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Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work
has focused on what happened to Europe's Jewish communities after
the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the
majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a
significant post-war Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds
of thousands. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 offers
new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades
following the end of World War II. How Jews had been treated during
the war continued to influence both Jewish and non-Jewish society
in the post-war years. The volume examines the ways in which moral
and political issues of responsibility combined with the urgent
problems and practicalities of restoration, and it illustrates how
national imperatives, international dynamics, and a changed
self-perception all profoundly helped to shape the fortunes of
postwar French Judaism.Comprehensive and informed, this volume
offers a rich variety of perspectives on Jewish studies, modern and
contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy,
sociology, and theology. With contributions from leading scholars,
including Edward Kaplan, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Jay Winter, the
book establishes multiple connections between such different areas
of concern as the running of orphanages, the establishment of new
social and political organisations, the restoration of teaching and
religious facilities, and the development of intellectual responses
to the Holocaust. Comprehensive and informed, this volume will be
invaluable to readers working in Jewish studies, modern and
contemporary history, literary and cultural analysis, philosophy,
sociology, and theology.
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal
circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable
variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004,
on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of
the American Jewish community, this question seemed well worth
revisiting. To explore it more fully, the Elie Wiesel Center for
Judaic Studies at Boston University brought together a
distinguished group of expert scholars on the main areas of
American Jewish life, stretching from the colonial Jewish
experience to the image of Jews in contemporary films. The present
volume represents the fruit of this collective reflection and
interrogation.
A collection honoring Elie Wiesel's seventieth birthday. Based on a
three-day symposium, ""The Claims of Memory,"" this volume conveys
the omnipresence of memory in Elie Wiesel's writing and attempts to
preserve the flavor of the exchange that took place. It represents
several intersecting approaches to memory: the nature of memoir
writing; an analysis of contrasting dimensions of memory in victims
and persecutors; the ethics of memory; and chronicling of the
""memory"" of God through key texts in Christian and Jewish
traditions.
During World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi
rule in Eastern Europe. In occupied Poland, the Baltic countries,
Byelorussia, and Ukraine, they were stripped of property and
"resettled" in ghettos. The German authorities established in each
ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living
standards. The Judenrat was required to carry out Nazi directives
against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to
cooperate in the Final Solution.
Did the Jewish leaders of the ghettos, who were also victims,
assist their murderers? If cooperation with the Nazi oppressors was
morally defensible during the first stage in organizing the
ghettos, what about later, when deportations to death camps began?
Trunk analyzes situations where the Councils and ghetto police were
forced to send their own communities to death. Some Council members
chose suicide rather than supply lists to the Nazis; others used
delaying tactics. Some handed over the lists. Some joined their
families in the gas chamber. In assessing guilt and innocence,
Trunk never allows the reader to forget that the impossible choices
facing the Jewish leaders were created by the Nazis.
This collection of primary texts introduces readers to the mystical
literature of the world's great religious traditions. Beginning
with an introduction by Steven T. Katz, a leading scholar of
mysticism, the anthology comprises poetry, prayer, narrative, and
other writings from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist,
Taoist, Confucianist, and Native American traditions. This
collection provides readers not only with the primary mystical
texts from each religious tradition, but with an explanation of the
context of the source and tradition. Comparative Mysticism shows
how the great mystical traditions of the world are deeply rooted in
the religious traditions from which they originated. The contextual
methodological approach taken throughout the anthology also
addresses the critical question of what these mystical traditions,
at their highest level, have in common. Despite the prevailing view
that mystical traditions throughout the world are essentially
similar, the presentation of the sources in this volume suggests
that, in fact, the various traditions have distinct teachings and
different metaphysical goals. The writings collected in Comparative
Mysticism address the most fundamental and important
methodological, epistemological, and hermeneutical questions
regarding the study and interpretation of mysticism and mystical
sources across cultures. This anthology will be an invaluable
resource to students and scholars of mystic tradition for years to
come.
This collection of essays was inspired by the desire to create a
suitable tribute to Dr. Irving Greenberg. Dr. Greenberg has been
one of the truly major figures in the American Jewish community for
the past forty years. A community activist and a theologian of
distinction, he has influenced not only the practical direction of
Jewish life, especially through his work with the leadership of
Jewish Federations throughout the country, but also the shape of
contemporary Jewish thought through his writings on the Holocaust,
the State of Israel, and traditional Jewish themes. The outstanding
list of authors who have contributed to this volume, writing on
central issues in traditional and modern Jewish thought and
history, are a testimony to Dr. Greenberg's repercussive presence
and theological contribution. Those interested in the contemporary
American Jewish community and the nature and shape of modern Jewish
thought at the beginning of the new millennium will find this a
valuable, thought-provoking addition to their libraries.
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal
circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable
variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004,
on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of
the American Jewish community, this question seemed well worth
revisiting. To explore it more fully, the Elie Wiesel Center for
Judaic Studies at Boston University brought together a
distinguished group of expert scholars on the main areas of
American Jewish life, stretching from the colonial Jewish
experience to the image of Jews in contemporary films. The present
volume represents the fruit of this collective reflection and
interrogation.
This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological
responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology
of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large
sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and
Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection of essays by Israeli authors,
also translated from the Hebrew; (3) a broad sampling of works
written in English by American and European authors. These diverse
selections represent virtually every significant theological
position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response
to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were
written while the Holocaust was happening.
This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological
responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology
of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large
sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and
Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection of essays by Israeli authors,
also translated from the Hebrew; (3) a broad sampling of works
written in English by American and European authors. These diverse
selections represent virtually every significant theological
position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response
to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were
written while the Holocaust was happening.
This is the first of a set of three volumes which provide a fresh
appraisal of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century
in the West. Some essays centre on major figures of the period;
others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the
French Revolution and the First World War. The contributors are
among the leading scholars in their field in Europe and North
America. They seek to engage their subjects not only in order to
see what was said but also why it was said and explore what is of
lasting value in it. Readers, therefore, will find the essays not
only highly informative about their subject matter but also
distinctively personal contributions to the task of re-evaluating
the thought of the nineteenth century. Contributions are
sufficently clear to be of use to students in religious studies and
cognate disciplines but have enough depth and detail to appeal to
scholars.
Now available in paperback, the successful three volumes of
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh
appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Some essays
centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends
and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First
World War. The contributors are among the leading scholars in their
field and analyse not only what was said but also why it was said,
and explore what is of lasting value in it. Contributions are
sufficiently clear to be of use to students in religious studies
and cognate disciplines, but have enough depth and detail to appeal
to scholars.
The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious
Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important
thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the
period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between
the French Revolution and the First World War.
This fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the
period from 70 CE to 640 CE (the rise of Islam). It deals with the
major historical, political and cultural developments in Jewish
history and the history of Judaism in this crucial era during which
Judaism took on its classical shape. It provides discussion and
analysis of all the essential subjects pertinent to an
understanding of this period, and is especially strong in its
coverage of the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of
the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem
Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections. In
addition, it surveys the early encounter of Judaism and
Christianity from both the Jewish and Christian sides and describes
the rise of Jewish mystical literature, the liturgical literature
of the developing synagogue, the nature of magical practices in
classical Judaism and Jewish Folklore.
This is the fourth in an influential series of volumes on mysticism edited by Steven T. Katz, presenting a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism. Each presents a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in the study of religion. This new volume explores how the great mystics and mystical traditions use, interpret, and reconstruct the sacred scriptures of their traditions.
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