Shofar back issues from January 2008:
Bordering on lehavdl: Michael Wex, performing Yiddish, and a discourse of discomfort.(Born To Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay examines the work of Michael Wex, novelist, performer, and author of the recent non-fiction book on Yiddish, Born to Kvetch. Wex's texts and performance style are analyzed with particular attention to the ways his material addresses themes of exile and outsiderness, and ...
A dialogue between psychology and religion in the work of Moshe Halevi Spero, an Orthodox Jewish psychoanalyst.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The work of the Orthodox Jewish psychoanalyst, Moshe Halevi Spero, is examined as representing a non-reductionistic dialogue between religion and psychoanalysis in one analyst's work. The development of Spero's thinking is traced as he has grappled with the possibility of conflict between ...
Jackie Robinson, Jewish icon.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The story of Jackie Robinson's integration of baseball in 1947 provided Jews with a myth representative of their experience of assimilation into American society in the era following World War II. Popular Jewish accounts of this story, found in children's literature and adult fiction, ...
Rethinking "Sephardic": Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur observances among the Jews of Bombay.(India)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This study explores the ritual enactments of the Bene Israel and Baghdadi Jewish communities in Bombay, India during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. By comparing and contrasting the ritual enactments of the two communities against each other, the Sephardic norm, and various faiths in India, ...
"My place in Judaism": geography, ethnicity, and sexuality on Sarah Schulman's lower East Side.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Novelist Sarah Schulman's characters inhabit southern Manhattan's lower East Side and the East Village, drawing on real and imagined histories of Jewish and gay activism and creativity in their search for physical and cultural space in which they can experiment with sexuality, art, and ...
Heir snares Eyre's Mahr: murderous idea vs. thieving interpretation: Cynthia Ozick's literary theory in Heir to the Glimmering World.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Cynthia Ozick's novel Heir to the Glimmering World caps the revision of her concept of art. In her early novels and essays, Ozick's views resembled the Romantics who considered art both sublimely uplifting and utterly destructive. Ozick associated art with idolatry and its destructive ...
The Trilling files.(Lionel Trilling)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The FBI dossier on Lionel Trilling discloses that the Bureau followed his activities intermittently for almost three decades. An active file was maintained on Trilling from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. Most of these reports address Trilling's peripheral connection to ongoing FBI probes ...
Resources for Jewish biography and autobiography on the Internet.(Website list)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Internet and associated digital technologies are useful to Jewish Studies scholars who research, write, and teach Jewish biography and autobiography. Increasing amounts of secondary and primary sources originally preserved in manuscript or print form are now being digitized and made ...
Marked and unmarked flesh: Jewish identity, gender, and circumcision in historical perspective.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism, by Shaye J. D. Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 317 pp. $39.95. Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America, by Leonard B. Glick. Oxford: Oxford University ...
Solomon: Israel's Ironic Icon of Human Achievement.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Solomon: Israel's Ironic Icon of Human Achievement, by Walter Brueggemann. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. 301 pp. $44.95. Willa Cather wrote that "some memories are realities," which leaves room to suggest that some memories are not. In this book, Walter ...
Stories of Heaven and Earth: Bible Heroes in Contemporary Children's Literature.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Stories of Heaven and Earth: Bible Heroes in Contemporary Children's Literature, by Hara E. Person and Diane G. Person. New York: Continuum, 2005. 287 pp. $34.95. "The stories that are focused on [here] ... are tales in which a significant transition takes place on the part of ...
Life after Death in Early Judaism: The Evidence of Josephus.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Life after Death in Early Judaism: The Evidence of Josephus, by C. D. Elledge. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. 224 pp. [euro]44.00. This book is a revision and expansion of portions of the author's dissertation, written under Prof. James Charlesworth at Princeton Theological ...
Judische Wege ins Burgertum: Kulturelles Kapital und sozialer Aufstieg im 19. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Judische Wege ins Burgertum: Kulturelles Kapital und sozialer Aufstieg im 19. Jahrhundert, by Simone Lassig. Burgertum Neue Folge. Studien zur Zivilgesellschaft, eds. Manfred Hettling, Paul Nolte. Hamburg: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. 784 pp. [euro]69.00. This book is ...
Book notes.(Jewish books)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008 ... American Jewish Life Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History, by Deborah R. Weiner. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 234 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-252-07335-5. In this book, Deborah R. Weiner studies Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they ...