Constructions Of Jewishness
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Constructions Of Jewishness
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Author : Rachel Orzech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Constructions Of Jewishness written by Rachel Orzech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Jews categories.
"This thesis examines the diachronic reception of Jewishness in Fromental Halévy's 1835 grand opera La Juive. It considers five productions of the opera, including two 19th-century productions and three contemporary revival productions, each staged in a different city. Chapter One deals with the premiere production at the Paris Opéra in 1835 and Chapter Two focuses on performances in London at various theatres between 1835 and 1850. Chapter Three examines the first major revival production, performed in Vienna in 1999, and Chapter Four looks at the performance of this same production at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2003. Lastly, Chapter Five investigates a production staged by the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv in 2010. Each chapter of the thesis is devoted to one production and divided into two parts. The first part establishes a contextual background for the second, which is concerned with reception. The background sections include discussion of historical, social, political and cultural issues that may have influenced the reception of Jewishness in each production. The sections on reception employ music reviews and press articles to examine responses to La Juive. These responses are then used, together with contextual research, to draw conclusions about attitudes toward Jews and Jewishness at that moment in time. Attitudes toward Jewishness are examined in various contexts and the thesis aims to uncover these attitudes even when they remain unspoken. It analyses explicit and implicit references to Halévy's Jewishness, interest in the tenor Neil Shicoff's Jewishness, ideas about 'Jewish music', opinions on the opera's theme of Jewish-Christian conflict, and attitudes toward contemporary stagings of the work and the ways in which they engage with post-Holocaust audiences. It is also concerned with how Jewish themes and issues allowed an arguably unpopular, outdated 19th-century genre to be revitalised in the 20th and 21st centuries. This thesis investigates how a musical and theatrical work has changed in meaning over time, and how these changes are influenced by the time, place and circumstances in which the work is performed. My focus on the reception of Jewishness illuminates the roles of history, memory and identity in the construction of meaning in a work of art."--Back cover.
Torah Temple Land
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Author : Jens Schröter
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03
Torah Temple Land written by Jens Schröter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with categories.
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Judaism existed in a world which was in constant flux regarding its political, social, and religious contexts. Consequently, Judaism was subject to permanent processes of change in its self-perception as well as its external perception. In all complexity, however, the Torah, the Temple(s) as a place where heaven meets the earth, and the 'holy' or 'promised' land as the dwelling place of God's people can be regarded as institutions to which all kinds of Judaism in the Babylonian and Egyptian dispora as well in Israel/Palestine were related in some way or another.
Philo Of Alexandria And The Construction Of Jewishness In Early Christian Writings
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Author : Jennifer Otto
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Philo Of Alexandria And The Construction Of Jewishness In Early Christian Writings written by Jennifer Otto and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with Religion categories.
Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings investigates portrayals of the first-century philosopher and exegete Philo of Alexandria, in the writings of Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Eusebius. It argues that early Christian invocations of Philo are best understood not as attempts simply to claim an illustrious Jew for the Christian fold, but as examples of ongoing efforts to define the continuities and distinctive features of Christian beliefs and practices in relation to those of the Jews. This study takes as its starting point the curious fact that none of the first three Christians to mention Philo refer to him unambiguously as a Jew. Clement, the first in the Christian tradition to openly cite Philo's works, refers to him twice as a Pythagorean. Origen, who mentions Philo by name only three times, makes far more frequent reference to him in the guise of an anonymous "one who came before us." Eusebius, who invokes Philo on many more occasions than does Clement or Origen, most often refers to Philo as a Hebrew. These epithets construct Philo as an alternative "near-other" to both Christians and Jews, through whom ideas and practices may be imported to the former from the latter, all the while establishing boundaries between the "Christian" and "Jewish" ways of life. The portraits of Philo offered by each author reveal ongoing processes of difference-making and difference-effacing that constituted not only the construction of the Jewish "other," but also the Christian "self."
James Joyce Ulysses And The Construction Of Jewish Identity
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Author : Neil R. Davison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-24
James Joyce Ulysses And The Construction Of Jewish Identity written by Neil R. Davison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Representations of 'the Jew' have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious and political discourse about 'the Jew' forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism.
Esoteric Transfers And Constructions
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Author : Mark Sedgwick
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-07
Esoteric Transfers And Constructions written by Mark Sedgwick and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-07 with Religion categories.
