Judaism articles from January 1998

Judaism archives from January 1998

Scanning a subculture: introduction to klezmerology.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... For five days right across christmas, 450 people, from toddlers to seniors, crowd a ramshackle Catskills hotel for Klezkamp, which celebrates its bar mitzvah year in 1997. From morning till the wee hours, these hardy souls take Yiddish culture...

An overview of klezmer music and its development in the U.S.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... The yiddish word "klezmer" is commonly used to denote professional eastern European Jewish dance musicians, or, more recently, musicians who identify themselves with that tradition. The term combines two Hebrew words: "kle" which means vessel or...

Rumenishe Shtiklekh: klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary Israel.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... Rumenishe Shtiklekh (romanian pieces) is the yiddish term the musicians, dancers and other aficionados among the Hasidim and other Ashkenazic Haredim in present-day Israel most often use to refer to the repertoire commonly known in the United...

Di Rusishe Progresiv Muzikal Yunyon no. 1 fun Amerike: the first klezmer union in America.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... In his 1902 play, the kreutzer sonata, yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin presents an intriguing scenario: two klezmorim, Efroym Fidler and son Gregor, emigrate to New York. The son goes on to become a successful classical orchestral musician and...

An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the klezmer establishment in twenty years.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... I first became actively aware of Jewish music around 1970. Majoring in Afro-American trumpet at the New England Conservatory of Music, I was part of a larger scene loosely centered around Ran Blake's Third Stream Music Department. We studied a...

Why do we do this anyway: klezmer as Jewish youth subculture.(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... Today I'm going to expand on some of the points Frank touched upon in his overview of the revival, when he spoke of the variety of motivations for "reviving" klezmer to be found among performers and audiences; and I'm going to offer my own...

Sounds of sensibility. (klezmer music)(Klezmer: History and Culture)
January 1, 1998... Today's klezmer scene, while it affirms a degree of musical continuity with the past, is in fact the result of an experience of rupture. Reviewing The Klezmorim's first album, East Side Wedding, in 1977, Nat Hentoff commented that "For years now,...

Spring rites. (poem)
January 1, 1998... So he took us into the desert once more out of the constricted- into the stark wave of bright fire air whipping sand into our faces. We got pulled into the large ear of the sea then out onto a shore of loss so that now we have nothing...

In defense of tradition: haftarat Zachor in the light of Purim.
January 1, 1998... In the days preceding purim and on purim itself, we read three times of the struggle of the Jewish people against the forces of evil, personified as Amalek: first, in the special maftir from Deuteronomy 25 read on Shabbat Zachor (the Sabbath when...

Still. (poem)
January 1, 1998... Across the country's plains sealed boxcars are carrying names: how long will they travel, how far, will they ever leave the boxcar- don't ask, I can't say, I don't know. The name Nathan beats the wall with his fist, the name Isaac sings a mad...

Synopsis. (poetry)
January 1, 1998... Job, sorely tried in both flesh and possessions, curses man's fate. It is great poetry. His friends arrive, and rending their garments, dissect Job's guilt before the Lord. Job cries out that he was righteous. Job does not know why the Lord smote...

Innocence. (poem)
January 1, 1998... Conceived on a mattress made of human hair. Gerda. Erika. Maybe Margarete. She doesn't know, no not a thing about it. This kind of knowledge isn't suited to being passed on or absorbed. The Greek Furies were too righteous. Their birdy excess...

Critique, tradition, and the religious imagination: an essay on Levinas' talmudic readings.
January 1, 1998... The work of the late Emmanuel Levinas presents a profoundly creative struggle with a number of competing visions. Modern philosophy, Jewish tradition, Jewish religious texts, European literature, poetry, literary criticism, aesthetics, and the...

We want to press close. (poem)
January 1, 1998... We want to press close to the shiny bride and groom under the huppah, the auspicious roof laden with lavish flowers as the rabbi blesses the couple's future. We do not want to know the groom breaks the glass to allow for sorrow, even here, to...

Abraham Joshua Heschel after twenty-five years. (interpreter of Jewish prayer)
January 1, 1998... Professor Lawrence Hoffman of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, our most astute student of Jewish liturgy, describes the three great periods of creative Jewish prayer-making. The first, the classical period of the rabbis,...

Milton and Midrash.
January 1, 1998... By GOLDA WERMAN. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1995. Reviewed by WILLIAM KOLBRENER Although Jacob Burckhardt's conception of the Renaissance as the "age of the discovery of man the individual" has undergone...

The Jews: History, Memory, and the Present.
January 1, 1998... By PIERRE VIDAL-NAQUET, translated and edited by DAVID AMES CURTIS, with a Foreword by PAUL BERMAN and a New Preface by the Author. New York, 1996: Columbia University Press. Reviewed by JACOB NEUSNER This book covers the Jewish state in...

Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol 1, The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939.
January 1, 1998... By SAUL FRIEDLANDER. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Reviewed by PETER KENEZ No topic in twentieth-century history, including the Russian Revolution, inspired such an outpouring of scholarly studies as the Holocaust. Remarkably, interest in...

The Holocaust in Historical Context, vol 1, The Holocaust and Mass Death Before the Modern Age.
January 1, 1998... By STEVEN T. KATZ. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Reviewed by PETER KENEZ No topic in twentieth-century history, including the Russian Revolution, inspired such an outpouring of scholarly studies as the Holocaust. Remarkably,...