scholarly journals “Keeping It in the Family”: Sarah Kofman Reading Nietzsche as a Jewish Woman

Hypatia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Sarah Kofman ◽  
The Family ◽  
Klein’S Model

This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its mother. By examining Kofman's later writings on Nietzsche alongside her autobiography, this article contends that Kofman's defense of anti-Semitism in Nietzsche serves to fend off her own ambivalence about being Jewish.

Touched by Fire by I. N. Watts

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Her Family ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Watts, Irene N., Touched by Fire. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2013. Print.In the first decade of the 20th century, Miriam Markovitz and her family have fled their small town in the country to live in Kiev. She and her family are Jewish and the Tsar does not favor Jews. After narrowly escaping the pogroms, Miriam’s father Sam dreams of taking the whole family to America. Known as the “Golden Land”, in America Jews are free of persecution.     Over the next few years the family relocates to Berlin where Miriam’s parents and grandparents work hard to save enough money. The plan is for Sam to travel to New York ahead of the family. Miriam is fourteen years old when the first set of tickets to America arrives in the mail from her father. Leaving on the adventure of their lives, the Markovitz family must endure illnesses, family quarrels, and filth. For Miriam it seems crossing the ocean is the hardest thing she has very done, but she is destined to witness an even worse tragedy in her new country.     Touched By Fire is an enlightening story that brings to light many of the injustices Jews were forced to face, long before the anti-Semitism of the Nazis’ era. It is easy to form an attachment to the characters, and I found myself hoping and worrying for the Markovitz family. Miriam is especially vivid and comes out clearly as a strong and self-sacrificing heroine.These positive points aside, there were some peculiarities about this book that stood out in my mind. Firstly, Miriam’s journey is relatively tame, especially when you consider how graphic young adult literature has become. While there is a fair share of danger and hardship in the journey, Watts has left the harsher struggles to be faced by minor characters, leaving Miriam as merely a witness. I would also have liked more development of the characters Miriam met along the way. Leaving these characters underdeveloped reduced the impact of their struggles and made Miriam’s feelings about them somewhat flat. Finally, I must admit to some puzzlement as to why Watts chose to give the book the title Touched By Fire, as it refers strictly to the tragedy detailed in the conclusion, when most of the book’s focus is on Miriam’s journey and her maturation.In considering these criticisms alongside the overall story, I found myself divided as to how I felt about the book. I have to conclude that younger readers may not be drawn to these inconsistences and nuances, but would rather enjoy the story for the picture it paints of the time period. I have therefore given the book three out four stars. Touched by Fire is most suitable for children ages 9-13 and would be enjoyed by young readers that enjoy historical fiction.Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Hanne PearceHanne Pearce has worked at the University of Alberta Libraries in various support staff positions since 2004 and is currently a Public Service Assistant at the Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library. In 2010 she completed her MLIS at the University of Alberta. Aside from being an avid reader she has continuing interests in writing, photography, graphic design and knitting.

Religion and Conflict: Protestants, Catholics, and Anti-Semitism in the State of Baden in the Era of Wilhelm II

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Walser Smith
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Woman ◽  
The State ◽  
Anti Semitism

Rahel Straus, a Jewish woman from Karlsruhe, begins her memoir of childhood in the 1890s with a story of her experience in a Simultanschule for Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish girls. She does not, as one might expect, complain about “Christian” anti-Semitism. Rather, she notes that when conflicts arose, they were typically between Protestants and Catholics.

IS THERE A DUTY TO RESPECT “HISTORICAL” FAITH? CHRISTIAN PROSELYTISM OF AN OLDER JEWISH WOMAN WITH DEMENTIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel (Issi) Doron ◽  
Charles Foster
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Moral Commitment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Criminal Charges

AbstractIn this article, we present a short case study based on an incident that occurred in Israel several years ago. The incident did not reach the courts but was made public by the family members of the older woman at the center of it. The family argued that the actions taken by one of the parties involved should have been defined as elder abuse, but no criminal charges were ever brought. Yet the issues concern key legal and ethical questions about law, religion, and older persons. More specifically, the incident raises the issue of the moral commitment to one's past religious beliefs in reference to one's current choices and preferences once living with dementia. We contend in this article that an Aristotelean account of human dignity would have provided the most satisfactory way to resolve the tensions created by this incident.

