Milton And The Jews
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Milton And The Jews
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Author : Douglas A. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-31
Milton And The Jews written by Douglas A. Brooks 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 2008-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The issue of the Jews deeply engaged Milton throughout his career, and not necessarily in ways that make for comfortable or reassuring reading today. While Shakespeare and Marlowe, for example, critiqued rather than endorsed racial and religious prejudice in their writings about Jews, the same cannot be said for Milton. The scholars in this collection confront a writer who participated in the sad history of anti-Semitism, even as he appropriated Jewish models throughout his writings. Well grounded in solid historical and theological research, the essays both collectively and individually offer an important contribution to the debate on Milton and Judaism. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Milton and of seventeenth-century literature, but also to historians of the religion and culture of the period.
Milton And Midrash
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Author : Golda Werman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Milton And Midrash written by Golda Werman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
""This is a book not only for Milton scholars but for academics writing in the recently active field of literature and Midrash (and literature and the Bible). There are deep reserves of learning behind it; unlike Saurat, Fletcher, and Baldwin, Dr. Werman reads the Hebrew and Aramaic sources expertly. She provides a wealth of new information which less scholarly academics will probably exploit.""--Jason P. Rosenblatt, Professor of English, Georgetown University ""Werman's study corrects much that has been written about Milton's Hebraism and adds significant new information. The appendix is enormously valuable and will assist future scholars in pursuing more specifically detailed study of Milton's use of midrash.""--James H. Sims, Distinguished Professor of English, The University of Southern Mississippi The use of Jewish nonbiblical sources (Midrash) in Paradise Lost has never been so thoroughly examined as in this volume, in which Golda S. Werman combines esoteric scholarship with interesting facts and insightful commentary to answer questions that have perplexed literary scholars for decades. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when literary scholars first discovered the midrashic elements in Paradise Lost, one school of critics responded with skepticism and disbelief--why, they asked, would a Puritan poet dig through ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts for material to be used in a Christian epic on the fall of man? They insisted that Milton could not read difficult midrashic texts and that everything not taken from Christian or classical sources is a product of the poet's own rich imagination. Another school regarded Milton's use of Midrash as proof of his profound knowledge of Talmud, Midrash, the Zohar, and other Hebrew/Aramaic texts. In Milton and Midrash, Werman effectively demonstrates that both camps err: Milton did indeed use midrashic sources, but he did not read the difficult midrashic texts in the original languages. She shows, in a detailed analysis of the nonbiblical Judaic materials included in the prose works, that Milton's limited understanding of Midrash rules out any possibility of his having read the sources in the original. Yet her investigation revealed that Milton uses midrashim on almost every page of the epic, and that many of these midrashim come from the eighth-century Midrash Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer. Further research showed that this Midrash had been translated into Latin in 1644, just before Milton began Paradise Lost. At last the puzzle was solved--Milton's midrashic materials were taken from translations made by Christian Hebraists. Indeed, Milton had many Latin translations by Christian Hebraists of midrashic works available to him, and here Werman surveys the contemporary intellectual climate in which these translations flourished. These findings have revolutionized Milton scholarship, correcting much that has been written about the poet's Hebraism. All future source studies of the poem will make use of the book's appendix, which provides an invaluable line-by-line gloss of Paradise Lost that matches passages from the epic with their analogues in the midrashic literature. Golda S. Werman was educated in the United States and now lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Her other field of interest is Yiddish, and she has published several important English translations of Yiddish literature, including most recently S. Ansky's The Dybbuk and Other Writings.
Richard Wagner And The Jews
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Author : Milton E. Brener
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-27
Richard Wagner And The Jews written by Milton E. Brener and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with Social Science categories.
