Introductory Notes: The Context of the Conference in the History of Jewish Studies in Bonn

2013 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Manfred Hutter ◽  
Ulrich Vollmer
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
History Of

Abraham Joshua Heschel's Philosophy of Man

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Waldemar Szczerbiński
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Philosophy Department ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The subject of the following discourse is, as the title itself points out, the anthropology of Heschel. Considering the fact that Heschel is in general unknown in Poland, I shall take the liberty to make known, in short, some pieces of information about him. Heschel was born in Warsaw, Poland on January 11th 1907. After graduating from the Gymnasium in Wilno he started his studies at Friedrich Wilhelm Universität, Berlin. At the Berlin University he studied at the Philosophy Department and, additionally, he took up studies in the sphere of Semitic Philosophy and History of Art. In 1937 Heschel was chosen by Martin Buber as his successor at Mittelstelle für Jüdische Erwachsenen-Bildung in Frankfurt on the Main. In October he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland together with all the Jews of Polish nationality. After returning to Warsaw he taught philosophy and biblical sciences at the Institute of Jewish Studies. Six weeks before the German aggression against Poland he left for England and then for the United States where he stayed until his death. He was the Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Except for his didactical activity, our philosopher did not neglect creative work. As time went on he was becoming a more and more well-known and appreciated intellectualist and social worker in America. His activity went far beyond the boundaries of the Jewish world.

Hybrid with What? The Relationship between Jewish Culture and Other People’s Cultures

2007 ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Moshe Rosman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hybridity Theory

This chapter examines some problems posed by the Jewish pluralism paradigm. With regard to the metasolution of influence, there is a firm article of faith shared by practically all of today's Judaica scholars that, in all times and places, pre-modern or ‘traditional’ Jews lived in intimate interaction with surrounding cultures to the point where they may be considered to be embedded in them and, consequently, indebted to them in terms of culture. This contrasts with an older conception of Jewish culture which represented Jews as living in at least semi-isolation from the non-Jewish world. The chapter thus demonstrates that there are more than these two possible approaches to the history of Jewish culture, and that these two themselves should be understood in a more sophisticated way. It asserts that the first approach (universal cultural influence, in its incarnation as hybridity theory), when applied mechanically, unimaginatively, and uncritically can be as ideological, dogmatic, and inappropriate as the second (Jewish cultural autonomy) often has been. The chapter next contemplates the metahistories implied by the various approaches to Jewish cultural history and their relationship to intellectual presuppositions for engaging in Jewish studies in the academy.

Anti-Semitism Research

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Benz
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anti Jewish

Anti-Semitism refers to all anti-Jewish statements, tendencies, resentments, attitudes, and actions, regardless of whether they are religiously, racially, socially, or otherwise motivated. Ever since the experience of National Socialist ideology and dictatorship, anti-Semitism has been understood as a social phenomena which serves as a paradigm for the formation of prejudices and the political exploitation of the hostilities that ensue from them. As prejudice research, it is primarily interested in the behaviour and attitudes of different majority societies, and strictly speaking, it does not even require knowledge of the discriminated minority. This article claims that anti-Semitism research and Jewish studies are not interconnected, nor dependent on one another. However, the history of Jews, their interaction with non-Jewish majority societies, their persecution and extermination, serves anti-Semitism research as a paradigm.

Whither Jewish Music? Jewish Studies, Music Scholarship, and the Tilt Between Seminary and University

AJS Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judah M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Core Questions ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The University ◽  
Music Study

In this essay, I explore the history of what has conventionally been described as “Jewish music” research in relation to parallel developments in both ethnomusicology and Jewish studies in the American academic world during the twentieth century. As a case study, I argue, the issues inherent in understanding Jewish music's historical trajectory offer a complex portrait of scholarship that spans the discourses of community, practice, identity, and ideology. Subject to the principles of Wissenschaft since the second half of the nineteenth century, Jewish music study has constantly negotiated the lines between the scholar and practitioner; between the seminary, the conservatory, and the university; between the good of science, the assertion of a coherent Jewish narrative in history, and the perceived need to reconnect an attenuating Jewish populace with its reinvented traditions; and between the core questions of musicology, comparative musicology, theology, and modern ethnomusicology.

scholarly journals "Jewish Myths" in the National History: Jews in Ancient Russia

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Aleksandrova Nadezhda
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
National History ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Relevant Material

This article is devoted to the consideration, formation and development of two historical myths in Russian Jewish studies: the "Khazar myth" and the "Kenaanites myth." The key works of A.Ya. Garkavi devoted to the statement of "Jewish myths" in Jewish studies have been discussed in the article. The author reveals the background of this problem appearance in Jewish studies and prerequisites which determined its father’s interest in this topic. The need to turn to the consideration of "Jewish myths" in the historiography of the problem "the history of Jews of Ancient Russia" is dictated primarily by the actualization of scientific interest in the beginning of the history of Jewish diasporas in Russia. Discussions between historians and researchers of Jewish studies have obtained the characteristic of the "modern historical paradox," as far modern researchers turn to the long-forgotten hypotheses of historians of the 19th century with the aim of proving them today on the basis of relevant material. The purpose of this article is to consider two forms of historical representation on the example of studies of two Jewish myths (the Khazar myth and the later Kenaanites myth). We pose a problem to analyze the process of myth formation, its interpretation during this formation and the growth of its thematic content. The theoretical basis of the article is P. Ricoeur's ideas about the "historiographic process." Although the philosopher recognizes strict methodological operations and methods he nevertheless attributes the decisive importance to the historical intentionality of the researcher and the skill of representing the historical narrative. At the end of the article the author makes a conclusion about the difference between the forms of representation of the Khazar myth and the myth of Kenaanites in the works of modern Russian researchers in Jewish studies.

