Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mira Balberg ◽  
Haim Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Narrative Art

The introduction describes the book’s aims and methodological premises. It explains the book’s emphasis on cultural and literary representations of old age, and particularly its interest in biosocial aspects of aging. The introduction also highlights the authors’ preference for sources in which old age seems like a peripheral rather than central theme, arguing that in order to construct a complex and nuanced picture of aging as a cultural trope in rabbinic literature it is necessary to examine how old age is performed in the texts, rather than merely how it is officially talked about. The introduction further outlines the authors’ approach to rabbinic narrative art, and it provides a survey of key rabbinic notions and definitions of old age. It concludes with an outline of the book’s chapters.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Mira Balberg ◽  
Haim Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Narrative Art ◽  
Methodological Reflection

The Epilogue offers a brief theoretical-methodological reflection on the book by discussing the interpretive and analytical principles that guided its readings. This book sought to bring old age and aged persons into the discourse on rabbinic culture—to bring them from the shadows to the light, so to speak—and thus to enrich existing conversations on the wonderfully manifold fabric of this culture. Focusing on three key literary terms that have been critical for this work—excess, overreading, and estrangement—the epilogue accounts for an understanding of rabbinic literature as literature, and charts out the ways in which this investigation of old age helps illuminate the psychological sophistication and literary deftness of rabbinic narrative art more broadly.

scholarly journals Masculinity beyond repair

Anafora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-491
Author(s):  
Stela Dujaković
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Masculine Identity ◽  
Theories Of Aging ◽  
Aging Studies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Academic Discourses

This article explores representations of male aging in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) by looking at theories of aging, pathology, and hegemonic masculinity. While, in general, academic discourses about aging tend to link old age to pathology, the focus on gender stereotypes adds another layer to the perception of aging in Franzen’s novel. The Corrections is constructed around an aged patriarch who is not only struck by the illnesses of old age but, more importantly, he keeps clinging to an idealized masculine identity he is no longer able to maintain as an old man. Drawing on the difficulties of identity construction concerning Aging Studies and the lack of what Gabriela Spector-Mersel defines as “masculinity scripts,” my article illustrates how literary representations can construct male losses as symptoms of a silent virus that appears to break out in the aged body. The article will show that these (lived) hegemonic concepts of masculinity establish the male as a dominant collective but simultaneously constitute the inevitable failure of the individual. Hegemonic masculinities then have a disabling impact on the old man as is mirrored in Franzen’s doomed protagonist who becomes the victim of his own concepts of masculinity.

scholarly journals Obraz stáří v moralitách raného novověku

2017 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 439-447
Author(s):  
Jana Kolářová
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Old People ◽  
Modern Period

The representation of age in the moralising books of early modern periodThe study focuses on some literary representations of old age and old people in selected works of the early modern period. Those are moralising books written in the years before the Battle of White Mountain published at the turn of the 17th century, namely Třinácte tabulí věku lidského The Thirteen Images of Human Life, 1601 by Bartoloměj Paprocký from Hloholy, Věk člověka The Age of Human, 1604 by Tobiáš Mouřenín from Litomyšl, Theatrum Mundi Minoris 1605 by Nathanael Vodňanský from Uračov, and Kniha o starosti aneb věku sešlém a šedivém The Book of Misery or the Wretched and Dull Age, 1610 by Havel Žalanský Phaetön.Obraz starości w moralitetach okresu wczesnonowożytnegoArtykuł koncentruje się na niektórych literackich aspektach tematu związanego ze starością i starymi ludźmi w wybranych utworach wczesnego okresu nowożytnego. Chodzi o moralizatorskie spisy zokresu przedbiałogórskiego wydane na przełomie XVI i XVII wieku, mianowicie o Třinácte tabulí věku lidského 1601 Bartosza Paprockiego, Věk člověka 1604 Tobiasza Mouřenína z Litomyśla, Theatrum mundi minoris 1605 Nathanaela Vodňanskiego zUračova i Knihu o starosti aneb věku sešlém a šedivém 1610 Havla Žalanskiego Phaëtona.

Isaac of Troki’s Studies of Rabbinic Literature

2002 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Stefan Schreiner
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Major Work ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses Isaac ben Abraham of Troki (c. 1533–c.1594), one of the outstanding members of the sixteenth-century Karaite community in Lithuania, if not its most prominent intellectual. His major work, the Ḥizuk emunah (Strengthening of Faith), occupies a particular place in the history of Christian–Jewish polemics. Isaac’s book, written in old age, was a result of certain interreligious disputations. He decided to systematize the conclusions in one book, hoping that in future the book might serve his co-religionists as a ‘ḥizuk emunah’, as he called it in an allusion to Isaiah 35: 3. The book itself consists of two parts. In the first part, which consists of fifty chapters, he deals at length with the Christian interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, focusing on all those passages that were traditionally read as prooftexts for the Christian dogma. The second part, which is much shorter although it consists of 100 chapters, contains a thorough discussion of the large number of New Testament texts that refer to the Hebrew Bible.

Emerging Nutrition Gaps in a World of Affluence - Micronutrient Intake and Status Globally

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Eggersdorfer ◽  
Paul Walter
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiencies ◽  
New Science ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Micronutrient Intake

Nutrition is important for human health in all stages of life - from conception to old age. Today we know much more about the molecular basis of nutrition. Most importantly, we have learnt that micronutrients, among other factors, interact with genes, and new science is increasingly providing more tools to clarify this interrelation between health and nutrition. Sufficient intake of vitamins is essential to achieve maximum health benefit. It is well established that in developing countries, millions of people still suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. However, it is far less recognized that we face micronutrient insufficiencies also in developed countries.

On Geropsychology in the Czech Republic

GeroPsych ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Hana Stepankova ◽  
Eva Jarolimova ◽  
Eva Dragomirecka ◽  
Irena Sobotkova ◽  
Lenka Sulova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Rehabilitation Research

This work provides an overview of psychology of aging and old age in the Czech Republic. Historical roots as well as recent activities are listed including clinical practice, cognitive rehabilitation, research, and the teaching of geropsychology.

Images of Aging in the Psychotherapeutic Context

GeroPsych ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Marie Kessler ◽  
Catherine E. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Images Of Aging ◽  
Client Communication

Both psychotherapists and their clients have mental representations of old age and the aging process. In this conceptual review, we draw on available research from gerontology, social and developmental psychology, and communication science to consider how these “images of aging” may affect the psychotherapeutic process with older clients. On the basis of selected empirical findings we hypothesize that such images may affect the pathways to psychotherapy in later life, therapist-client communication, client performance on diagnostic tests as well as how therapists select and apply a therapeutic method. We posit that interventions to help both older clients and therapists to reflect on their own images of aging may increase the likelihood of successful treatment. We conclude by making suggestions for future research.

Cultural Issues in Suicide and Old Age

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego De Leo
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Cultural Issues
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