Allan Nadler
Drew University, Religious Studies, Emeritus
- Rabbi, Jewish Public Intellectual, Wallerstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion, Drew Un... moreRabbi, Jewish Public Intellectual, Wallerstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion, Drew University (1998-2018). Fields of expertise, eastern European Judaism and Jewish Intellectual History in the early modern and modern periods.Allan L. Nadler (born May 8, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Nadler was educated at McGill and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1988.
Nadler was initially ordained as an Orthodox rabbi by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Baron (1911–2011) of Yeshiva Merkaz ha-Talmud in Montreal, and received a second ordination from Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Tennenbaum of the Orthodox Rabbinical Court of Justice in Boston. During the period 1984 - 1992, Nadler became Rabbi of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, Quebec, Canada's oldest and largest traditional Jewish congregation. Nadler was the first Orthodox-ordained rabbi at this formerly Conservative congregation, which left the Conservative Movement during his tenure. After resigning from that congregation, he served as Director of Research of the YIVO Institute in New York City (1992–1999), which includes the world's largest Yiddish Archives and Library. While on a Sabbatical from Drew University during the 2011-2012 academic year, Nadler was appointed distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. He has served as a visiting professor at McGill University, in 2005 and 2012-2104. He was Faculty Lecturer at McGill from 1988-1990, and part-time Assistant Professor at McGill from 1991-1998.edit
A critical assessment of Prof. David Biale's manifesto arguing for the antiquity and essential "Jewishness" of secularism.
Research Interests: Yiddish Literature, Jewish Studies, Secular Humanism, Talmud, Secularization, and 14 moreRabbinics, Midrash, Jewish Thought, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Philosophy, Judaism, Modern Jewish History, Secular Jewish Thought, Secularism, Early Judaism, Yiddish Culture and Language, Rabbinic Judaism, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Jewish Secularism
Review-Essay on Noah Feldman's latest -- and first "Jewish" book, that purports to be a no less than a contemporary Guide for the Perplexed, about "God, Israel and the Jewish People."
Research Interests: Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine, Doctrine of God, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, and 14 moreJewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Judaism, Modern Jewish History, Philosophy of God, Zionism, Israel, Zionism (History), Religious Zionism, Modern Jewish Thought, Anti-Zionism, Rabbinic Judaism, and HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalism
... The Agu-dah had established a separate fund for their colonizing efforts in Palestine, called "Keren ha-Yishuv." Shapira accused this fund, to-gether with the general Zionists' "Keren... more
... The Agu-dah had established a separate fund for their colonizing efforts in Palestine, called "Keren ha-Yishuv." Shapira accused this fund, to-gether with the general Zionists' "Keren ha-Yesod," of deliberately draining away support from the traditional endowment of R. Meir ...
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A monumental biography, that establishing among much else, that Maimonides' father was forced to convert his family to Islam after fleeing Almohad persecution in Spain in 1148 only to face it in Fez, Morocco.
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Entry on the evolving definitions of, and views about ,the "Nations of the World" (Aka "Goyim"), in Early Modern and Moderns Judaism.
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The great Liberal American Catholic author and public intellectual, Gary Wills' book "Papal Sins" was so passionately polemical that even I felt the need to push back on certain elements of his criticisms of past popes, and his attack on... more
The great Liberal American Catholic author and public intellectual, Gary Wills' book "Papal Sins" was so passionately polemical that even I felt the need to push back on certain elements of his criticisms of past popes, and his attack on the way Catholic biblical exegesis works. The first part of the book focuses on papal crimes against the Jews, especially those of the perfidious Pius IX. Thankfully, almost a quarter of a century since this important book appeared, much has changed for the better.
