Judaism articles from September 1995

Judaism archives from September 1995

Call It Sleep: Jewish, American, modernist, classic.
September 22, 1995... In 1966 Henry Roth published a story in the New Yorker entitled "The Surveyor." An American tourist is apprehended by the police in Seville for conducting surveying operations at a public thoroughfare without a permit and for suspiciously...

A Yiddish poet translates his poem in New York. (poem)
September 22, 1995... Berlin makht iber (1943) Afn dil, kupes fun shikh un hor, un ash afn stav fun Sobibor. Berlin recycles (1943) On the floor, in piles, shoes, hair; and ashes on the pond at Sobibor.

Crisis in the scrollery: a dying consensus. (Dead Sea Scrolls)
September 22, 1995... The importance of scholarly consensus as a means by which we orient ourselves in a realm of knowledge has been much emphasized in the past generation; recognition of its role in creating the framework that enables us to understand the world is...

Manna. (poem)
September 22, 1995... The miracle was manna And when they tired of it A flock of birds conveniently descended And they ate and looked amazed. Child-like they fought but promises were given. The rock was water and the storm Berated mountains and Moses thundered...

Sarah talks to God. (poem)
September 22, 1995... "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son." And why O king, my God, should the blood of a child Run precious in your house? My small boy has brought wheat to your altar And in the summer gathered fruits...

Afternoon in Tel Aviv. (poem)
September 22, 1995... Her olive skin drowns the sun; she walks in sandals And sprays of sand are on her legs. It is three or four o'clock - we have given up time And in the thick heat the stores open like umbrellas. At the street cafe with three sticky tables We...

Jewish studies in northern California: a symposium.
September 22, 1995... ON MAY 27TH 1995, IN THE COURSE OF INTRODUCING a group of younger scholars at a symposium of the American Jewish Historical Society entitled, "The Renaissance of Jewish Studies: Personal Reflections," I found myself peering through a double...

I'll take Manhattan: reflections on Jewish studies.(Jewish Studies in Northern California)
September 22, 1995... AN INVITATION FROM MOSES RISCHIN TO REFLECT UPON the renaissance of Jewish studies from my "own personal, academic, intellectual, and cultural history" took me by surprise. That there has been a renaissance of Jewish studies in the past decade...

Between Los Angeles and Berkeley: memoirs of a California Jewish historian.(Jewish Studies in Northern California)
September 22, 1995... SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS INVITED BY THE BERLIN Jewish Community to participate in a conference on the theme of "The Jews of California." Like many of my co-participants, I later discovered, my initial reaction was to laugh. Was there such an...

This alien thing that is my inheritance.(Jewish Studies in Northern California)
September 22, 1995... IN ONE SENSE, MY SCHOLARLY INTEREST IN ANCIENT Judaism is a product of my struggles to formulate an adult identity. I come from what is a typical Conservative Jewish home, first in Baltimore, Maryland, later in Silver Spring and Rockville,...

That common era: personal reflections on teaching late antique religions.(Jewish Studies in Northern California)
September 22, 1995... My interest in Jewish studies began as as undergraduate at Brown University. The religious studies department, and in particular Jacob Neusner, introduced me to the creativity and excitement of the Late Antique period when early Christianity...

Home again? (teaching Jewish Studies)(Jewish Studies in Northern California)
September 22, 1995... I recall the moment as, I began university when I first realized -- rather astonished, actually, at the thought -- that "this place exists so that people can think freely." I had emerged a few weeks earlier from an Orthodox rabbinical seminary...

Judaism and nature: theological and moral issues to consider while renegotiating a Jewish relationship to the natural world.
September 22, 1995... Since the advent of the modern environmental movement some thirty years ago,(1) dozens of articles have been written exploring the relationship of Judaism and the environment, attempting to articulate a Jewish response to the environmental...

Rosenzweig's Rebbe Halevi: from the academy to the Yeshiva. (Franz Rosenzweig)
September 22, 1995... To those who knew him, or to those who read his works or read about him, Rosenzweig's short life has always meant more than a chronology of dates, facts, or publications.(1) Indeed, his life is often discussed in hagiographic tones. The seven,...

Time, form, and content: Franz Rosenzweig and the secret of biblical narration.
September 22, 1995... In January 1928, Franz Rosenzweig wrote an article for Martin Buber's fiftieth birthday, entitled "The Secret of the Biblical Narrative Form." Its four appearances in print had been confined to German language editions until the welcome...

Shabbat love poem. (poem)
September 22, 1995... for c It was the week the Tabernacle was finished. The last skins were sewn together, the brass mirrors beaten into lavers. It was spring in the desert. Fresh sun glinted on fine gold threads. Rocks rang with...

A pilgrimage to Germany.
September 22, 1995... In August 1994 I visited Germany for the first time. Like most Jews I had avoided that nation: Germany symbolized the evil of the Shoah, of the horrors launched by the Nazi state over a half-century ago. To travel there would evoke anger and...

Mezuzah haiku. (poem)
September 22, 1995... god in my palm palm in god crumbling on an ancient door post Elaine Starkman's latest work is Learning to Sit in the Silence: A Journal of Caretaking (Papier Mache Press, 1993). She has taught English at Diablo Valley College in California...

Balfour on Mount Scopus. (Lord Arthur Balfour; Mount Scopus, Israel)
September 22, 1995... When my brother and I were children in the 1920s there hung in our room two portraits of famous men, one with beard, one without. The latter was Abraham Lincoln -- the 1919 lithograph by Boardman Robinson, who portrayed him from photographs...

Down and out in Chelyabinsk: a memoir. (short story)(excerpts from 'The Siberian Bachelor/The Further Notebooks of Yakov Marateck, Outlaw')
September 22, 1995... "Down and Out in Chelyabinsk" is an excerpt from The Siberian Bachelor/The Further Notebooks of Yakov Marateck, Outlaw, which continues the picaresque saga recorded in The Samurai of Vishogrod (Jewish Publication Society, 1976). The...