[ha-Safran] "Thoroughly researched, detailed, meticulously presented essays" capturing important facets of the post-war Jewish world
To view this email online, paste this link into your browser: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/message/1iu7te/55ump3__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgCs89eqL$ (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/xbimyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgJVU6bau$ ) Touro University Press books are distributed by Academic Studies Press 1577 Beacon St Brookline, MA 02446 United States of America T: +1 (617) 782.6290 | F: +1 (857) 241.3149 Email: pr...@academicstudiespress.com After the HolocaustMonty Noam Penkower October 2021 | 230 pp. | 9781644696798 | $29.95 | Paperback The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history. They include the Earl Harrison mission and significant report, the effort to keep Europe’s borders open to refugee infiltration, the murder of the first Jew in Germany after V-E Day and its impact, and the iconic sculptures of Nathan Rapoport and Poland’s landscape of Holocaust memory up to the present day. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft. Learn More & Purchase (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/d4imyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgMCCc_I8$ ) Monty Noam Penkower, professor emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem), is the prize-winning author of many books on the Holocaust, on American Jewry, and on the rise of the State of Israel in the years 1933-1948. Praise for After the Holocaust “These thoroughly researched, detailed, meticulously presented essays shed stimulating new light on several hitherto-overlooked aspects of the complex processes of rebuilding the Jewish world following the Holocaust. They are an important addition to a growing literature on the subject.” — David Engel, Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, New York University “Monty Penkower’s After the Holocaust is a very valuable addition to the historical studies of the tumultuous period which followed the end of World War II and the Nazis’ efforts to totally annihilate the Jews of Europe, events which dramatically changed the course of Jewish history. His book presents a detailed chronicle of how those developments transpired, and identifies the key political figures whose decisions were crucial in the process. Unlike the other volumes which have focused on this period, however, Penkower continues his analysis and brings it up to date, providing a fascinating account of the phenomenon of Holocaust distortion, which has become a major problem in contemporary Holocaust commemoration, research and education. A must read!” — Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel “Monty Penkower has done it yet again. In a new and fascinating book about Jews in Europe entitled After the Holocaust, he presents us with five expanded essays, each of which focuses on another aspect of post-war Jewish existence in the years immediately following that cataclysm. His artfully crafted volume is a very worthwhile read!" — Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Director, Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University Use the code (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/twjmyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgAKG1dQD$ ) Expires 11/31/21 at 11:59 pm (EDT) After the Holocaust is also available for purchase from: (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/9okmyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgDVdneiD$ ) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/phlmyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgBcpup4_$ ) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/59lmyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgMJCH20E$ ) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.e2ma.net/click/1iu7te/55ump3/l2mmyq__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgEtRYGZq$ ) 1577 Beacon St. | Brookline, MA 02446 US This email was sent to hasaf...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. manage your preferences (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1868474/1811387/275343291/1779300283/?s=krthII53azxL38gcCergea9Yzv0TE_J_-BMREHyvPL0__;!!KGKeukY!g8zai5jwu9EcvA0TE14zRIxnd8BiX3rGcr0Njc-fUurucli6f3Jwj8qnw85MkcKrVLHPgDfWVHU0$ ) opt out (https://urldefense.com/v
[ha-Safran] An illuminating mosaic of key moments surrounding the founding of the State of Israel
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[ha-Safran] New in Jewish Studies from Academic Studies Press
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce several new volumes in Jewish Studies. Learn more and browse our publications at *www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/>*. *Defenders of the Faith: Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy and Reform <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/touro-university-press/defenders-of-the-faith>* by Judith Bleich The Emancipation of European Jewry during the nineteenth century led to conflict between tradition and modernity, creating a chasm that few believed could be bridged. Unsurprisingly, the emergence of modern traditionalism was fraught with obstacles. The essays published in this collection eloquently depict the passion underlying the disparate views, the particular areas of vexing confrontation and the hurdles faced by champions of tradition. The author identifies and analyzes the many areas of sociological and religious tension that divided the competing factions, including synagogue innovation, circumcision, intermarriage, military service and many others. With compelling writing and clear, articulate style, this illuminating work provides keen insight into the history and development of the various streams of Judaism and the issues that continue to divide them in contemporary times. *Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/antisemitisminamerica/salem-on-the-thames>* edited by Richard Landes This compelling volume focuses on the story of Andrew Pessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accused by students and faculty of having “directly condoned the extermination of a people” based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Salem on the Thames captures the events as they unfolded and discusses topics such as Western sentiments concerning Israeli-Palestinian relations, academics and free speech, antisemitism and diversity on the college campus, and social media and politics. The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards “public shaming” reminiscent of the Salem witch trials that deeply compromises the integrity of academia. *Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/swimming-against-the-current>* edited by Shaul Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty years and continues to be an influential leader in the Los Angeles and wider American Jewish community. These articles, like the honoree, challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom by breaking new ground in how they approach their subjects. They are divided into four categories that hold special interest for Seidler-Feller: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, Modern Jewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics. The volume also includes a sketch of Seidler-Feller’s life and work, a bibliography of his publications, and tributes by students and colleagues. For more of our recent publications, please visit *www.academicstudiespress.com/books <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/books>*. -- Academic Studies Press 1577 Beacon St. Brookline, MA, 02446 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Call for Papers: Latin American Jewish Studies (LAJS)
