The Choreography of Acculturation

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-41
Author(s):  
Sonia Gollance
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Yiddish Literature ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Class Background ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Traditional Communities

The prohibition on men and women dancing together was derived from biblical precedent and Jewish laws regulating sexual behavior. While even traditional communities had varied interpretations of what mixed-sex dancing entailed, in literature such boundaries were frequently transgressed. Where rabbinic condemnations of mixed-sex dancing before 1780 emphasize the connection between dancing and forbidden sexual behavior, later and more literary texts use dance to discuss influences from outside of the Jewish community. Writers utilized dance as a metaphor for Jewish modernity, which communicates their concerns with society while entertaining their readers. German Jewish and Yiddish literature targeted readerships that often differed in terms of class background and knowledge of Jewish tradition, yet they shared a fascination with literary dance scenes.

The Space of the Dance Floor

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Sonia Gollance
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Dance Floor ◽  
Language Class ◽  
National Boundaries

Mixed-sex dancing is frequently identified with transgressive sexual behavior, yet in Jewish culture it is also identified with the changes wrought by modernity. Where Jewish men and women once lived very separate lives, in the period between 1780 and 1940 they tested out their newfound freedoms in heterosocial leisure culture sites, the most thrilling of which was the dance floor. In this space, dance partners explored their physical compatibility without the involvement of their families or a matchmaker. The popularity of mixed-sex dancing transcended language, class, and national boundaries. In literary texts, the dance floor is a heady, passionate space in which emotions are excited, and characters imagine that ordinary social rules no longer apply.

Impulsive/Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Assessment and Treatment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Compulsive Sexual Behavior ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Controversial Area ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Research

There is a growing recognition among clinicians that any type of sexual behavior can become pathologically impulsive or compulsive. There is quite a bit of debate about terminology for this condition, the diagnostic criteria, assessment methods and treatment approaches. In the absence of clear consensus, clinicians are struggling with how to help the many men and women who suffer and seek help from this type of problem. This chapter will review the author’s assessment and treatment approach. Clinicians will need to keep abreast of the literature as new research evolves and follow the continued debate around this controversial area.

"The Land Where Two Streams Flow": Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel

1991 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jehoash Hirshberg ◽  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
German Jewish

Time for Sex

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishita Pande
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Body ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Sexuality And Space ◽  
Women In India

This chapter examines attempts to standardize, internalize, and globalize sexual temporality—captured in the conceptualization of the body as clock—in the sexological advice offered to men and women in India in the early twentieth century. It first describes the constitution of “Hindu erotica” during the period and how these English translations gave rise to a set of foundational texts that would become the basis of global/Hindu sexology while filling them up with clock time. It then considers the ways that these texts attached life cycles to the chronological ordering of time by recasting brahmacharya—a prescription for a stage of life devoted to celibacy and learning—as an age-stratified organization of sexual behavior and a schema for sex education. By using the example of bodily temporality, the chapter addresses questions of sexuality and space in relation to globalization and transnational capitalism, colonialism and development.

Response to the New Nazi Government (1933–1934)

1999 ◽  
pp. 110-134
Author(s):  
Marc B. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
East European ◽  
Jewish Intellectual ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
A Minor ◽  
German Jewry ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Minor Episode

This chapter takes a step back to consider the state of the German Jewry at length after the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in 1933. Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, for his part, held a rather hopeful view of the situation that year, going so far as to repeatedly express that the Jews had nothing to fear from the Nazis, and the controversies his optimistic views caused within the German Jewish intellectual community. In the meantime, Hitler was beginning to implement more antisemitic reforms. His banning of the sheḥitah — the Jewish practice of ritually slaughtering meat — in particular shocked the Jewish community. At the same time that discussions about the sheḥitah issue were going on, Weinberg was confronted by plans to transfer the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary to Palestine. Though a minor episode in Weinberg's life, through it the chapter provides further insight into the relationship between east European talmudists and the modern rabbinical seminary.

The Daily Life of the Poor

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-225
Author(s):  
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Private Charity ◽  
The One

This chapter highlights the various aspects of the daily lives of the poor. In Amsterdam, the poor among the Portuguese Jewish community ranged from the highly educated to the illiterate. On the one hand there were those whose sense of honour debarred them from asking for poor relief, and on the other there were those described as inveterate beggars. There were men and women; large, complete families and fragmented units; and there were people left completely on their own. Some were healthy or young or both, others old or sick or both, with all sorts of variations between them. Many applied for poor relief no more than occasionally; others relied permanently on outside help. The poor relief provided by the Portuguese community constituted no more than a supplement to income from work, private funds, and legacies, and help from friends, relatives, private charity, and other sources. Sephardi Jews who had no access to these sources, or who missed out in other ways, found themselves forced to seek their fortune elsewhere sooner or later.

Extraversion, sexual experience, and sexual emotions

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marshall Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Casual Sex ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Creation

Sex differences in motivation and emotional reactions to casual sex suggest that the links to extraversion, constraint, impulsivity-sensation seeking, and sexual behavior differ for men and women. Because both testosterone and dominance, and dominance and number of sex partners appear to correlate in men but not in women, it is plausible that testosterone is involved in the creation and maintenance of these sex differences in linkage among the behavioral subsystems involved in sexuality and extraversion.

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