From Casablanca to Houston

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-60
Author(s):  
Julie Fette
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
French Colonialism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Jewish Emigration

This article melds family history with History, tracing the lives of my daughter’s grandparents, Marcelle Libraty and Pinhas Cohen. Products of the social mobility and integration offered by the Alliance israélite universelle, they became schoolteachers in Morocco and opted for France after independence. Currently in their eighties, Marcelle and Pinhas’s lives are connected to sweeping events in history: French colonialism, Vichy anti- Semitism, Moroccan independence, Jewish emigration. Inspired by Ivan Jablonka’s L’Histoire des grandparents que je n’ai pas eus, I experiment as both narrator of the past and participant in the family story, and demonstrate new ways of writing history. This auto-historiographical project shows how a family succeeds in preserving identities of origin and maintaining relationships despite socio-political upheaval and global mobility.

scholarly journals Useful idiots: the Hohenzollerns and Hitler*

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (261) ◽  
pp. 526-550
Author(s):  
Karina Urbach
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
National Level ◽  
International Level ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
National Socialists

Abstract Hitler needed the support of the Hohenzollern family on a national and an international level. While the national level has been researched in some detail, we do not have much information about the international aspect. This article shows what foreign connections the Hohenzollerns had and why they made them available to Hitler. Private correspondence in the papers of three Americans offers new insights. Resumption of the throne was a driving force for the Hohenzollerns who hoped to copy Mussolini’s arrangement with the Italian monarchy. But the family were not just opportunists. They shared many beliefs with the National Socialists: anti-Semitism, anti-parliamentarism and anti-communism. They also greatly admired Hitler’s wars of conquest. For the National Socialists, the Hohenzollerns’ eagerness to support them was welcome propaganda.

The Jewish Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Whitmarsh
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Jewish Resistance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek Novel

Is there such a thing as a Hellenistic ‘Jewish novel’, as certain recent critics have claimed? And if so, what is its status vis-à-vis the Greek novel? This chapter explores the relationship between Jewish and Greek culture in the long era before the Roman sack of Jerusalem, finding a mixture of Jewish resistance, anti-Semitism and assimilation. Some Jewish literature speaks of Greek and Jewish as immiscible, like the Maccabean texts, composed in the period of Hasmonean ‘nationalism’. In Judith, resistance to assimilation is troped as resistance to sexual union with a foreigner. Esther, however, presents a more complementary mode: the Jewish woman successfully marries the Persian king. Formally and linguistically too, much of this literature blends Greek and Jewish in a fluid way.

scholarly journals Images and Representations of the Rudnytskyi Family: The Case of Ukrainians in Galicia Between the Wars

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Illia Chedoluma
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Ukrainian Society

Caricature journals in the interwar period had a special genre niche, giving the masses, through funny cartoons, a simplified understanding of internal and external political processes. Zyz and Komar were the largest Ukrainian satirical humor journals in interwar Galicia. They mainly covered the internal political life in the Second Polish Republic and international relationships. These journals are primarily intended for people from the countryside, and the editors and owners of these journals used anti-Semitism for the political mobilization of the rural population. I use elements of Serge Moscovici’s theory of social representations to track these processes. A key aspect here is how the image of the Rudnytskyi family was shaped on the pages of these journals. The family was of mixed Ukrainian-Jewish origins, and its members became prominent figures in various spheres of Ukrainian social and political life in interwar Galician Ukrainian society (in politics, literature, music, and the women’s movement). The behavior of the Rudnytskyi family was explained to the readers through their Jewish origins. Zyz and Komar both created an image of the Rudnytskyis as an integral Jewish group occupying different spheres of Ukrainian life. The study of visual caricature images thus enables us to explore the channels of the formation and spread of anti-Semitic images of Jews and the use of the image of “the Jew” in the Galician Ukrainian society in interwar Poland.

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