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce an open call for papers for the inaugural issue of a new journal, *Latin American Jewish Studies <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/lajs>*, published in conjunction with the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. *Editor-in-Chief:* Darrell B. Lockhart (University of Nevada, Reno) *Reviews Editor:* Nora Glickman (Queens College/Graduate Center, CUNY) *Latin American Jewish Studies* is the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). The journal publishes original scholarship on Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism within the context of Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of a broad array of disciplines in the arts, humanities, history, social sciences, and communications. Its mission is to advance the scholarly study of the Jewish experience and presence throughout the Américas through a variety of methodologies and theoretical and conceptual approaches. *Latin American Jewish Studies* invites contributions from all scholars working in the broadly defined, multidisciplinary field of Latin American Jewish Studies. Submissions are accepted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. All articles will undergo a rigorous, double-blind peer-review process. Submissions are now being solicited for the inaugural issue of *Latin American Jewish Studies*, which will be published in summer (July) 2020. The journal will be published in an annual volume of two issues (summer/winter). *For submission deadline, author guidelines, and other information, visit www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/lajs <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/lajs>.* *Direct all questions and submissions to l...@academicstudiespress.com .* -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] New in Jewish Studies from Academic Studies Press
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of several new books in Jewish Studies. Please see below for recently published books, and take 25% off your order at www.academicstudiespress.com with promotional code *HIGHHOLIDAYS* through the end of September. *Recently Published * *Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/advancing-the-learning-agenda-in-jewish-education>*, edited by Jon A. Levisohn and Jeffrey S. Kress September 2018 | 219 pp.; 4 figs.; 2 tables 9781618117533 | $99.00 | CL 9781618118790 | $34.00 | PB *Summary:* Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kinds of learning needed to achieve these, and how those kinds of learning actually occur. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together scholars from inside Jewish education and from the learning sciences. It offers a set of critical perspectives on learning, sometimes borrowing models from other domains (such as science) and sometimes examining specific domains within Jewish education (such as *havruta* learning or the learning of Jewish history). Collectively, these contributions help to advance a smarter, sharper conversation about Jewish learning that matters. *Jon A. Levisohn* holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he is also serves as the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. A philosopher of education, he focuses on the teaching and learning of classical Jewish texts, and on the desired outcomes of Jewish education. He is co-editor of *Turn It and Turn It Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts* (2013) and *Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives* (forthcoming). *Jeffrey S. Kress* is the Dr. Bernard Heller Associate Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also directs the research center of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. He focuses on developmental issues in Jewish education, especially social, emotional and spiritual development. He is the author of *Development, Learning and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools* (2012) and the editor of *Growing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls: Promoting Spiritual, Social and Emotional Growth in Jewish Education* (2013). For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/advancing-the-learning-agenda-in-jewish-education -- *New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/new-directions-in-the-history-of-the-jews-in-the-polish-lands>*, edited by Antony Polonsky, Hanna Węgrzynek and Andrzej Żbikowski *Series:* Jews of Poland August 2018 | 572 pp. 9788394426293 | $149.00 | Cloth *Summary:* This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions—the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current state of the historiography of the Jews on the Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement to the present day. Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people. *Antony Polonsky* is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. Until 1991, he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. His most recent work is *The Jews in Poland and Russia*, Volume 1, 1350 to 1881; Volume 2, 1881 to 1914; Volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version, *The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History*. *Hanna Węgrzynek* is a chief specialist for research and historical projects at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among her books are *“Czarna legenda” Żydów: procesy mordy rytualne w dawnej Polsce* (The Jewish “Black Legend”: Blood Libel Trials in Old Poland, Warsaw, 1995) and *Historia i kultury Żydów polskich: słownik* (History and Culture of Polish Jews: A Reference Book), in cooperation with Al
[ha-Safran] CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism
*Academic Studies Press* (ASP) is currently inviting submissions for the next issue of the *Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism <http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/JCA/index>*, which is due for publication in Spring 2019. The *Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism* focuses on the multiple and changing manifestations of antisemitism in the contemporary world, including but not limited to, antisemitism in the Islamic world, in Europe, on the left and the right of the political spectra, secular antisemitism, antisemitism in the church, and anti-Zionism. We encourage scholars from all disciplines across the social sciences and humanities to submit 1) an original research article reporting qualitative or quantitative research; 2) a literature review; 3) a conceptual or theoretical article; 4) a commentary; or 5) a book review. Please submit your manuscript to *j...@academicstudiespress.com *. The deadline for submissions is *October 1, 2018*. Your manuscript should comply with the authors’ guidelines, which may be found at: http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/JCA/about/submissions#authorGuidelines *ABOUT THE JOURNAL* The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, which is one of the few journals exclusively dedicated to the analysis of antisemitism, focuses on the multiple and changing manifestations of antisemitism in the contemporary world. While our interest is in the post-Holocaust era, submissions may include relevant empirical studies dealing with the 19th or early 20th century. Specifically, our focus is on 21st century forms of antisemitism, including but not limited to, antisemitism in the Islamic world, in Europe, on the left and the right of the political spectra, secular antisemitism, antisemitism in the church, and anti-Zionism. Overseen by an international team of editors, this rigorously peer-reviewed journal aims to provide a forum in which scholars from diverse political and intellectual backgrounds can analyze, debate, and formulate effective responses to the ever-evolving and insidious threat of antisemitism. *ABOUT ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS* Academic Studies Press is an independent scholarly publisher devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on Jewish Studies and Slavic Studies. Through our outstanding, opinion-leading authors and series editors, we continuously strive to enhance understanding through our monographs and critical companions, improve the accessibility of classic works through our translations, and inspire dialogue through our scholarly commentaries. We champion innovative ideas and new, creative interpretations. -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] New and Forthcoming from Academic Studies Press
