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Jewish Studies and Jewish Ethics
Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-), 2021ABSTRACT This essay considers the major arguments of Adam Zachary Newton’s Jewish Studies as Counterlife in light of the burgeoning subfield of Jewish ethics. Although in my view the book has a number of foundational flaws, I nevertheless see the book as contributing to a broader project in interdisciplinary critique and collaboration ...
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Jewish Territorialism (in Relation to Jewish Studies)
2017The Jewish Territorialist movement was first organized in 1905 when, at the Seventh Zionist Congress, a group of some fifty Zionists left the Zionist movement to form the Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO). This secession, under the leadership of the famous Anglo-Jewish writer and playwright Israel Zangwill (b. 1864–d.
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JEWISH STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY HUNGARY
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2011In the nineteenth century, Hungary emerged as an important centre of Jewish Studies, a home to leading scholars of Judaism and Jewish history, such as Moses Bloch (1815–1909), Ignac Goldziher (1850...
Kovács, András +1 more
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2021
This chapter explores the problems of studying Orthodox Jewish women, in particular the 'double invisibility' they experience, first from the perspective of male Orthodox Jews, and, second, in the lack of knowledge about them in the non-Jewish world. Orthodox women engage in a wide range of communal and domestic religious activities, in spite of their ...
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This chapter explores the problems of studying Orthodox Jewish women, in particular the 'double invisibility' they experience, first from the perspective of male Orthodox Jews, and, second, in the lack of knowledge about them in the non-Jewish world. Orthodox women engage in a wide range of communal and domestic religious activities, in spite of their ...
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Teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordics
European Journal of Jewish StudiesAbstract This roundtable offers a collaborative, multi-vocal forum on the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, featuring contributions from scholars and instructors based in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Conceived as a reflective platform, it weaves together critical insights, pedagogical experiences, and ...
Joanna Zofia Spyra +10 more
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Jewish Philosophy within Jewish Studies
Abstract What role, if any, can Jewish philosophy play within Jewish studies? By “Jewish philosophy,” the author means a contribution to philosophy as such that is, in some sense to be specified, Jewish. The chapter begins by noting the prevalence within Jewish studies of a certain historicism that precludes Jewish philosophy ...openaire +1 more source
2008
This chapter assesses the Jewishness of Hollywood film. It explores how Jewishness is encoded within specific key Jewish American films — films which, while made by Jewish American film-makers, are accessible to and indeed intended for a mainstream, and therefore not necessarily a Jewish, audience.
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This chapter assesses the Jewishness of Hollywood film. It explores how Jewishness is encoded within specific key Jewish American films — films which, while made by Jewish American film-makers, are accessible to and indeed intended for a mainstream, and therefore not necessarily a Jewish, audience.
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The Problems of Jewish Studies
Zutot, 2002The recognition of Jewish studies as an area of knowledge worthy of research and teaching in universities is a quite recent phenomenon. From an exceedingly small base in the first half of the twentieth century, the subject has now burgeoned. This explosion of interest, particularly since the 1960s, has led to a massive increase in the number of ...
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Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies
2009Abstract This article examines two commentaries on Leviticus, Jews in the mainstream, biblical versus post-biblical literature, and the pre-critical, critical, and post-critical stances. It describes two particular developments within biblical studies that may be ascribed to the influence of Jewish biblical scholarship.
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