Judaism articles from June 2000

Judaism archives from June 2000

The God Who Will Be and the Generations of Men: Time and the Torah.
June 22, 2000... Eternity and the Generations of Men WHEN ASKED TO GIVE A TALK ON "TIME AND ETERNITY in the Christian and Jewish Traditions" for a Symposium on the Bible and Literature, [1] I was struck by how Christian this distinction suddenly seemed....

The Engendered Shema: Sarah-Echoes in the Name of Israel.
June 22, 2000... RACHEL ADLER HAS PROPOSED THE "ENGENDERING" OF Judaism, a process that both reveals and repairs the "dis/remembering" of women in Jewish religious traditions. [1] Women's full inclusion in Jewish liturgy, she argues, necessitates supplying...

DAVID M. KATZ.
June 22, 2000... Invocation Devoted namesake, whirling before the Lord, Arise in my verse as the dancer you were. Verse, a dance through shadows, was your legacy; I want to declare permanence in this life. David, Israel's king, hand the...

Jews and the Urban Experience.
June 22, 2000... Introduction FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES,JEWISH LIFE has been inextricably bound up with urban society. It was in the city that Jews first faced the challenge of modem life: how to balance their religious and ethnic loyalties...

Immigrant Jews in Paris, London, and New York: A Comparative Approach.
June 22, 2000... I OFTEN THINK OF THE PROBLEM OF JEWS AND THE comparative urban experience as one of "Jews and the Bagel Question." Why is it that I cannot find a good bagel in Paris (unless it is flown in [frozen!] from New York)? The life of Jews in the...

East European Jewish Detroit in the Early Twentieth Century.
June 22, 2000... EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH DETROIT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH century appears to us at the end of the century, at best, obliquely. Three valuable works of history written during the past generation by Olivier Zunz, Robert Rockaway, and Sidney Bolkosky...

Detroit's Reactions to the Holocaust and the New Immigrants.
June 22, 2000... TO SPEAK ABOUT REACTIONS OF AMERICAN JEWS TO the Holocaust often means asking discomfiting questions about what they did or did not do in the 1930s and 1940s. These questions, in turn, raise others about what American Jews knew, what could be...

Intersections and Modern Urban Identities: Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Jewish Writers, and the Jewish Street.
June 22, 2000... THE MODERNISM OF THE GREAT WESTERN EUROPEAN fiction writers--James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster particularly come to mind though many others could easily be added--was in part a strategy of cultural resistance to dominant...

"The Midwife of His Rebirth": Henry Roth and Zion.
June 22, 2000... HENRY ROTH BEGAN HIS REMARKABLE CAREER AS NOVELIST with a vivid image of displacement-the disorienting arrival of Genya and David Scheari on Ellis Island. And the Lower East Side in which the Jewish newcomers settle is a profoundly unsettling...

After Moriah.
June 22, 2000... As if you thought that after this the two of you would share a laugh, that when you said, "Come with me." he'd run to your side, that when you asked him to bring kindling he'd load up with cypress sticks. Now he just...

Father.
June 22, 2000... Still able to speak, Isaac pleads for his life while Abraham with one hand caresses his cheek and with the other lifts the knife when out of nowhere a feathered voice (Should he listen to this one?) calls off the...

Projecting Culture: Jewish Art Historians and the History of Art History.
June 22, 2000... LET ME BEGIN MY DISCUSSION OF JEWISH ART HISTORIANS and the history of art history with an early essay by Salo Baron written in 1928 soon after his emigration to New York from Vienna. The essay, "Ghetto and Emancipation: Shall We Revise the...

Jewish Salamanca, Christian Learning, Modern Irony.
June 22, 2000... SALAMANCA REMINDS THE JEWISH VISITOR OF JERUSALEM, especially of Jerusalem within the walls of the Old City. Many of Salamanca's public buildings-its two massive cathedrals, its distinguished university with its score of buildings-were...

Biblical Theology: Is It Good for the Jews?
June 22, 2000... OUR CENTURY HAS SEEN THE RISE AND FALL AND APPARENT rebirth of Biblical theology as a movement and as a discipline. After the heady days of Barth, von Rad, and Yehezkel Kaufman, all of whom tried to crystallize the teaching of the Hebrew Bible,...

The Jewish State Doesn't Live Here Anymore.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul. By YORAM HAZONY. New York: Basic Books, 2000. The Jewish State is one of the most important books to emerge from Israel since the founding of the state, in part because it is a broadside...

Musical Ambassador.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Isaac Stern: My First 79 Years. Written with CHAIM POTOK. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 How does one capture in words a life of passionate commitment to music? Apparently it is not an easy assignment, even with the help of a professional...

French Books on the Holocaust.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Robert Badinter. Ordinary Antisemitism: Vicky and the Jewish Attorney (1940-1944) (Un Antisimitisme ordinaire: Vicky et les avocats juifs, 1940-1944). Paris: Fayard, 1997. Jean-Michel Chaumont. Vying Victims of the Holocaust: Genocide,...