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of several books in Jewish Studies. Please see below for recently published and forthcoming books, and books newly released in paperback. *New and Forthcoming* *In the Crook of the Rock: Jewish Refuge in a World Gone Mad — The Chaya Leah Walkin Story <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/in-the-crook-of-the-rock-jewish-refuge-in-a-world-gone-mad> *by Vera Schwarcz Series: Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society March 2018 | 307 pp.; 18 illus. 9781618117854 | $90.00 | CL 9781618117861 | $34.00 | PB *Summary:* Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin—one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland—this book illustrates the inner resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with dignity. Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted around the voice of a child who was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland and start the terrifying journey to Vilna, Kobe, and Shanghai. The Song of Songs is used to provide an unexpected and poetic angle of vision upon strategies for creating meaning in times of historical trauma. *Vera Schwarcz* was born in Romania and became an historian of China and a poet in the United States. For the past four decades she taught at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her work was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fullbright Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Lady Davis Fellowship. Schwarcz is the author of nine books about Chinese and Jewish history, including *Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory* (Yale University Press, 1989) which was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and *Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond (*University of Hawai'i Press, 2014). She has also written six books of poetry, including most recently *The Physics of Wrinkle Formation *(Antrim House, 2015). For more information about her work, visit between2walls.com. For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ forthcoming/in-the-crook-of-the-rock-jewish-refuge-in-a-world-gone-mad *Miracle Child: The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/miracle-child> *by Anita Epstein *Series: *The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy April 2018 | 144 pp.; 14 illus. 9781618118585 | $90.00 | Cloth 9781618118592 | $19.00 | Paperback *Summary:* This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death—one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitler’s camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also depicts the author’s postwar challenges in Germany and America. *Anita Epstein, *among the world's younger Holocaust survivors, came to America at seven years old and, in her teens, auditioned twice for the film role of Anne Frank. She later became a lobbyist for education and trade issues. She worries a great deal about what will happen when the last Holocaust survivors, like her, are gone. *Noel Epstein, *former Education Editor of The Washington Post, spent more than forty years as a journalist with the Post, the Wall Street Journal and as an independent consultant. He is the editor of *Who’s In Charge Here? The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy* (Brookings Institution Press, 2004) and author of *Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools *(Institute for Educational Leadership, George Washington University, 1977), which helped shape U.S. bilingual education policy. For more information on this title, please visit the book’s dedicated webpage at: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/miracle-child *Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1uc949mypSL8ytAQupogdLsENZkHxObMyqssY46GFK0A-0&key=YAMMID-67308524&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fforthcoming%2Fconversations-with-colleagues-on-becoming-an-american-jewish-historian>*, edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock *Series:* North American Jewish Studies April 2018 | 272 pp. 9781618118561 | $79.00 USD | Cloth *Summary:* Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history—among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia—converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful and candid recollections of the challenges they faced in beco
[ha-Safran] Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences
Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA) is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the journal *Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences <http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/SJHSS/issue/view/7/showToc>* (Vol 1.1). Further, we are pleased to announce that this issue is freely available at http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/SJHSS/issue/view/7/showToc. Please see the contents below. *Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences <http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/SJHSS/issue/view/7/showToc> * ISSN 2473-2605 (Print) / ISSN 2473-2613 (Online) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Simcha Fishbane (Touro College) MANAGING EDITOR Eric Levine (Touro College) REVIEWS EDITOR Herbert Basser (Queen’s University) *Table of Contents * >From the Editors Simcha Fishbane, Eric Levine, Herbert Basser *Articles* Inclusion and Exclusion in the Mishnah: Non-Jews, Converts, and the Nazir Calvin Goldscheider Textual Study and Social Formation: The Case of Mishnah Jack N. Lightstone Genealogies of the Future Jonathan Boyarin The Role of Life Motifs in Commitment Journeys of Ba’alei Teshuvah Roberta Rosenberg Farber Mipnei Darkei Shalom: The Promotion of Harmonious Relationships in the Mishnah’s Social Order Simcha Fishbane On the Unknown Soldier Symbol in Israeli Culture Irit Dekel Why Religious Discourse Has a Place in Medical Ethics: An Example from Jewish Medical Ethics Ira Bedzow החופה בספרות חז”ל – סמל בתהליך שינוי ניסן רובין *Book Reviews* Jon D. Levenson, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 235. Reviewed by James A. Diamond Todd M. Endelman, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 367. Reviewed by Sylvia Barack Fishman Moshe Halbertal, On Sacrifice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 134. Reviewed by Zev Garber *Subscribe:* To subscribe to *SJHSS*, please visit http://journals.academicstudiespress.com/index.php/SJHSS/about/subscriptions . *ABOUT **SJHSS* *Studies in Judaism, Humanities and the Social Sciences* is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal published by Academic Studies Press. The mission of the journal is to publish original works of interest on Judaism through the “eyes” of the humanities and the social sciences. Its goal is to advance the systematic, scholarly, and social scientific study of Jews