German-Jewish Literature (Jewish Studies)
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כיצד יש לזכור את מורשתה של יהדות גרמניה ואיזו משמעות נודעת לה לאחר השואה? האם החוויה ההיסטורית והתרבותית של הקהילה היהודית דוברת הגרמנית וניסיונותיה ליצור שילוב מודרני בין המסורת היהודית לערכי יסוד אוניברסליים עודם רלוונטיים? האם המחקר... more
the paper shows how German and Hungarian Jewish Orthodoxy, although seemingly very different in nature, were actually intertwined . The parallels and mutual influences are expressed here in a relatively condensed version containing... more
Esiste un tipo di scrittura tipicamente femminile? Verifica di un'ipotesi sulla base di due esempi.
Sylvie Peattie is studying for a double major in Film and Media Studies and Modern Literature and Film at the University of Otago. She is a creative writer who is very interested in understanding and expressing different ways of looking... more
The satirical writings of Lucian of Samosata had a tremendous influence on the literature of the Eastern European Haskalah, shaping its criticism of the burgeoning Hasidic movement in the nineteenth century as if there were no gap between... more
Published in: Jewish Theatre: Tradition in Transition and Intercultural Vistas. Ahuva Belkin, ed. Tel Aviv: Assaph Book Series, 2008: 131-145
Gershom Scholem in Deutschland Zwischen Seelenverwandtschaft und Sprachlosigkeit Hrsg. v. Gerold Necker, Elke Morlok u. Matthias Morgenstern Die Biographie des in Berlin geborenen und ab 1923 in Jerusalem lebenden Kabbala-Forschers... more
Relazione tenuta in occasione della giornata di studi “Stefan Zweig, testimone e interprete del suo tempo” organizzata dall’ISML (Istituto Provinciale di Storia per il Movimento di Liberazione nelle Marche e dell'Età Contemporanea) in... more
השכלה ואזוטריקה בגליציה: כתביו הגנוזים של אליקים המילזאהגי
Wladimir Kaminer has become something of a poster-boy for the 'Kontingentflüchtlinge [Quota Refugees]', the term applied to Jews from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Germany between 1990 and 2006, as a result of a decision made... more
Jonatan Meir, "The Discovery and Publication of Joseph Perl’s Yiddish Writings" The attitude of Tarnopol satirist Joseph Perl (1773–1839) towards the Yiddish language has been discussed by a number of scholars. In particular,... more
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דפים לדוגמא מתוך ספר אודות ד"ר משה שפיצר והוצאת ספרי תרשיש
Tarshish Book Exhibition and Catalogue, eds. Ada Vardi and Meron Eren, Jerusalem: Mineged, 2016
דפים לדוגמא מתוך ספר אודות ד"ר משה שפיצר והוצאת ספרי תרשיש
Tarshish Book Exhibition and Catalogue, eds. Ada Vardi and Meron Eren, Jerusalem: Mineged, 2016
Whether or not we understand the Holocaust to be unique or following a series of catastrophes in Jewish history, there is no doubt that the writing that came out of those traumaticevents is worth examining both as testimony and as... more
Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent... more
This article investigates the intellectual history of the argument for the antiquity of Ex 34,11–26. In the contemporary debate about pentateuchal theory, a question that remains insufficiently addressed is how and why the idea originally... more
This essay compares the Yiddish novel Mides ha-din (roughly, "Stern Judgement," 1927) with the German travelogue Reise in Polen ("Journey to Poland," 1925) to consider complementary Jewish perspectives on the post-WWI transformation of... more
שבחי הבעש"ט בגליציה
July 22, 2015
July 22, 2015
'יוסף פרל, ר' נתן מנמירוב והמצאת הספרים הקדושים'
BOOK REVIEW: Claudia Rosenzweig, Josef Bamberger, האפיפיור היהודי: לתולדותיה של אגדה מימי הביניים באשכנז The Jewish Pope:History of a medieval Ashkenazic Legend (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009), 156 pp. (Hebrew), ISBN... more
Die Geschichte der deutsch-jüdischen oder jüdisch-deutschen Literatur-was könnte das sein? Die Frage ist nicht unwichtig, weil bereits in der be-grifflichen Bestimmung Schwierigkeiten enthalten sind, die es im Sinne einer modernen... more
Focusing on the relationship between socially constructed ideals of the “Jewish” and “non-Jewish” as part of a social and symbolic order similar to gender can provide critical and theoretical tools helpful for understanding the role of... more
Contact me for additional chapters if you are interested and cannot access a copy of the book. Horizons of Modernity explores how two key themes, tragedy and Judaism, figure in the writings of 20th-century Jewish philosophers. Taking... more
Full Article: ‘”Die Letzten Kabbalisten in Deutschland”: Gershom Scholem und die Familie Wechsler’, Gershom Scholem und Deutschland, eds. Elke Morlok, Gerold Necker, Matthias Morgenstern, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2014, pp. 243-258... more
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Verwandlungen der neuen jüdischen Frau von der Gründung der zionistischen Bewegung, 1897 in Basel, bis 1931 sowohl aus einer literarischen und künstlerischen als auch aus einer historischen... more
‘Philosophy and Revolution’ panel, Goldsmiths Continental Philosophy Research Group Inc. http://walterbenjamin2012.blogspot.co.uk/
This article presents the figure of the Eastern-Jewish poetess Masha Kaléko, a native of Galicia, framing her presence and activity in the Jewish quarter of the 'Scheunenviertel' in Berlin and focusing on some main themes found in her... more
The lecture will discuss portrayals of Eastern European Hasidism as "pure mysticism" in the writings of Martin Buber (especially his early stories about R. Nahman of Bratslav and the Baal Shem Tov), as well as the reception of such... more