Judaism articles from September 1999

Judaism archives from September 1999

Beyond Marginality.(Jewish writing and identity)
September 22, 1999... RECOGNIZING THAT WRITERS ARE AT THE FOREFRONT--THE cutting edge--of societal re-evaluation and change, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1998 convened "Writing the Jewish Future: A Global Conversation," an international Jewish...

Israel and Jewish Writing: The Next 50 Years.
September 22, 1999... THIS TOPIC REMINDS OF A JOKE I ONCE HEARD ABOUT A man who is puttering around at home while listening with one ear to a talk show on the radio in which an astrophysicist is being interviewed. Suddenly he jumps up with alarm, runs to the...

Erotic/Neurotic?(Jewish writing and identity)
September 22, 1999... I MUST APOLOGIZE FIRST OF ALL FOR SPEAKING IN AN organized way. I wish I could speak in a very disorganized way. My experience of living nowadays in Israel is of living in a period of the post destruction of Jewish life in Europe. The most...

Back to the Future: The Jewish Bookshelf as Contraband.
September 22, 1999... AS PART OF THE ONGOING CELEBRATIONS OF THE Jubilee of Jewish Statehood, I have been asked to speak at another conference this spring on "Israeli Literature and the Jewish Past." It came not entirely as a surprise to me, as I was preparing that...

Fracturing the Zionist Narrative.
September 22, 1999... TO THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ISRAELI LITERATURE, ONE first has to understand the achievements of the past twenty-five years, which have been a period of extraordinary boom. The innovations of Israeli literature during this period can be...

There Is No Other Tikkun.
September 22, 1999... WHEN DID THE HOLOCAUST BEGIN AND WHEN DID IT end? When Israeli youngsters come to Massuaz-the Institute for Holocaust Studies-for a day-long Seminar, they are requested to plot points on a long piece of paper representing the axis of time. One...

Saying Kaddish.
September 22, 1999... In Memoriam: Harry Alexander (1910-1998) Orphan's Kaddish Glorified and sanctified be God's great name throughout the world which he has created according to his will. May he establish his kingdom in your lifetime and during your days,...

Fromm, Freud, and Midrash.
September 22, 1999... THE WRITINGS OF ERICH FROMM (1908-1980) REPRESENT a significant chapter not only in the annals of psychoanalysis but in the history of Jewish hermeneutics. Indeed, one cannot help being struck by the fact that almost all of Fromm's work,...

Summer Psalms.(Poem)
September 22, 1999... The world blazes before your eyes as you are awakened by the songs of the birds and you are here at the moment of creation witnessing the miraculous life force that flows through the waters that encircle the earth...

Jewish Time: Ancient Practice, Hellenistic and Modern Habits, Freud's Reclaiming.
September 22, 1999... BIBLICAL ISRAEL'S CONCEPT OF TIME DIFFERS FUNDAMENTALLY from contemporary usage. In classical Hebrew thinking, there is no conceptual separation between an event and the time in which it occurs. Time, like the event or series of occurrences...

The Americanization of Mussar: Abraham Twerski's Twelve Steps.
September 22, 1999... IN 1946 REFORM RABBI JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN PUBLISHED Peace of Mind, an inspirational best-seller that declared psychology to be as important as religion to Americans' spiritual growth. Traditionalist intellectuals, led by the neo-orthodox thinker...

The Exodus of Benjamin Fondane.
September 22, 1999... if the cries of human beings fall like chestnuts to the earth, at the mercy of the wind, without altering the peace of Angels, then what is Exodus? [1] WHEN I BEGAN TO TRANSLATE FONDANE'S L'EXODE: Super Flumina Babylonis,...

Among Others.
September 22, 1999... THE WORLD IS NOT BENSONHURST, 1948, WHEN I WAS 4. I was brought up an Orthodox Jew in a Brooklyn of ethnic Jews and Catholics. At Columbia I studied physics during that department's high Chinese-Jewish period. Eventually, at 30, I entered a...

The Shoah in America.
September 22, 1999... FORTY YEARS AGO MY COMMUNITY BEGAN TO COMMEMORATE the Holocaust one complete weekend each year with prayer, film, readings, and discussion. We recited names of the murdered for forty consecutive hours, night and day, a practice which drew the...

Jewish Visual Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. By RICHARD I. COHEN. Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. One Hundred Years of Israeli Art. By GIDEON OFRAT. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Jewish Icons is a...

Jewish Women in Diaspora.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Dakota Diaspora. By SOPHIE TRUPIN Lincoln: University of NebraskaPress, 1988. Insecure Prosperity: Small Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940. By EWA MORAWSKA. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. Triumph of Hope. By...

Israeli Music.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture. By ROBERT FLEISHER. Foreword by Shulamit Ran. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Includes bibliographical references, discography, index, portraits of 20 Israeli composers, and 19 musical...

Prague Traditions.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague. BY SYLVIE ANNE GOLDBERG, translated by CAROL COSMAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 300 pages with illustrations....