Judaism articles from January 2005

Judaism archives from January 2005

On the frontiers of Ashkenaz: translating into Yiddish, then and now.
January 1, 2005... IN YIDDISH CULTURE TRANSLATION PLAYS A FOUNDATIONAL role. Because it is a language that never stands alone, translations both into and out of Yiddish provide strategic opportunities for considering the shifting linguistic and cultural frontiers...

Ivri: naming ourselves.
January 1, 2005... WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS JEWS, AS OTHERS AND WE NOW call us--Yehudim, from our ancestor, Judah, Yehudah. The Bible, however, has other names for us beginning with [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Hebrew and Israelite, from [TEXT NOT...

The Sabbath versus the new moon: a critique of Heschel's valorization of the Sabbath.
January 1, 2005... IN THIS PAPER MY AIM IS TO EXAMINE THE VIEWS expressed in Abraham Joshua Heschel's essay The Sabbath about Jewish beliefs concerning time and the environment, and present a critique based on the contrasting rhythms of Jewish time as expressed...

The emperor and the Jews.(Napoleon Bonaparte )
January 1, 2005... WAS NAPOLEON GOOD OR BAD FOR THE JEWS? IN THE century following the emperor's death, it did not occur to most historians to ask this question. The major nineteenth-century accounts of Napoleon and the Empire do not mention Jews at all, except...

Rashi and his daughters.
January 1, 2005... IN 2005, JEWS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD COMMEMORATE the 900th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as Rashi, the authoritative commentator of the Bible and Talmud. While Rashi is justifiably famous for these achievements,...

Seven poems by Zelda.(Zelda Schneersohn-Mishkovsky)
January 1, 2005... THE UKRAINIAN-BORN ISRAELI ORTHODOX POET ZELDA Schneersohn-Mishkovsky, better known as Zelda (1914-1984), belonged to a lineage of illustrious rabbis. Her father, Shelomoh Shalom Schneersohn, descended from the prominent Schneersohn dynasty of...

Maimonides, then and now.(Moses Maimonides )
January 1, 2005... THE CONFERENCES THAT HAVE MARKED THE 800TH anniversary of the death of Maimonides have examined and assessed the many aspects of his thought and achievement. Scholarly books follow in their wake, including Herbert Davidson's encompassing Moses...

Zionism, the Qur'an, and the Hadith.
January 1, 2005... CONTEMPORARY ISLAM, AS FAR AS THE OVERWHELMING majority of Muslims and non-Muslims understand, is opposed to Zionism in every way, shape and form. Yet, when the Arab Nations fought against Israel in the early wars, they did so in the name of...

Marvelous memoirs.(The Story of a Life)(Omaha Blues)(A Tale of Love and Darkness)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Story of a Life. By AHARON APPELFELD. Translated by Aloma Halter. New York: Schocken, 2004. Omaha Blues. By JOSEPH LELYVELD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. A Tale of Love and Darkness. By AMOS OZ. Translated by Nicholas...

Integrity and relevance: shaping Holocaust memory at the Sydney Jewish Museum.(From All Their Habitations)
January 1, 2005... Memory... is socially constructed. Its base is much more in the present than in the past. (1) Turn it over and over for everything is contained within it Mishnah Avot 5:26 An Historical Overview The Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM)...

Ra'ah ma'aseh ve-nizkar halakhah (sight of the predicament awakened dormant halakhah; pes. 66a, San.82a).(The Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problem, Background and Halakhic Sources)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halakhic Sources. By AVIAD HACOHEN. Jersey City, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 2004. Jewish divorce is not a level playing field. The get that terminates a...

Wet blanket.(Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments. By OZ SHELACH. San Francisco: City Lights Books. Despite its subtitle, Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments is more diagnosis than novel. A diagnosis compresses an individual's complexity...