Judaism articles from January 1996

Judaism archives from January 1996

Talking like a Jew: reflections on identity and the Holocaust.
January 1, 1996... And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of...

Talking like a Jew: reflections on identity and the Holocaust.
January 1, 1996... And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD...

Natural law and judaism: the case of Maimonides.
January 1, 1996... Is there natural law in judaism? Leo Strauss has given a partial answer to this question by saying that Where there is no philosophy, there is no knowledge of natural right as such. The Old Testament, whose basic premise may be said to be the...

A love poem. (poem)
January 1, 1996... for my mother Adonai of night and of flowers, God of my life. I was not expected to be beautiful. When flowers grew from my hands I surprised everyone, but my mother. In any language my name means lily. Basin in a vase or bath of rain, I...

Ethical issues of animal welfare in Jewish' thought.
January 1, 1996... Ethics until not so long ago was concerned exclusively with humans. No philosopher or theologian deliberated, from the ethical point of view, on the status of animals in their own right. Recent years have seen a steadily growing interest in...

Aquarium. (poem)
January 1, 1996... The night is a blue-green aquarium and you are a minnow of gold, while I am a grassy seaweed, that wants with you joy to enfold. But you have your eyes set in unrest and I am all rooted in rest. You are the eternal swimming. I - the eternal...

Two baroque seals of famous Jews.
January 1, 1996... The seal from ancient times was a most important proof of legal authenticity; indeed, in societies where reading and writing were uncommon, and even a king like Charlemagne was illiterate, the imprint of the seal was far more binding than a...

Nation in a mirror: observations on modern Hebrew poetry.
January 1, 1996... The Movements If we take, as is usual, Chayim Nachman Bialik's first published poem "To a Bird" in Odessa in 1892 as its beginning, modern Hebrew poetry has only just passed its first centennial. Yet that brief period has already seen several...

Jews (in theory): representations of judaism, anti-semitism, and the Holocaust in postmodern French thought.
January 1, 1996... The influence of French Theory - that conglomeration of postmodern thought which includes semiotic, deconstructive, psychoanalytical, and post-structural anthropological approaches to the analysis of art, politics, and culture - has had an...

All the way to Budapest. (poem)
January 1, 1996... for Miklos Radnoti In late fall of 1944, in the course of the general Axis retreat from Hungary, Miklos Radnoti and twenty-one of his companions were taken on a forced march, shot, killed, and buried in a mass grave. On exhumation, there was...

Forced march. (poem)
January 1, 1996... Foolish is he who gets up after collapsing, gets up and walks, moves ankles and knees, and he goes on his way again as if he were lifted by wings. The ditch calls him in vain; he is afraid to lie there forever. When you ask, "Why not stay down?"...

Irving Howe and secular Jewishness: an elegy.
January 1, 1996... It's as hard to return to old-fashioned words as to sad synagogues, those thresholds of faith. You know exactly where they are. Troubled, you can still hear their undertones. Sometimes you come close and look longingly at them through the...

Awaiting translation: Lev Konson's Gulag stories.
January 1, 1996... That Soviet concentration camps (the so-called "Gulag")(1) make up an integral part of modern Jewish history is by now recognized. Yet one hardly knows how to deal with this awareness. The reasons for the unwieldiness of the issue are multiple:...