Research Interests: Jewish - Christian Relations, Holocaust Studies, Anti-Semitism, Church History, Second Vatican Council, and 8 moreRoman Catholicism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Pope Pius Ix, Catholic Church, Christian Studies, Christian theology and biblical studies, Catholic Biblical interpretation, and Catholic-Jewish dialogue
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On the reissue of the classic by Johns Hopkins U. Press
Research Interests: Talmud, Midrash, Jewish Literature, Midrashic Literature, Babylonian talmud, and 3 moreRabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), Research Interests: Rabbinical Literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, Aggadic Midrashim), Midrash, Redactional Criticism of Rabbinic Literature, Literary Criticism, Rabbinic Literature, and Rabbinics, and Talmud and Rabbinics
Written in 1999 on the occasion of the publication of A House Divided, Jacob Katz's landmark history of the origins of Modern Hungarian Jewish denominationalism and the emerging power of Ultra-Orthodoxy. Sadly, the crisis of Jewish... more
Written in 1999 on the occasion of the publication of A House Divided, Jacob Katz's landmark history of the origins of Modern Hungarian Jewish denominationalism and the emerging power of Ultra-Orthodoxy. Sadly, the crisis of Jewish factionalism with which this review- essay begins is far worse a quarter-century later, particularly in the light of the far-right, ultra-Orthodox Israeli coalition government.
By ALLAN NADLER "There is no issue of greater concern to Jews around the world than the deep religious divide that plagues us today. The acrimonious schisms dividing 'the Jewish world against itself can even be seen in the results of Israel's recent elections, which have widely been interpreted as a reaction to the poUdcs of divisiveness of the Netanyahu government. Political and religious leaders of all persuasions regularly decry thê unprecedented" mutual hostility between secular and '^Orthodox Jews in Israel and .among Jewish denomina-. dons m America. ; " But very few understand the historical roots of this great breach..."
By ALLAN NADLER "There is no issue of greater concern to Jews around the world than the deep religious divide that plagues us today. The acrimonious schisms dividing 'the Jewish world against itself can even be seen in the results of Israel's recent elections, which have widely been interpreted as a reaction to the poUdcs of divisiveness of the Netanyahu government. Political and religious leaders of all persuasions regularly decry thê unprecedented" mutual hostility between secular and '^Orthodox Jews in Israel and .among Jewish denomina-. dons m America. ; " But very few understand the historical roots of this great breach..."
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An almost completely obscure minor masterpiece by Eli Wiesel.
Research Interests: Yiddish Literature, Yiddish Language, Yiddish, Holocaust Studies, Holocaust education, and 11 moreHolocaust Literature, Holocaust, Holocaust Memory, Yiddish Culture and Language, Holocaust Shoah, Holocausto, Elie Wiesel, History of Holocaust Survivors In the Aftermath of World War II, Jewish Responses to the Holocaust, Jewish Vilna, and Abraham Sutzkever
Personal, and painful, reflections about my experiences as an Orthodox rabbi who dared to oppose the Lubavitcher Rebbe, z"atsal's interventions into Israeli politics, which marked the genesis of my alienation from the Orthodox rabbinate... more
Personal, and painful, reflections about my experiences as an Orthodox rabbi who dared to oppose the Lubavitcher Rebbe, z"atsal's interventions into Israeli politics, which marked the genesis of my alienation from the Orthodox rabbinate and eventually the Orthodox community. Not normally something I would post on Academic.Edu, but given the almost complete collapse of what was once pluralistic, tolerant and truly Zionist "Religious Zionism" and the power its usurpers have now risen to in Israel, it is important to revisit how long in the making this degeneration of Modern Orthodoxy has been. The hardline position of the Rebbe on the shtachim which provoked my NY Times article, his deligitimation of rabbis of other denominations -- he was the first to call on Israel to reject as gentiles anyone converted by non-Orthodox rabbis, and many more issues marked, in so many ways, the beginning of the decline chronicled in this piece.