and Judaism, and to provide a forum for the discussion of methodologies, theories, and conceptual approaches across the many disciplines. Articles may be contemporary or historical in nature and can include case studies, historical studies, articles on new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of Jews and Judaism, and works on innovations in methodology. *Studies in Judaism, Humanities and the Social Sciences* encourages contributions from the global community of scholars. All articles in this journal will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by anonymous reviewers. The journal will also publish book reviews of important new scholarship. -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of a volume you may be interested in: *Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond* by Aubrey Glazer. February 2017 | 9781618115492 | 336 pp. | $82.00 USD | Hardcover *Summary:* *Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond* analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock n’ roll biographies about Leonard Cohen. How does this mystical maestro’s songbook emerge to illuminate questions of meaning making in a post-secular context when correlated with thinkers like Charles Taylor, Edward S. Casey, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj Žižek, Jeffrey Kripal and Harold Bloom along with others. Cohen’s mysticism is also analyzed in relationship to Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. *Tangle of Matter & Ghost *presents a unique inter-disciplinary approach to Jewish philosophy and literary studies with wide appeal for diverse audiences and readership. *Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D.* (University of Toronto) is rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom, San Francisco. His latest books dedicated to exploring Jewish philosophy in different contexts: *Mystical Vertigo: Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide* (Academic Studies Press, 2013) and *A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought* (Continuum, 2011) recently translated into Hebrew (Resling Press, 2015). For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <https://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/tangle-of-matter-and-ghost>. Use the discount code *TANGLED* for 25% off this volume at academicstudiespress.com. Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Reflections on Identity: The Jewish Case
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of a volume you may be interested in: *Reflections on Identity: The Jewish Case <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/reflections-on-identity-the-jewish-case> *by Avi Sagi. December 2016 | 9781618115348 | 224 pp. | $79.00 USD | Hardcover *Summary:* Two basic approaches have shaped the identity discourse since antiquity. The essentialist view assumes that a person's identity does exist "somewhere," and the discourse on identity is an attempt to disclose it. People do not create their identity, they only realize it. The opposite, deconstructionist view, assumes that the identity is only a linguistic fiction; we have no identity outside our concrete history, which reflects a constantly ongoing dynamic change. The present book offers a third option. It accepts that identity is not a priori datum that precedes our existence but claims we do have a set historical cultural identity it calls "primary," expressing a permanent foundation of our biography. On its basis, we build our concrete identity. Engaging in a critical analysis, the book exposes the foundations and the borders of the identity field. As a test case that illustrates its claims, it presents the discourse on Jewish identity. Lively, vigorous, and widely recorded, this discourse conveys many nuances of the tension between continuity and change and is thus uniquely fit to convey the significance of the identity discourse. *Professor Avi Sagi* teaches philosophy at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he established the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. He is also a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He has written and edited many books and articles in philosophy, among them *Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd*; *Kierkegaard, Religion, and Existence: The Voyage of the Self*; *Jewish Religion after Theology*, and *Prayer after the Death of God*. His contribution to contemporary Jewish philosophy has recently been showcased in *Avi Sagi: Extentialism, Pluralism, and Identity* ed. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes (Leiden: Brill, 2015). For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/reflections-on-identity-the-jewish-case> . Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 <(617)%20782-6290> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] New Catalog - Academic Studies Press
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of our latest catalog <https://goo.gl/sJ0wKw>. The catalog presents new and forthcoming titles in Jewish Studies and Slavic Studies for 2016 and Spring 2017. Complete series descriptions, new journal listings, and information on ASP Open are also featured within. The catalog may be viewed at www.academicstudiespress.com or via the direct link here <https://goo.gl/sJ0wKw>. Best wishes, Matthew Charlton Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Hybrid Judaism: Irving Greenberg, Encounter, and the Changing Nature of American Jewish Identity
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of a volume you may be interested in: *Hybrid Judaism: Irving Greenberg, Encounter, and the Changing Nature of American Jewish Identity <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=16vWvF-AX2jL9gxVRLlhsNBqX_pW8oMZ02FxS5pa3LSM-291343159&key=YAMMID-26437624&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fforthcoming%2Fhybrid-judaism>* by Darren Kleinberg. November 2016 | 9781618115454 | 170 pp. | $34.00 USD | Paperback *Summary:* American Jewish identity has changed significantly over the course of the past half century. During this time, Irving Greenberg developed a unique theology that anticipated David Hollinger's notion of postethnicity and represents a compelling understanding of contemporary American Jewish identity. Greenberg's covenantal theology and image of God idea combine into what Kleinberg refers to as Hybrid Judaism. Central to Greenberg's theology is recognition of the transformative power of encounter in an open society, heavily influenced by his own encounters across Jewish denominational boundaries and through his participation in the Christian-Jewish dialogue movement. Presented here for the first time, Greenberg’s theology of Hybrid Judaism has great relevance for our understanding of American Jewish identity in the twenty-first century. *Darren Kleinberg* was ordained by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in 2005 and completed his doctorate in Religious Studies from Arizona State University in 2014. He currently serves as Head of School at Kehillah Jewish High School, in Palo Alto, California. Prior to arriving at Kehillah, he was the Founding Executive Director of Valley Beit Midrash in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=16vWvF-AX2jL9gxVRLlhsNBqX_pW8oMZ02FxS5pa3LSM-291343159&key=YAMMID-26437624&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fforthcoming%2Fhybrid-judaism> . Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Learning to Read Talmud: What it Looks Like and How it Happens
