Robinson der Jüngere in the Service of the Haskalah: Joachim Heinrich Campe, the Haskalah and the “Bildung” Project in Jewish Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-252
Author(s):  
Zohar Shavit
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Society

Home for the Homeless? The Hekdesh in Eastern Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natan M. Meir
Keyword(s):  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
East European ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Jewish Hospital ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Polish Jews ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Structural Poverty ◽  
Social Marginality

This chapter examines the hekdesh, one of the grimmest institutions in East European Jewish society. The hekdesh, or Jewish hospital-cum-poorhouse, is a somewhat elusive historical phenomenon but also a useful venue for analyzing traditional forms of Jewish charity in the Russian Empire as well as the dynamics of social marginality among Russian and Polish Jews. The chapter first considers an important characteristic of Jewish charity—the tendency to distinguish between conjunctural poverty and structural poverty—before discussing the hekdesh as an institution. In particular, it describes efforts to transform the hekdesh into a true medical institution and its incarnation in the late nineteenth century as a place for beggars and other cast-offs of society, with only a nominal connection to caring for the sick. It also explains how the hekdesh may have served to perpetuate the problem of begging and vagrancy.

Muslim-Jewish Sexual Liaisons Remembered and Imagined in 20th-Century Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Mark S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Similar Materials ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Identity Crises

AbstractDespite mutual taboos against exogamy, memoirs and similar materials written by Jews from Yemen contain a number of anecdotes describing love affairs and sexual encounters between Muslims and Jews prior to the mass migration of the vast majority of Yemen's Jews to Israel in 1949–50. These stories associate these liaisons with vulnerability, poverty, and marginalization. In them, sex and conversion to Islam are intrinsically connected, yet this interreligious intimacy leads not to resolution but to ongoing identity crises that persist beyond the community's realignment with a majority-Jewish society. The staging of the anecdotes in rural areas where shariʿa norms held only nominal sway, in watering places and hostels where strangers might interact, and at dusk, when identity is difficult to discern, heightened their ambiguity.

On the Education of Children in the Dead Sea Scrolls

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Wassen
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
Unknown Composition ◽  
The Dead ◽  
High Level

This article examines three passages from the Rule of the Congregation and the Damascus Document that pertain to the topic of children’s education. The education of children was considered important within the Qumran movement, which is evident in the curriculum in 1QSa and the fact that such a high-level official as the Examiner had a supervisory role over the teaching. In contrast to the level of education of children in Jewish society in general at the turn of the era, which appears to have been quite rudimentary and consisting mainly of memorization, it appears that children within the movement received a thorough education in both reading and writing. The content of the teaching focused on the laws of the Torah and the Book of Hagu, which is an unknown composition. It is likely that both boys and girls received some education. Cet article examine trois passages de la Règle de la Congrégation et le Document de Damas qui se rapportent au thème de l’éducation des enfants. L’éducation des enfants était considérée comme importante au sein du mouvement de Qumrân, importance qui est évidente dans le programme de 1QSa et le fait qu’un tel fonctionnaire de haut niveau que l’examinateur a eu un rôle de supervision sur l’enseignement. Contrairement au niveau de l’éducation des enfants dans la société juive en général au début de l’époque, qui semble avoir été assez rudimentaire et composé principalement de mémorisation, il semble que les enfants au sein du mouvement ont reçu une éducation complète en lecture et en écrit. Le contenu de l’enseignement a été axé sur les lois de la Torah et le Livre d’Hagu, qui est une composition inconnue. Il est probable que les garçons et les filles ont reçu une certaine éducation.

scholarly journals O DISCURSO PROFÉTICO: CONDIÇÕES DE FORMAÇÃO DAS RELAÇÕES HEGEMÔNICAS ENTRE O POVO JUDEU, A PARTIR DE ENUNCIAÇÕES DO VELHO TESTAMENTO

Organon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Zandwais
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Relations Of Power

Theory of Enunciation researches can explain questions concerning theroles of subjectivity in language, as well as descontinuities found betweendiscoursive and linguistic objects. In this paper we analyse the formativeconditions of the Jewish social hegemony, by investigating an historical discoursetaken from the Old Testament: a profecy against the king Jeroboam (Book of theKings). Considering the intersection of voices in statements of discourse and thecathegories of distance, opacity, tension and modality, we try to describe how theeffects of senses produced by that voices can represent relations of power in theancient Jewish society.

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