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In the wake of the Crown Heights riots of August, 1991, and the failure of the established Jewish Organizations' inadequate response to the violence -- seen as the result of a lack of communication with and understanding of the Hasidic... more
In the wake of the Crown Heights riots of August, 1991, and the failure of the established Jewish Organizations' inadequate response to the violence -- seen as the result of a lack of communication with and understanding of the Hasidic Jewish Community, I was commissioned by the American Jewish Committee to write a monograph to explain American Hasidim to their leadership and members and for use in their educational programs, which they published six months after the conflagration. I should add on a personal note that I had befriended the young Lubavitcher scholar -- and tragic martyr of a veritable pogrom in Crown Heights -- Yankel Rosenbaum while he was doing research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where I had just begun my post as Director of Research just a few months before the riots. Yankel was brutally murdered during the riots by a gang of black rioters, who shouted Kill the Jew, as they chased him down and knifed him. There was thus for me a strong personal motivation to produce this study.
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Essay on Ives' Spinoza play
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On the absurd Jewish reclamation of Spinoza, especially by rabbis
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He was a charismatic preacher from the Galilee whose teachings challenged the regnant Jewish doctrines of his day and undermined rabbinical authority. He communed with the spirits of the living and the dead, performing miracles and... more
He was a charismatic preacher from the Galilee whose teachings challenged the regnant Jewish doctrines of his day and undermined rabbinical authority. He communed with the spirits of the living and the dead, performing miracles and restoring the lost souls of those who accepted his revolutionary teachings. An ascetic, messianic figure, he endured great, largely self-inflicted, suffering during his lifetime, for the sake of Redemption. To his despairing disciples he promised, at the hour of his death: "If you are deserving, I shall come back to you." And now, his dramatic story lovingly recreated from the primary sources of old is available for all to behold.
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The life, work and times of Yudel Rosenberg, the great Kabbalist, Talmudist, Halakhic Posek and most prolific Judaica forgerer of the 20th century: Self-Annointed Chief Rabbi of Montreal
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The first scholarly investigation of the first Munkatcher Rebbe's extreme and all-encompassing hostility to modern Jewish culture and politics.
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Early Modern History, Ukrainian Studies, Hungarian Studies, Jewish Thought, and 12 moreKabbalah, Hasidism, Politics of Ukraine, Modern Hungarian Jewish History, Ukraine, Modern Jewish Thought, Orthodox Judaism, ultra-Orthodox, Hungarian Jews, Ukrainian Jewish Relations, Lubavitch Hasidism, and Belz Hasidism
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Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Philosophy, and 11 moreChristian Kabbalah, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Lurianic Kabbalah, Demonologia, Medieval Demonology, Jewish Theology, Works of Devil, Kabbalah and science, Practical Kabbalah, and Angels and Demons
The Hasidic Rebbe, or "Grand Rabbi," is no ordinary Jewish spiritual leader. Unlike rabbis in other denominations, from Reform to the fervently Orthodox, the Rebbe in Hasidic communities is much more than a teacher, adjudicator of Jewish... more
The Hasidic Rebbe, or "Grand Rabbi," is no ordinary Jewish spiritual leader. Unlike rabbis in other denominations, from Reform to the fervently Orthodox, the Rebbe in Hasidic communities is much more than a teacher, adjudicator of Jewish law and community leader. He is nothing less than a conduit between his followers and the Heavens; a man believed by the faithful to be immaculately holy, endowed with a direct line to God Himself and thereby blessed with supernatural powers that include miracle-healing, divination and the magical granting of every imaginable human need, from bequeathing children to the clinically barren to endowing wealth to the chronically impecunious. A classic Hasidic adage assures that it is within the Rebbe's power to bestow believers with "offspring, long-life and sustenance."
