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Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known
as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish
Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to
scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and
their progeny, including Nobel laureate Elie Weisel and the Talmud
scholar Professor David Halivni-Weiss. Maramarosh Shoah survivor
and Talmud scholar Professor Elieser Slomovic here provides access
to a collection of responsa literature, most of it out of print and
previously available only or primarily in Yiddish. Through personal
queries about how to live Torah instructed lives and rabbinic
responses, the reader is invited to enter the world of Jewish
Maramarosh, where Hasidism flourished and rabbinic scholarship
reflected human nobility manifested through the pragmatics of
poverty and the dynamics of living closely with nature. Professor
Slomovic, recognizing the fluidity and balance over time provided
by Talmudic thought as exemplified through rabbinic teaching,
invites the reader to join the discourse on the everyday life of
everyday people.
Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual
tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French
Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal
ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That
is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is
the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who
are not always in view - workers, the poor, the homeless. These
Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the
book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative
justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will
be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially
rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those
interested in contemporary urban issues.
'Justice in the City' argues, based on the Rabbinic textual
tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French
Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal
ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That
is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is
the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who
are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These
Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the
book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor and restorative
justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will
be useful for scholars and students in Jewish Studies, especially
rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those
interested in contemporary urban issues.
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