Search Results - "Jewish identity"

Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Feldman -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish identity / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- Jewish to the core / Suzanne Vromen -- Thinking in dark times -- Thinking big in dark times / Drucilla Cornell -- Crimes of action, crimes of thought : Arendt on reconciliation, forgiveness, and judgment / Shai Lavi -- Solitude and the activity of thinking / Roger Berkowitz -- Sites of memory -- Exile readings : Hannah Arendt's library / Reinhard Laube -- Remembering Hannah : an interview with Jack Blum / Roger Berkowitz -- My Hannah Arendt project / Shy Abady.…”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Going Greek : Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945 / by Sanua, Marianne Rachel

Table of Contents: “…: Intra-Jewish Hostility and the Internalization of AntisemitismChapter 7: "The Idea of Quitting Is Abhorrent": Challenges during the Great Depression; Chapter 8: Fighting Back and Keeping Up Standards; Chapter 9: In the Shadow of Hitler: Social Life, Snobbery, and Jewish Identity; Epilogue: World War II and the Beginning of the End for the Jewish Fraternity System; Appendix A: Chapter Rolls of the National Jewish College Fraternities and Sororities to 1968; Appendix B: Directory of Jewish Fraternity and Sorority Chapters at Selected Colleges and Universities…”
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Going Greek : Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945 / by Sanua, Marianne Rachel

Table of Contents: “…: Intra-Jewish Hostility and the Internalization of AntisemitismChapter 7: "The Idea of Quitting Is Abhorrent": Challenges during the Great Depression; Chapter 8: Fighting Back and Keeping Up Standards; Chapter 9: In the Shadow of Hitler: Social Life, Snobbery, and Jewish Identity; Epilogue: World War II and the Beginning of the End for the Jewish Fraternity System; Appendix A: Chapter Rolls of the National Jewish College Fraternities and Sororities to 1968; Appendix B: Directory of Jewish Fraternity and Sorority Chapters at Selected Colleges and Universities…”
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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Schroeter -- Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Morocco / Mohammed Kenbib -- Place names in western Algeria : biblical sources and dominant semantic domains / Farid Benramdane -- The image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa before the tenth century / Mabrouk Mansouri -- Jewish identity and landownership in the Sous region of Morocco / Abdellah Larhmaid -- Southern Moroccan Jewry between the colonial manufacture of knowledge and the postcolonial historiographical silence / Aomar Boum -- Dating the demise of the western Sephardi Jewish diaspora in the Mediterranean / Yaron Tsur -- Jewish-Muslim syncretism and intercommunity cohabitation in the writings of Albert Memmi : the partage of Tunis / Philippe Barbé -- Making Tangier modern : ethnicity and urban development, 1880-1930 / Susan Gilson Miller -- Muslim and Jewish interaction in Moroccan meat markets, 1873-1912 / Stacy E. …”
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The clay lamps from ancient Sepphoris : light use and regional interactions / by Lapp, Eric C.

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Jewish culture and society in North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Schroeter -- Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Morocco / Mohammed Kenbib -- Place names in western Algeria : biblical sources and dominant semantic domains / Farid Benramdane -- The image of the Jews among Ibadi Imazighen in North Africa before the tenth century / Mabrouk Mansouri -- Jewish identity and landownership in the Sous region of Morocco / Abdellah Larhmaid -- Southern Moroccan Jewry between the colonial manufacture of knowledge and the postcolonial historiographical silence / Aomar Boum -- Dating the demise of the western Sephardi Jewish diaspora in the Mediterranean / Yaron Tsur -- Jewish-Muslim syncretism and intercommunity cohabitation in the writings of Albert Memmi : the partage of Tunis / Philippe Barbé -- Making Tangier modern : ethnicity and urban development, 1880-1930 / Susan Gilson Miller -- Muslim and Jewish interaction in Moroccan meat markets, 1873-1912 / Stacy E. …”
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The clay lamps from ancient Sepphoris : light use and regional interactions / by Lapp, Eric C.

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. …”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer /

Table of Contents: “…Sarna -- Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman -- Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman -- Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?…”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer /

Table of Contents: “…Sarna -- Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman -- Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman -- Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?…”
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Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana / by Bilu, Yoram

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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. …”
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Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana / by Bilu, Yoram

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Mixed Feelings : Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture / by Garloff, Katja

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Mixed Feelings : Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture / by Garloff, Katja

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