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of *Learning to Read Talmud: What it Looks Like and How it Happens <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/learning-to-read-talmud>* edited by Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman. October 2016 | 9781618115133 | 300 pp.; 8 illus. | $79.00 USD | Hardcover *Summary:* Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal. Bridging the study of Talmud and the study of pedagogy, this book is an essential resource for scholars, curriculum writers, and classroom teachers of Talmud. *Jane L. Kanarek* is Associate Professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew College. She is the author of Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law. She received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a PhD from the University of Chicago. *Marjorie Lehman* (BA, Wellesley College; PhD, Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Wayne State University Press), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award–Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in the category of Scholarship. Lehman is working on a feminist commentary to tractate Yoma (Mohr Siebeck) and a book, “Foolish Priests, Revisionist Rabbis: The Transformation of Yom Kippur in Tractate Yoma.” Along with Jane L. Kanarek and Simon J. Bronner, she is editing the fifth volume of a series focused on Jewish Cultural Studies, Motherhood in the Jewish Cultural Imagination, that will be published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. She has published articles in Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal of Jewish Education, Nashim, and Teaching Theology and Religion. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/learning-to-read-talmud> . *30% off list price with promotional code READTALMUD30 when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/learning-to-read-talmud>.* Best wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of a volume you may be interested in for review: *Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/under-the-shadow-of-the-rising-sun>* by Meron Medzini. October 2016 | 9781618115386 | 290 pp. | $79.00 USD | Hardcover *Summary:* Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that of the official German position and that it had no intention of taking measures against the Jews that could be seen as racially motivated. During World War II some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation in Manchuria, China and countries of South East Asia. Virtually all of them survived the war, unlike their brethren in Europe. This book traces the evolution of Japan's policy towards the Jews from the beginning of the 20th century, the existence of anti-Semitism in Japan, and why Japan ignored repeated Nazi demands to become involved in the "final solution". *Meron Medzini *was born in Jerusalem and received his Ph.D in East Asia Studies from Harvard University. He began teaching modern Japanese history at the Hebrew University in 1964. Since 1973 he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of modern Japanese history and Israeli foreign policy at the Hebrew University. Medzini is the author of six books and scores of articles.. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/under-the-shadow-of-the-rising-sun> . *30% off list price with promotional code REDSUN from www.academicstudiespress.com/ <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/under-the-shadow-of-the-rising-sun>.* Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel
Dear Friends & Colleagues, On behalf of Academic Studies Press, it is my pleasure to announce the publication of *Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=16d5Hwv5gdma_9LQqBKVzmxPvaU96LG7UucMGKri4vtE-291343159&key=YAMMID-75443454&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fbrowse-catalog%2Fnostalgia-for-a-foreign-land>* by Roman Katsman. October 2016 | 9781618115287 | 310 pp. | Hardcover *Summary:* This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis. *Roman Katsman *is a Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of six books and numerous articles on Hebrew and Russian literatures, and Jewish-Russian literature and thought. His recent interests are concerned with laughter in S.Y. Agnon’s works and the contemporary Russian intellectual literature. For more information on this title, please visit the book's dedicated webpage <https://academicstudiespress-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=16d5Hwv5gdma_9LQqBKVzmxPvaU96LG7UucMGKri4vtE-291343159&key=YAMMID-75443454&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academicstudiespress.com%2Fbrowse-catalog%2Fnostalgia-for-a-foreign-land> . *30% off list price with promotional code NOSTALGIA30 when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/nostalgia-for-a-foreign-land>.* Best wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/acco-festival-between-celebration-and-confrontation?rq=Acco>* by Jerome Napthaly Shem-Tov has been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). *Summary:* This research follows the history of the Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that brings together established mainstream directors and actors, alternative artists from the fringes, and Acco’s Jewish and Arab residents. The book explores the festival’s artistic direction; repertoire; organization, budget, and infrastructure; reception; and the Acco host community. *Table of Contents* *Preface and Acknowledgements* *Introduction* *Chapter One* *Artistic Direction and the Political: Exception Takes the Stage? * *Chapter Two* *Performance Repertoire: Representations of Social Conflicts* *Chapter Three* *Organization, Budget, and Infrastructure: Between Center and Periphery* *Chapter Four* *Festival Reception: Judgment, Criticism, and Audience* *Chapter Five* *Host Community: Policy and Resistance* *References* More information on this title may be found on the book's dedicated webpage here <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/acco-festival-between-celebration-and-confrontation?rq=Acco> . *30% off list price with promotional code **ACCO** when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/>. * Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Writing Palestine 1933-1950
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *Writing Palestine 1933-1950 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/writing-palestine-1933-1950-dorothy-kahn-bar-adon?rq=writing%20palestine>* by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon and edited by Esther Carmel-Hakim & Nancy Rosenfeld has been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). *Summary:* From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancing for periodicals in Palestine and abroad. Bar-Adon covered life in towns, kibbutzim and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine during this period of World War, armed conflict between Arabs and Jews, immigration to Israel of Holocaust survivors. Close to 60 years after her death, this edited collection of Bar-Adon’s writing offers a vivid view both of daily life in the Jewish and Arab communities of pre-State Israel, and of the burning issues of the day. *Table of Contents* *Acknowledgements* *Editors' Preface* *Foreword By Linda Steiner* *Chapter 1: Biography of Dorothy Kahn Bar Adon* *Chapter 2: Zionism and immigration to Palestine* *Chapter 3: The German Jews Conquer Tel Aviv* *Chapter 4: “Our Cousins” – on the Arab Population of Mandatory Palestine* *Chapter 5: Jerusalem: A City Not Yet Divided* *Chapter 6: World War II – the Palestine Home Front * *Chapter 7: The Collective Village* *Chapter 8: Youth Aliya* *Afterword* *Suggested Reading* *Glossary* *Index* More information on this title may be found on the book's dedicated webpage here <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/writing-palestine-1933-1950-dorothy-kahn-bar-adon?rq=writing%20palestine> . *30% off