Similarities between esoteric and mystical currents in different religious traditions have long interested scholars. This book takes a new look at the relationship between such currents. It advances a discussion that started with the search for religious essences, archetypes, and universals, from William James to Eranos. The universal categories that resulted from that search were later criticized as essentialist constructions, and questioned by deconstructionists. An alternative explanation was advanced by diffusionists: that there were transfers between different traditions. This book presents empirical case studies of such constructions, and of transfers between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the premodern period, and Judaism, Christianity, and Western esotericism in the modern period. It shows that there were indeed transfers that can be clearly documented, and that there were also indeed constructions, often very imaginative. It also shows that there were many cases that were neither transfers nor constructions, but a mixture of the two.
Ezra Nehemiah And The Construction Of Early Jewish Identity
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Author : Bob Becking
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2011
Ezra Nehemiah And The Construction Of Early Jewish Identity written by Bob Becking and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Bible categories.
The post-exilic of Persian period showed a transition in the religion in ancient Israel from Yahwism(s) to Judaism(s). The events of exile and return made it impossible to completely fall back on the traditional religious identity. The essays in this volume try to reconstruct the path taken in that transition. The characters of Ezra and Nehemiah are generally seen as playing a formative role in this process. By reading texts from the biblical books supposedly written by Ezra and Nehemiah in a religio-historical context, new light falls on the process of change.
Jewishness
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Jewishness written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Jews categories.
Constructing And Experiencing Jewish Identity
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Author : Rachel Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Brill U Schoningh
Release Date : 2022
Constructing And Experiencing Jewish Identity written by Rachel Blumenthal and has been published by Brill U Schoningh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences were associated with being Jewish. Even after the Shoah, the labelling of Jews as "other" continued. In this book, leading historians including Michael Brenner, Elisheva Carlebach and Michael Miller illuminate the meaning of Jewishness from pre-modern and early-modern times to the present day. Their studies offer new perspectives on constructing and experiencing Jewish identity.
Internal Outsiders Imagined Orientals
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Author : Ulrike Brunotte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-12
Internal Outsiders Imagined Orientals written by Ulrike Brunotte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-12 with Antisemitism categories.
This book explores the possibility of applying perspectives developed in the context of Gender and Postcolonial Studies to Jewish Cultural Studies and Studies in Antisemitism. Starting with two introductory texts on the 'Oriental Web' and the longue durée of the figure of the Jew as embodiment of the 'other' in colonial discourse, the essays analyse the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal other intertwine in modern national discourse. The texts also examine the ways in which these borders are demarcated and transgressed by means of Orientalist self-fashioning in Jewish cultural production. The idea of Self-Orientalisation poses a challenge to the Saidian theory, in which Orientalism is conceived of as a "strange secret sharer of Western Antisemitism".0The general theme is approached in an interdisciplinary manner and the book is divided into several chapters that cover, amongst others topics, the interaction of colonialism, Zionism and Orientalism, the Jew as a literary Oriental trope, and the entanglement of Orientalising identities with gender and queer identities. The collection is primarily concerned with the intricate genealogies of contemporary discourses.
The Other In Jewish Thought And History
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Author : Laurence J. Silberstein
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1994-08
The Other In Jewish Thought And History written by Laurence J. Silberstein and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that permeate the culture's literature, religion, and politics. This volume explores the ways in which Jews have traditionally defined other groups and, in turn, themselves. The contributors, a distinguished international group of scholars, explore the discursive processss through which Jewish identity and culture have been constructed, disseminated, and perpetuated. Among the topics addressed are: Others in the biblical world; the construction of gender in Roman-period Judaism; the Other as woman in the Greco-Roman world; the gentile as Other in rabbinic law; the feminine as Other in kabbalah; the reproduction of the Other in the Passover Haggadah; the Palestinian Arab as Other in Israeli politics and literature; the Other in Levinas and Derrida; Blacks as Other in American Jewish literature; the Jewish body image as symbol of Otherness; and women as Other in Israeli cinema. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume are: Jonathan Boyarin (New School for Social Research), Robert L. Cohn (Lafayette College), Gerald Cromer (Bar-Ilan University), Trude Dothan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Elizabeth Fifer (Lehigh University), Steven D. Fraade (Yale University), Sander L. Gilman (Cornell University), Hannan Hever (Tel Aviv University), Ross S. Kraemer (University of Pennsylvania), Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv University), Peter Machinist (Harvard University), Jacob Meskin (Williams College), Adi Ophir (Tel Aviv University), Ilan Peleg (Lafayette College), Miriam Peskowitz (University of Florida), Laurence J. Silberstein (Lehigh University), Naomi Sokoloff (University of Washington), and Elliot R. Wolfson (New York University).