Search Results - "Midrashic"

Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Poets on the Psalms

Table of Contents: “…The secret life of poetry and the Psalms / Madeline DeFrees -- On restiveness--in art, in life : the Psalms / Carl Phillips -- Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude / Alicia Ostriker -- Lover, dark and dangerous / Jill Alexander Essbaum -- Psalm 22 and the Gospels : a Midrashic moment and a hope for connection / Enid Dame -- Of time and vision / Pattiann Rogers -- Psalm 23 / Catherine Sasanov -- I shall not want : the twenty-third Psalm comes to Cleveland, Ohio / David Citino -- Want / Angie Estes -- 'Tis the season : holidays, harvests, and the Psalms / Lynn Domina -- Upon the floods / Diane Glancy -- "The devices and desires of our own hearts" : reflections on blessing and curse in the songs of ascent / Robert A. …”
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Poets on the Psalms

Table of Contents: “…The secret life of poetry and the Psalms / Madeline DeFrees -- On restiveness--in art, in life : the Psalms / Carl Phillips -- Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude / Alicia Ostriker -- Lover, dark and dangerous / Jill Alexander Essbaum -- Psalm 22 and the Gospels : a Midrashic moment and a hope for connection / Enid Dame -- Of time and vision / Pattiann Rogers -- Psalm 23 / Catherine Sasanov -- I shall not want : the twenty-third Psalm comes to Cleveland, Ohio / David Citino -- Want / Angie Estes -- 'Tis the season : holidays, harvests, and the Psalms / Lynn Domina -- Upon the floods / Diane Glancy -- "The devices and desires of our own hearts" : reflections on blessing and curse in the songs of ascent / Robert A. …”
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Legal ethics and human dignity by Luban, David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Moral messiness in professional life. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.…”
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The Jewish Bible

Table of Contents: “…-- How the Bible became "the Bible" -- The origins of the Hebrew Bible text -- The Torah scroll -- Public reading of the Torah -- A short history of Bible translations -- The matter of gender in the JPS Torah translation -- Storytelling in the Bible -- Biblical law -- Biblical poetry -- The books of the Prophets -- Wisdom literature -- Methods of Bible study -- Commentaries on the Bible -- Midrash -- Summaries of the books of the Bible -- Glossary -- Family tree of the Torah -- Weights and measures in the Bible -- Timeline of Biblical events -- Chronology of the prophets -- Chronology of the monarchies -- Familiar quotations from the Bible -- Maps of Biblical lands.…”
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The Jewish Bible

Table of Contents: “…-- How the Bible became "the Bible" -- The origins of the Hebrew Bible text -- The Torah scroll -- Public reading of the Torah -- A short history of Bible translations -- The matter of gender in the JPS Torah translation -- Storytelling in the Bible -- Biblical law -- Biblical poetry -- The books of the Prophets -- Wisdom literature -- Methods of Bible study -- Commentaries on the Bible -- Midrash -- Summaries of the books of the Bible -- Glossary -- Family tree of the Torah -- Weights and measures in the Bible -- Timeline of Biblical events -- Chronology of the prophets -- Chronology of the monarchies -- Familiar quotations from the Bible -- Maps of Biblical lands.…”
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Legal ethics and human dignity by Luban, David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Moral messiness in professional life. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.…”
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Rabbinic perspectives rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and...

Table of Contents: “…Baumgarten -- Parallels without "parallelomania": methodological reflections on comparative analysis of Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lutz Doerring -- Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran / Steven D. Fraade -- Traces of sectarian Halakhah in the rabbinic world / Vered Noam -- Reconstructing Qumranic and rabbinic worldviews: dynamic holiness vs. static holiness / Eyal Regev -- Prohibited marriages in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. …”
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Rabbinic perspectives rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and...

Table of Contents: “…Baumgarten -- Parallels without "parallelomania": methodological reflections on comparative analysis of Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lutz Doerring -- Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran / Steven D. Fraade -- Traces of sectarian Halakhah in the rabbinic world / Vered Noam -- Reconstructing Qumranic and rabbinic worldviews: dynamic holiness vs. static holiness / Eyal Regev -- Prohibited marriages in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. …”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. …”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. …”
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Encounters of consequence Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Death and the fear of death in Franz Rosenzweig's The star of redemption -- The Halevi book -- Into life : Rosenzweig's essays on God, man and the world -- The meaning of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem -- Autobiography and the becoming of the self : Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell -- Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas : a midrash or thought-experiment -- Welcoming the other : the philosophical foundation for pluralism in the works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas -- Joseph B. …”
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Encounters of consequence Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Death and the fear of death in Franz Rosenzweig's The star of redemption -- The Halevi book -- Into life : Rosenzweig's essays on God, man and the world -- The meaning of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem -- Autobiography and the becoming of the self : Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell -- Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas : a midrash or thought-experiment -- Welcoming the other : the philosophical foundation for pluralism in the works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas -- Joseph B. …”
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Friends on the way Jesuits encounter contemporary Judaism /

Table of Contents: “…Rutishauser -- An Ignatian perspective on contemporary Jewish spirituality / Donald Moore -- The Jewish theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a challenge for Catholic theology / Stanislaw Obirek -- The genius and the wisdom of Harold Bloom / Peter Du Brul -- From Midrash to Rashi to contemporary narrative exegesis (R. …”
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Friends on the way Jesuits encounter contemporary Judaism /

Table of Contents: “…Rutishauser -- An Ignatian perspective on contemporary Jewish spirituality / Donald Moore -- The Jewish theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a challenge for Catholic theology / Stanislaw Obirek -- The genius and the wisdom of Harold Bloom / Peter Du Brul -- From Midrash to Rashi to contemporary narrative exegesis (R. …”
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Studies in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity text and context /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Représentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques : proposition d'un nouveau paradigme / Dan Jaffe -- "The Lord shall lift up his countenance upon you" (Numbers 6:26) : an anti-Christian polemical Midrash by the sages? / Avinoam Cohen -- On the Jewish background of Christianity / Daniel R. …”
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Studies in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity text and context /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Représentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques : proposition d'un nouveau paradigme / Dan Jaffe -- "The Lord shall lift up his countenance upon you" (Numbers 6:26) : an anti-Christian polemical Midrash by the sages? / Avinoam Cohen -- On the Jewish background of Christianity / Daniel R. …”
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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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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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