Modern Jewish History

Evreii din Basarabia, cine sunt ei

by Alexandr Roitman

Published in: Dilemele convieţuirii în procesul modernizării societăţii Româneşti în spaţiul Est-Carpatic (secolele XIX-XX), Ed. Junimea, Iaşi, 2011, p. 91-103.

Australia, Israel and the Politics of Diaspora

by David Slucki

Published in The Conversation [http://theconversation.edu.au/]

 ‘The Bund Abroad in the Postwar Jewish World,’ Jewish Social Studies 16, no. 1 (2009): 111-144.

by David Slucki

Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv on Love and Empathy

by Geoffrey Claussen

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 30, no. 2 (2010): 151-169.

Bookreview: Liliana Ruth Feierstein: Von Schwelle zu Schwelle: Einblicke in den didaktisch-historischen Umgang mit dem Anderen aus der Perspektive jüdischen Denkens

by Susanne Beer

In: Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, Nr. 9, Oktober 2011.

Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Dissertationsschrift, mit der die Autorin 2007 den Doktortitel im Fach Philosophie... more Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Dissertationsschrift, mit der die Autorin 2007 den Doktortitel im Fach Philosophie erlangte. Es richtet sich an ein philosophisches und erziehungs-wissenschaftliches Fachpublikum und soll eine Diskussion anregen, die „neue Perspektiven sowohl für die Entwicklung künftigen Unterrichtsmaterials wie für die philosophische Alteritätsdebatte zu eröffnen vermag“ (S. 22). Im Zentrum steht dabei der Umgang mit kulturellen Minderheiten in deutschen Schulbüchern, den Feierstein durch die Perspektive jüdischer Tradition und Philosophien kritisiert. Die Veröffentlichung in der Reihe „Jüdische Presse“ ist irreführend, da Feierstein sich weder mit jüdischen Zeitschriften noch mit Zeitungen beschäftigt. Die Aufnahme mag indes durch den weiten Bezug zur jüdischen Kommunikationsgeschichte gerechtfertigt sein, den Feierstein im ersten Teil ihres Buches herstellt. Hier finden sich Ausführungen über spezifisch jüdische Kommunikationspraxen – etwa das Verfassen von Randkommentaren und Essays, die Verwendung von anachronistischen Zitaten und Exkursen oder das fortwährende Übersetzen und Neuinterpretieren klassischer Texte.

‘Phillip Berg and the Kabbalah Centre’ [Jody Myers, Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest: The Kabbalah Centre in America, Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger Publishers, 2007], Daat 70 (2011), pp. 159-162 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'תולדות מרכז הקבלה של שרגא פייבל ברג' [Jody Myers, Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest: The Kabbalah Centre in America, Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger Publishers, 2007], דעת 70 (תשע"א), עמ' 162-159.

‘Divrei Shalom or Hayei Moharash: Satiric Manuscripts from the Joseph Weiss Archives’, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): In Memoriam [Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, Volume XX], ed. Joseph Dan, Jerusalem: Department of Jewish Thought and the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, 1, pp. 365-384 (Hebrew), with Noam Zadoff

by Jonatan Meir

"דברי שלום" או "חיי מוהר"ש": חיבור סאטירי מגנזי יוסף וייס', ספר זיכרון לגרשם שלום, במלאת עשרים וחמש שנים לפטירתו, א (מחקרי ירושלים במחשבת ישראל כ), בעריכת יוסף דן, ירושלים תשס"ז, עמ' 384-365. עם נועם זדוף.

The article presents a collection of satiric fragments written by Joseph Weiss. The fragments concern the academic... more The article presents a collection of satiric fragments written by Joseph Weiss. The fragments concern the academic life in Jerusalem of the forties and fifties. More specifically, they deal with Gershom Scholem and his relationships with those surrounding him. Weiss’s satiric texts are provided with critical notes. Moreover, an introduction describes the way these texts came to Jerusalem as well as the literary genre to which they belong.       

