Jews and Other Differences
Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816627509
Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816627509
Author : Mitchell Bryan Hart
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1584657170
An anthology of writings by Jewish thinkers on Jews as a race
Author : Levy Daniella
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789659254002
This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.
Author : Mira Wasserman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812249208
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human.
Author : Marc Chagall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804748315
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.
Author : Maurice Samuels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 022639705X
The revolution reconsidered -- France's Jewish star -- Universalism in Algeria -- Zola and the Dreyfus affair -- The Jew in Renoir's La grande illusion -- Sartre's "Jewish question"--Finkielkraut, Badiou, and the "new antisemitism" -- Conclusion: "Je suis juif
Author : David Sandmel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 042997924X
Written by Jewish and Christian educators for use by college and adult learners, this volume explores eight basic questions that lie at the core of both traditions and that can serve as a bridge for understanding. Among the questions are: Do Jews and Christians worship the same God? Do Jews and Christians read the Bible the same way? What is the place of the land of Israel for Jews and Christians? Are the irreconcilable differences between Christians and Jews a blessing, a curse, or both? Each chapter includes discussion questions.
Author : Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691209804
How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptualized time as a way of constructing difference between themselves and imperial Rome, Jews and Christians, men and women, and human and divine. In each chapter, Sarit Kattan Gribetz explores a unique aspect of rabbinic discourse on time. She shows how the ancient rabbinic texts artfully subvert Roman imperialism by offering "rabbinic time" as an alternative to "Roman time." She examines rabbinic discourse about the Sabbath, demonstrating how the weekly day of rest marked "Jewish time" from "Christian time." Gribetz looks at gendered daily rituals, showing how rabbis created "men's time" and "women's time" by mandating certain rituals for men and others for women. She delves into rabbinic writings that reflect on how God spends time and how God's use of time relates to human beings, merging "divine time" with "human time." Finally, she traces the legacies of rabbinic constructions of time in the medieval and modern periods. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism sheds new light on the central role that time played in the construction of Jewish identity, subjectivity, and theology during this transformative period in the history of Judaism.
Author : Lawrence E. Harrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1442219637
In Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism, Lawrence E. Harrison takes the politically incorrect stand that not all cultures are created equally. Analyzing the performance of 117 countries, grouped by predominant religion, Harrison argues for the superiority of those cultures that emphasize Jewish, Confucian, or Protestant values.
Author : Daniel R. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1442616873
In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to “Jews” or to “Judeans”? What difference does it make? Today, many scholars consider “Judeans” the more authentic term, and “Jews” and “Judaism” merely anachronisms. In Judeans and Jews, Daniel R. Schwartz argues that we need both terms in order to reflect the dichotomy between the tendencies of those, whether in Judea or in the Disapora, whose identity was based on the state and the land (Judeans), and those whose identity was based on a religion and culture (Jews). Presenting the Second Temple era as an age of transition between a territorial past and an exilic and religious future, Judeans and Jews not only sharpens our understanding of this important era but also sheds important light on the revolution in Jewish identity caused by the creation of the modern state of Israel.