BAJS Secretary Jewish Studies in Dublin 1 Helen Spurling CFP: BAJS Conference 2015 4 News 5 University of Southampton Conference Programme 2014 8 Southampton S017 1BF Ongoing doctoral research 16 Update on the BAJS Annual Survey 26 Book Reviews 27
BAJS Bulletin 2014: Contents Jacob Weingreen and Jewish Studies in Dublin Jewish Studies in Dublin 1 CFP: BAJS Conference 2015 4 News 5 Conference Programme 2014 8 E-Learning at the Woolf Institute 14 BAJS Committee 15 Ongoing doctoral research 16 Members’ recent publications 20 Update on the BAJS Annual Survey 26 Book Reviews 27
The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) was founded in 1975 as a learned society and professional organization on a non- profit-making basis. Its aims are to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British In 2013 I was asked by the Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast, to give the annual Trinity Monday Isles. discourse on Prof. Jacob Weingreen who had held the Chair of Hebrew at Trinity College Dublin from Contact: 1937 until his retirement in 1978. I had not known BAJS Secretary Prof. Weingreen but consulting his many former Helen Spurling colleagues, students and friends it was clear that he History, Faculty of Humanities is remembered with genuine affection and heartfelt University of Southampton respect. All those who knew Prof. Weingreen recall him as a gentle, courteous, broadminded man who Southampton was devoted to his scholarship, to his students and S017 1BF most of all to his wife, Bertha. Former students speak with affection of their teacher who could Bulletin editor: simplify the most complicated rule of Hebrew Mark Gilfillan ([email protected]) grammar while colleagues recall “Jack” as generous, patient and polite even when tested in the arena of If you have not already done so, please sign up the academic committee meeting. His liberal to the BAJS website! disposition was evident in the classroom where he welcomed students from many communities and faiths. In this spirit, he liked to claim that he was a http://britishjewishstudies.org Jewish professor in a Protestant University in a Catholic city.
A deep commitment to his Jewish heritage informed both his scholarship and his approach to education. Equally conversant in the texts of the Hebrew Bible
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and Rabbinic literature, Prof. Weingreen sought to accomplished linguist, he also taught Arabic and demonstrate the continuity of tradition between the had planned to write a Grammar for Classical sages who drew up the code of the Mishnah with Arabic. On his death in 1995, over a 160,000 copies some of the oldest legal traditions in the Hebrew of the Hebrew grammar had been sold. Bible. As a scholar he was most proud of the accomplishments of his students who held As a young scholar of the Bible in the 1930s, Jacob academic posts in many prestigious institutions. A Weingreen was attracted to the intensive regular visitor to Mandate period Palestine, he was archaeological activity taking place in the home of fluent in Modern Hebrew and cultivated many the biblical text. In 1933 Prof. Weingreen, having friendships with colleagues at the newly established been given leave from the University, joined the Hebrew University Jerusalem later serving on the team excavating the town of Samaria in central boards of the British and Irish Friends of that Palestine. The team Weingreen joined comprised institution. archeologists from Harvard University, the British Academy, the Palestine Exploration Fund and the The Board of Trinity College Dublin appointed Jacob Hebrew University. He was appointed as assistant Weingreen to the Chair of Hebrew in 1937. He was to Professor Eliezer Sukenik of the Hebrew the first Jew to hold the Chair and at a time when University with whom he maintained a lifelong Jewish academics found themselves excluded from association. centres of higher learning across eastern and western Europe. The young Jacob’s formal Returning in 1935 for a further season, it is clear education began on his entry to Trinity College from his papers that Prof. Weingreen developed an Dublin as an undergraduate in 1926. Prof. appreciation for the importance of material culture Weingreen’s father, Isidore Weingreen, had made for understanding the cultures of the biblical world. his way to Manchester from Krakow where he He set about obtaining antiquities from the Middle settled with his wife, Sarah Axelrad. Here between East, particularly those related to ancient Israel. 1903 and 1908 Isidore and Sarah had four Throughout the 1950s and 60s the collection children—two boys and two girls—the youngest expanded through donations. The Wellcome- being Jacob. The 1911 census finds them living in Boroughs Trust first gifted artifacts from Lachish three rooms in Broughton Salford. Isidore’s and he received a small collection from Kathleen profession is registered as “cap cutter” but the Kenyon’s excavations at Tel es-Sultan. family recalls his later working as a journeyman selling cigars and whisky. From here the family Weingreen’s interest in the material culture of the moved to Belfast in 1914, relocating to Dublin seven ancient Near East led to the establishment of a years later. Museum of Biblical Antiquities, which was opened on 11th June 1957. In the coming years the In 1929, Jacob Weingreen, a young man from an collection would continue to grow thanks to further immigrant family with no formal schooling, gained a donations by Kenyon from her dig in Jerusalem, and first-class moderatorship in Hebrew and Semitic from Viscount Crookshank a significant languages, a moderatorship prize and large gold contribution of Egyptian, Greek and Roman medal. In the following two years he was appointed artifacts. On Prof. Weingreen’s retirement, the lecturer in Hebrew, was awarded a PhD for his Board renamed it “The Weingreen Museum of thesis on ‘Ancient Jewish Education’ and made Biblical Antiquities.” assistant to the then Professor of Hebrew, R. M. Gwynn. By 1937 he had so distinguished himself as For Prof. Weingreen the main value of this unique a Hebrew scholar, that Prof. Gwynn suggested they collection was educational. I am told that he swop roles: the 29-year old was appointed to the enjoyed bringing his students to the Museum and Erasmus Smith’s Chair of Hebrew and the former sharing with them his fascination with the ancient Professor became his assistant. world. For Prof. Weingreen the study of material culture and ancient documents played a significant Jacob Weingreen’s contribution to scholarship is role in his scholarship. Among his papers I found undoubtedly his Practical Grammar for Classicial the text of a lecture entitled “New Horizons of the Hebrew. First published in 1939, it has been Ancient World” in which he stresses that translated into numerous languages including “archaeology has become an indispensible science” Braille, Japanese, Czech, Italian and most recently with serious implications for biblical research. He Korean. Generations of students have encountered adds: ‘Battles unrecorded in scripture, details which the language of the Hebrew Bible through this had no significant bearing upon the primary textbook. Its continued use in classrooms today is theological purpose of Hebrew history writing have evident from the keys to the exercises that can be painted in the background of the canvas of biblical found with a basic google search. As an history. It cannot be ignored, for exegesis or
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interpretation of scripture depends upon accurate over 400 pupils passed. Here, while waiting to start local, historical and contemporary information. If new lives, survivors were given training in areas much of what is now known could have been such as carpentry, tool-making, tailoring, dental available centuries ago, innumerable controversies mechanics, dress-making, catering and motor should never have taken place.” mechanics. His reports are filled with details about the administration of the different departments, but No portrait of Prof. Weingreen would be complete what stands out is an account he wrote on his last without mention of his constant companion, his day at Belsen about an exhibition of the students’ wife Bertha, and the work they undertook in work, which was taking place during the holiday of immediate Post-war Europe. Bertha Grevler came Chanukah 1946. Praising the work of the teachers, from a Lithuanian Jewish family which had settled he closes his report with the following thought: in South Africa. Before she moved to Europe, being “may their work prosper and may they achieve the aware of the lack of educational opportunties for goal they have set themselves, to fit young people as non-whites in South Africa, she taught English and self-supporting and self-respecting skilled workers, Drama at a training school for coloured so that they will be able to take dignified places in communities. The couple married in London in the lands to which they will emigrate.” A short time April 1934. In pre-war Dublin, she worked with the afterwards, this school was taken over by the Girl Guides, but in 1943 she joined a small group of Jewish Organisation for Rehabilitation through volunteers, the Jewish Relief Unit. The unit was Training and transformed into a top-grade technical initially made up of twelve members who prepared college. themselves to provide assistance to the survivors of the camps on their liberation. The unit’s activities The Weingreen’s work at the Displaced Persons were coordinated with the army and members were Camp was commemorated in Israel by the planting co-opted into the military. Bertha was given the of a small forest which bears their name. The first rank of Lieutenant, later to become Lieutenant tree was planted by Yigael Yadin and many of those Colonel and Chief Welfare Officer for all Jewish who had known them in Germany joined the Displaced Persons in the British Zone. As Welfare ceremony and planted a tree. Their experience in Officer for the Jewish Displaced Persons in the post-war Europe remained with them and Prof. British Zone, her responsibilities ranged from Weingreen, in his quiet scholarly way, worked organizing basic facilities—shelter, fresh food, and towards fostering a better understanding between medical care—to work units and educational Jews and Christians. resources. In the following years, Weingreen’s grammar was a phenomenal success and his contribution to scholarship with over 40 articles and books brought him much respect internationally. He served as President of the Society for Old Testament Studies in 1961 and became the second president of the newly formed British Association for Jewish Studies in 1976. In 1969 he was elected to the council of the Jerusalem-based World Union of Jewish Studies while at home he was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1958 and a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1962. He also played a role outside the university as a Trustee of the Chester Beatty Library and a Governor of the Irish Times. On his death in 1995 he was mourned by Bertha as
well as by many friends, colleagues and students. It was in this area that Jacob Weingreen made his Obituaries in the Irish Times, the The Times and the contribution to the post-war effort. Taking leave Daily Telegraph reveal the great affection and from Trinity College, he traveled to join his wife in respect in which he was held. Germany where he was also given the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel and became the Director of Although he did not live to see the establishment of Education. In spite of the fact that he was a the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern distinguished professor from a prestigious Culture and Religion, he would surely have university, he was mainly associated with his well- approved of the introduction of a Jewish studies known wife and he was often called “Herr Bertha.” programme. Prof. Sean Freyne, who, with Provost Prof. Weingreen oversaw the primary and Thomas Mitchell, launched the new Centre, secondary schools and played a central role in envisaged it as a natural extension of Weingreen’s establishing a large trade school through which
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former Department of Hebrew and Semitic languages. Jewish Studies has since developed a strong academic presence within the University Call for Papers BAJS Conference 2015 offering an undergraduate degree in Jewish and 6 to 7 July 2015 at the University of Manchster Islamic Civilisations while our modules are popular among students in Religions and Theology courses. Atheism, Scepticism and Challenges to Students are offered modules spanning the ancient, Monotheism medieval and modern periods in all four years of their degree as well as being able to pursue Jews from across a wide spectrum of perspectives research masters and doctorates. Hebrew, Arabic have wrestled with the questions posed by atheism and Turkish are also found on our curriculum. Our and scepticism down through the centuries. Since, current graduate students’ research areas extend arguably, atheism is not recognised in the Hebrew from the Hebrew Bible to Ireland’s Jewish Bible, the related theme of ‘challenges to Jewish communities. Central to the Centre’s mission is the monotheism’ is suggested with regard to the provision of public education and we run regular ancient world. Philosophical scepticism and atheism lecture series and extra-mural courses that cover (in both theory and practice) raise questions for different aspects of Jewish culture. We are Jews about the nature of authority, modes of particularly pleased to offer a Certificate in enquiry and textual analysis, intellectual exchange Holocaust Education for schoolteachers in with non-Jewish culture (including polemics), and cooperation with Holocaust Education Trust shifting conceptions of heresy, nonconformity, and Ireland. irreligion. What is the relationship in the Jewish
imagination between atheism and scepticism? What The Weingreen Museum’s fine collection, the only are the limits of scepticism in rabbinic thought and one of its kind in Ireland, contributes to the training methodology? What does it mean to be an atheistic of undergraduate and graduate students in a Jew? How have Jews engaged with historical-critical number of related disciplines and provides them and scientific discourse? There have been many with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience different Jewish responses to such questions, working with ancient artifacts. The Museum holds ranging from stout defences of monotheistic over two thousand objects from Mesopotamia to Judaism, to radical reformulations of Jewish North Africa dating from the ninth millennium BCE religion, to theological resignation and apostasy, to to the medieval period and includes materials such the establishment of alternative universalist as ceramics, fabric, faience, metal and glass. I am systems of thought by ostensibly non-Jewish Jews. sure it would please its founder to know that These responses, which include the varieties of currently a small team of students is working on a Jewish religion but also non-religious ways of being project to ensure that every artifact has a Jewish, appear in many different forms including photographic record. philosophical, theological, sociological,
psychological, legal, mystical, and literary genres. We cherish Prof. Weingreen’s legacy. In our academic endeavours and in welcoming more than We welcome contributions from all periods and a hundred Jewish Studies scholars from across the regions, whether narrowly focused or broadly globe to the BAJS annual conference in July 2014, contextual, synthetic or analytical. The intention of we are paying tribute to his vision and building this interdisciplinary conference is to encourage upon his legacy. contributions on any issues relating to the
engagement of Jews with atheistic and sceptical Zulieka Rodgers, BAJS and Conference Organiser worldviews for the purpose of understanding 2014 Jewish culture and history. The conference will
provide a forum for the exploration of these
questions both from within Jewish Studies but also from contributors who have not previously been involved in BAJS.
