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The Story's the Thing: Afterword [PDF]

, 1985
The Beleaguered South Bronx is not the only ground where the ancient and medieval traditions of Jewish storytelling flourished. As the articles in this issue point to some of the stopping places along the way—thirteenth-century Ashkenaz and sixteenth ...
Roskies, David G.
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Messianic Footsteps in the Third Solitude: Canadian Jewish Mysticism in Tosher Hasidism

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2017
Critics have suggested that in Canadian literature there are “two solitudes” of Anglophone and Francophone linguistic and ethnic clusters, which give way to the unique “third solitude” of Montreal Jewry.
Aubrey Glazer
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The Emancipation of Yiddish [PDF]

, 1981
The Nahman-Perl rivalry is an exemplum of the dialectic between continuity and change, integration and rebellion, that has structured the basic patterns of controversy in all forms of the Jewish spirit for the past two hundred years.
Roskies, David G.
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A POCKETBOOK OF WONDERS: MAYSES NOYROIM (DEEDS OF AWE, PIETRKOV 1913/1914) AND THE REBBE OF RADZYMIN [PDF]

Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2017
Mayses Noyroim is a Yiddish booklet published in the second decade of the twentieth century documenting the wonders performed by Ya’akov Arie Guterman (1792–1874).
Marek Tuszewicki
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Yedidyah Ha-Alexandri and the Crisis of the Modern Jewish Age: Philo of Alexandria as an Exemplary Ḥasid in Naḥman Krochmal’s Thought

Religions, 2021
The present article sets out to answer the question of the extent to which Naḥman Krochmal’s reappraisal of Philo of Alexandria in the light of his Jewish faith reflects a deep spiritual crisis that was engulfing the Maskilic world: the encroaching ...
Ze’ev Strauss
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The concept of early Hasidism: origins and development

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2002
Hasidism is a religious-mystical trend in Judaism that arose in the first half of the eighteenth century. among the Jewish population of Volyn, Podillya and Galicia. The emergence of a new movement in the Orthodox Jewish religion was driven by changes in
O.A. Rybak
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Twentieth-Century Hasidic-Zionist Homiletics: The Case of Netivot Shalom by “the Rebbe Painter”, Avraham Ya‘akov Shapira of Drohobych

Religions, 2023
Much has been written about the theological, cultural, and social foundations of the Zionist movement and its historical development. While scholars have discussed the immigration of the first Hasidim to the Land of Israel in the late eighteenth century,
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Menorah Review (No. 9, Winter, 1987) [PDF]

, 1987
The Bible as Literature -- The Kindness of Strangers? -- Resurrection and Divine Warfare: The Biblical Connection -- Selfhood and Dialogue: The Modern Legacy of Martin Buber ...

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Representationalism and the Spatial Representational Contents of Afterimage Experiences

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experiences of afterimages have often been cited as counterexamples to representationalism about vision, that is, as counterexamples to the thesis that the phenomenal character of a visual experience is completely determined by its representational content. In this paper, I discuss a possible counterexample to representationalism that is based
René Jagnow
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Conception of “spiritual eldering” of Z. Schachter-Shalomi

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2016
The publication of Angelova A. «Conception of “spiritual eldering” of Z. Schachter-Shalomi» is devoted to research gerontosophy ideas of one of the leaders of the World Jewish renewal movement.
Angelina Angelova
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