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When John McCain was finally forced to reject publicly Reverend John Hagee's support, he explicitly condemned some of the Christian leader's most provocative views. Among them was Hagee's professed belief that the prophet Jeremiah (of... more
When John McCain was finally forced to reject publicly Reverend John Hagee's support, he explicitly condemned some of the Christian leader's most provocative views. Among them was Hagee's professed belief that the prophet Jeremiah (of ancient Israel, not Chicago) warned of Hitler's destruction of European Jewry, and that the Holocaust was a necessary prelude to the creation of Israel as well as a punishment to the Jews, for their deafness toward the Zionists' exhortations from the late 19th century on, to abandon Europe for the Holy Land. McCain may have been advised to distance himself from Hagee for fear of alienating conservative Jewish voters. Yet variations of these very same ideascharacterized by McCain as "crazy and unacceptable"have been bandied about and debated by some of the world's most influential Orthodox rabbis for decades, and are fervently held by myriad religious Jews to this day. A central tenet of the violently anti-Zionist theology of Satmar Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum was that the Holocaust was a punishment for the Zionists' secular perfidy and impudent impatience with the tarrying messiah. On the other hand, Teitelbaum's theological nemesis, super-Zionistic Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, the spiritual father of the Gush Emunim settlers' movement, preached that the Holocaust, as the dark side of a grand apocalyptic Divine plan, was the horribly holy, but necessary, "cleansing" (his exact term) of the Jews from the impurities of the galut (exile), and thus the precondition for the ingathering of the exiles and the creation of the State of Israel. More recently, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Ovadiah Yosef, pontificated on Israeli radio that the Holocaust was a punishment for the sins of the maskilim, the secularized European Jews in the modern period, andin explaining its million martyred childrenfor the transgressions of their non-Orthodox ancestors whose souls had been reincarnated to possess their otherwise innocent little bodies.
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Every aspect of the life and legacy of the great Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), ardent defender of his "despised faith" and the Jews' most celebrated pilgrim, is plagued by paradoxes, riddled with both historical ambiguities and... more
Every aspect of the life and legacy of the great Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), ardent defender of his "despised faith" and the Jews' most celebrated pilgrim, is plagued by paradoxes, riddled with both historical ambiguities and political arguments that rage even now. Offering more than a masterful biography, Hillel Halkin-prolific author, essayist and a skilled translator of Yiddish and Hebrew-includes many eloquent English renderings of Halevi's poems, no mean achievement as these were written in an Arab-influenced Hebrew style, meter and idiom that confounds even the most literate Israeli readers. (Halkin's rendering of the poet's achingly gorgeous love song "Why My Darling Have You Barred All News?" is alone worth the price of the work.) But Halkin's greatest contribution is his nimble navigation of the twists and turns of Halevi's turbulent life and the controversies that punctuate the many interpretations of his thought. The latter has been caricatured all too often as expressing a narrow religious essentialism, typically contrasted to Maimonides' more universalist and rationalist elucidation of Judaism-a simplistic dichotomy that Halkin successfully demolishes through forceful, fair analysis.
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The great Talmudic scholar and Holocaust survivor's meditations on faith and doubt, in both God and "his" revealed texts.
Research Interests: Biblical Studies, History Of The Bible/Biblical Canon, Holocaust Studies, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, and 8 moreReligious Studies, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Faith and Reason, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Rabbinic Judaism, Holocaust Shoah, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), and Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Research Interests: Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Central European history, Czech & Slovak Studies, Czech Jewish Literature, Czech Literature/Czech Culture/Language, and 7 moreCentral and Eastern Europe, German-Jewish Studies, History of Czechoslovakia, Prague, Great Moravia, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, and History of Jews in Czechoslovakia
Among its many gifts, Ben-Zion Gold's modest and moving chronicle of a Hasidic boy coming of age in pre-Holocaust Poland affords readers a bracing reprieve from the cynicism generated by a recent plague of phony, self-aggrandizing... more
Among its many gifts, Ben-Zion Gold's modest and moving chronicle of a Hasidic boy coming of age in pre-Holocaust Poland affords readers a bracing reprieve from the cynicism generated by a recent plague of phony, self-aggrandizing memoirs-from James Frey's hair-raising tall tale of addiction, "A Million Little Pieces," with its "Marathon Man"-inspired nonsense of undergoing dental surgery without anesthesia in a Nazi-style rehab center, to Binjamin Wilkomirski and Misha Defonseca's Holocaust hoaxes.