For more information contact: [email protected]
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NEWS Founding of Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies
Christopher Browning to give inaugural Research and teaching in the field of Jewish Studies Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies take place in a variety of faculties and departments 2015 across the University of Cambridge. The newly created Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies is an
initiative whose objective is to join up this activity and communicate the range of expertise and wealth of research in the field that currently exists in the university. The Forum meets once a term to exchange information and ideas. It is hoped that it will encourage wider participation and a variety of perspectives.
Online Byzantine Jewry Resource Reaches The Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Completion Manchester has announced that the inaugural Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2015 will be given by Christopher Browning (Frank Porter Graham Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on the topic 'Agency in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Survivors, Rescuers'. Among his numerous publications is the classic study Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 (HarperCollins, 1992). The lecture dates are 27-29 January 2015.
This new annual public lecture series has been made possible as a result of the generous bequest to the University by Fanni Bogdanow (1928-2013), a A European Research Council-funded project former Professor of French and Medieval Studies at mapping the Jewish presence in the Byzantine Manchester and a child refugee on the Empire using GIS (Geographical Information Kindertransporte. Fanni Bogdanow was born in Systems) has reached completion. The project, co- Düsseldorf, Germany. When she was 11, in 1939 ordinated by Nicholas de Lange, Alexander and just in time, her parents loaded her on to a Panayotov and Gethin Rees, has involved gathering Kindertransport train bound for Britain. She was and collating all information (published and taken in by a Quaker family in Manchester to whom unpublished) about the Jewish communities within she remained very grateful. In 1945, she won a this geographical area. scholarship to study French at Manchester The data was then incorporated in a GIS which is University; she was to stay at Manchester, as now freely available to the general public on the undergraduate, postgraduate, lecturer, reader and internet at http://www.byzantinejewry.net/ professor, for the rest of her life. Her parents, astonishingly, survived between them Dachau, Researchers and members of the public will be able Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; to Fanni's intense to create maps according to their own joy, her mother later joined her in Manchester. specifications. Chronologically, the project begins in 650. This is soon after the Arab conquest of Egypt, Fanni Bogdanow's full life story interview was Palestine and Syria when these regions, with their conducted in April 2002 by one of the Centre's substantial Jewish populations, were permanently current PhD students, Ros Livshin, and was separated from the Byzantine empire. The end-date archived at the Oral Testimony Archive of the is fixed by the arrival in the region of large numbers Manchester Jewish Museum, a collection compiled of Jewish immigrants from Spain in 1492. under the supervision of the Centre's Bill Williams. Geographically, the core areas of Asia Minor, the southern Balkans and the adjacent islands including Crete and Cyprus are included for the entirety of the
period.
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AHRC Research Network Seeks Lessons from the Ottoman Past The Parkes Institute and Parkes Library - Golden Jubilee
A collaborative research project bringing together academics, artists, and photographers; musicians The Reverend Dr James Parkes formally created and museum curators; chefs and gastronomists; the Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non- and writers and journalists is exploring Jewish relations in the 1950s. By the end of the contemporary religious tensions by looking at decade his remarkable library had outgrown his what the cultural exchanges that characterised the home and he was looking for a permanent place to past of the Ottoman Empire can teach us in the locate it and the centre he had created. He wanted present about memorial connections between a leading university to take the Library but also to different groups. Principal investigator Jay Prosser, continue the Parkes Centre and develop it as an Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, international hub for scholars and others. He chose explains “Our focus is the Ottoman Empire. The Southampton as a new but well established Ottoman Empire is at once one of largest and university that realised the importance and longest empires, and yet it is still relatively potential of Parkes’ work. The Library arrived in (compared to other empires) understudied. Given 1964 and, along with the Parkes Centre, was current contestations around the relevance and formally established at the University of conception of the Ottoman Empire, in Turkey, in Southampton the following year. Europe and in the Middle East, never has there been a more important time to examine Ottoman In 2014 and 2015 we are marking the Golden memories. We are bringing together an Jubilee of what is now the Parkes Institute for the international research network to expand the field Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. After fifty substantially by pooling expertise and innovating years of growth and development, including its re- new research.”The Ottoman Empire was rich in designation as an Institute in 2000 in recognition cultural exchanges. Its multi-ethnic cities of its worth by the University of Southampton, the stretched from East to West and included places 50th anniversary is a wonderful opportunity to such as Baghdad, Beirut, Jerusalem, Gaza, Sarajevo assess the contribution that the Parkes Institute and Belgrade. We now associate these names has made locally, nationally and globally. A series mainly with conflict, but for over 600 years, from of events in Southampton, London and Cape Town the start of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1300s, will celebrate the Institute’s achievements and to its demise in 1922, these cities were point to future directions. This will culminate in a cosmopolitan centres, places of largely peaceful major international conference on Jewish/non- cohabitation and exchange. Jewish relations to be held at the University of Southampton in September 2015. Key to Ottoman exchange was also 'culture' - that is, architecture, art, food, music, literature, Details of the jubilee programme will be available language; and religion, love and life itself. It is the on the Parkes Institute website over the summer memory of these cultural exchanges - what we call http://www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/ and we 'transcultural memories' - passed down through hope you will join us in celebrating the generations, often through families (including our achievements of the Parkes Institute and helping own), that the research network is especially us to plan ahead for our next fifty years of work. interested in exploring. Aevents and publications take an 'interdisciplinary' approach, putting Tony Kushner, Director of the Parkes Institute alongside one another different scholarly methods with creative, artistic and life-writing practices. Research interests are mainly, but not exclusively, focused on the period from the 1780s to the present. It was then that the Ottoman Empire confronted different colonialisms most obviously, namely British and French, and transitioned into postcolonial nationalisms and sectarianisms. This later period of the Ottoman Empire is especially productive for exploring what has happened to Ottoman cosmopolitanism and its transcultural memories
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Knowledge Exchange Project on Czech Torah will provide an accessible way to learn more about Scroll in Ramsgate Jewish history and liturgy. It is hoped that in a later stage the project can be extended. We would Inspired by Rabbi Cliff Cohen’s moving explanation like to explore the links between contemporary of the story behind one of the community’s Torah Jewish communities that have a scroll from the scrolls to a student group, Dr Maria Diemling from same Czech community. In addition, we aim to the Department of Theology and Religious Studies examine the dynamics between the Czech cities at Canterbury Christ Church University has and towns which once were the homes of initiated a research project that traces the scroll’s thousands of Jews and the Jewish communities journey from Klatovy (Czech Republic) to who are linked to these places via a Torah scroll. Ramsgate. This scroll is one of the nearly 1,600 For more information on this project, please Czech Torah scrolls that were saved during the contact Dr Maria Diemling at Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and eventually [email protected]. Follow us on brought to London in the early 1960s where they Twitter at https://twitter.com/Klatovy14. were being restored and eventually given on loan to Jewish communities all over the world by the Memorial Scrolls Trust. The Thanet and District Digitization of the original series Reform Synagogue, a small community based in of Melilah, 1944-1955 East Kent, received their scroll in 1986 and has been using it since then for their worship. Canterbury Christ Church University is funding a student research intern who researches the history of the Jewish community in Klatovy, Melilah: A Volume of Studies was founded by interviews survivors and other people with a Edward Robertson and Meir Wallenstein, and connection to Klatovy and is developing a website published (in Hebrew) by Manchester University that traces the story of the Torah scroll from Press from 1944 to 1955. Five substantial volumes Bohemia via Prague and London to Ramsgate. The were produced before the series was discontinued. intern is closely mentored by Dr Diemling and In his editorial foreword to the first edition, gains valuable and varied research skills, including Robertson explained that Melilah had doing literature reviews, learning interview skills been established to promote Jewish scholarship in and transcribing interviews, organizing meetings, the face of the threat posed by the Second World coordinating filming, writing up research findings War and its aftermath. The title of the journal and using social media to promote the project. The refers to the ears of corn that are plucked to rub project has also been allocated HEIF funding for in the hands before the grains can be eaten (Deut. Knowledge Exchange which funds the 23:25). The series has now been digitized and development of the multimedia website that tells is available online: the scroll’s story and reflects on the special bond www.melilahjournal.org/p/index-original- across history between very different communities series.html. the Czech scrolls have created. The scrolls are important memorials of the devastation caused by the Holocaust but at the same time they are Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies: Podcast powerful symbols of Jewish survival and rebirth, of Sherman Lectures 2014 as they are being read and studied by a new generation of Jews all over the world. The Jewish community feels a strong connection to The 2014 Sherman Lectures at the University of the community whose scroll they are using. The Manchester are now available to view online at project helps them to find out more about the Jews www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/sherman- who once lived in Klatovy and keep their memory lectures-2014/ . Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval alive. Rabbi Cliff Cohen stressed the importance of and Early Modern History at Queen Mary the project for the community and the need to find University of London, speaks on ‘Thinking about out more about the history of the scroll for the Jews in Medieval Europe: Explorations with Text, education of their own members. He said that Images and Sounds’ . The lectures are entitled: ‘history is an essential part of the Jewish People and Places; The Jewish Body; Jews and experience’ and that ‘our Torah scroll is witness to Children; and Jews and Material Christianity. the importance of that’. The website will also become an educational source for visitors to the synagogue, including school children, because it
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BAJS Annual Conference 2014 Jews and Political Discourse Trinity College Dublin Sunday 13th—Tuesday 15th July 2014
Programme
Sunday 13th July
From 10:30-13:00: Registration (Trinity Long Room Hub)
13:00-14:30: Session 1
Panel A: The ‘Jewish Question’: Modern Panel B: Ireland, Jews and Politics (Part One) Expressions
