Judaism articles from March 1997

Judaism archives from March 1997

From the King's sanctuary to the chosen city.
March 22, 1997... Towards the end of the first commonwealth, in the seventh century B.C.E., a new concept is introduced in several biblical works, that of the chosen place or city. This concept is most prominent in the book of Deuteronomy, where it is one of the...

Hasmonian Jesuralem: a Jewish city in a hellenistic orbit.
March 22, 1997... By the hasmonean period (CA. 160-63 B.C.E.), Jerusalem had been under Jewish hegemony for almost one thousand years. The city had come to be regarded, by Jew and non-Jew alike, as a quintessentially Jewish city. Its population was overwhelmingly...

Jerusalem as the 'omphalos' of the world: on the history of geographical concept.
March 22, 1997... Jerusalem has evoked many images but none is perhaps more vivid and abiding than that of the Holy City as the center and navel of the earth. A series of mediaeval Christian maps, of which the Hereford mappa mundi is perhaps the best known...

Jerusalem in Jewish liturgy.
March 22, 1997... The Historical Problem There can be little doubt that Jerusalem occupies an honored place in the medley of religious ideas formulated and transmitted by Jewish circles through countless generations. Equally incontrovertible is the notion that...

Jerusalem in Jewish law and custom: a preliminary typology.
March 22, 1997... Jewish literature(1) written during the past 2,000 years has preserved hundreds, if not thousands, of laws and customs related to the city of Jerusalem. This material has been collected in many books and articles, but no attempt has been made...

Jerusalem: the Christian holy city.
March 22, 1997... Christian Jerusalem is at once a fact of history and a work of the imagination. The actual city, the place where King David ruled and Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, is irrevocably part of Christian memory. What happened there, whether one...

Jerusalem and its temple in the beginnings of the Christian Movement.
March 22, 1997... Jesus or Nazareth was a galilean prophet and healer who was executed on the orders of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect of Judea, about the year 30 C.E. After his death, his followers "saw" him in some sense or other, and they became convinced...

Jerusalem and Mecca.
March 22, 1997... Jerusalem and Mecca are two of the most famous holy cities in the world. An enormous amount of literature and scholarly treatises has been written about each one of them. Nevertheless very little if anything has been done in way of comparative...

The quest for Jerusalem.
March 22, 1997... During all of their many exiles, Jews have longed to travel to the holy city of Jerusalem. This is not only a journey to the heart of the Holy Land, but also a quest for the Shekhinah, who is so closely linked to the Kotel, the Wailing Wall, all...

Remembering Anne Frank.
March 22, 1997... In 1995, fifty years after Anne Frank's death, the publication of two books and the release of a documentary film shed new light both on her life and on how the world has come to know her. In An Obsession with Anne Frank, Lawrence Graver, tells...

'World Over' and Jewish cultural literacy.
March 22, 1997... From 1940 to 1983 the New York Board of Jewish Education published World Over. A children's magazine, its purpose was to increase the level of cultural literacy among young members of the Jewish community. Not partisan to any particular sect, the...

Jacob dreams of his son Joseph. (poem)
March 22, 1997... Joseph's brothers, who were jealous of him, had sold him into slavery, but told their father, Jacob, that Joseph had been killed by a wild beast. They brought back Joseph's coat stained with blood to corroborate their story. Beyond loss, You...

The new liturgies.
March 22, 1997... These are not especially devout times in the history of our people's spiritual career. I would not have expected in advance any outpouring of new prayer books of quality and imagination. Perhaps it is precisely the void in our inner lives that...

Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by RICHARD L. STEIN On the ninth of September, 1837, following her first official visit to the City of London, the newly crowned Queen Victoria prepared a long diary entry about the responses of her subjects. Their warmth was...

Between "Race" and Culture: Representations of "the Jew" in English and American Literature.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by RICHARD L. STEIN On the ninth of September, 1837, following her first official visit to the City of London, the newly crowned Queen Victoria prepared a long diary entry about the responses of her subjects. Their warmth was...

Constructions of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by RICHARD L. STEIN On the ninth of September, 1837, following her first official visit to the City of London, the newly crowned Queen Victoria prepared a long diary entry about the responses of her subjects. Their warmth was...

Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by RICHARD L. STEIN On the ninth of September, 1837, following her first official visit to the City of London, the newly crowned Queen Victoria prepared a long diary entry about the responses of her subjects. Their warmth was...

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by RICHARD L. STEIN On the ninth of September, 1837, following her first official visit to the City of London, the newly crowned Queen Victoria prepared a long diary entry about the responses of her subjects. Their warmth was...

Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in German, and committed suicide by drowning in the Seine....

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in German, and committed suicide by drowning in the Seine....

Paul Celan/Nelly Sachs: Correspondence.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in German, and committed suicide by drowning in the Seine....