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In April 1655, the year before Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated him, Baruch Spinoza was the victim of a failed assassination. According to French encyclopedist Pierre Bayle, Spinoza was attacked "on leaving the theatre by a Jew... more
In April 1655, the year before Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated him, Baruch Spinoza was the victim of a failed assassination. According to French encyclopedist Pierre Bayle, Spinoza was attacked "on leaving the theatre by a Jew who attacked him with a knife. The wound was slight, but Spinoza believed that it was the assassin's intention to kill him." In all likelihood, Spinoza was in the company of his close friend and Latin mentor, Franciscus van den Enden, known to be a passionate lover of the theater. Most accounts of Spinoza's life append the story of this attack by noting that he wore the deliberately un-mended coat as a badge of courage until his dying day.
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On Marc Saperstein's rich history of rabbinical sermons delivered during wartime
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The practice of depicting Jews as drinkers of blood has been common for centuries.
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A review essay about three books dealing with the Charedim, or Ultra-Orthodox Jews
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There is an assumption in the title of this paper that begs the following ques tion: Was there in fact a signifIcant and sustained "Rambam Revival" in the modern period? The very notion of a modern Jewish Maimonidean renais... more
There is an assumption in the title of this paper that begs the following ques tion: Was there in fact a signifIcant and sustained "Rambam Revival" in the modern period? The very notion of a modern Jewish Maimonidean renais sance implies that there had been an extended historical period during which Maimonides was not of widespread interest and his works not studied in the Jewish world, a deficiency that was subsequently addressed and remedied by this alleged "Rambam revival." In evaluating the history of the reception of Maimonides from the period immediately following his death, through to the early modern period with which we are presently concerned, a fundamental distinction must first
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Moravia's Multiculturalism and Quebec's "Jewish Problem" are uncannily similar. What Quebec's Jews should learn from this history.
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A heady era of student activism permeated my undergraduate years at McGill University in the early 1970s. Jewish university students across North America were passionately involved on numerous political fronts, none evoking more ardor... more
A heady era of student activism permeated my undergraduate years at McGill University in the early 1970s. Jewish university students across North America were passionately involved on numerous political fronts, none evoking more ardor than the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. At SSSJ rallies in front of the Montreal Consulate of the Soviet Union, we would defiantly chant our unofficial anthem, a single line from the vast Diwan (collected works) of Judah Halevi (1075-1141), the most prolific Hebrew poet of the medieval Islamic world. Centuries on, his zeal for the exiles of Israel still resonated powerfully with those championing the liberation of the 20th century's longest-suffering asirey tsiyon
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The academic world has become, as of late, almost grotesquely distended by piles of books and articles on the narrowest and most obscure of subjects, written in increasingly opaque scholarly jargon. A mere glance at the lengthy paper... more
The academic world has become, as of late, almost grotesquely distended by piles of books and articles on the narrowest and most obscure of subjects, written in increasingly opaque scholarly jargon. A mere glance at the lengthy paper titlesemploying dozens of terms not to be found in the Oxford English Dictionarypresented at just about any learned society conference, particularly in the humanities, is an experience almost as comical as it is exasperating.
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For the past two millennia, Jews have powerfully resistedoften with their very livesthe Christian notion that the messiah arrived, was betrayed by refusals to accept him and then perished physically, only in order to undergo apotheosis,... more
For the past two millennia, Jews have powerfully resistedoften with their very livesthe Christian notion that the messiah arrived, was betrayed by refusals to accept him and then perished physically, only in order to undergo apotheosis, or rebirth as part of the Godhead. In a religion that is otherwise relatively unconcerned with doctrinal heresy, the idea of Christ as messiah reborn and God incarnate defined idolatry for Judaism in the post-pagan world. Moreover, the Jewish rejection of the concept of a messiah who dies without having fulfilled the biblical prophecies of redemption but is reincarnated to save those who accept him into their hearts lies at the center of the historic Jewish-Christian theological dispute. The grand exception to the rabbinic principle that retains the Jewishness of non-observant members of the community (captured in the talmudic dictum, "An Israelite, though he has sinned, remains an Israelite") is a Jew who voluntarily accepted the belief in a false messiah.
