Judaism articles from June 2003

Judaism archives from June 2003

Jewish and Christian understandings of Israel.
June 22, 2003... JEWS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE EACH TRADITIONALLY considered themselves to be the heirs of biblical Israel, God's chosen people. Perhaps more than any other difference between Judaism and Christianity, this claim to be God's covenantal partner, to be...

Public administration and the Jewish ethic.
June 22, 2003... THE ADMINISTRATIVE ETHIC INFORMED BY THE VALUES of Judaism and Jewish practices, as seen in and through its foundational texts, is different from the understanding of "public administration" that is dominant in the U.S. Jewish communal...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2003... Greta Slobin's essay, "Heroic Poetry and Revolutionary Prophecy: Russian Symbolists Translate the Hebrew Poets" (Fall 2002: 417-418) should end as follows: "This is a remarkable statement by a poet who had been caught in the historic...

Introduction.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Since I did not fight your wars, Since I fled your fire, Since I opted for Diaspora And left the holy for the profane I let you sing thru my mouth I carry your blood across the ocean I mark your graves in a new language My...

Identity card.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... All my dead my grandfather my father and the others edged me forward towards my life. I was the sum of their hope. I am their last. They told me, Go on-- my grandfather with his blackened beard my father whose breathing became labored...

The infinite is small for him after a long, tiring day.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... On my way home, along the seaside road, I saw the spectacle of heaven and earth in the silvery olive tree behind each leaf the soft growth of the grass and the heavy darkness of the carob ascending and descending the chromatic scale of...

Zerah Wahrhaftig's journey.(rescued Jews during the Holocaust, 1933 - 1945)(Biography)
June 22, 2003... ZERAH WAHRHAFTIG, AMONG THE SIGNERS OF THE Iisraeli Declaration of Independence, was born in Volkovysk, Belarus, and studied in Lithuanian yeshivas and at the religious seminary in Warsaw, where he received a rabbinical degree and completed a...

Lavish absence: recalling and rereading Edmond Jabes.(Judaism)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... No matter where, in cafes, in the metro, while walking, at dinner, on little bits of paper, on matchbooks, napkins, on his memory, Edmond Jabes writes. Because life is a book that needs to be written at any moment. All his life he...

Reclaiming the rhozhinke: music and the synagogue service (1).(Judaism)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Once, in a troubled time for the Jewish people, Rabbi Israel of Retzin stood before God and said Master of the Universe! We do not know that place in the forest Where previous generations went to pray. And...

Rabbi Solomon Goldman and synagogue life.(a study)(Biography)
June 22, 2003... PART OF THE LEGACY OF RABBI SOLOMON GOLDMAN (1893-1953) is his correspondence. It is without question the finest repository available of detailed and impassioned discussions of the Zionist Movement, synagogue life, the growth and tensions of...

Insiders or outsiders: women and rabbinic literature.(Judaism)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, I INTERVIEWED FOR A POSITION teaching rabbinic literature at a seminary. The interview included an informal lunch at which students and faculty could ask any questions they chose. The first questioner was a young woman...

The politics and poetics of Vatican Holocaust discourse.(a study)
June 22, 2003... THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE VATICAN'S ACTIONS DURING the Second World War first erupted in 1963 with the publication of Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy, which accused the wartime pope, Pius XII, of being silent in the face of the destruction of...

Antisemitism, social science, and the Muslim and Arab world.(a study)
June 22, 2003... SCHOLARS WHO STUDY GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES have identified considerable danger in dehumanizing rhetoric of the sort that has become common across much of the Arab world. (1) Few people, after all, would accept peaceful coexistence with a...

Jewish literature and Latin America.(From all Their Habitations)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... UNTIL THE LAST QUARTER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, scholarly attention on the Jewish communities of the Spanish- and Portuguese-language Americas was scarce. This is surprising given the size of the population in the region: a total of around...

B & B.(Current Theological Writing)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... I am not the first to link the appearance of remarkable volumes of American Jewish thought and to review them together. Peter Ochs, a trustworthy interpreter of this literature, evaluates Eugene Borowitz's anthology Studies in the Meaning of...

The Illiberal Imagination.(Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition. By EDWARD ALEXANDER, New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers, 2003. The "classical liberalism" of the title of this essay collection by Edward Alexander is the liberalism explored...

Freud, Moses, and the intifada.("Freud and the Non-European")(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Freud and the Non-European. By EDWARD SAID. London, New York: Verso, 2003. In the ominous spring of 1938, a young photographer made his way through Vienna's cobblestone streets to Berggasse 19, the private and professional residence of Dr....

Thinking about the Holocaust and its Visual Culture.("Visual Culture and the Holocaust")(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Visual Culture and the Holocaust. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001. With Visual Culture and the Holocaust, Barbie Zelizer and her contributors have made a significant and very useful...

Toughness, tenderness, and t'shuvah.("Carry Me Across the Water")(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Carry Me Across the Water. By ETHAN CANIN. New York: Random House. 2001. Americans love success stories, especially tales of underdogs who overcome all odds to achieve success by their own efforts. We also have an understandably uneasy...