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The Three Blessings - Boundaries, Censorship, and Identity in Jewish Liturgy (Hardcover, New)
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The Three Blessings - Boundaries, Censorship, and Identity in Jewish Liturgy (Hardcover, New)
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According to historical teaching, a Jewish man should give thanks
each day for ''not having been made a gentile, a woman, nor a
slave.'' Yoel Kahn's innovative study of a controversial Jewish
liturgical passage traces the history of this prayer from its
extra-Jewish origins across two thousand years of history,
demonstrating how different generations and communities understood
the significance of these words in light of their own
circumstances. Marking the boundary between ''us'' and ''them,''
marginalized and persecuted groups affirmed their own identity and
sense of purpose. After the medieval Church seized and burned books
it considered offensive, new, coded formulations emerged as forms
of spiritual resistance. Owners voluntarily carefully expurgated
their books to save them from being destroyed, creating new
language and meanings while seeking to preserve the structure and
message of the received tradition. Renaissance Jewish women ignored
rabbis' objections and assertively declared their gratitude at
being ''made a woman and not a man.'' Illustrations from medieval
and renaissance Hebrew manuscripts demonstrate creative literary
responses to censorship and show that official texts and
interpretations do not fully represent the historical record. As
Jewish emancipation began in the 19th century, modernizing Jews
again had to balance fealty to historical practice with their own
and others' understanding of their place in the world. Seeking to
be recognized as modern and European, early modern Jews rewrote the
liturgy to fit modern sensibilities and identified themselves with
the Christian West against the historical pagan and the uncivilized
infidel. In recent decades, a reassertion of ethnic and cultural
identity has again raised questions of how the Jewish religious
community should define itself. Through the lens of a liturgical
text in continuous use for over two thousand years, Kahn offers new
insights into an evolving religious identity and recurring
questions of how to honor both historical teaching and contemporary
sensibility.
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