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Odessa, now being bombed by the Russians, has long and tortured Jewish history history -- glorious but in the end terribly tragic. Here is an overview, from the finest history of that city.
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... Rationalism, romanticism, rabbis and rebbes: Inaugural lecture of Dr. Allan Nadler, Director of Research, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Nadler, Allan. PUBLISHER: YIVO (New York). SERIES... more
... Rationalism, romanticism, rabbis and rebbes: Inaugural lecture of Dr. Allan Nadler, Director of Research, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Nadler, Allan. PUBLISHER: YIVO (New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1992. PUB TYPE: Book ...
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Before there was Shtissel there was David Volach's Brilliant "Chofshat Kayitz" (English Title: My Father My Lord)
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Exploding the absurd, and dangerously messianic, myth that the Vilna Gaon's mystical teachings led to the founding of Zionism, by his disciples in the Rivlin Family.
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My translation of the brilliant, irreverent, and ribald satire on both the pretensions of the interwar Warsaw Yiddish Literary elite and the romantic conceit that Baruch Spinoza was "A Yid".
Research Interests: Yiddish Literature, Yiddish, Benedict de Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza, and 9 moreJewish Humor Studies, Yiddish Studies, Yiddish Culture and Language, Jewish Satire, Polish-Jewish Periodical Press, The Jewish Press, Interwar Yiddish Press, Jewish press in Warsaw., and The Jewish community of Warsaw
An essay, partly on YIVO's problematic past and present and partly reviewing the recent history of the Vilna Strashun Jewish Public Library and how it perished, lost only to be stolen.
Research Interests: Yiddish Literature, Holocaust Studies, Yiddish Studies, Yiddish Culture and Language, Holocaust Shoah, and 8 moreEastern European Jewish Studies, Vilna Ghetto, Jewish Vilna, Jewish libraries, Russian and Eastern European Jewish History, History and Kulture of Eastern European Jewry, HIstory and Kulture of Poland, and Jewish Library
An essay on Edward Said and Adam Sutcliffe's books, the latter a superb and erudite new work of scholarship, and the former more of the same, lazy anti-Zionist rhetoric.
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The first academic treatment of the Satmar Rebbe's radical and anti-Zionist theology. A scholarly analysis of R. Yoel Teitelbaum, zatsal's major works, especially "Va-Yoel Moshe" and "Al ha-Geula ve-al ha-Temurah.
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The yahrzeit of a Hasidic rebbe-far from being a day devoted to mourning the dead-is a bona fide yontef. It is marked by feasting, singing and dancing, testifying to the supreme confidence of Hasidim that their departed leader is still... more
The yahrzeit of a Hasidic rebbe-far from being a day devoted to mourning the dead-is a bona fide yontef. It is marked by feasting, singing and dancing, testifying to the supreme confidence of Hasidim that their departed leader is still actively interceding on their behalf in the heavens. Shlomo Enkin lEwiS Besht at Rest: Pilgrims pray at the tomb of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhibozh, Ukraine in 2007.
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Lecture about the Anglo-Jewish poet A.M. Klein's, focusing on his last book of verse, "The Rocking Chair" and what it reveals about his uniquely, and quintessentially Jewish fascination with and love for the people and culture of his... more
Lecture about the Anglo-Jewish poet A.M. Klein's, focusing on his last book of verse, "The Rocking Chair" and what it reveals about his uniquely, and quintessentially Jewish fascination with and love for the people and culture of his adopted land, Quebec.
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Multi-Media Concert at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, June 13th 2013.
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My tour and history of the grand tradition of Hazzanut in Montreal.
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My Inaugural Lecture at Drew in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. Introduction by Leon Wieseltier.
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Panel on Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and other thinkers, with (among other Jewish thinkers) Rabbi Dr. Elliot Cosgrove
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Multi-Media lecture/concert about the history of Hazzanut.