Joanna Cukras-Stelagowska: Around the debate on Kevin McCarthy: Recovering the Zionist memory of ritual slaughter in Poland: political and media Robert Brisco T.D. discourses Stephen Oliver Murray: ‘The Vatican Factor’: Irish Foreign Policy regarding Christian Holy sites Nathan Abrams: Dr. Strangelove and the Jewish in the Holy Land, 1947-1950 Question Melanie Brown: Orthodox Jewish Liturgical Music as a Pathway to Prayer in the Dublin community? Yulia Egorova: ‘There are no terrorists in my village’:negotiating Jewish-Muslim relations in South Asia
14:30-15:00: Refreshments: Trinity Long Room Hub (all conference refreshments will be served here)
15:00-16:30: Session 2:
Panel A: Social Justice and Jewish Ethics Panel B: Ireland, Jews and Politics (Part Two)
Tammy Shel and Nurit Chamo: Examining political Natalie Wynn: Jews and the Irish Judiciary discourses of Jewish peoplehood through the prism of caring Katrina Goldstone: ‘The Brave Revolutionary I was myself when young’: Leslie Deiken – Towards a Brigid Curtin: Natural Law in the Theology of David different kind of Irish-Jewish discourse Novak Jonathan Immanuel: Harrington, Ireland and the Maria Diemling: The Politics of Food: Dietary Laws, Jews Food Choices, and Social Justice
16:30-17:30: Welcome and Keynote: Prof. Moshe Halbertal: Power Unmasked: Biblical Political Discourse
17:30-18:30: Reception and Provost’s Welcome: Long Room, Old Library
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Monday 14th July
9.00-10:30: Session 3:
Panel A: British Jewry: Panel B: Politics and Panel C: Theology and Panel D: Jewish Evolving Identities in the Propaganda the Jewish State German Thinkers 20th Century Astrid Zajdband: Rabbis Idan Breier: Between Hannah Holtschneider: in the Pulpit – the sermon Doves and Hawks: John Wolfe Salis Daiches and Jewish as a political tool Biblical History as a Ackerman: Arendt, Identity Politics in early Polemical ‘Useful Past’ Scholem and the Given: 20th century Britain Marcus Pyka: The in the writings of Prologue to a Politics Poltics of Escapism: Jews Religious-Zionist Rabbis Pamela Linden: ‘The and the means of Larry Ray: ‘A cockpit of civil Propaganda at home and Gadi Taub: Politics in conscious pariah’ – disturbances’: Jewish abroad in the First World the shadow of theology: Jewishness and Political Identity in War The changing political universality in Hannah Belfast 1920-1935 discourse of the Religious Arendt’s political Cathy Gelbin: Rootless Settlers Movement, 1967 philosophy David Dee: ‘An Cosmopolitans: German- to 2005 ‘Estranged’ generation? speaking Jewish writers Agata Bielik-Robson: Politics, Social Change confront the Stalinist David Barak- Benjamin’s Messianic and Interwar British purges Gorodestsky: The Marxism: ‘On the Jewry Political Theology of concept of history’ in Binationalism: Judah Jewish Perspective Leib Magnes & Martin Buber
10:30-11:00: Refreshments
11:00-12:30: Session 4:
Panel A: Piyyutim: Panel B: Jewish Arab Panel C: Reflections on Panel D: Memory, Politics and Poetry Interactions Jewish Statehood Commemoration, and Identity Wout van Bekkum: Holger Zellentin: The Nir Kedar: Ben-Gurion Beauty and the Message: Jews behind the Qur’an: and the formation of Hagai Dagan: Poetics and Politics in Religious and Ethnic Israeli democracy, Rule Forgetfulness, memory, Late Antique and Early Considerations of Law and Civic and the new Jew Islamic Piyyut Discourse Juni Hoppe: The Social Amir Lass: Yehoshua Granat: On Responsibilities of Jewish Lilach Rosenberg- Headstones’ text in Piyyut and Politics: On Genizah Merchants Friedman: The Israeli Military the early ‘Teqia’ata’ and ‘Demographic Threat’ in Cemeteries – The its historical settings Chen Bar-Itzhak: Mandatory Palestine and conflict between Literary Nostalgia for a the State of Israel (1920- national uniformity and Colonial paradise: Jews, 1960): David Ben- private commemoration Arabs and Gurion and the Abortion Cosmopolitanism in Phenomenon as a case Zehra Samlioglu: The Mittelpunkt’s Mandatory study Language of Exile: Haifa Language and Memory Meirav Jones: Jewish in Istanbul Jewry sovereignty, In Theory
12:30-13:30 Lunch
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13:30-15:00: Session 5:
Panel A: Jewish Panel B: Representations Panel C: American Panel D: Jews and Society: 19th Century of Jews in Antiquity and Jewish Literature Christians in the Early perspectives in the Modern Period Modern Period Eva van Loenen: The Naftali Loewenthal: Honora Chapman: La Chosen: Hasidism, Sarah Bartosiak: ‘For Proto-Socialism in clemenza di Berenice Zionism and the Politics it Concerns the Honor Habad Hasidism of Representation of God and the Costanza Ficorella: The Salvation of Us All:’ François Guesnet: Jacob-Esau narrative in Miryam Sivan: Where The Jews as Objects of Shtadlanut après la ancient Jewish tradition the Personal is Political: Christian Intolerance in lettre: Re-defining the Cynthia Ozick 'Outs' her Martin Luther’s ‘The Politics of Intercession in Jon Solomon: Judas of Zealots Jews and Their Lies’ the 19th Century Galilee and Judah Ben- Hur: Anti-Roman Zealots Mike Witcombe: Martina Mampieri: Dror Segev: Echoes of America Unbound: Paul IV and the Jews ‘The Pale’: Jews in Rereading Philip Roth’s according to the work of Ireland in the Hebrew Satires Beniamin Neḥemiah ben Press of the Russian Elnatan from Civitanova Empire 1884-1898 Marche (XVI century)
Chair: Larry Ray Philip Alexander: Abraham Jacobs Hallevi's Hebrew Translation of the Book of Common Prayer, Dublin 1717: Content, Context and Afterlife
Chair: Maria Diemling
15:00-15:30 Refreshments
15:30-17:00: Session 6:
Panel A: In Memory of Panel B: Perspectives Panel C: Reflections on Panel D: Literary Sean Freyne on Jewish Nationalism Jewish Statehood: Past Representations of Israel and Present and Zionism John Collins: Torah Romans Vater: Down and Jewish Identity in with Britain, away with Rosa Reicher: State, Giulia Miller: Temporality the Second Temple Zionism: the Canaanites Nation and Jewish and Politics in Daniella Period and the LEHI between Identity in the Political Carmi’s Izim (Goats, 2011) two adversaries Discourse of Simone William Horbury: The Luzzatto Sub-Panel: Uncanny Discourse of Liberty and Laura Almagor: The Returns and the Zionist the Jewish Rising in English Mould: Jewish Anat Gueta: The words Project Roman Egypt Territorialism and its ‘state’, ‘sovereignty’ and British context (1905- ‘revolution’ in Theodor Naama Meishar: James McLaren: A 1950) Herzl’s political Greening's Uncanny: From tale of two Walls: the discourse Herzl's ‘Altneuland’ 1902 to construction of the Avi Bareli: Forgetting Jaffa Slope Park 2009 Temple complex by Europe: Perspectives on Gitit Paz: From Shtetl Herod the Debate about Zionism to State: Nationality in Marilyn Reizbaum: Trial and Colonialism Michael Chabon's The By Novel: Muriel Spark and Yiddish Policeman Philip Roth Union
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17:00-18:00 Keynote: Prof. Paul Franks: What becomes of Jewish law in the wake of Emancipation? German-Jewish thoughts on autonomy and self-determination.
18:30 Chester Beatty Library: Conference Banquet
Tuesday 15th July
9:00-11:00: Session 7:
Panel A: Jews in the Panel B: Rabbinics and Panel C: Polemics and Panel D: Jews in Hellenistic World Late Antiquity Polemicists in the Britain and British Jewish Sciences – Views of Jewry Emily Parker: Philo’s Tamar Arieli: Borders Apparent and Joseph as Typical and Bordering in Jewish Concealed Agendum Keith Kahn-Harris: Statesman Geopolitical Space The Ambivalent Politics Cyril Aslanov: The of the Contemporary Ron Naiweld: Philo of Sacha Stern: City Glottogenesis of Yiddish British Jewish Alexandria’s Political- councils and councillors and the Ethnogenesis of Community Theological Treatise: in early rabbinic Eastern European Jewry: the ‘Legatio ad Gaium’ literature Between Scholarship and Lucia Morawska: The as a King Parable Politics Other Northerner. Helen Spurling: Investigating the identity Vicente Dobroruka: Apocalypticism and Adam S. Ferziger: Is of a Jewish community in Resurrection of the dead Apologetic in Late Orthodox Judaism a Bradford. A - 2 Maccabees 12:39-45 Antiquity: The case of Modern Religious multicultural tale as political response to ‘Pirqe Mashiaḥ’ Movement? Seleucid rule or Michael Berkowitz: ‘So development of Benjamin Schvarcz: Assaf Malach: The You Think You've Got Zoroastrian The Socio-Political Biblical Monarchy – a Troubles’: Between tsoris eschatology? Problem of Lost and Component in and comedy Found Property and Governmental Robbie Griggs: Some of Its Classical Revolution or Part of a Aaron S. Kaiserman: Priestly Rule and Solutions Regional Realpolitik Other Voices: Jewish Temple Restoration (70 Responses to Stereotypes – 135 C.E.): the evidence Alex Tal: Marginalizing in Romantic Literature of 4 Maccabees Chazal – towards a more complete perspective
Chair: Alex Tal
11:00-11:30 Refreshments
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11:30-13:00: Session 8:
Panel A: Jews in the Panel B: Jewish- Panel C: Social Panel D: Holocaust Early Modern Period British relations in Engagement the mid-Twentieth Stefanie Maria Andrea Schatz: Time Century Alix Green: Margarete Dinkelbach: and Territory in Early Conversations on Loss of interrelatedness Modern Jewish Kevin McNamara: In citizenship: the Jewish and the ideological Chronicles the Service of His press and the Christian foundation of the Majesty’s Government: state in the 1840s Holocaust: an Maciej Gugala: Not a The British Consular interdisciplinary Footnote to the Polish Network in the Third Sue Silberberg: Jews perspective History. Jews and Reich between 1933- and civic engagement - Political Discourse in 1935 the colonial perspective Louise O’Sullivan: the Early Modern Political Overtones in the Period in the Museum of Eunan O’Halpin: The Marc Saperstein: Theresienstadt Ghetto, the History of Polish fate of indigenous and Rabbis, Keep Out of 1942-1945 Jews Central Asian Jews in Politics Afghanistan, 1933-51 Roee Horen: New Kabbalistiks and Old Shlomi Balaban: Kabbalists relations: A Pluralistic Politics renewed perspective at Behind Barbed Wire - the birth of Hasidism The Internal Court System In The Cyprus Internment Camps 1946-1949
13:00-15:00 BAJS Committee Members Meeting OPTIONAL: Guided Tour of Trinity College or Visit to the Jewish Museum (sign up at registration)
16:00-17:00 BAJS AGM
17:30-18:30 Marsh’s Library: Tour by Dr. Jason McElligott, Keeper of Marsh’s Library and Talk on The Exhibition of Jewish Books by Prof. Shlomo Berger:
18:30-19:30 Reception: Deanery St. Patrick’s Cathedral
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E-learning at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge personal incidents that brought to life the history of the relations between these two faiths. The E-learning has become a widespread means for discussion forums created an informal ‘online continued learning all over the world. Much of this community’ which provided the group with a safe has focused on scientific and vocational courses space in which to discuss and debate. In the and very little on religion or relations between feedback, one participant commented ‘on top of a different faith communities. much broader contemporary and historic understanding of the Muslim-Jewish encounter, I At the Woolf gained knowledge of the aims, successes and Institute challenges of interfaith dialogue; the politicisation (Cambridge), we of Muslim-Jewish relations, and the source(s) of specialise in the this politicisation. Perhaps most of all, I saw clearly provision of online how the same issue or evidence can be viewed in educational entirely divergent ways, and the implications for opportunities in this in terms of dialogue and understanding’. interfaith studies. Our courses offer We are happy to announce a series of Online Short individuals the Courses on relations between Jews and other opportunity to faiths that complement the Institute’s existing interact with range of online course options. In 2013, we interesting and like-minded people from all over launched the first on Jewish-Christian Relations in the world and from all walks of life. We strive, in the English Novel. (Having been well received, an our research and outreach, to demonstrate how offshoot of this course, an Online Reading Group, greater understanding of commonality and will commence in due course.) We have continued difference can inform and enhance the wider to expand our range of options to an ever-growing public good. We understand the value of online pool of participants eager to engage in interfaith teaching and its global impact. Reaching out and relations with courses, Is Interfaith Dialogue engaging with individuals from diverse Important? and Shakespeare and Jewish-Christian backgrounds and encouraging them to Relations: Beyond The Merchant of Venice. Future communicate with one another within a safe space courses will include Evaluation in Faith-based and can only be a good thing. Many participants, who Community Organizations. Theses Online Short are motivated and keen to learn, have not had the Courses offer participants the unique opportunity opportunity to engage with the ‘other’ as one to engage in interfaith studies within an e-learning recent student explained: ‘I think it was extremely environment and provide them with a flexible valuable to have students from different approach to learning - study anywhere at any time. backgrounds and from different countries; it was Unlike educational platforms such as Coursera and interesting and challenging to hear about others’ FutureLearn, these courses are available to join perspectives on the subjects studied and the 365 days of the year and participants receive possibility to have discussions with them definitely individual tutor support and feedback (but no improved my learning and my understanding’. In a formal grading). course we run in collaboration with the American University in Washington, Bridging the Great Dr Emma Harris Divide: the Jewish-Muslim Encounter, 2014 Academic Coordinator students from, for example, Pakistan and Jordan [email protected] were able to enlighten the group on very specific