scholarly journals „Trzeba mówić po polsku”. Z Antonym Polonskym rozmawia Konrad Matyjaszek

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Matyjaszek
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Retracted Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Jews ◽  
Academic Events ◽  
The Impact

This is the corrected version of the retracted article under the same title, which was published with the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/slh.1401“You need to speak Polish”: Antony Polonsky in an interview by Konrad MatyjaszekThe interview with Antony Polonsky focuses on the history of Polish-Jewish studies as a research field, analyzed from the time of its initiation on the turn of the 1980s until year 2014. Antony Polonsky is the chief historian of the core exhibition of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, as well as the editor-in-chief of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, a yearly research journal. He is also a co-founder of the first research institutions focused of the field of Polish-Jewish studies, and a co-initiator of the first academic events in this field. In the conversation Polonsky discusses the context of the creation of the Polin Museum’s core exhibition, including the impact of politics on this exhibition’s final form. Afterwards, he recounts the history of the beginnings of Polish-Jewish studies, including the Orchard Lake meeting (1979) and the conference at Columbia University (1983). Polonsky gives a detailed account of the course and the outcomes of the Polish-Jewish studies conference in Oxford in 1984, which he co-organized. He also analyses the 1980s Polish political opposition circles’ reactions to the presence of antisemitic narratives in the opposition’s discourse. The last section of the conversation focuses on the presence within the field of Polish-Jewish studies of narratives that are apologetic towards the Polish nationalist discourse. To jest poprawiona wersja wycofanego artykułu o tym samym tytule, który był opublikowany pod następującym numerem DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/slh.1401 „Trzeba mówić po polsku”: Z Antonym Polonskym rozmawia Konrad MatyjaszekPrzedmiotem rozmowy z Antonym Polonskym jest historia pola badań studiów polsko-żydowskich od momentu, kiedy powstały na przełomie lat siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych XX wieku, aż po rok 2014. Antony Polonsky jest głównym historykiem wystawy stałej Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich Polin i redaktorem naczelnym rocznika naukowego „Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry”, był też współtwórcą pierwszych ośrodków studiów polsko-żydowskich i współorganizatorem pierwszych konferencji naukowych w tej dziedzinie. W przytoczonej rozmowie A. Polonsky opowiada o kontekście powstania wystawy głównej Muzeum Polin, w tym o wpływach politycznych na kształt tej wystawy. Tematem rozmowy jest też historia początków pola badawczego studiów polsko-żydowskich, włącznie ze spotkaniem w Orchard Lake (1979) i konferencją na Uniwersytecie Columbia (1983). Ze szczegółami relacjonowany jest przebieg i skutki konferencji studiów polsko-żydowskich w Oksfordzie (1984), którą rozmówca współorganizował. Polonsky przedstawia dalej reakcje polskich środowisk opozycji politycznej na obecność narracji antysemickich w dyskursie opozycji w latach osiemdziesiątych. Ostatnia część rozmowy dotyczy obecności narracji apologetycznych wobec polskiego dyskursu nacjonalistycznego w obrębie pola badań studiów polsko-żydowskich.

Eli Lederhendler, American Jewry: A New History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxiv + 331 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-304
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
American Jewish Community ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Jewish

In composing his important, one-volume synthesis—what he calls a “new history of American Jewry”—Eli Lederhendler has benefited from many of the recent monographic works that have rethought basic themes and issues in this dynamic area of Jewish studies. What makes this discipline exciting is that its historians constantly rethink conceptualizations that once were regnant in the field, offering new understandings of both the sweep and the details of the American Jewish community saga. Lederhendler has a firm grip on these historiographical developments and has adroitly brought much of this provocative scholarship into an erudite and accessible study. Readers also gain from his extensive on-the-page notes, which guide those who are interested to the books and articles that informed his observations, and from his learned excurses for future consideration....

Foreword

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Doris Kadish
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Point Of Departure

This chapter begins with the book’s point of departure, the love affair my mother had with Philip Greenberg, who adopted the pen name Philip Rahv. It presents the book as part biography, part history, part literary analysis, part cultural studies, and part memoir. It identifies the key components of the book: textual analyses woven together with historical accounts, genealogy, memoirs by Rahv’s colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. In keeping with the feminist notion of positionality, this chapter addresses the issue of what it means for a 21st-century woman to write about an author who unquestionably belongs to “the world of our fathers,” to use the title of Irving Howe’s magisterial study of Eastern European Jews in America.

Haskala, Pietismus und der Rostocker Orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734–1815)

Aschkenas ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Uwe Lammel ◽  
Michael Busch
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Young Student ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Network ◽  
Oriental Studies

AbstractOluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734–1815) was a dazzling figure in the European history of ideas. As a young student of theology at the pietistic Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum in Halle he showed great interest in Jewish studies and took part in missionary activities throughout Germany. As a teacher of oriental studies at the universities of Bützow and later of Rostock, both in Mecklenburg, he was in charge of an academic network with about 200 correspondents from all parts of Europe. Besides his numismatic and linguistic expertise he was deeply occupied with the »Jewish question«. Our investigation explores three topics in this field: Tychsen’s participation in the debate on the early burial in Jewish communities in Mecklenburg, his part in the enrolment of the first medical students at Bützow and in granting them their medical degree from 1766 onwards, and his commitment to one of the most liberal Jewish emancipation edicts which was composed in Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1813. Our main question is how Tychsen’s activities in these fields were interwoven with the Jewish striving for emancipation against the background of Haskala and Pietism.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document