list price with promotional code **DOROTHY** when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/>. * Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: This Was from God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *This Was from God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/this-was-from-god-a-contemporary-theology-of-torah-and-history?rq=this%20was%20from%20god>* by Jerome Yehuda Gellman has been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). *Summary:* Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the Torah. Here, Gellman provides an "old-fashioned" Jewish theology for accepting the contemporary critique of Torah and history. Gellman presents an outline of the scholarly conclusions, and then examines faith responses and rejects apologetic attempts to evade the challenge. The book elucidates the notions of Divine Providence and Divine Accommodation that then provide a basis for the thesis that for centuries Divine Providence has been guiding toward a non-historical, non-literal understanding of the Torah. This was from God. Gellman advocates Hasidic-type non-literal approaches as most fitting for our times. Then, in light of the book's thesis, Gellman offers his understanding of Torah from Heaven, prayer, and the continuing validity of the commandments, for present-day traditional Judaism. *Table of Contents* *Preface* *Introduction* *Part I: Challenge and Response* *Chapter 1: The Challenge* *Chapter 2: Faith-Responses* *Chapter 3: Apologetics* *Chapter Four: A Counterproof* *Part II: My Theological Toolbox* *Chapter 5: Divine Providence* *Chapter 6: Divine Accommodation* *Part III: This Was from God* *Chapter 7: This Was from God* *Chapter 8: Torah from Heaven* *Part IV: Torah Today* *Chapter 9: Reading Torah with the Hasidim* *Chapter 10: Prayer and Observing Commandments* More information on this title may be found on the book's dedicated webpage here <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/this-was-from-god-a-contemporary-theology-of-torah-and-history?rq=this%20was%20from%20god> . *30% off list price with promotional code **GELLMAN** when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/>. * Best Wishes, -- Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150 - Now Available
*Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150* translated and annotated by H. Norman Strickman is now available from Touro College Press (New York, NY). Summary: Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on biblical studies continues to this very day. Ibn Ezra sought to provide the literal meaning of the biblical text. However, he did more than that. His commentary is saturated with insights into Hebrew grammar, medieval philosophy, and astrology. R*abbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Books 3–5 of Psalms: Chapters 73–150 *completes the publication of the translation and annotation of Ibn Ezra’s commentary to Psalms, making it available to both scholars and general readers. To order, please visit: http://www.academicstudiespress.com/touro-college-press/rabbi-abraham-ibn-ezras-commentary-on-books-3-5-of-psalms-chapters-73-150 Also Available: Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the First Book of Psalms: Chapters 1–41 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/rabbi-abraham-ibn-ezras-commentary-on-the-first-book-of-psalms> (2009, Academic Studies Press) Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Second Book of Psalms: Chapters 42–72 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/rabbi-abraham-ibn-ezras-commentary-on-the-second-book-of-psalms> (2009, Academic Studies Press) Best wishes, Touro College Press & Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 Website: www.academicstudiespress.com Email: pr...@academicstudiespress.com Tel: +1 (617) 782-6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism: The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/modern-orthodoxy-in-american-judaism-the-era-of-rabbi-leo-jung>* by Maxine Jacobson has been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). *Summary:* This book presents the issues and challenges of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America from the 1920s to the 1960s and discusses the economic, social, and political influences that impacted on its development. This is the story of the renaissance of American Modern Orthodoxy, from the disorganization of the older Orthodoxy to the new spirit of confidence that emerged after World War Two. Modern Orthodoxy adjusted to the challenges of modernity and a new environment. Modern Orthodoxy will be examined in the context of Orthodox invigoration and change. By 1960, a foundation had been laid for a movement to the “right,” which was marked by the tightening of religious standards. Rabbi Leo Jung is a fulcrum around which many such issues can be explored. *Table of Contents* *List of IllustrationsPreface* Introduction 1. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1920s 2. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1930s 3. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1940s 4. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1950s Conclusion *BibliographyIndex* More information on this title may be found on the book's dedicated webpage here: http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/modern-orthodoxy-in-american-judaism-the-era-of-rabbi-leo-jung *40% off list price with promotional code **JACOBSON** when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com>. * Best wishes, Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: The Image of Jews in Contemporary China
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *The Image of Jews in Contemporary China <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/the-image-of-jews-in-contemporary-china-an-identity-without-a-people>* edited by James Ross & Song Lihong was recently published by Academic Studies Press. Series: Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society ISBN: 9781618114204 (CL) Pages: 256 pp. *Summary:* Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies programs, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually no Jews in China. The Chinese are constructing an identity for a people that the large majority of them will never meet. This edited volume critically examines the image of Jews from the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens. It includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programs, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China’s relations with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng. *Contents:* Introduction James R. Ross Perceiving Jews in Modern China Zhou Xun Images of Jews in Contemporary Books, Blogs and Films James R. Ross Distinctiveness: A Major Jewish Characteristic Fu Youde Chinese Policy toward Kaifeng Jews Xu Xin Sukkot and Mid-Autumn Festivals in Kaifeng: Conundrums at the Crossroads of Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity Moshe Y. Bernstein Understanding of the Bible among the General Public in Mainland China: A Survey on the “Bullet Curtain” of The Bible Meng Zhenhua The Changing Image of the State of Israel in People’s Daily during the Cold War She Gangzheng The Reception of Contemporary Israeli Literature in China Zhong Zhiqing China’s Relationship with Israel, Opportunities and Challenges: Perspectives from China Chen Yiyi Holocaust Studies and Holocaust Education in China Glenn Timmermans Reflections on Chinese Jewish Studies: A Comparative Perspective Song Lihong *Index * *Reviews:* “The amazing surge of interest in all things Jewish—Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish Studies—in contemporary China is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the contemporary globalized world. This superb volume of essays is the first to offer a truly sophisticated survey of different aspects of the Chinese-Jewish phenomenon, from the state of the contemporary Chinese-Jewish community in Kaifeng to China-Israel relations to the rise of Jewish Studies as an academic field in Chinese universities. With its many contributions from Chinese scholars in particular, this volume demonstrates the truly advanced level of ‘Jewish’ discourse in contemporary Chinese academic and intellectual life.” *— David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Harvard University* For more information on this volume, please visit the book's dedicated webpage: http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/the-image-of-jews-in-contemporary-china Best wishes, Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Contention, Controversy, and Change: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience (Volumes I & II)