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BAJS Committee
PRESIDENT and CONFERENCE 2014 ORGANISER: Prof. Zuleika Rodgers (until 2016), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: [email protected]
TREASURER: Dr Maria Diemling: Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Canterbury Christ Church, University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU. Email: [email protected]
SECRETARY: Dr Helen Spurling: History, Faculty of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF Email: [email protected]
BULLETIN EDITOR: Dr Mark Gilfillan: School of History and English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA. Email: [email protected]
WEB OFFICER: Dr Hannah Holtschneider: School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX. Email: [email protected]
Dr Alison Salvesen (until 2014): The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE. Email: [email protected]
Dr François Guesnet (until 2015), Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Email: [email protected]
Prof. Nathan Abrams (until 2016), School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University, Gwynedd LL57 2DG. Email:
Dr. Andrea Schatz, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR. Email: [email protected]
Prof. Daniel Langton (until 2016, president-elect 2015): Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of Religions & Theology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [email protected]
Dr James Renton (until 2016), Department of English and History, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP. Email: [email protected]
Prof. Larry Ray (until 2015), School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ. Email: [email protected]
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Ongoing doctoral 6. Ashely Lyon, The Evolving research at British and Shape of the Psalter Supervisor: Yaron Peleg 7. Dave Crater, Qohelet at Irish Universities Zehavit Zaslansky, Hebrew Qumran: The Dead Sea Sapiential poetry in Europe in the early Texts and the Wisdom of the 20th century. University of Aberdeen Preacher 8. Tupa Guerra da Silva, Supervisor: Daniel Weiss Supervisor: Jutta Leonhardt- Demonology in the Dead Sea Jonathan Gilmour, Joseph B. Balzer Scrolls Soloveitchik on Interfaith 1. Yang Kyu Park, The Zealots and Dialogue Early Christianity University of Cambridge 2. Stefan Bosman, The Jewish University of Kent background of motifs, arguments Supervisor: Anna Abulafia and hermeneutical methods in Linda Stone, The Perception of Supervisor: Axel Stähler Paul Jews in twelfth-century Christian 1. Catherine Bartlett, 3. Erlend MacGillivray, Evidence exegesis in the Glosses on the Representations of the Jew in the for missionary activity in Psalms Nineteenth-Century Novel in ancient philosophical schools France, Germany and England and Philo Supervisor: Graham Davies 2. Joanne Pettitt, Characterising 1. A. Gray, Metaphor in Psalm 18 Evil: The Ontology of Culpability Supervisor: Steve Mason 2. J.G. Davidson, Theological and the Figure of the Perpetrator 1. John Lowery, Luke 2.41-51a: A Significance of Nouns referring in Representations of the Shoah Strange Anticlimax. to God in Deutero-Isaiah 3. Vered Weiss, Oh Other Where 2. Joseph Lear, Ethics and 3. C. Thomson, The Removal of Sin Art Thou?: The Location of the Eschatology in Luke-Acts. in Zechariah Other in Hebrew and English 4. N. A. Wormley, Law and Stories Literature of the Nineteeth and in Numbers: The Curriculum for Bangor University Twentieth Centuries Foundation Learning in Israel
Supervisor: Nathan Abrams Supervisor: Nicholas de Lange 1. Jennifer Krase, The Jews of 1. Martin Borysek, The Taqqanot Trinity College Dublin Bangor and Llandudno Candia 2. Gerwyn Owen, Jews in Italian 2. Kim Phillips, The Supervisor: Zuleika Rodgers Cinema Commentaries of Abraham Ibn 1. Stephen Murray, Irish
Ezra and David Qimhi on the Responses to Zionism, 1948- University of Birmingham Book of Isaiah. 1973 2. Emily Parker, The figure of Supervisor: Charlotte Hempel Supervisor: William Horbury Joseph in the writings Philo of 1. Helen Freeman, A Jungian 1. N. Hilton, Biblical Alexandria Approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls Interpretation in III Baruch 3. Natalie Wynn, Jewish Activism 2. Reuven Geller, Beyond the 2. Y. M. Chan, Jerusalem Tradition and inter-communal relations, Yahad – The Foundational in Zechariah 1–8 1840–1913 Triangle of 1QSa, CD and 1QM / 3. K. Conway, Epangelia in Paul in 4. Barbara De Bergin, Herod the Dead Sea Scrolls its Jewish Setting Great and the Hasmoneans 3. Hanne Kirchheiner, The 4. D. Pevarello, The Sentences of Remnant of Israel. Sextus and Jewish and Christian Supervisor: Anne Fitzpatrick Qumran Social Identity in the Asceticism 1. Philip Crowe, The Temple Light of Exegesis and 5. D. Hakala, The Decalogue in Economy in the Second Temple Anthropology Ancient Catechesis Period 4. Drew Longacre, The 2. Magdalene Szklarz, The Book of Significance of the Dead Sea Supervisor: Geoffrey Kahn Job Scrolls for Understanding the 1. Samuel Blapp, Hebrew 3, Heidi O'Rourke, Amun and History of the Textual vocalization systems in Genizah Yahweh: An Transmission of the Hebrew Bible manuscripts Examination of the Jewish Temple 5. Nick Woods, The Qumran 2. Lidia Napiorkowska, The of Elephantine during the Persian Wisdom Texts and the Gospel of Jewish and Christian Neo- Period John (co-supervision with Dr. Aramaic dialects of Urmi Karen Wenell) 3. Kathrin Egger, The middle voice in Neo-Aramaic
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Durham University supervision with Professor Janet 3. Rosie Parker, Interfaith Carsten, Social Anthropology) encounters in London’s Public Supervisor: Lucille Cairns 2. Konrad Matyjaszek, Sphere 1. Caroline Tucker, Female- Representation of Jewish history authored diaries and memoirs of in Warsaw’s Plac Grzybowski Heythrop College, Occupied France (including the (supervision shared with Dr Ella University of London Chmielewska) ‘journal’ of Hélène Berr)
2. Richard Lawri, Narratives of Supervisor: A Achtar Supervisor: Timothy Lim collaboration in Occupied France Hakime Reyyan Yasar: John M. Starr, A Quantitative Contemporary Islamic and Analysis of the Aramaic Qumran Supervisor: Robert Hayward Jewish approaches to inequities in Texts 1. Kwan-Hung Leo Li, Voices by religious divorce law. the Sea: A Dialogic Reading of the Exodus Narrative (Completed) Kingston University Supervisor: Martin Poulsom 2. Lawrence Ko, The Cosmic John Gravett: The work of David Significance of the Service of the Supervisor: Philip Spencer Tracy as a model for Levitical Singers in the Books of Ian Rich, Perpetrator motivation understanding Jewish and Chronicles and the question of Imperialism Christian Holocaust Theology. 3. Tyson Puthoff (co-supervised (Shoah/comp. genocide research) with John Barclay), Human Supervisor: Ann Jeffers Mutability and Mystical Change: University of Leeds Andrezej Toczyski: The Story of Explorations in Ancient Jewish Rahab: A Narrative-Critical Onto-Anthropology Supervisor: Johanna Stiebert Analysis of Joshua 2. 4. Vasile Condrea, The Syntax of Nyampa Kwabe, The Imprecatory the Aramaic Verb in Targum Psalms from a Kamwe Perspective Jonatan of the Prophets Queen Mary, University of (Inculturation Hermeneutics) London
Supervisor: Yulia Egerova Ben Kasstan, Religion and Liverpool Hope Supervisor: Miri Rubin Resistance: Evaluating access and University (History) response to child health messages Milan Zonca, Authority and in British haredi communities. Supervisor: Bernard Jackson Deviance in Medieval Western 1. Antonia Richards, Law and Jewry Supervisor: Lutz Doering Narrative in the Book of Esther: 1. Gwynned de Looijer, The Jewish Identity in the Diaspora Supervisor: Daniel Wildmann Qumran Paradigm: A Critical 2. Rachel Levy, How Jewish Evaluation of Some Foundational Orthodoxy positioned itself in the 1. Joseph Cronin: Between 'Jews Hypotheses in the Construction of wake of modernity and the in Germany' and 'Jewish the "Qumran Sect". (co- emancipation of the Jews, with Germans': Jewish Identities in supervised with John Barclay); particukar reference to food and Modern Germany 2. Kelly Hernández Lofthouse, dietary laws in the Netherlands 2. Rodney Resnek: The Changing Happy and Blessed: Female Nature of Antisemitism in South Exemplarity in Aseneth and The King’s College London Africa as expressed through Gospel According to Luke. Attitudes Towards Immigration 3. Ted Erho, With Subversive 3. Dana Smith: The “Juedischer Supervisor: Andrea Schatz Intent: Second Century BCE Jewish Kulturbund”: Jewish Cultural Life Ella Fitzsimmons, Veils and Adoption and Use of Ex Eventu and Identity under Nazism Words. Women’s Religious Prophetic Digressions in Light of Clothing and the Boundaries of their Ancient Near Eastern Secularism SOAS Context.
Supervisor: Aaron Rosen Supervisor: Catherine Hezser University of Edinburgh 1. Maeve Thompson-Starkey, Davied Eliezer Cohen, The Representations of the Abrahamic Biblical Exegesis of Don Isaac Supervisor: Hannah Religions in Graphic Novels. Abrabanel Holtschneider 2. Tahnia Ahmed, Ethnic and 1. Katarina Ockova, Marriage, Religious Difference in Modern Kinship, Memory, and the Future British Political Cartoons. among the Jewish Minority in Post-socialist Slovakia (joint
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UCL Conflict under the Thatcher 3. Jessica Keady, Gender and Government Purity in the Sectarian Dead Sea Supervisor: Helen Beer 2. Toby Greene, The impact of Scrolls4. Marvin Miller, Second 1. Sima Beeri, “Literarishe bleter" Islamist terrorism on UK policy Temple Epistolography and the and Nachman Mayzel towards the State of Israel Genre of MMT 2. Zosia Sochanska, The Cultural 3. Mohammed Hussein, Hamas 4. Dohnson Chang, Covenant and and Literary Contexts of the Work and the Islamification of the Priesthood in 2 Maccabees, the of Dvora Vogel Palestinian Authority Areas Sectarian Scrolls, and Hebrews 3. Ester Whine, Leo 4. John Lipman, The Suez Crisis Koenig’s Contribution to Yiddish 1956 and the British Press Supervisor: Adrian Curtis Culture 5. Thomas Wilson, Israeli Settlers Jennifer Williams, Approaches to and Israel’s Religious Right since Childlessness in the Hebrew Supervisor: Michael Berkowitz the Peace Process Bible 1. Angela Debnath, International Interventions in Genocide and Supervisor: Ada Rapoport- Supervisor: Cathy Gelbin Systematic Violence Albert Heather Hilton, Holocaust and 2. Frank Dabba Smith, Ernst Leitz 1. Yaffa Aranoff, The Portrayal of 9/11 Narratives and the Leica Company during the Biblical Women in Hasidic Second World War Literature Supervisor: Daniel Langton 3. Ian Harker, Ernst Biberstein: 2. Nathaniel Berman, ‘Improper 1. Simon Mayers, From ‘the Lutheran Pastor and SS-man Twins’: The Ambivalent Pharisee’ to ‘the Zionist Menace’: 4. Felicity Griffiths, Ethnicity and ‘Other Side’ in the Zohar Myths, Stereotypes and Minority Groups in the Colleges of and Kabbalistic Tradition Constructions of the Jew in English London University 3. Sara Hall, Towards a New Catholic Discourse (1896–1929) 5. Lida Barner, Intellectual Cultural History of [now completed] Property under the Nazis: Jews Czernowitz: The Yiddish and 2. Francesca Frazer, Samuel and Patents Ukrainian Press Sandmel: Post-Holocaust US 4. Ariel Klein, The Sifra di- Communal Leader, New Supervisor: François Guesnet Tseni’uta of the Zohar Testament Scholar, and Pioneer in 1. Noemie Duhaut, The 5. Agata Paluch, R. Nathan Neta Jewish-Christian Relations Europeanisation of French Jews: Shapira of Krakow (1585–1633) 3. Ros Livshin, Nonconformity in French Jewish perceptions of Jews and the Ashkenazi Kabbalah Minority Communities: in Southeast Europe, 1840 to 6. Gillian Rosen, The Institution of Representations of the Anglo- 1900. 'hadlakat ha-Ner' (Sabbath Jewish Experience in the Oral 2. Agnieszka Oleszak, Sarah Candle Lighting) by Women Testimony Archive of the Schenirer and Beys Ya’akov, 1917- 7. Julian Sinclair, Rav Kook’s Manchester Jewish Museum 1939. Gender and Religious mysticism Identity Construction in Orthodox 8. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, The Supervisor: Alex Samely Judaism. religious lives of Orthodox 1. Hedva Rosen, Aspects of the 3. Lida Barner, The Aryanization Jewish women in London, with a literary structure of the of Jewish Intellectual Property. focus on folk practices Mekhilta 4. Marie-Luise Schmidt, Per 9. Wojciech Tworek, The issue of 2. Andrew Wilshire, Rights and aspera ad astra. Die jiddische time in the doctrine of R. Shneur Responsibility: Emmanuel Literatur im Spannungsfeld von Zalman of Lyadi Levinas’s Critique of Liberalism Politik und Kunst. Eine Feldanalyse des jiddisch- Supervisor: Sacha Stern Supervisor: Renate Smithuis literarischen Feldes in der Kineret Sittig, A critical edition Katharina Keim: Pirke de Rabbi Zwischenkriegszeit (University of with translation and Eliezer Potsdam/Germany). commentary of Iggeret haShabbat by Abraham ibn Ezra. Newcastle University Supervisor: Lily Kahn University of Manchester Paul Moore: A Syntactic Analysis Supervisor: Beate Müller of Targum Canticles (second Supervisor: George Brooke Gary Jenkins, Representations of supervisor, with Willem Smelik) 1. Kyung Baek, The Use of Jewish the Holocaust in post-1990 Scripture in the Scrolls and the Hollywood, Israeli, and German Supervisor: Neill Lochery Gospel of Matthew films 1. Azriel Bermant, Britain’s Policy 2. Jarod Jacobs, The Linguistic towards the Arab-Israeli Character of the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls
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University of Oxford University of Reading 3. Anne Holdorph, Religion and gender in British Jewish youth Supervisor: Susan Gillingham Supervisor: David Brauner organisations Holly Morse, And God Created 1. Clare Reed, Crises of Identity in 4. Howard Rein, A Comparison of Woman: An Exploration of the Jewish-American Lesbian Fiction, the German and Jewish Hospitals Myth and Meaning of Eve 1980–2010 of London Joanne Vitale, Female Beauty in 5. Carolyn Sanzenbacher, The the Old Testament University of International Committee on the Christian Approach to Jews and Roehampton Its Role in Protestant Ecumenical Supervisor: Martin Goodman Jonathan Kirkpatrick (Balliol), Understanding of Antisemitism Supervisor: Eric Jacobson and the Jewish Question During Pagan cult in Roman Palestine 1. Katie Meltzer, National Identity the Hitler Years in Sacher-Masoch’s Historical 6. Sarah Shawyer, The Memory Supervisor: David Rechter Fiction Larissa Douglas (St Antony’s), and Representation of Mandate 2. Chris Horner, Hannah Arendt Palestine in Britain Representative Government, and the Fate of Judgment Majority Rule and Jewish Minority 7. Micheline Stevens, Anglo- 3. Ariel Kahn, Kabbalah as Jewish Philanthropy from Below: Representation During the Narrative Technique in I. B. Constitutional Era in Habsburg the case of the Jewish Singer, Kafka and Agnon Educational Aid Committee Austria, 1895–1914 8. Malgorzata, Wlosycka, Dealing Supervisor: Alison Salvesen University of with the Past: forms of 1. Bradley Marsh, The Samaritan Southampton reconstruction of the memory of Pentateuch in Christian textual Jews in Poland tradition Supervisor: Devorah Baum Supervisor: Dan Levene 2. Sonja Noll, (co-supervised with 1. Michael Witcombe, Sex and Bradley Barnes, Negotiating Hugh Williamson): The semantics Sexuality in Philip Roth (AHRC Divine Power at Ground Level: of Classical Hebrew words for funded, co-supervised with Interpreting Patristic and silence. Andrea Reiter) Rabbinic interaction with the 3. K.T. Perry, (co-supervised with 2. Eva Van Loenen, Divine in Late Antique Chris Tuckett): The Role of the Representations of Hasidism and Mesopotamia Septuagint in the Development of Hasidim in Postwar American Hellenistic-Jewish and New Literature, co-supervised with Supervisor: Andrea Reiter Testament Demonology James Jordan 1. Meike Reintjes, Translingual 3. Stewart Smith, Nietzsche's Poetry Written by Women of Supervisor: Joanna Weinberg Influence on Modernist Writers German-Jewish Origin 1. Sabine Arndt Judah Hacohen's 2. Mike Witcombe, Sex and Midrash Ha-hokhmah Supervisor: Shirli Gilbert Sexuality in Philip Roth 2. Magaret Jacobi A literary 1. Danielle Kretzmer-Lockwood, 3. Georg Burgstaller, ‘A Corner- analysis of perek Helek in the South African Jews in British Shop for Democratic Phrases': Babylonian Talmud Entertainment & Culture (co- Music Criticism and Socio- 3. David Meyer Yalkut Shimoni supervised with James Jordan) Cultural Perspectives in Heinrich (co-supervisor Judith Olszowy- 2. Laura Musker, The Effects of Schenker's Vienna Schlanger, Paris) the Racial Laws in Piedmont 4. Oriane Boulay, The during the years 1938-1945 Untranslatable Self: Life-writing Supervisor: Hugh Williamson Across Languages in 1. Troy Cudworth, War and Contemporary French Literature Temple in Chronicles Supervisor: Tony Kushner 2. Ekaterina Kozlova, Female 1. Jennifer Craig-Norton, The Supervisor: Joachim Schlör Mourning in the Hebrew Bible Polish Kindertransport Maja Hultman, Jewish Life in 3. Philip Yoo, Ezra’s Lawbook 2. Wendy Fidler, Jewish Stockholm responses to interfaith work in Britain
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Members’ recent Baron, Ilan Zvi. “Diasporic Psychoanalysis,” in Judaism in publications Security and Jewish Identity” in Contemporary Thought: Traces Modern Jewish Studies. Published and Influence, eds. Agata Bielik- Abrams, Nathan. ‘Film, online March 27, 2014. Robson and Adam Lipszyc, Television, and New Media London: Routledge, March 2014. Studies’, in The Routledge Bhayro, Siam. with S. Shaked Handbook to Contemporary and J.N. Ford, Aramaic Bowl Eadem, “Faux pas, or The Error Jewish Cultures, ed. Laurence Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of Life. Blanchot versus Lévinas Roth & Nadia Valman (New York Bowls Volume One, Leiden: Brill, (and Bloom),” in Cahiers Maurice and London: Routledge 2014): 2013 Blanchot, No. 3/2013, Paris: Le 108-120. Presses de Réel Idem, ‘On Performatives in Idem, ‘Locating the Pixelated Jew: Aramaic Documents’, Aramaic Eadem, “Individuation Through A Multi-Modal Method for Studies 11 (2013), 47-52 Sin. The Tension Between the Exploring Judaism in The Shivah’ Tragic and the Messianic in (with Isamar Carrillo Masso), in Idem, ‘The Reception of Modern Jewish Thought,” in Playing with Religion in Digital Mesopotamian and Early Jewish Understanding the Human Being. Games, ed. Heidi Campbell and Traditions in the Aramaic Essays on Jewish Anthropology, Greg Grieve (Bloomington, IN: Incantation Bowls’, Aramaic ed. Zbigniew Sareło, Indiana University Press, 2014): Studies 11 (2013), 187-196 Wydawnictwo Naukowe 47-65. Akademii Pomorskiej: Słupsk, Idem, ‘Simon of Genoa as an 2013, pp. 47-95 Idem, ‘The Banality of Evil: Arabist’, in B. Zipser (ed.), Simon Polanski, Kubrick, and the of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon, Eadem, “Modernity: The Jewish Reinvention of Horror’, in London: Versita, 2013, 49-65 Perspective,” in New Blackfriars, Religion in Contemporary No. 1/2013, Oxford: Blackwell European Cinema, ed. Costica Idem, ‘Names of Musical Bradatan & Camil Ungereanu Instruments: Pre-Modern Eadem, Judaism in Contemporary (New York: Routledge, 2014): Period’, in G. Khan et al. Thought: Traces and Influence, 145-164. (eds), Encyclopedia of Hebrew eds. Agata Bielik-Robson and Language and Linguistics: Volume Adam Lipszyc, London: Idem, ‘Grassroots Religion: 2 G–O, Leiden: Brill, 2013, 752- Routledge, March 2014 Facebook and Offline Post- 756 Denominational Judaism’ (with Eadem, Jewish Cryptotheologies of Sally Baker and B. J. Brown), in Idem, with D, Levene and D. Late Modernity: Philosophical Social media and religious Marx, ‘“Gabriel in on their Right”: Marranos, London: Routledge, change, ed. Marie Gillespie, David Angelic Protection in Jewish forthcoming in September 2014. Herbert, Anita Greenhill (Berlin: Magic and Babylonian De Gruyter, 2013): 143-163. Lore’, Studia Mesopotamica 1 Brock, Sebastian. 'The position (2014), 185-198 of Job in Syriac biblical Idem, ‘Digesting Woody: Food manuscripts: the survival of an and Foodways in the Movies of Idem, with S. Brock, ‘The Syriac ancient tradition', in S.Kh.Samir Woody Allen’, in Woody on Rye: Galen Palimpsest and the Role of and J.P. Monferrer-Sala (eds), Re-examining Jewishness in the Syriac in the Transmission of Graeco-Latina et Orientalia: Films and Plays of Woody Allen, Greek Medicine in the Studia in honorem A. Urbani ed. Vincent Brook and Marat Orient’, Bulletin of the John heptagenarii (Cordoba, 2013), Greenberg (Waltham, MA: Rylands University Library of 49-62. Brandeis University Press, 2013): Manchester 89 Supplement 215-34. (2013), 25-43 Cairns, Lucille. 'Une année si ordinaire (2004) d'Esther Idem, ‘The “sub-epidermic” Idem, with P.E. Pormann and W.I. Orner', Continuum: Revue des Shoah: Barton Fink, the Sellers, ‘Imaging the Syriac Galen Écrivains Israéliens de Langue Migration of the Holocaust, and Palimpsest: Preliminary Analysis Française, no. 10 (2013), 54-62 Contemporary Cinema’, POST and Future Prospects’, Semitica SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the et Classica 6 (2013), 299-302 Eadem, 'Introduction', 'Jewish Humanities 32:2 (Winter/Spring Identities in Contemporary 2013): 6-19. Bielik-Robson, Agata. “Between Europe', Jewish Culture and Therapy and Redemption: Notes History, Vol. 14, issues 2-3 Towards the Messianic (August-November 2013), 65-67.
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Judaism, ed. Hannah Ewence and Eadem, ‘Montefiore, Judith Eadem, 'Righteous Realism Helen Spurling. Routledge 2014 (1784-1862)’, Oxford Dictionary Versus Postmodern Play: The of National Biography (Oxford: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Eadem, ‘Where do you draw the Oxford University Press, 2015), Female-Authored French Fiction', line?’ Negotiating Kashrut and forthcoming. Modern and Contemporary Jewish Identity in a small British France, Vol. 22, no. 1 (February Reform Community’ Food Culture Eadem, ‘Montefiore, Charlotte 2014), 71-84 & Society 17,1: 125-42, 2014 (1818-1854)’, Oxford Dictionary (with Larry Ray) of National Biography, (Oxford: De Lange, Nicholas. ‘The Oxford University Press, 2015), Septuagint as a Jewish Classic’, in Eadem, Book review: Aya Elyada, forthcoming. S.C. Humphreys & R. G. Wagner, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: eds, Modernity’s Classics Christians and the Jewish Eadem, ‘Grace Aguilar's Defence (Berlin/Heidelberg, 2013), 143– Language in Early Modern of Jewish Difference: 163. Germany. Stanford, CA: Stanford Representing Women's Reading’, University Press, 2012, in: Jewish Literature and Theology 28.4 Idem, ‘Reflections on Jewish Culture and History, May 2014. (May 2014), pp. 1-18. Identity in Late Antiquity’, in R. S. Boustan et al., eds, Envisioning Eadem, Book review: Michael T. Egorova, Yulia. and S. Perwez Judaism. Studies in honor of Peter Walton, Anthonius Margaritha (2013) The Jews of Andhra Schäfer on the occasion of his and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life Pradesh: Contesting Caste and seventieth birthday (Tübingen: and Conversion in Sixteenth- Religion in South India, (New Mohr Siebeck, 2013), vol. 1, 167– Century Germany. Detroit: Wayne York: Oxford University Press). 182. State University Press, 2012. in: H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. July, Gehrmann, Richard. ‘A White Idem, ‘Byzantium’, in G. Khan, ed., 2013. URL: https://www.h- African Experience of Identity, Encyclopedia of Hebrew net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id Survival and Holocaust Memory’, Language and Linguistics =37981 Australian Journal of Jewish (Leiden: Brill, 2013), vol. 1, 385– Studies, vol. 27, 2013, 44-65 90 Eadem, Book review: David Berger, Persecution, Polemic, and Geller, Mark. with G. Bohak, Idem, ‘Greek influence on Dialogue: Essays in Jewish- 'Babylonian Astrology in the Hebrew: late antiquity’, in G. Christian Relations. Boston: Cairo Genizah', in Envisioning Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Academic Studies Press, 2010, Judaism, Studies in Honor of Peter Language and Linguistics in: Journal of Modern Jewish Schäfer on the Occasion of his (Leiden: Brill, 2013), vol. 2, 146– Studies, December 2013, 525-6. Seventieth Birthday, ed. R.S. 7. Boustan, K. Hermann, R. Leicht, Drukker, Tamar. "'I am a civil A.Y. Reed, G. Veltri (Mohr Idem, ‘Greek influence on war': the poetry of Haim Gouri,' Siebeck, Tübingen, 2013), 607- Hebrew: medieval period’, in G. in Warfare and poetry in the 622. Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Middle East, edited by Hugh Language and Linguistics Kennedy (Tauris, 2013), pp. 241- Idem, with G. Traina , 'Tigranu, (Leiden: Brill, 2013), vol. 2, 147– 256. the Crown Prince of Armenia: 8. Evidence from the Babylonian Idem, 'Language and silences in Astronomical Diaries', Klio 95/2 Idem, (ed., with John Tolan, two of Aharon Appelfeld's (2013), 447-454. Laurence Foschia and Capucine coming-of-age tales,' Yod: revue Nemo-Pekelman), Jews in Early des etudes hebraiques et juives 19 Gillingham, Sue. A Journey of Christian Law (Byzantium and the (2014). Two Psalms: The Reception of Latin West, 6th-11th centuries). Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Turnhout: Brepols, 2104. Idem, 'No politics, please -- is that Christian Tradition, Oxford: so?' Hed HaUlpan 102 (2014). Oxford University Press Diemling, Maria. ‘Navigating Christian space: Jewish Dwor, Richa. “‘Poor old Palace- Eadem, Jewish and Christian responses to Christian imagery in Prison!”: Jewish Urban Memory Approaches to the Psalms. Conflict Early Modern German lands’, in Amy Levy’s “The Ghetto at and Convergence. Proceedings of Visualizing Jews through the Ages: Florence”’, Partial Answers 13.1 the Oxford Conference on Jewish Literary and Material (January 2015), forthcoming. and Christian Approaches to the Representations of Jewishness and