‘Lights and Vessels: A New Inquiry into the "Circle" of Rav Kook and the Editors of his Works’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 13 (2005), pp. 163-247 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'"אורות" ו"כלים": בחינה מחודשת של "חוג" הראי"ה קוק ועורכי כתביו', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית, יג (תשס"ה), עמ' 247-163.

‘The Kabbala in America: The Unpublished Manuscripts of Levi I. Krakovsky’. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 24 (2011), pp. 171-208 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'לתולדות הקבלה באמריקה: ספריו הגנוזים של לוי יצחק קרקובסקי', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית, כד (תשע"א), עמ' 208-171

‘Zvi la-Tzadik: Joseph Perl, R. Zvi Hirsch of Zidachov and the Controversy of Numerology’, Spiritual Authority: Struggles over Cultural Power in Jewish Thought, eds. Howard Kreisel, Boaz Huss, Uri Ehrlich, Beer Sheva 2009, pp. 266-300 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'צבי לצדיק: יוסף פרל, ר' צבי הירש מזידיטשוב ופולמוס הגימטריות', סמכות רוחנית: מאבקים על כח תרבותי בהגות היהודית, בעריכת חיים קרייסל, בועז הוס, אורי ארליך, באר שבע תש"ע, עמ' 300-263.

‘The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha‘ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’ Kabbalah and Modernity, eds. Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad, Brill: Leiden & Boston, 2010, pp. 197-220

by Jonatan Meir

Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation

by delia konzett

“From the slum to the Jewish quarter in Bucharest: Development and mentality (1830 – 1943) ” in Studia Hebraica, nr.7, Bucureşti, 2007, pp. 162 -180

by Anca Ciuciu

Self-definition and self-defense: Jewish racial identity in nineteenth-century France

by Lisa Leff

Lisa Moses Leff, “Self-Definition and Self-Defense: Jewish Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century France.” Jewish History vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2005): 7-28.

Jewish Solidarity in Nineteenth‐Century France: The Evolution of a Concept*

by Lisa Leff

Lisa Moses Leff, “’Jewish Solidarity’ in Nineteenth-Century France: The Evolution of a Concept.” The Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002): 33-61.

AND SUDDENLY WE REACHED GOD? The construction of "religious" and "secular" in Israeli literature

by Shachar Pinsker

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1 March 2006 , pages 21 - 41

Wojcik, A. (in press). The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City (review). Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.

by Adrian Wójcik

Ein notwendiger Fehler der Weltgeschichte - Ludwig Philippsons Auseinandersetzung mit dem Christentum

by George Y. Kohler

in: Görge K. Hasselhoff (ed.) Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin 2010, p. 33-62.

German Spirit and Holy Ghost - Treitschke's Call for Conversion of German Jewry: The Debate Revisited

by George Y. Kohler

in: Modern Judaism 30:2 (2010), p. 172-195

Manuel Joel in Defense of the Talmud – Liberal Responses to Religious Antisemitism in Nineteen-Century Germany

by George Y. Kohler

in: Hebrew Union College Annual 79, 2010

In Germany, Jewish opposition against anti-Talmudic literature was always noteworthy and sometimes even successful –... more In Germany, Jewish opposition against anti-Talmudic literature was always noteworthy and sometimes even successful – but only towards the end of the nineteenth century the Jews were able to petition for their rights of religious literature before several courts of law. These courts, naturally, faced a serious dilemma, because the delicate question at the very heart of the cases was: Is slandering the Talmud equivalent with slandering Judaism? Being entirely unable to deal with this problem, the judges asked for Jewish expert witnesses, in general public figures of some scholarly caliber. The paper examines several Jewish expert opinions in their historical and theological context and pays special attention to the first of such testimonies delivered in 1877 by Dr. Manuel Joel, the liberal Rabbi of the Breslau Jewish Community and a well-known scholar of medieval philosophy. It will be shown how those liberal Rabbis and scholars defended the authority of the Talmud and how Orthodox circles reacted to their views, arriving finally at a deeper understanding of both the internal Jewish debates of the time and the Jewish struggle against religious antisemitism.