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This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether
women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It
details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of
Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of
biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women
topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon
myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female
figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for
generosity and respect for their wives' piety. Whether women living
in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging
since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic
phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised
with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These
topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with
extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript
in Western Yiddish (Judeo-German) written in Italy. The text will
also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists
of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance
scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now
available for the very first time in the original text with an
English translation.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts
and humanities throughout history. It is a universal mode of
knowledge in literature and the arts; in sacred texts and
scholastic writing; in philosophy; in psychology; in politics and
social theory. Recognition is a phenomenon and a fulcrum that makes
these discourses possible. To date, no one has attempted a
comprehensive discussion of recognition across disciplines, places,
and historical periods. Recognition and Modes of Knowledge is the
culmination of an interdisciplinary conference on recognition with
contributions from international authorities, including Piero
Boitani, Roland Le Huenen, Rachel Adelman, and Christina
Tarnopolsky. Students and experts in the humanities who desire a
rich grounding in the concept of recognition should start with this
book.
Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting
Judaism's traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas
technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish
mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers,
this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of
Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to
benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only
approached by consideration of what is not rather than what
is.Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept
that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so
God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious
expression for the biblical notion of creation is "something from
nothing", whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite,
which may at first seem to be illogical - creation in reverse.
However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic
and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as
nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with
things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is
inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or
indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely
the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of
modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that
even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists
claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other
words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking.From
Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar
Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z"l, engaging in particular aspects that
he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life,
providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological
and intellectual topics.
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