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Psalms (ed. S.E. Gillingham), Goodman, Martin. ‘Rome in Oxford: Oxford University Press Jerusalem’, Cathedra 151 (April Idem. “Flood Calendars and birds 2014), 51-60 (in Hebrew). of the ark in the Dead Sea Scrolls Eadem, ‘ “Moab is my Washpot.” (4Q252 and 4Q254a), Septuagint (Ps.60:8 [MT10]): Another Look Hempel, Charlotte. The Qumran and ancient Near East Texts.” in J. at the MLF (Moabite Liberation Rule Texts in Context: Collected M. Silverman, ed., Opening Front)’ in Interested Readers: Studies (Texts and Studies on Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism, 154) Tübingen: Flood Narrative, Its Context and Honor of David J. A. Clines, edited Mohr Siebeck, 2013 [396 pp.] Reception. N.J: Gorgias, 2013, 85– by James K. Aitken, Jeremy M. S. 114 Clines and Christl M. Maier Eadem, ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls I: (Atlanta: SBL, 2013), pp. 61-71. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Idem. “Calendars in the Book of and Second Temple Judaism’, in Esther: Purim, Festivals and Eadem, ‘Praying to the gods in H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds), Cosmology” in idem, and AK de the Psalms: Pursuing John Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Hemmer Gudme and P Barton’s “Plain Meaning” Reception (Berlin: de Gruyer, Guillaume.Studies, eds., Magic Approach’ in Biblical 2012), Vol. 8, cols. 337-341 and Divination in the Biblical Interpretation and Method. Essays World. N.J: Gorgias, 2013, 69–94. in Honour of John Barton (eds. K.J. Eadem, ‘Serekh’, in Theologisches Dell and P.M. Joyce) Oxford: Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten Idem. “Slave Wives and Oxford University Press, pp. 63- (ThWQ) (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, Transgressive Unions: Ancient 73. 2013), Vol. 2, columns 1111- Near East Laws and Literature” 1117 in A. Chi-Chung Lee and A. Eadem, ‘The Reception of Psalm Brenner, eds., Texts@Context [sic] 137 in Jewish and Christian Jacobs, Sandra. The Body as (Leviticus/ Numbers), 2013, Traditions’ in Jewish and Property: Physical Disfigurement Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 55– Christian Approaches to the in Biblical Law (The Library of 76. Psalms. Conflict and Convergence. the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (ed. S.E. Gillingham) Oxford: Series; New York: Bloomsbury Idem. “The Zodiac Sign Names in Oxford University Press, pp. 64- Press). the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q318): 82. Features and Questions,” ARAM Eadem, (2013) “Natural Law, 2/24 (2012): 311–331. Eadem, JTS 2013 64:2 pp. 604- Poetic Justice and the Talionic [Published in 2014] 08: review of Janet Smith, Dust Formulation,” Political Theology, or Dew: Immortality in the Volume 14, Issue 5, 691-699. Kahn, Lily. The Routledge Ancient Near East and in Psalm Introductory Course in Biblical 49. Cambridge: James Clarke & Jacobus, Helen. “Qumran Hebrew. London: Routledge, Co, 2012. Calendars and Creation: A Study 2014. 446pp. of 4Q317 (4QcryticA Lunisolar Eadem, RBL online review of Calendar),” Journal of Ancient Eadem, 'Grammatical Gender in Judith Gärtner, Die Judaism (2013)1/4: 48–104. the Early Modern Hasidic Geschichtspsalmen: Eine Studie zu Hebrew Tale'. Hebrew Studies 54 den Psalmen 78, 105, 106, 135 Idem. “Calendars from Jewish (2013): 133-65. und 136 als hermeneutische documents in the Judean Desert Schlüsseltexte im Psalter, from the First Revolt to Bar Eadem, 'Nominal Possessive Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. Kokhba,” (2013) Henoch 35.2 Constructions in the Early Pp.xiv +439. 273–289. Modern Hasidic Hebrew Tale'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Eadem, JTS 2013 64:1 pp.203- Idem. “The Babylonian Lunar and African Studies 76 (2) 207: review of Gordon J. Three: and the Qumran (2013): 271-87. Wenham, Psalms as Torah: Calendars of the Priestly Courses: Reading Biblical Song Ethically A Response,” (2013). Revue de Kessler, Ed. 2013 'Judaism and Pp. xv+233. (Studies in Qumran 101/26: 21–52. the Religious Other', Theological Interpretation). Understanding Interreligious Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Idem and AK de Hemmer Gudme Relations, Edited by David Academic, 2012. and P. Guillaume. Studies on Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and Magic and Divination in the David Thomas, OUP, Biblical World. (eds.) Piscataway, 2013 pp 64-87. N.J: Gorgias, 2013.
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Idem, "'I am Joseph your brother': Anthropology and History: Old Cairo, (Cairo, New York, a Jewish perspective on authority,diaspora, tradition." 2013). Christian-Jewish Relations since Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Nostra Aetate No. 4'' Theological Vol.12 No.3. 333-335. Idem, Death in Jewish Life: Burial Studies 74, No 1, pp 48-72. and Mourning Customs in Millar, Fergus. Religion, Medieval Ashkenaz and later Idem, "Muslims and Jews in the Language and Community in the communities, edited by Stefan C. West Today: Minority Roman Near East, Constantine to Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Transformations" Welcome to the Muhammad (Oxford, 2013). Avriel Bar-Levavb (Berlin, 2014). Cavalcade: A Festschrift in honour of Rabbi Professor Jonathan Prestel, Claudia. “Zwischen Idem, “On some Connotations of Magonet, pp 276-285. Feminismus, Antisemitismus und the Word Ma’aseh” in Studies on Zionism: Neue berufliche the Text and Versions of the Knapp, Alexander. "The Orientierungen jüdischer Frauen Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert significance of Meier Leon's aus Deutschland und Österreich Gordon, eds. G. Khan and D. Yigdal melody as a link between an Fallbeispielen,” in: MEDAON. Lipton (Leiden, 2012), 337–51. Jewish and Christian hymnody in Magazin für jüdisches Leben in eighteenth-century London", Forschung und Bildung, 12/2013, Idem, “How a Jewish Scribe in Jewish Historical 1-12. Early Modern Poland Attempted Studies: Transactions of the to Alter a Hebrew Linguistic Jewish Historical Society of Eadem, “Confronting Old Register” in Scribes as Agents of England, 45: 2013, 79-102. Structures: Regina Jonas, the Linguistic Change, eds. E.-M. First Female Rabbi,” in Szapor, Wagner, B. Outhwaite and B. Lachs, Vivi. ‘Revolution in Anglo- Judith/Petö, Andrea/Hametz, Beinhoff (Boston, Berlin, 2013), Yiddish Poetry: Morris Maura/Calloni, Marina (eds.), 227–38. Winchevsky's Strategies to Jewish Intellectual Women in Revolutionise the Jewish Central Europe 1860-2000, Edwin Idem, “The Fathership of God in Immigrants to Britain, 1884– Mellen Press, 375-410. Early Rabbinic Liturgy” in 1894,’ Studies in Ethnicity and Eadem, “Eine “Pflicht der Deuerocanonical and Cognate Nationalism, 14: 1–19. Humanität und Ehre der Literature, Yearbook 2012/2013, deutschen Judenheit”: Die ed. A. Passaro (Berlin, 2013), Langton, Daniel. "Jewish “Schwachsinnigenfürsorge” am 505—525. Religious Thought, The Beispiel der Israelitischen Holocaust, and Darwinism: A Erziehungsanstalt für geistig Idem, “Jewish Prayer and Comparison of Hans Jonas and zurückgebliebene Kinder Liturgy”, Oxford Bibliography Mordecai Kaplan." Aleph: Wilhelm-Auguste-Victoria- Online, Jewish Studies, 2014. Historical Studies in Science and Stiftung in Beelitz e.V.”, in: Judaism 13, no. 2 (2013): 311- Medizin, Gesellschaft und Idem, “Has More than a Century 348. Geschichte, 32 (2014), 165-204. of Genizah Research Adjusted Jewish Notions of Scholarship, Idem. "Wandering Jews in Eadem, “Ein frischer, fröhlicher History and Identity? Some England’s Green and Pleasant Geist herrscht in der Anstalt.” Reflections and Speculations” in Land: Wissenschaft des Jüdische Fürsorgeerziehung Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Judentums in an Anglo-Jewish am Beispiel Berta Cohnreich,” Honor of Peter Schäfer, ed. S. Context" in Christian Wiese, in: MEDAON – Magazin für Boustan et al. (Tübingen, 2013), Wissenschaft des Judentums in jüdisches Leben in Forschung und 1335–55. Europe: Comparative Bildung, 7. Jg., 2013, Nr. 12, S. 1-3. Perspectives (de Gruyter, 2014), Idem, “Wisdom Traditions in forthcoming. Ray, Larry. and Maria Diemling Some Early Rabbinic Prayers?” in ‘Where do you draw the line?’ Wisdom for Life: Festschrift for Idem. "Isaac Meyer Wise, Cosmic Negotiating Kashrut and Jewish Friedrich V. Reiterer, eds R. Evolution, and the Problem of Identity in a small British Reform Egger-Wenzel, K. Schöpflin and J. Evil" in Louise Hickman, ed, Community’ Food Culture & F. Diehl (Berlin, 2013), 223–45. Science and Religion Conference Society 17,1: 125-42 Proceedings (2013), forthcoming. Idem, “A Remnant of an Eleventh- Reif, Stefan. with G. Gabra, G. J. Century Egyptian Rite” in As a M. van Loon and T. Swelim The Perennial Spring: A Festschrift Mars, Leonard. "Jewish Studies History and Religious Heritage of Honoring Norman Lamm, ed. B. at the Crossroads of
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Cohen (New York, 2013), 279– Idem, “Model Amendment” CBET 72 (Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 91. [Editorial on Liberal Arts], Times 555–71. Higher Education (July 18, 2013) Renton, James. ‘The Age of Schachter, Elizabeth. “Carlo Nationality and the Origins of the Idem, “Hit and Miss,” Art under Alberto Viterbo: A Neglected Zionist-Palestinian Conflict’, The Attack at Tate Britain, Apollo Figure of Italian Judaism”, The International History Review, (November, 2013) Italianist, 33, 3, 2013, pp. 505- Vol. 35, No. 3 (2013), pp. 576- 521. 599. Idem, “Saints Alive! Michael Landy at the National Gallery,” Schonfield, Jeremy. . ‘Why the ‘Should Britain Apologise for the New Humanist (July, 2013) Messiah Has Not Come: Liturgy Balfour Declaration?’, Ha’aretz, and the Limits of Language’ 29 April 2013 (Hebrew edition: Idem, “Remembering the future European Judaism 46/2 (2013) . 79-90 dreams,” forgotten of land a in 19 ,תתנצ שבריטניה‘ ,2013 May 19 May 2013). Memory Palace at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Times Idem. ‘Rethinking the Role of Rosen, Aaron. “Finding Higher Education (June 20, 2013) Territory in the Jewish Rothkowitz: The Jewish Rothko,” Narrative’, Jewish Quarterly, 61:1 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Idem, “Step into the Light,” Light (Spring 2014) 12-15. Vol. 12, No. 3 (November 2013), Show at the Hayward, Art & pp. 479-492. Christianity (summer, 2013) Smithuis, Renate. and P.S. Alexander (eds), From Cairo to Idem, “Changing the Family Idem, Book Review of Yigal Manchester: Studies in the Portrait: Hagar and Sarah in Zalmona, A Century of Israeli Art, Rylands Genizah Fragments (OUP Modern Art and Interfaith in Literary Review (September, 2013) Dialogue,” Intertwined Worlds 2013) (Religion Compass, Wiley- Smola, Klavdia. (ed.): Blackwell) Vol. 7 Issue 5 (May Osteuropäisch-jüdische 2013) Rudolf, Anthony. “Jewish Literaturen im 20. und 21. Worlds,” in Rudolf, Anthony, Jahrhundert: Identität und Idem, “Jewish and Christian Silent Conversations, Seagull Poetik/ Eastern European Jewish Interactions in Art,” A Dictionary Books, 2013. Literature of the 20th and 21st of Christian Art and Architecture Centuries: Identity and Poetics (2nd edition), ed. Tom Salvesen, Alison. “Textual (Die Welt der Slaven. Devonshire-Jones. Oxford: Criticism. Textual and Literary Sammelbände – Sborniki), Oxford University Press, 2013 Criticism and the Book of München, Otto Sagner 2013. Exodus: The Role of the Idem, “Forum: Aaron Rosen asks Septuagint” Biblical Eadem, “Contemporary Russian- whether its ever justifiable to Interpretation and Method. Essays Jewish Literature and the burn a fake,” Apollo (February, in Honour of John Barton, eds. K. Reinventing of Jewish Poetics.” 2014) [about Chagall] Dell and P.M. Joyce (Oxford: OUP, In: Weiss, Hillel; Katsman, 2013), 37–51. Roman; Kotlerman, Ber (Eds.): Idem, “United (Jewish) Artists,” Around the Point. Studies in Hadassah Magazine (winter, Eadem, “Tradunt Hebraei... The Jewish Literature and Culture in 2013) problem of the function and Multiple Languages, Newcastle reception of Jewish midrash in upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Idem, “A Tribe of His Own: The Jerome”, in Midrash in Context, Publishing, 2014, p. 612-643 Jewish Sculptor Jeffrey Rubinoff,” eds. M. Fishbane and J. Weinberg Jewish Quarterly (summer, 2013) (Littmann Library, 2013), 57–81. Eadem, “Herrschertod, -spott und -schmähung: Kontrafakturen des Idem, “Playing the Apocalypse: Eadem, “The Tabernacle Herrscherlobes in der russisch- Video Games and Religion,” New Accounts in LXX Exodus and their jüdischen Literatur der Humanist (October 17, 2013) Reception in Hellenistic Judaism”, Gegenwart”. In: Holtz, Britta; [web] in eds. K. De Troyer, T.M. Law T Marggraff, Ute (ed.): Herrscherlob and M. Liljeström, In the und Herrscherkritik in den Idem, “Think outside the Quad,” Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes. slawischen Literaturen. Los Angeles Times, August 20, Studies in the Biblical Text in Festschrift für Ulrike Jekutsch 2013, Op-Ed, A13. Honour of Anneli Aejmelaeus. zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013, p.
