds in its wake.Miller juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust Keneally s...

Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh s alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac Abraham as tailor s apprentice, choirboy, and corrupt businessman. Reb Alter tells of his matchmaking mishap and Fishke relates his travels through the Ukraine with a caravan of beggars.

Sholem Aleichem s Tevye reemerges from new translations of "Hodel" and "Chava" in all of his comic splendor. Notes enable students to follow Tevye s...

Die Wissenschaft des Judentums hat den Blick auf die judische Geschichte und Kultur grundlegend verandert. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals die Zeitschriften dieser universitar randstandigen und transnationalen judischen Wissenschaftsbewegung aus kommunikations- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Die systematische Betrachtung von mehr als dreiig vorwiegend deutschsprachigen Zeitschriften, die im Laufe des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts in ihrem Umfeld entstanden, dokumentiert deren funktionale Bedeutung. Als Praktik der Gelehrtenkommunikation und magebliche Instrumente der...

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) war einer der bekanntesten Rabbiner des fruhneuzeitlichen Europa. Beruhmtheit erlangte er vor allem durch die Verhandlungen, die er mit Oliver Cromwell uber die Ruckkehr der Juden nach England fuhrte. Doch die Englandverhandlungen machten nur den letzten Schritt in einer Reihe von Vermittlungsbemuhungen aus. Menasses ganzes Schreiben und Wirken war von dem Programm bestimmt, christlichen Gelehrten Wissen uber das Judentum zukommen zu lassen und den Sefarden so zu Anerkennung und einer Verbesserung ihrer politischen Situation zu verhelfen. Damit reagierte...

Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among Andalusi elites exiled in the south of France after 1148. S. J. Pearce sets this letter into broader context and reads it as a document of literary practice and intellectual values. She reveals how ibn Tibbon, as a translator of philosophical and religious texts, explains how his son should...

Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renee Levine...