It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations his second wife recorded in her diaries. In his infamous essay "Judaism in Music," Wagner forever cemented his unpleasant reputation with his assertion that Jews were incapable of either creating or appreciating great art. Wagner's close ties with many talented Jews, then, are surprising. Most writers have dismissed these connections as cynical manipulations and rank hypocrisy. Examination of the original sources, however, reveals something different: unmistakeable, undeniable empathy and friendship between Wagner and the Jews in his life. Indeed, the composer had warm relationships with numerous individual Jews. Two of them resided frequently over extended periods in his home. One of these, the rabbi's son Hermann Levi, conducted Wagner's final opera--Parsifal, based on Christian legend--at Wagner's request; no one, Wagner declared, understood his work so well. Even in death his Jewish friends were by his side; two were among his twelve pallbearers. The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity "The Jews" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on extensive sources in both German and English, including Wagner's autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this comprehensive treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work. Included in the text are portions of unpublished letters exchanged between Wagner and Hermann Levi. Altogether, the book reveals astonishing complexities in a man long known as much for his prejudice as for his epic contributions to opera.
The Case Against Milton Mayer And The Sat Eve Post
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Author : Harry Serwer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
The Case Against Milton Mayer And The Sat Eve Post written by Harry Serwer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Judaism categories.
The Accommodated Jew
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Author : Kathy Lavezzo
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-21
The Accommodated Jew written by Kathy Lavezzo and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England’s rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings—tombs, latrines and especially houses—that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the central place of "the Jew" in the slow process by which a Christian "nation of shopkeepers" negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace and embody. In the book’s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved.
A Believing Jew
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Author : Milton Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Release Date : 1971
A Believing Jew written by Milton Steinberg and has been published by Books for Libraries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Religion categories.
Summary: When Mr Dark brings his travelling carnival to a small town, the task of saving family and friends from his destructive clutches falls on the unlikely shoulders of the librarian. Based on the story by Ray Bradbury.
Jews And Gentiles
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Author : Milton Himmelfarb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Jews And Gentiles written by Milton Himmelfarb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"Includes information on anti-Semitism, art, Bible, capitalism, Catholics, Christianity, Christian Right, communists, Declaration of Independence, Democratic Party, demography, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hasidim, Hebrew language, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, Islam, Israel, Moses Maimonides, Marxism, Moses Mendelssohn, Walter Mondale, Moral Majority, Muslims, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nazis, Orthodox Judaism, Poland, rabbis, race relations, Ronald Reagan, Reform Judaism, Republican Party, Russia, Sabbath, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sephardim, William Shakespeare, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, Baruch Spinoza, Josef Stalin, Leo Strauss, tax policy, Torah, U.S. Constitution, Yiddish, Yom Kippur, Zionism, etc."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Basic Judaism
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Author : Milton Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1947
Basic Judaism written by Milton Steinberg and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Religion categories.
The classic, essential guide to the beliefs, ideals and practices that form the historic Jewish faith.
Milton And The Rabbis
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Author : Jeffrey S. Shoulson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001
Milton And The Rabbis written by Jeffrey S. Shoulson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first five centuries of the Common Era, collectively known as midrash. In exploring the historical and literary implications of these connections, Shoulson shows how Milton's text can inform a more nuanced reading of midrash just as midrash can offer new insights into Paradise Lost. Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works. He argues that many of Milton's poetic ideas that parallel midrash are likely to have entered Christian discourse not only through early modern Christian Hebraicists but also through Protestant writers and preachers without special knowledge of Hebrew. At the heart of Shoulson's inquiry lies a fundamental question: When is an idea, a theme, or an emphasis distinctively Judaic or Hebraic and when is it Christian? The difficulty in answering such questions reveals and highlights the fluid interaction between ostensibly Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian modes of thought not only during the early modern period but also early in time when rabbinic Judaism and Christianity began.
Never To Forget
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Author : Milton Meltzer
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Release Date : 1977
Never To Forget written by Milton Meltzer and has been published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
Based on diaries, letters, songs, and history books, this is a moving account of Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. History forcuses on the Jewish perspective on the Holocaust, including brief histories of antisemitism and of Jewish resistance. One of the first books on the Holocaust written for young people and is still most useful.