Judaism articles from March 1996

Judaism archives from March 1996

Central European intellectuals in Palestine.
March 22, 1996... To discuss the fate of Central Europeans in Palestine, their demographics and their problems of acculturation as well as their scholarly contributions, would in itself be an interesting task, but this essay has a much more specific focus: a...

A new scholarly colony in Jerusalem: the early history of Jewish studies at the Hebrew University.
March 22, 1996... More than seventy years ago, in one of the grand capitals of the Middle East, a new university was inaugurated. Bearing the name of a great civilization, this university stood as testimony to the efforts of dedicated and earnest men from the...

Response to George Mosse and David Myers. (Judaism, this issue, p. 134 and 142)
March 22, 1996... John Munro, the historian of the American University of Beirut cited by David Myers in his fascinating essay, accused the American missionaries who were its progenitors of succumbing to the dreaded spirit of "Hebraism," which in a footnote he...

Culture, religion and language in Middle Eastern universities.
March 22, 1996... While the foundation and development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are unique in the cultural history of the Jewish People in Eretz-Israel, they exhibit striking similarities with regard to the development of other institutions of higher...

The beginnings of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
March 22, 1996... The story of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University can be told in a number of ways: as an account of four generations of ever-expanding and increasingly specialized research; as the history of an important academic institution; and...

The Zionist labor movement and the Hebrew University.
March 22, 1996... In May of 1949, one year after the establishment of the State of Israel, and shortly after the conclusion of the War of Independence, David Ben-Gurion, then Prime Minister and Defense Minister, appeared at the opening ceremony of the Hebrew...

The view from Scopus: Judah L. Magnes and the early years of the Hebrew University.
March 22, 1996... Between 1918 and 1925, on four separate occasions, inaugural ceremonies on Mount Scopus heralded the establishment of the Hebrew University. In retrospect, they appear as prologues announcing the themes and introducing the protagonists of Judah...

Water. (poem)
March 22, 1996... In this simple land where mixed up words spill out of split rocks and water only comes from the faucet, I walk on straight roads and watch my life wander. LEORA B. SMITH, whose poems appeared in the Fall 1995 issue, received her Ph.D. from...

Unfolding. (poem)
March 22, 1996... Poetry only exists on shards of paper, scratched on envelopes and half pieces from my notebook. on the wrong side of theater tickets and receipts, crumpled in my mind unfolding on napkins never neat, words, organizing themselves. LEORA...

Pat Buchanan and the Jews.
March 22, 1996... Of all contemporary American political figures, few are viewed so negatively by Jews as Patrick J. Buchanan.(1) This is not merely because of the columnist's position on such matters as immigration, multiculturalism, the "cultural war,"...

Vowels. (poem)
March 22, 1996... Holes on the page the eye picks up, the ear opens to, the I finds irresistible. Wide mouth bass drift on weeds by the dam's breach. A lake in upper New York state, a pond near Syracuse, both yield their fish to the lone fisherman in autumn,...

Auschwitz and After.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Langer once suggested that "one of the many tasks of holocaust criticism is to clarify the complex bond, in the minds of both author and audience, linking the oppression of history to the impressions of art."(1) Langer was discussing...

Bridge of Sorrow, Bridge of Hope.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Langer once suggested that "one of the many tasks of holocaust criticism is to clarify the complex bond, in the minds of both author and audience, linking the oppression of history to the impressions of art."(1) Langer was discussing...

The Dentist of Auschwitz.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Langer once suggested that "one of the many tasks of holocaust criticism is to clarify the complex bond, in the minds of both author and audience, linking the oppression of history to the impressions of art."(1) Langer was discussing...

The Smell of Humans.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Langer once suggested that "one of the many tasks of holocaust criticism is to clarify the complex bond, in the minds of both author and audience, linking the oppression of history to the impressions of art."(1) Langer was discussing...

Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism.
March 22, 1996... Lawrence Langer once suggested that "one of the many tasks of holocaust criticism is to clarify the complex bond, in the minds of both author and audience, linking the oppression of history to the impressions of art."(1) Langer was discussing...

The Teaching of Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education.
March 22, 1996... Since about the middle of the present century, university students have been taught about Jewish life and thought in a way that has no precedent in tradition. The rapid growth of departments of religious studies and, later, independent...

Judaism in Modern Times: An Introduction and Reader.
March 22, 1996... Since about the middle of the present century, university students have been taught about Jewish life and thought in a way that has no precedent in tradition. The rapid growth of departments of religious studies and, later, independent...

Divorce, Tel Aviv style - 1973. (excerpt from book "From All Their Habitations")
March 22, 1996... It was a classic illustration of the first Mishna in the Gemara Gittin, the opening law of the Talmudic tractate dealing with divorce: One who brings a document of divorce from abroad must say it was written in my presence and it was signed in...