Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society – serie
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14 produkter
Unheroic Conduct
The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man
Häftad, 1997
297 kr
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In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive …
On the Margins of Modernism
Decentering Literary Dynamics
Häftad, 1996
460 kr
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Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other"--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written …
Founder of Hasidism
A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov
Av Moshe Rosman
Inbunden, 1996
842 kr
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This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of …
Black Fire on White Fire
An Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah
Häftad, 1998
428 kr
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Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation. The metaphor from rabbinic literature that describes the writing of the Torah - black …
Booking Passage
Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination
Inbunden, 2000
627 kr
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Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the 'poetics of exile and return'. Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination …
Spinning Fantasies
Rabbis, Gender, and History
Häftad, 1997
428 kr
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Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources - archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin - she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's …
Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry
Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora
Av Joel Beinin
Inbunden, 1998
546 kr
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In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. …
Radical Jew
Paul and the Politics of Identity
Häftad, 1997
280 kr
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Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture? Paul's famous formulation, 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and …
Hyena People
Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia
Häftad, 1999
400 kr
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The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a unique example of a Jewish group living within an ancient, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. Hagar Salamon presents the first in-depth study of this group, called the 'Hyena people' by their non-Jewish neighbors. Based on more than 100 …
Biography of Ancient Israel
National Narratives in the Bible
Av Ilana Pardes
Häftad, 2002
371 kr
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The nation - particularly in Exodus and Numbers - is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, …
Foregone Conclusions
Against Apocalyptic History
Häftad, 2018
349 kr
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We are continually trying to make sense of our world through the stories we tell and are told, but in our search for coherence, we often sacrifice our freedom and the rich randomness of life. In this passionate and lucid book, Michael André Bernstein challenges our practice of "foreshadowing," in …
Marriage Made in Heaven
The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish
Häftad, 1997
349 kr
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With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first …
Marriage Made in Heaven
The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish
Inbunden, 1997
1131 kr
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With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first …
Foregone Conclusions
Against Apocalyptic History
Inbunden, 2024
1537 kr
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We are continually trying to make sense of our world through the stories we tell and are told, but in our search for coherence, we often sacrifice our freedom and the rich randomness of life. In this passionate and lucid book, Michael André Bernstein challenges our practice of "foreshadowing," in …
