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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Miriam’s Red Jewel: Jewish Femininity and Cultural Memory in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun
HumanitiesThis article offers a new perspective on Miriam’s red jewel in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (1860), interpreting it as a symbol of Jewish femininity, diasporic memory, and aesthetic resistance.
Irina Rabinovich
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‘reportless places’: Janet Malcolm and Collage
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Natalie Ferris
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Treasures of the Jewish Museum exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, November 4 – December 30, 1990
, 1990 This exhibition aims to integrate the treasures of The Jewish Museum’s collection drawn upon the religious and ceremonial Jewish culture of the last three millennia.
Baltimore Museum of Art
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Adolf Vajler: an attempt to reconstruct a Jewish artist's biography [PDF]
, 2009 Adolf Vajler (Bosanski Novi, 11 april 1895 - Zagreb, 3 januar 1969) predstavljen je prvenstveno kao jevrejski umetnik koji koristeći teme i ikonografiju istočno-evropskog jevrejskog slikarstva posvećenog pogromima s kraja 19. i početka 20.
Rajner, Mirjam
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