Dear Friends & Colleagues, *Contention, Controversy, and Change: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience (Volumes I & II*) edited by Simcha Fishbane & Eric Levine have been published by Touro College Press. Volume I: 9781618114624 | 372 pp. | $89.00 USD | January 2016 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/touro-college-press/contention-controversy-and-change-evolutions-and-revolutions-in-the-jewish-experience-volume-i> Volume II: 9781618114648 | 264 pp. | $89.00 USD | February 2016 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/touro-college-press/copy-of-contention-controversy-and-change-evolutions-and-revolutions-in-the-jewish-experience-volume-i> *Summary:* Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional movements and change in Jewish history. These scholars demonstrate that social change throughout Jewish life has assumed many different manifestations, and can occur in revolutionary and dramatic ways as well as in more common gradual and evolutionary processes. In the first volume, the essays revolve around two themes: “Mobilizations and Contentious Politics,” and “Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change.” The second volume is devoted to “Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice.” Taken together, these two volumes present scholarship rich with both historical and contemporary relevance, of interest to academics and students in Jewish studies and the social sciences, communal leaders and policy makers, and anyone intrigued by the Jewish experience. View Table of Contents & Contributors for Volume I <http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54132b01e4b0f5bf7ad3ed92/t/56952dcb69a91abb5fad279f/1452617163401/9781618114624-ToC.pdf> View Table of Contents & Contributors for Volume II <http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54132b01e4b0f5bf7ad3ed92/t/5706b55e37013ba79b1d9e32/1460057438669/9781618114655_ToC.pdf> Best wishes, Touro College Press & Academic Studies Press __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 by Victoria Khiterer
Dear Friends & Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of *Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/jewish-city-or-inferno-of-russian-israel> *by Victoria Khiterer. *Series:* Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy March 2016 | 9781618114761 | 492 pp.; 33 illus; 3 maps | $89.00 USD | Cloth *Summary:* This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city. *Victoria Khiterer *is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University, PA. She is the author and editor of five books and over eighty articles in Russian and Eastern European Jewish History. *Table of Contents* *AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on Dates, Spelling, and NamesList of TablesList of IllustrationsList of Maps* Introduction Chapter One. The History of Jews in Kiev from the Tenth Century to 1660 Chapter Two. The Jews of Kiev in the Embrace of the Russian Empire (1794–1859) Chapter Three. The Jewish Right of Residence in Kiev in 1859–1917 Chapter Four. The Kiev Jewish Community and its Leaders Chapter Five. The Wealth and Poverty of Jews in Kiev Chapter Six. Jewish Pogroms and the Beilis Affair Chapter Seven. How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev Chapter Eight. Jewish Culture in Kiev Chapter Nine. Between Tradition and Modernity: Jewish Religious Life in Kiev Conclusion *Appendix. Dmitrii Bogrov and the Assassination of StolypinBibliography * *Praise:* “Kiev lay in the heart of the Jewish Pale of Settlement but until the revolution of February 1917 only restricted numbers of privileged Jews had the legal right to settle there. Nevertheless, the town also became a magnet for the impoverished Jewish masses seeking to escape the poverty of shtetl life. This compelling and well-researched monograph highlights the dual character of the town for its Jewish inhabitants—on the one hand the home of a well-established and culturally productive Jewish community, on the other the scene of constant persecution and expulsion. It is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of Jewish life in the Tsarist Empire and in the modern world.” *— Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University; Chief Historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw* For more information on this title, please visit the books dedicated webpage at: http://www.academicstudiespress.com/browse-catalog/jewish-city-or-inferno-of-russian-israel 30% off list price with promotional code *KHITERER*. Thank you, Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 T: +1 (617) 782-6290 F: +1 (857) 241-3149 www.academicstudiespress.com __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: History, Memory, and Jewish Identity; Edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso
Dear Friends and Colleagues, <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/history-memory-and-jewish-identity> History, Memory, and Jewish Identity <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/history-memory-and-jewish-identity> edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso has recently been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). Series: North American Jewish Studies ISBN: 9781618114747 (cloth) Pages: 390 pp. Price: $79.00 USD Publication Date: December 2015 *Summary:* This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews’ choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought. *Table of Contents* *Preface* *Ancient Period* The Causes of the Alexandrian Pogrom and the Visit of Agrippa I to Alexandria in 38 CE Lionel Jehuda Sanders Sectarianism in the Mishnah: Memory, Modeling Society, and Rabbinic Identity Naftali S. Cohn Power and the (Re)Creation of Collective-Cultural Memory in Early Judaism: The Case of the Mishnah Jack N. Lightstone *Medieval and Early Modern Periods* Maimonides vs. Nahmanides on Historical Consciousness and the Shaping of Jewish Identity James A. Diamond Community and Sacrality: Jewish Customs and Identity in Early Modern Worms Dean Phillip Bell Criticism and Tradition: Leon Modena, Azariah de’ Rossi, and Elijah Levita Bahur on Kabbalah and the Hebrew Vowels Howard Tzvi Adelman *Modern and Contemporary Periods* American Jewish Immigrants and the Invention of Europe Beth S. Wenger North American Hasidim: Between Modernity and the Old World Steven Lapidus The Challenge of Memory for Yiddish Language Activists in Montreal Pierre Anctil Identities, Communities, and the Infrastructures of History: Creating Canadian Jewish Archives in the 1930s and 1970s Richard Menkis The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar Without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close Benjamin M. Baader Macro and Micro Insights into Contemporary Jewish Identities: Europe, Israel, and the United States Calvin Goldscheider *Interfaces between Eras Rallying* All of Israel: David Ben-Gurion and the Book of Joshua Rachel Havrelock Who Is a Marrano?: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity Ira Robinson *The Authors* *Index* *Ira Robinson* is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University. He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and was the 2013 winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. *Naftali S. Cohn* is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University. His book,* The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis*, was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. *Lorenzo DiTommaso* is Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Montréal. His next book, *The Architecture of Apocalypticism*, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. 