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189-204. Ishtar of Arbela’: Prophecy in Idem, ‘Introduction: A Jewish Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Eadem, “Postkolonial, hybride, Magic Realism?’, in Axel Stähler Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona transkulturell: Moderne (ed.), Jewish Magic Realism Lake: Eisenbrauns), 239-251. Schreibweisen in der (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, zeitgenössischen russisch- 2013), pp. 3–17. Idem, ‘Nebuchadnezzar: History, jüdischen Literatur.” In: Memory and Myth-Making in the Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie Idem, ‘The Search for M…: Magic Persian Period’, in E. Ben Zvi and 69 (2012/2013), Heft 1, p. 107- Realism in Doron Rabinovici and D. Edelman (eds.), Bringing the 150 Benjamin Stein’, in Axel Stähler Past to the Present: Images of (ed.), Jewish Magic Realism Central Figures, in the Late Eadem, “Slawisch-jüdische (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, Persian and Early Hellenistic Literaturen der Gegenwart: 2013), pp. 122–150. Period (Oxford: Oxford University Wiedererfindung der Tradition.” Press), 257-269. In: Smola, Klavdia (ed.): Idem, and Sue Vice, ‘Writing Jews Osteuropäisch-jüdische in Contemporary Britain’, Jewish Idem, ‘“Gender Ambiguity” in Literaturen im 20. und 21. Quarterly 60.3-4 (2013): 117–18. Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy? Jahrhundert: Identität und A Re-Assessment of the Data Poetik/ Eastern European Jewish Idem, 'Anti-Semitism and Israel Behind a Popular Theory’, in C. L. Literature of the 20th and 21st in British Jewish Fiction: Carvalho and J. Stökl (eds.), Centuries: Identity and Poetics, Perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Prophets Male and Female: (Die Welt der Slaven. Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Gender and Prophecy in the Sammelbände – Sborniki), Jacobson’s The Finkler Question Hebrew Bible, the Eastern München 2013, p. 103-130 (2010)”, Jewish Culture and Mediterranean and the Ancient History 14.2 (2013): 112–125. Near East (AIL 15; Atlanta: SBL), Solomon, Norman. ‘Natural 27-58. Sciences in Judaism’, in Idem, 'Constructions of Jewish Encylopedia of Sciences and Identity and the Spectre of Vincent, Alana. Making Memory: Religion ed. Anne L. C. Runchov Colonialism: Of White Skin and Jewish and Christian Explorations and Lluis Orviedo. Dordrecht: Black Masks in Early Zionist in Monument, Narrative, and Springer, 2013 pp. 1404-13. Discourse', German Life and Liturgy. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Letters 66.3 (2013): 254–276. Publications, 2013 Idem, ‘The Eight-Month Fetus’, in As a Perennial Spring: A Stern, Sacha. & Burnett, S. (Eds.), Eadem, with Elena Namli and Festschrift Honoring Norman “Time, Astronomy, and Calendars Jayne Svenungsson (eds) .Jewish Lamm. Downhill Publishing LLC: in the Jewish Tradition.” Times, Thought, Utopia and Revolution. New York, 2013, pp. 445-72. Astronomy, and Calendars. Texts (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 2014. ISBN 9781-4675-7987-29000. and Studies.: Vol. 3. BRILL. 2013. Weinberg, Joanna. Editor with Idem, ‘Jewish Pilgrimage and Stökl, Jonathan. In the Name of Michael Fishbane, Midrash Peace’, in Pilgrims and God: The Bible in the Colonial Unbound (Littman Library, 2013) Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Discourse of Empire (BibIntSer Christianity, Judaism and Islam’ 126; Leiden: Brill). Edited Eadem, “Tell me what you read ed. Antón M. Pazos. Farnham UK: together with C. L. Crouch. and I will tell you who you are’: Ashgate, 2013. pp. 39-62. Jews and Their Books in Idem, Prophets Male and Female: Sixteenth-Century Italy” Spurling, Helen., ‘Hebrew Gender and Prophecy in the (Hebrew) in Studies in Jewish Visions of Hell and Paradise,’ in Hebrew Bible, the Eastern History Presented to Joseph Bauckham, R., Davila, J. and Mediterranean and the Ancient Hacker, eds Y Ben Naeh, J. Cohen, Panayotov, A. (eds.) Old Near East (AIL 15; Atlanta: SBL). M. Idel, Y. Kaplan (Jerusalem, Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Edited together with Corrine L. 2013), 363-380. Noncanonical Scriptures (Grand Carvalho. Rapids: Eerdmanns, 2013). Eadem, “Weeping over Erasmus Idem, ‘“I Have Rained Stones and in Hebrew and latin”, in Stahler, Axel. Jewish Magic Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Perspectives in Jewish Culture in Realism, ed. Axel Stähler (Berlin Celestial and Meteorological early modern Europe: Essays in and Boston: de Gruyter, 2013), Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian honour of David Ruderman, eds. special issue of Symbolism 12/13 Empire’, in: R. P. Gordon and H. N. Dohrmann, R. Cohen, E. Reiner, (2013). M. Barstad (eds.), ‘Thus Speaks
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A. Shear, Cincinnati, 2014, 145- 55.
Weisz, Vered. “Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon’s Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration,” Symbolism, 12/13, 2013.
BAJS Jewish Studies Survey 2014
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Book Reviews In nineteenth-century Eastern and postpartition Poland- Europe, the Jewish-run tavern Lithuania, focusing especially on Glenn Dynner, Yankel’s Tavern: was often the centre of leisure, the myths that sustained and Jews, Liquor & Life in the hospitality, business and even threatened it. For Christian and Kingdom of Poland. New York: religious festivals. Dynner Jewish observers alike, taverns Oxford University Press, 2014, explains that nobles within the were not only valued as 248 pp. ISBN: 9780199988518 Congress Kingdom of Poland economic enterprises and were, due to the new political gathering spots; they were feared sensitivities of Tsarist rule, as sites of physical and spiritual allowed to continue running pollution. Each set of observers their own estates as they saw fit. merely had different ideas about The nobles had a monopoly on the source of the pollution – liquor production and sales whether it was the sober, sinister within their estates, and often Jewish tavernkeeper or the sought to lease the management drunked, crude gentile clientele. of this side of the estate to Jews. Jews were believed to be Contemporary accounts suggest superior to the serfs in sobriety the stark formulation of sober and business aptitude, and were Jews and drunken gentiles in the therefore seen as more likely to famous Yiddish song Shiker iz der increase profitability. goy (The gentile is drunk), is grossly simplistic, illustrating Although scholars have drawn that Polish Jews – particularly attention to official Hasidim – indulged in liquor, and Reviewed by Mark Gilfillan pronouncements and bans on sometimes excessively. Their (Department of History and Jewish tavern ownership in tendency to do so under English, University of Ulster) nineteenth-century Eastern regulated religious auspices and Europe, Dynner accuses previous within Jewish spaces merely In this engaging and meticulously histories of a “heavy positivist meant that their drinking was researched work Glenn Dynner bias,” (p.3) and draws attention less visible to others. In Christian attempts to repudiate the to a wealth of documentary eyes, the exaggerated Jewish broader picture of East European evidence beyond official data. sobriety took on a sinister hue, Jewry that recent historians have This documentary evidence, and some Polish reformers given us, a picture that is often in the form of individual cultivated the image of dominated by secularising, petitions, suggests that while “predatory Jewish sobriety” and cosmopolitan types. Dynner’s official data is a “reliable guage of of Jewish tavernkeepers as central argument is that official aspirations,” in reality the tricksters who had found a historians have been too eager to bureaucratic state and its social particularly enticing way of overturn the filio-pietistic myths engineering projects did little to ensnaring unwitting Christian of the shtetl, focusing so much on alter the way most people lived. peasants in a spiral of debt. secularising urban elites that Dynner describes Jewish tavern they have produced ownership as a persistent and The second chapter focuses on reconstructions of the East “glaring” economic niche. By Jewish tavernkeeping in the European Jewish past which 1815 Jews leased 85% of all Kingdom of Poland, following have, in their own way, been as taverns, and as much as 35% of attempts to restrict Jewish distorting as those of Jewish Jewish families in Congress tavernkeeping within Polish memory. Furthermore, the Poland were involved in archival documents and rabbinc picture which has emerged from tavernkeeping. By devoting literature. Dynner explores a this focus has been one of anti- serious attention to this flourishing underground Jewish Semitism and social and important sphere of Jewish life, liquor trade in the countryside economic isolation. Instead, as well as previously unused based on a surprising degree of Dynner turns to the rural archival material, Dynner’s study Jewish-Christian collusion. Bans experience and offers a wide- makes a considerable on Jewish tavern ownership were ranging portrait of the Jewish- contribution to the history of often circumvented by hiring run tavern, a central but often nineteenth-century Jewry. Christian servers, and often with overlooked institution of Polish the full knowledge and Jewry, and explores the social, The first chapter of the book participation of the noble who economic, religious and political offers an overview of Jewish owned the village and the ramifications of his subject. tavern-keeping throughout pre- Christians who frequented the
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tavern. The adaptability of the also brought negative which makes a significant tavernkeepers previously honed consequences, with the expulsion contribution to nineteenth- to thwart rabbinic Jewish law by or hanging of many suspected century Jewish social history. selling and leasing their business Jewish traitors by Polish rebels. on Sabbaths and festivals, was The most interesting aspect of instead turned toward the this chapter is Dynner’s Julia Phillips Cohen, Becoming evasion of legal statutes. Using discussion of Polish nationalist Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and two fascinating case studies, nobles and their apparent Imperial Citizenship in the Dynner describes “genuinely indifference to the question of Modern Era. New York: Oxford local conspiracies” which were Jewish ‘disloyalty.’ Dynner University Press, 2014, 256pp. disrupted by official outsiders explains that in some cases ISBN: 9780199340408. who would “order the Jew’s Jewish tavernkeepers gained immediate expulsion from the influence over the landowner village, reprimand the noble, and because the noble often feared retreat in a huff to the provincial tsarist reprisals should a Jewish capital.” (p.49). Local life usually tavernkeeper complain that he returned to normal, albeit with a had lost his lease in retaliation different Jewish tavernkeeper for for having supported the “True caution’s sake. Regime.”
