Recently added articles from The Jewish Quarterly Review:
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib.(FORUM)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... TO BEGIN, a few quick observations about the concept of the "Arab Jew" that prompt the current intervention: (1), it is largely an identity of exile; (2), it implies a particular politics of knowledge vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and larger Zionist narrative(s); (3), it was ...
Historicizing the concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq.(FORUM)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... AS IS WELL KNOWN, the long arm of the Arab-Israeli conflict reached far beyond the geographical borders of Palestine. Prior to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, somewhere between 700,000 and 850,000 Jews lived in inveterate communities spread throughout the Middle East and North ...
Odo of Tournai and the dehumanization of Medieval Jews: a reexamination.(debate with Leo the Jew)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Odo of Tournai (d. 1113) has become better appreciated as an important thinker of the twelfth-century renaissance. (1) First a prominent teacher of philosophy and science at Tournai's Notre-Dame cathedral school, Odo later withdrew to become abbot of the ...
The speech of being, the voice of God: phonetic mysticism in the Kabbalah of Asher ben David and his contemporaries.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... These words only came into the world after difficult birth-pangs ... They flashed suddenly like lightning, and with a single flight they illumined an entire world. Haim Nahman Bialik (1) THE PLACE OF R. ASHER IN THE EARLY KABBALAH THE LITERARY EMERGENCE of ...
Reading May '68 through a Levinasian lens: Alain Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot, and the politics of identity.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... AMID THE FRENCH STUDENT PROTESTS of May 1968, there was a moment when the figure of the Jew made an unforgettable appearance on the public scene. In the third week of May, during a lull in unrest, radio broadcasts reported that Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the young German Jewish strike leader, had ...
Recent work on Spinoza.(Spinoxa, Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, Reason and Theologico-Political Treatise)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... RICHARD H. POPKIN. Spinoza. Oneworld Philosophers Series. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2004. Pp. 153. NANCY K. LEVENE. Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi + 256. Spinoza's Theologico-Political ...
New perspectives on the challenges of modernity in France.(Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 and The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... JAY R. BERKOVITZ. Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. Jewish Culture and Contexts Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 333. ALYSSA GOLDSTEIN SEPINWALL. The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: ...
New literature on Hermann Cohen.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... FRANCESCA ALBERTINI. Das Verstandnis des Seins bei Hermann Cohen: Vom Neukantianismus zu einer judischen Religionsphilosophie. Epistemata. Wurzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Philosophie, Band 335. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2003. Pp. 200 + appendix. ANDREA ...
Eva Telkes-Klein. L'Universite hebraique de Jerusalem a travers ses acteurs: La premiere generation de professeurs (1925-1948).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... EVA TELKES-KLEIN. L'Universite hebraique de Jerusalem a travers ses acteurs: La premiere generation de professeurs (1925-1948). Bibliotheque d'Etudes Juives 21. Paris: Honore Champion, 2004. Pp. 364. THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY in Jerusalem, especially in its first generation, is ...
Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton, eds., Feminism and Theology.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... JANET MARTIN SOSKICE AND DIANA LIPTON, eds., Feminism and Theology. Oxford Readings in Feminism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 379. IN Feminism and Theology, Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton have assembled a collection of essays by feminist theologians ...
Books received 2007.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2008 ... ABRAHAMOV, BINYAMIN, ed. Studies in Arabic and Islamic Culture II. (Hebrew). Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006. ABRAMS, NATHAN. Commentary Magazine 1945-59: "A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion." London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. ACKERMAN, DIANE ....
Crafting legal language: four or five in the Mishnah and the Tosefta.
Jun 22, 2008; ... THE "NATURE," OR SOCIAL FUNCTION, of the Mishnah is a vexed and unresolved problem in rabbinics scholarship. Scholars have looked to the structure, content, and style of the Mishnah for clues to its intended role. (1) Some attention has also been devoted, in this connection, to aspects of ...
On popular halakhic literature and the Jewish reading audience in fourteenth-century Spain.
Jun 22, 2008; ... SCHOLARS of PAST SOCIETIES face a difficult task when trying to reveal the spiritual and religious aspirations of the individual. The vast majority of historical records document external acts but shed little light on inner motivations or on religious observance and piety. (1) In ...
"Barucaba" as an emblem for Jewishness in early Italian art music.
Jun 22, 2008; ... For I knew that anyone you blessed is blessed (Numbers 22.6) (1) IN 1569 THE BOLOGNESE COMPOSER Ghirardo da Panico published a work with various Hebrew expressions, among them barucaba. He designated the work an ebraica, meaning a song about Jews, in distinction to other ethnic ...
Homens mapole: hope in the immediate postwar period.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... For Jacques Brudny and Anna Wilner Homens mapole, "The Downfall of Haman," was one of the many Yiddish plays that Jewish survivors performed in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. (1) These plays functioned as distractions--diversions necessary to keep the recent ...
Rashbam scholarship in Perpetual Motion.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Elazar Touitou. Exegesis is Perpetual Motion: Studies is the Pentateuchal Commentary of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir [Hebrew]. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003. Pp. 283. OVER THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY, Elazar Touitou has substantially enhanced our understanding of the ...
Mark D. Meyerson. A Jewish Renaissance is Fifteenth-Century Spain.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... MARK D. MEYERSON. A Jewish Renaissance is Fifteenth-Century Spain. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 272. Mark Meyerson makes a compelling case for a "Jewish renaissance in ...
Mark R. Cohen. Poverty and Charity is the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... MARK R. COHEN. Poverty and Charity is the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi +287. Poverty has been a permanent feature of past reality and it will ...
A Jewish guide to medieval domestic Europe.(Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life is Medieval Europe - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ELISHEVA BAUMGARTEN. Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life is Medieval Europe. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 275. Mothers and Children is overflowing with new sources, new ...
Jean Ancel. Transnistria, 1941-1942. The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... JEAN ANCEL. Transnistria, 1941-1942. The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns. Translated by Rachel Garfinkel and Karen Gold. Publications of Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, volumes 157-159. Tel Aviv: Goldstein-Goren Research Center, Tel Aviv University, 2003. In this ...