30% off with promotional code *HISTORY* at www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/history-memory-and-jewish-identity> . __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: The Parting of the Ways: How Esoteric Judaism and Christianity Influenced the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung (Richard Kradin)
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Parting of the Ways: How Esoteric Judaism and Christianity Influenced the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/the-parting-of-the-ways-how-esoteric-judaism-and-christianity-influenced-the-psychoanalytic-theories-of-sigmund-freud-and-carl-jung> by Richard Kradin has recently been published by Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA). Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life ISBN: 9781618114228 (hardcover) Pages: 256 pp. Price: $69.00 USD Publication Date: December 2015 *Summary:* The Enlightenment signaled diminished popular reliance on the religious “cure of the soul,” and witnessed the emergence of psychoanalysis. From its inception, Freud’s psychoanalysis was accused of being a “Jewish science,” and he countered by including non-Jewish Swiss psychiatrists in his movement. Carl Jung eventually broke with Freud due to differences concerning psychoanalytical theory and practice. This text explores the religious underpinnings of psychoanalysis, contrasting the textual and mystical traditions of Judaism with those of Christianity. It convincingly demonstrates that differences in the fundamental tenets of Judaism and Christianity have had a profound and continued influence on psychoanalysis. *Table of Contents* *AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction*Chapter 1. Sigmund Freud: “Godless Jew” Chapter 2. Carl Gustav Jung: A Preacher’s Son Chapter 3. Anatomy of Psyche, Anatomy of Soul Chapter 4. The Judeo-Christian Ethic Chapter 5. Boundaries: Discerning What Is Holy from What Is Profane Chapter 6. Law and Spirit Chapter 7. Mysticism: Word and Image Chapter 8. God and the Unconscious Chapter 9. Revelation and Psychoanalysis Chapter 10. Eros and Sexuality Chapter 11. The Symbolic Realm Chapter 12. Dreams and Midrash Chapter 13. Transference: Personal or Not? Chapter 14. Trauma, Psychopathology, and Jewish Mysticism Chapter 15. Obsessionality and Historical Traumas Chapter 16. Master and Disciple Chapter 17. Losing Oneself: Narcissism and Bitul Chapter 18. Oedipus and Supersession Chapter 19. Psychoanalysis and Altered States *ConclusionFigure LegendsReferencesIndex* *Reviews:* “Richard Kradin has taken on a great deal in this bringing together of religion and psychoanalysis, Freud and Jung, Jewish mysticism and contemporary theory. This is a learned and original contribution to the ongoing discussion of psychoanalytic thought against its religious and cultural backdrop. A very worthwhile and accessible treatment.” * — Art Green, Rector, Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Hebrew College* “Dr. Kradin’s work represents a confluence of worlds and ideas. While addressing the religious roots of Jungian and Freudian thought, he takes us much further, into the depths of spiritual experience. Here we are reminded of Rabbi Heschel’s words: ‘I prayed for wonder.’” *— Dr Michael Conforti, Jungian Analyst and Founder/Director of the Assisi Institute* 30% off with code *KRADIN30* when ordered from www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/the-parting-of-the-ways-how-esoteric-judaism-and-christianity-influenced-the-psychoanalytic-theories-of-sigmund-freud-and-carl-jung> . __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Book Announcement - Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time
Dear Colleagues, <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/shoa-and-experience-a-journey-in-time> *Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/shoa-and-experience-a-journey-in-time> e*dited by Nitza Davidovitch & Dan Soen has recently been published by Academic Studies Press. *Series:* The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy *ISBN:* 9781618113108 (HB) *Price:* $59.00 USD *Pages:* 258 pp.; 8 tables; 72 illus. *Summary:** Shoa and Experience* is a collection of essays offering important insights on the nature of Holocaust education with implications for Holocaust education development for future generations, in Israel and worldwide. Special attention is given to the evolving nature of contemporary multimedia society in which youth are inundated with stimuli of all kinds. Hence, consideration is given to the incorporation of multidimensional aspects of learning and experience in Holocaust education in order to enhance students' understanding on cognitive, emotional and moral levels. This book will help Holocaust educators and curriculum developers to design Holocaust education programs and attune them to the nature and the needs of the current generation. It is intended to prepare educators to initiate and lead programs and encounters designed to teach today’s youth about the Holocaust from multiple perspectives. *Contributors*: Batya Brutin, David Cassuto, Nitza Davidovitch, Ruth Dorot, Edyta Gawron, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Zvi Gil, Lily Haber, Marek Kaźmierczak, Haim Y. Knobler, Zvi Orgad, Dan Soen, Osnat Ur-Leurer, and Zvi Zemishlany *Table of Contents* *Acknowledgements* *About the Authors* *Introduction* The Trip Experience: Poland and the Polish People as Perceived by Israeli Youth in Light of Their Trips to the Death Camps (Nitza Davidovitch and Dan Soen) A Test of Leadership: IDF Delegations to Poland— A Tool for Promoting Command-Oriented Leadership? (Nitza Davidovitch, Osnat Ur-Leurer, and Dan Soen) The Pedagogy of Commonness: An Alternative Theory in Teaching about the Holocaust (Marek Kaźmierczak) Myth and Reality: On “Future Generations” of the Holocaust (Haim Y. Knobler, Lily Haber, Batya Brutin, and Zvi Zemishlany) A13808 (Ruth Dorot) The Unterlimpurg Synagogue: Issues Involved in Restoring a Demolished Synagogue (David Cassuto and Zvi Orgad) The Abuse of Holocaust Memory in 2011–2012 (Manfred Gerstenfeld) Studying Judaism, Jewish History, and the Jews: The Experience of Jewish Studies at Academic Campuses in Poland Today (Edyta Gawron) Remnants of the Holocaust: A Process of Consciousness Far from Conclusion (Zvi Gil) *Index* More information on this volume may be found on the book's dedicated webpage here <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/shoa-and-experience-a-journey-in-time> . With warm regards, Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 www.academicstudiespress.com e: pr...@academicstudiespress.com t: 617.782.6290 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
