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"Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli's powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East." -- Amazon.com

Frontmatter -- Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies -- Contents -- Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy -- The Anarchy of Literature -- Part I: Eros -- Eros, Emmanuel Levinas's Novel? -- Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy -- The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The "Scene of Alençon" -- From Eros to the Question of the Death of God -- Part II: Biblical Texts -- Languages of the Universal. Levinas' (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature -- The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama -- Literature as a Burning Bush -- Part III: Poetry -- Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire? -- "Lès-Poésie?": Levinas Reads La folie du jour -- Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas's Works -- The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan -- Part IV: Novel Writers -- The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time -- Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of Léon Bloy -- Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas -- Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan's novel Atonement -- Part V: Literary Theory -- Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics -- Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno

"Hungarian Jews, the last major Jewish community in the Nazi sphere of influence by 1944, constituted the single largest group of victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide, Ferenc Laczó draws on hundreds of scholarly articles, historical monographs, witness accounts as well as published memoirs to offer a pioneering exploration of how this prolific Jewish community responded to its exceptional drama and unprecedented tragedy. Analyzing identity options, political discourses, historical narratives and cultural agendas during the local age of persecution as well as the varied interpretations of persecution and annihilation in their immediate aftermath, the monograph places the devastating story of Hungarian Jews at the dark heart of the European Jewish experience in the 20th century"--

The article examines Israeli cinema as a critical participant in the local drama of national ideology and national identity. Israeli filmmakers have engaged in enunciating the national culture, in the context of the medium's history, political ideologies, and the tension between high art and popular culture. The historical review of Israeli films shows dramatic changes over the years from nationalistic propaganda to radical critique and post-Zionism. Israeli cinema appears now to seek a constructive and fruitful dialogue with viewers. In the recent wave of popular films, the national ideology is more conscious of its past mistakes and inherent deficiencies; its presentation of national identity is less narrow and more open to alternative types, thereby suggesting new vistas of national culture.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Content -- PART ONE: History and Philosophy -- Sephardic Settlement in Ferrara under the House of Este -- The Universita Degli Hebrei and the Nationi of the Venice Ghetto (1516-1630): A Reconsideration of Some Presuppositions of Contemporary Jewish Historiography -- On the Concept of Beauty in the Philosophy of Yehudah Abrabanel -- The Conventionalization of Social Bonds and the Strategies of Jewish Society in the Thirteenth Century -- The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan City -- Literature as a Source for the History of Libyan Jewry During the Ottoman Period -- A "Maskil" in Aleppo: "The Torah of Israel and the People of Israel" by Rabbi Yitzhak Dayyan (Aleppo, 5683/1923) -- The Periodization of the History of the New Christians and Crypto, Jews in Spanish America -- Cryptojews in Rio de la Plata in the Seventeenth Century -- PART TWO: Language and Literature -- Introduction -- Camilo Castelo Branco and the Portuguese Inquisition -- The Inquisition and the Jewin Lat in American Drama -- The Inquisition and the Jew in Latin American Drama -- Anthroponyms in the Collection of Moroccan Sephardic Ballads -- Plazeme de tus Enojos": Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino against Alfonso Ferrandes Semuel -- Maimonides, Al-Andalus and the Influence of the Spanish-Arabic Dialect on His Language -- Uncovering the Origins of the Judeo-Ibero-Romance Languages -- Problems of Transcribing Sephardic Texts into the Roman Alphabet -- PART THREE: Ethnography and Folklore -- Memories of Jewish Life -- Misogyny or Philogyny: The Case of a Judeo, Spanish Folktale -- Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth among Sephardic and Oriental Jews -- A Conversation in Proverbs: Judeo-Spanish Refranes in Context -- Expressive Modes in the Judeo-Spanish Wedding Song.

In the drama of sapiential persuasion shoah played a brief but powerful role. As sages determined to direct youths toward a life of skill and success, it was the prospect of shoah that threatened as alternative, the fools' final end. This article applies poetic analysis to three occurrences in biblical wisdom literature. When first introduced in Proverbs, shoah raises the sapiential warning to a fierce crescendo (Prov 1:27). In the second occurrence, shoat-resha'im turns from threat to rich reassurance as it measures the safety enjoyed by the wise—they will escape unscathed from the wicked's demise (Prov 3:25). Widening the semantic range, Job used shoah to describe the dilemma of suffering undeserved (Job 30:14). Through this study it becomes evident that shoah occupied a position of superlative yet not simplistic disaster.

This is the published version, made available with the permission of the publisher. Copyright 2011 Brandeis University. All rights reserved. ; In the mid-1990s, young directors such as Daniel Burman began making films about ethnic identities and multiple subjectivities in Argentina. Because these filmmakers relied more on personal stories than on overtly political or historical issues, they paved the way for various ethnic communities to be the focus of Argentine films. Although there is a history of Jewish-themed films in Argentine cinema, there have been few Jewish directors who told these tales from a personal, semi-autobiographical standpoint. In previous decades, the few films that represented narratives of Argentine Jews included Juan Jose Jusids The Jewish Gauchos (1974); Beda Docampo Feijoos World War II drama, Beneath the World (1987); Raul de la Torres Poor Butterfly (1986); and Eduardo Mignognas Autumn Sun (1996). The directors themselves, with the exception of Feijoo, were not of Jewish origin, but they made thoughtful films with wide-ranging and nuanced depictions of Jews in Argentina.

