Recently added articles from Shofar:
Medieval Jewish history in modern England.(Invisible in Oxford)
Mar 22, 2008; Narin, Elisa ... Medieval Anglo-Jewish history has only very recently begun to be included in scholarly histories of England and is still relatively absent unless the history is specifically concerned with the Jews of England. Unfortunately, the relative invisibility of medieval Jewish history in British ...
Henry Roth and American literature.(Living on Writer's Block)(Biography)
Mar 22, 2008; Kellman, Steven G. ... Three mysteries surround Henry Roth (1906-95), the Rip Van Winkle of American authors: 1) Why was Call It Sleep ignored in 1934 but acclaimed in 1964? 2) Why did Roth renounce literary life after Call It Sleep? 3) What compelled Roth, in his eighties and dying, to summon the fortitude to ...
Louise Levitas Henriksen's critique of Anzia Yezierska's autobiography.(Lies Her Mother Told Us)
Mar 22, 2008; Komy, Hannah Adelman ... Anzia Yezierska's autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse (1950), was the Subject of a transition in reader reception from its publication in 1950 to the 1970s and 1980s. First received as the story of Yezierska's life, it was later perceived as fiction, in part because of significant ...
Binding oneself to Judaism in contemporary Jewish women's fiction (1).("Diving into the Wreck")(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Lewin, Judith ... This essay examines two contemporary first novels by Jewish women in relation to Allegra Goodman as a model for depicting religious practice sympathetically. I argue that Goodman (Kaaterskill Falls), Dara Horn (In the Image) and Ruchama King (Seven Blessings) portray religion, ...
A comparison of Jan Koplowitz' novel Bohemia, mein Schicksal (1979) and Horst Seemann's film Hotel Polan und seine Gaste (1981).(The GDR and Anti-Semitism?)
Mar 22, 2008; Eckart, Gabriele ... This article will show that, contrary to Jan Koplowitz' novel that traces the history of a Jewish family from Bohemia through the first half of the twentieth century, Horst Seemann's film version of this text is very antisemitic. By making use of antisemitic stereotypes that show greed for ...
Comparing the French Catholic Church's apology to the Jews and the Vatican's "we remember".(The Art of Christian Apology)
Mar 22, 2008; Henry, Patrick ... In me context of apologies made to the Jews for lack of support during the Holocaust, the author compares the September 30,1997 apology made by the French Catholic Church with the March 16, 1998 Vatican Apology, "We Remember." The French Catholic Church's apology appears probing and ...
Rabbinic text, urban policy, and social reality (1).(From Pumbedita to Washington)
Mar 22, 2008; Jacobs, Jill ... Rabbis and social justice activists working within the Jewish community regularly refer to traditional text as a means of supporting, explaining, or soliciting buy-in on a particular issue. In general, these texts are used in one of two ways: the "tzedek tzedek tirdof" approach, in which a ...
A quarter century of Shofar (1).(The Coming of Age of a Jewish Studies Journal)
Mar 22, 2008; Haberer, Joseph ... This article describes the founding and growth of Shofar and the roles of the various players in its history. After a quarter century of its publication, a retrospective account of the founding and growth of Shofar is altogether fitting. This is a personal account, depending to ...
Iconoclasm and messianism in German-Jewish thought; The History of History, part 2.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Bernstein, Jeffrey ... History and Freedom, by Theodor Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2006. 348 pp. $69.95 (c); $29.95 (p). References occur as (HF: page number). The Jewish Writings, by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H-Feldman. New York: Schocken ...
Three recent books in Jewish studies from france.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Astro, Alan ... La renaissance du hassidisme: de 1945 a nos jours, by Jacques Gutwirth. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004. La souffrance comrae identite, by Esther Benbassa. Paris: Fayard, 2007. Les temps de la fin: Roth, Singer, Boulgakov, by Carole Ksiazenicer-Matheron. Paris; Honore ...
Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust and the Unjust Death.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Katz, Claire ... Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust and the Unjust Death, by Clifton R. Spargo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 311pp. $60.00. R. Clifton Spargo's Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death is perhaps the most erudite ...
Why arendt matters.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; O'Connor, Cara ... Why Arendt Matters, by Elisabeth Young- Bruehl. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 232 pp, $22.00. Last year was the centennial of Hannah Arendt's birth, occasioning dozens of conferences and events, a new Web site (www.hannaharendt.org), and even the inauguration of ...
Crises of memory and the Second World War.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Neubauer, John ... Crises of Memory and the Second World War, by Susan Suleiman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 286 pp. $29.95. Remembering, its personal, cultural and political functions, has been for some time a major concern of cultural theorists such as Maurice Halbwachs, Paul ...
Yesterday (My Story).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Berenbaum, Michael ... Yesterday (My Story), by Hadassah Rosensaft. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2005. 207 pp. Anyone working in the field of Holocaust scholarship, education, and remembrance knows all too well that we are the last to live in the presence of survivors. Those who were a mere 18 upon ...
The war in the empty air: victims, perpetrators, and postwar Germans.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Henningsen, Manfred ... The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans, by Dagmar Barnouw. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2005. 303 pp. $29.95. The Germans did not begin to process their past immediately after the collapse of Nazi Germany in May 1945. That ...
Criminal case 40/61: the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an eyewitness account.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Yablonka, Hanna ... Criminal Case 40/61: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, an Eyewitness Account, by Harry Mulisch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 178 pp. $27.50. Harry Mulisch's book was first published in the Netherlands, his homeland, more than 45 years ago in proximity to the ...
Studying the Jew: scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Remy, Steven P. ... Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, by Alan E. Steinweis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 203 pp. $29.95. In December of 2006, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies hosted a conference on the ...
Die schweizerische Linke und Israel: Israelbegeisterung, Antizionismus und Antisemitismus zwischen 1967 und 1991.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Timm, Angelika ... Die schweizerische Linke und Israel: Israelbegeisterung, Antizionismus und Antisemitismus zwischen 1967 und 1991, by Christina Spati. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006. 360 pp. [euro]29.90. Various reports prove that antisemitism did not disappear after World War II but continues to ...
An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel 1948-1957.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Freedman, Robert O. ... An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel 1948-1957, by Zvi Ganin. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 255 pp. $29.95. In this study Israeli writer Zvi Ganin discusses the dynamics of the often divided American Jewish Community as it sought to respond ...
Scars of war, wounds of peace: the Israeli-Arab tragedy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Tachau, Frank ... Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy, by Shlomo Ben-Ami. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 354 pp. $30.00. Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Oxford-trained historian on the faculty of Tel-Aviv University. He was Israeli Ambassador to Spain, a Member of the ...