The conspicuous subtitling of Grete Weil's The Bride Price: A Novel is less an indication of genre classification than a clue to the difficulties of writing a life devastated by the Holocaust. Affording insights into the process of autobiographical writing, the subtitle suggests, and this essay argues, that the author develops a fictional intertext because it refracts the painful experiences of her life that elude direct autobiographical or testimonial treatment. Like Holocaust survivors who have trouble recalling their past in linear form, Weil stalls when she reaches certain areas of her own life. The novelistic intertext, constructed from biblical fragments of the story of King David's first wife Michal, enables Weil through narrative figuration and substitution to continue to write. The drama, resonance, and completeness of the fictional tale inversely derive from the difficulties of the autobiographical story and autobiographical purposes of Weil's writing.

Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen künstlerisch-mediale Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Antisemitismus vor 1950. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, auf welche Weise jeweils Antisemitismus thematisiert, dargestellt und kritisiert wird. Allen Aufsätzen gemeinsam ist eine Orientierung am gegenwärtigen Stand transdisziplinärer Antisemitismusforschung. Die Analysen beziehen sich ebenso auf teilweise vergessene wie auch auf kanonisierte »Texte«, was im Sinne des erweiterten Textbegriffs Filme, Zeichnungen, Karikaturen, Comics etc. einschließt. Insgesamt wird so ein mehrsprachiges Korpus erfasst, das sich über einen Zeitraum erstreckt, der etwa mit Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Thematisierung antijüdischer Vorstellungen in seinem Drama »Die Juden« (1749) beginnt und bis zu Laura Z. Hobsons Roman »Gentleman's Agreement« (1947) sowie dessen Verfilmung aus demselben Jahr reicht

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Reflections on the Mutual Relevance of Anthropology and Judaic Studies -- Content -- History and Patterning -- Introduction to Part I -- The Laws of Mixture: An Anthropological Study in Halakhah -- The Consumption of Sabbatical Year Produce in Biblicaland Rabbinic Literature -- Torah and Children: Some Symbolic Aspects of the Reproduction of Jews and Judaism -- Judaism in America -- Introduction to Part II -- Life Not Death in Venice": Its Second Life -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Sacred Categories and Social Relations: The Visibility and Invisibility of Gender in an American Jewish Community -- Drama on a Table: The Bobover Hasidim Piremshbpiyl -- Judaism in Israel -- Introduction to Part III -- Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism -- The Symbolic Inscription of Zionist Ideology in the Space of Eretz Yisrael: Why the Native Israeli is called Tsabar -- Dreams and the Wishes of the Saint -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: Text in Jewish Society and the Challenge of Comparison -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.

"The startling discovery in a flat in Melbourne, Australia, of over 160 letters exchanged between a young, loving Jewish couple in Nazi Germany was the catalyst for former ABC journalist Dagmar Strauss Yaari's exploration of her parents' hidden past. The sudden windfall of old letters is replete with unexpected revelations. As the letters are translated, a fascinating family drama unfolds. Strauss Yaari learns of her father' arrest by the Gestapo while on his honeymoon, an event that separates her newlywed parents, Gottfried and Irene Strauss, for an agonizing three years. The author was stunned to discover her gentle and unassuming father had been charged and convicted for 'preparation for high treason.' This event and more are artfully depicted in Their Lives Before Us. It is a story of suffering and survival in calamitous circumstances and the beginning of a journey that moves from Germany to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China, and ends on the distant shores of Australia"--

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented 'everything that I detest most,' while Arendt met Berlin's hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, this book tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures.

ABSTRACT: Amid the mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, it is easy to forget the political drama that gripped Israel only one year ago. After assuming power in December 2022, a new far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu had proposed a slate of judicial and administrative reforms that prompted a wave of anti-government protests. Concerned journalists, former U.S. and Israeli government officials, and major American Jewish organizations issued ominous warnings about democratic backsliding. Israel, it seemed, was heading in the direction of illiberal Hungary.

Life and Cases – an (unfinished) autobiography of F. A. Mann, who arrived in London as a German-Jewish émigré, forced to leave Germany on the cusp of a promising career in German academia. He retrained as an English solicitor to become one of the leading lawyers of his time.From the introduction of Mann's autobiography:"I write [an autobiography], because I am persuaded that it is my duty to tell the story of a world that has disappeared, but should not be forgotten, – the story of a highly cultured German Jewish bourgeois milieu which perished in Auschwitz, though my nearest and dearest succeeded in escaping. The history of the rise and fall of that social class merits to be preserved, but stands in danger of falling into oblivion on account of the lack of specific material, – no great novel describing its drama and tragedy has yet been written."

This extraordinary work of oral history captures the immense drama and full dimensions of the American immigrant experience. The men and women who tell their stories include such famous names as Alistair Cooke, W. Michael Blumenthal, Edward Teller, and Lynn Redgrave. But they share these pages with 136 other people whose stories are equally compelling: a Jewish former sweatshop worker and union organizer, a Scandanavian homesteader, a Polish coal miner, an anti-Nazi refugee, a Japanese war bride, a Mexican migrant worker, a Cuban exile, a South African interracial couple, a Soviet dissident