The third chapter considers the The fifth chapter consists of a situation in towns and cities survey of petitions, offering where, despite a more lenient fascinating and rare glimpse into official policy, tavernkeeps faced the interior lives of Jewish male higher concession fees, and female tavernkeepers in the residential restrictions, and decade following peasant expulsions from choice streets. emancipation. They illustrate Using case studies, Dynner shows clearly that state initiatives failed that Jewish tavernkeepers in to erdoe the lord-Jew urban areas were forced to relationship or the vitality of Reviewed by Ruchama deploy new civic-minded Jewish tavernkeeping, Johnston-Bloom, (New York reasoning, pressuring officials to particularly in rural areas. University in London). live up to their own professed ideals while avoiding any radical The final chapter assesses the Becoming Ottomans offers conceptions of tolerance and record of government social readers a thought-provoking enlightenment that state engineering initiatives aimed at reading of Sephardic Jewish bureaucrats might find ‘normalising’ Jews, and in patriotism in the last decades of threatening. Formulating such particular, Jewish tavernkeepers. the Ottoman Empire. A main sophisticated petitions “created a Dynner shows that state efforts strength of the work is the way in sense of enhanced agency,” and to push Jews out of which Julia Phillips Cohen’s played a role in the broader tavernkeeping and into analysis consistently reminds us Polish-Jewish “modernisation agriculture and military service that Jewish engagement with process.” (p.84). seldom achived the intended Ottomanism was shaped by the results. In some cases, Jewish existence of other significant The fourth chapter confronts the soldiers and farmers came full minorities within the Ottoman question of espionage, smuggling, circle, returning finally to the Empire. Ottoman Jews had to and other black market production and sale of the constantly negotiate their endeavours by Jewish kingdom’s most lucrative and relationship not only to the tavernkeepers during the period accessible commodity, liquor. Ottoman state and to the Muslim of Polish uprisings against the majority, but also to their tsar (1830-1865). Dynner finds Although Dynner’s work is at Christian neighbours. It is this considerable evidence that times guilty of over-emphasising complexity, and Cohen’s during the Polish uprisings the interethnic solidarity he finds engagement with it, that should Jewish tavernkeepers exploited in the Jewish tavernkeeping make this book of interest not their location and their experience, Yankel’s Tavern only to historians of the Ottoman traditional function as news combines penetrating analysis Empire and Sephardic Jewry but sources to assist Moscow, gaining with carefully chosen case also to readers more broadly liquor concessions as reward. studies and rich anecodotes, interested in multi-ethnic (p.104). Spying for the Russians resulting in a very readable book empires and/or modern Jewish
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history. Cohen’s reading of how Each chapter of Becoming the Jewish community within the Ottoman Jewish elites sought to Ottomans focuses on an equally empire. However, even in this construct and advance their own fascinating moment in late first chapter Cohen points to community as a model, as nineteenth and early twentieth moments when the Jewish opposed to a ‘problem’ or a century Ottoman Jewish history, leadership cannot entirely ‘question’, highlights Ottoman and the introduction sets the contain and manage the Jewish history as an important stage for these micro-histories by patriotism (or lack thereof) of the alternative site for thinking abut exploring the position of Jews in Jewish masses. Perhaps the most Jews and modernity. the Ottoman Empire prior to the interesting element of this late nineteenth century. Of chapter is its examples of how Cohen demonstrates that the particular import is Cohen’s Jewish leaders used traditional ‘myth’ of a special Jewish- focus on the mid-nineteenth Jews ideas and vocabulary to Ottoman relationship is in fact, century imperial state reforms advocate for and produce new just that, a myth, and that the known as the Tanzimat and their notions of imperial belonging. historical reality is much more meaning for Jews. These reforms messy and much more introduced “a new vocabulary of Chapter Two moves forward in interesting. Cohen is primarily patriotism and imperial time, and brings us back to 1492. concerned with exploring how citizenship” and emancipated The chapter focuses on two Ottoman Jewish elites themselves non-Muslims (8-9). However, commemorations of this “taught and learned, and, later during this period the Jewish momentous date: an invented maintained and managed” (4) community was still relatively Ottoman Jewish holiday Jewish attachment to the late marginalized and overlooked. commemorating the 400th Ottoman project. Ultimately, the Jews may have been officially anniversary of the sultan offering imperial patriotism these elites emancipated, but they were seen Jews a safe haven, and the 1893 fostered and tried to control was as lagging behind other World’s Columbian Exposition in ambiguous and raised many minorities in terms of Chicago. Ottoman Jews used both questions: Could Jews serve in modernization and commemorations to develop, in the Ottoman army while ‘Ottomanness’, rarely, for different ways, their remaining observant Jews? example, mastering Ottoman, Ottomanness. The story of the Should they distance themselves attending government schools, or invented holiday is fascinating, from the empire’s other, holding government posts. and Cohen details how although sometimes suspect, minorities— According to Cohen, it is only the holiday started off as what such as the Armenians—or later that Ottoman Jews became she calls “patriotism from below” should they vocally advocate for celebrated as a model millet (xiii)—lots of people noisily a civic Ottomanism with room for [community]. How Ottoman debating holding very public all of the empire’s minorities? Jewish elites fostered this celebrations—it eventually was And, later, could a Jew be an transition is the story Becoming tamped down by the Chief Rabbi Ottoman patriot and a Zionist Ottomans seeks to tell. Moshe Halevi and became a concurrently? These are just a much more private and subdued few of the many questions that It does so by focusing, in Chapter affair. In contrast to the invented agitate the communities and One, on how Jewish elites sought holiday, which posed the danger protagonists of Cohen’s to mobilize Jewish Ottoman of highlighting Jewish difference, narrative. philanthropy and patriotism Jewish participation in the during the Ottoman wars with representation of the Ottoman The traditional view of Ottoman Serbia, Montenegro and Russia in Empire at the World’s Columbian Jewish history is that an enduring 1870s. Citing such examples as Exposition in Chicago enabled ‘special relationship’ between Ottoman flags displayed Jews to put forward an image of a Jews and the Sublime Porte was prominently in synagogues civic Ottomanness with room for forged when the Ottoman Empire during prayers for the Ottoman all. offered Sephardic Jews a safe army during the Russo-Ottoman haven after they were expelled War (35-36), calls for young Chapter Three continues to from Spain in 1492. However, Jewish men to join the Ottoman explore Ottoman Jewish rather than accept this ‘special Army, and calls for Jewish responses to war and violence, relationship’ at face value, Cohen wartime philanthropy, Cohen this time focusing on the Greco- asks us to examine history more shows how Jewish leaders Ottoman War of 1897 and the closely, and to watch as Ottoman actively attempted to fashion Jewish response to the massacre Jewish elites construct the idea of Jewish imperial citizenship and of Armenians in 1896 in Istanbul. this ‘special relationship’ in the to use Jewish philanthropy and As Armenian citizens were nineteenth century. patriotism to raise the profile of attacked (in response to
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bombings by Armenian The story this book tells is Jewish Culture in Early Modern nationalists), the Jews of Istanbul complex. There are, therefore, Europe. Essays in Honor of were torn between helping their inevitably places where the David B. Ruderman, ed. by Christian neighbours and not reader wants more. In particular, Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. wanting to disassociate the sections that dealt directly Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and themselves from ‘true’ Ottomans with class conflict within the Elchanan Reiner. Hebrew (i.e. Muslims). Competing Ottoman Jewish community were Union College Press, versions of events, with Jews so interesting that a more Cincinnati, OH/University of helping Armenians, Jews extended analysis of Jewish Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, participating in the violence, and Ottoman patriotism from this PA, 2014. ISBN 13:978-0-8229- Jews remaining neutral, all angle would be welcome. 4433-1. circulated after the fact and Additionally, while Becoming Jewish elites tried to manage the Ottoman acknowledges the fallout. According to Cohen, transnational bent of (Jewish) during this period Jews began to history, mentioning, for instance, increasingly emphasize a the activity of the Alliance particular Jewish-Muslim bond. israélite universelle within the In fact, Ottoman Jews felt empire and looking not only at comfortable employing Islamic the Ottoman Jewish press and the language and rhetoric, and, as Ottoman press but also at the Cohen writes, the Ottoman “turn European Jewish press and the toward Islamic politics” during European press, a more this period “did not categorically sustained analysis of how foreclose non-Muslim international relations shaped participation” (101). This the Jewish project of Becoming historical insight might inspire Ottomans would also be some to think about other times welcome. and places where Islamic politics might or might not allow for non- Muslim involvement.
Chapter Three also takes us to Salonica, where Cohen explores Reviewed by Maria Diemling further instances of “patriotism (Department of Theology and from below”, such as Jews Religious Studies taunting Greek prisoners of war Canterbury Christ Church and converting to Islam out of University, Canterbury) zeal for the fatherland. Chapter Four stays in Salonica and focuses on the divided Salonican The Festschrift in honour of the Jewish community’s preparations American historian David B. for the 1911 visit of Sultan Ruderman and his manifold Mehmed V. By this time Zionism contributions to Jewish Studies in has become a significant the past four decades offers a presence in Salonica, and there is wonderful selection of relatively also an active socialist party that brief contributions that discuss is heavily Jewish. The Jewish Jewish culture in early modern community has become Europe. It is worth noting that fractured, and hence its when Ruderman embarked on patriotism has become harder to his impressive academic career manage and control. Yet Zionists, in the 1970s, the period from assimilationists and socialists 1500 to 1800 was not yet alike profess their Ottomanism, regarded as a distinctive period proving the success of the Jewish in Jewish historiography but elites’ attempts to foster understood as the drawn-out end patriotism—even if that of the Middle Ages. I remember patriotism sometimes took my own puzzlement as a student unexpected forms. in the early 1990s that in the nearly three centuries between
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the Renaissance and Reformation organisation of Jewish I found section three, “’Jews’ and on the one hand and the communities in a hugely changed ‘Judaism’ in the early modern Enlightenment on the other world and created Jewish imagination” particularly hardly anything worth learning transregional communities interesting. It brings together about regarding the Jewish across the Ottoman Empire and studies that explore the cultural experience seemed to have from German lands to the Polish- and intellectual exchange happened. In the last two Lithuanian Commonwealth. To between Jews and Christians in a decades or so this misconception name just a few contributions period that not only saw ‘an has been fundamentally revised. that examine the ‘geographical unprecedented level of Christian Historians have highlighted that remapping of a ‘Jewish Early interest in post-biblical Judaism’ the special dynamics of this Modernity’ (xvii): Joseph R. but also a large number of period that shaped and changed Hacker explores the dynamics of (former) Jews (both converts and the world profoundly also social change in the aftermath of conversos) who knew Christianity strongly affected the Jewish the expulsions from the Iberian very well. The editors point out experience in many different and Peninsula, focusing on marriages in the introduction that the complex ways. arranged by two ‘pedigreed’ ‘constructed image of Jews and Sephardic families that had Judaism that emerge in this This book highlights important moved from Portugal to the period can hardly be called the strands in the study of Jewish Ottoman Empire and exploring product of a ‘Christian culture in the early modern how the trauma of emigration imagination’ but rather of a world. It is an impressive affected their self-understanding. broader European imagination.’ showcase of the innovative Adam Teller studies the (xix). Given the demographic scholarship pursued by scholars aftermath of the Chmielnicki changes in the Jewish world, in Ruderman’s well-connected massacres (1648-49) and their particularly in the Ottoman circles. The volume brings impact on family life, particularly Empire where a large percentage together historians who studied on women, in an attempt to of early modern Jews lived, it with Ruderman at the Hebrew understand the experiences of would have been worthwhile to University in the late 1960s and survivors of traumatic events expand this beyond Europe and early 1970s, a number of his that included physical violence, also to explore Jewish encounters notable PhD students (Ruderman forced conversion, experiences with Muslims, about which we is known to be an enthusiastic as captives and slaves, and the still seem to know very little. and powerful mentor of his reconstruction of family life and Having said this, the topics students) and historians that at community support. presented are fascinating in their one point or another enjoyed a The second part, ‘Knowledge scope: Giuseppe Mazzota studies stay at the Herbert D. Katz Center Networks’, pays tribute to the the role of the theatre in for Advanced Judaic Studies at important demographic, political Renaissance thought; Joanna the University of Pennsylvania and technological changes that Weinberg presents a case study that Ruderman directed occurred in this period, first and on the memoralisation of Eramus energetically for 20 years and foremost the development of of Rotterdam in both Latin and which has become under his printing and its immense impact Hebrew as a product of Christian leadership an internationally on means of communication and Hebraism; Andrew Berns looks at leading centre for innovative scholarship. The chapters by the study of ancient material research in Jewish history and Moshe Idel and Amnon Raz- culture by Renaissance Jews; culture. Krakotzkin reflect on the Anthony Grafton examines the importance of printing on Christian study of Hellenistic The volume is divided into five Kabbalah and the Talmud in 16th Judaism and how it became a distinctive sections and includes century Italy respectively and the crucial part of 17th century contributions from 31 scholars, implications of the printing of thinking about the complexity of not all of whom can be Hebrew books for interaction the ancient world. Other mentioned here due to with Christians who were keenly contributions in this section look constraints of space. The first interested in Jewish mysticism at the role of converts in shaping part deals with ‘Realms of but ambivalent about rabbinic ideas about Jews and Judaism: Authority’, exploring ‘conflict and literature. Other contributions in Debra Kaplan’s work on the 16th adaptation’. The expulsions and this section examine the century convert Elias Schadeus mass migrations at the end of the intellectual encounter with examines the important role 15th century led to substantial Kabbalah in the context of the former Jews played in Christian demographic changes early modern scientific discourse Hebraism and its close link to the throughout the Jewish world that (Talya Fishman, Y. Tzvi mission of Jews while Adam impacted the formation and Langermann, Yossi Chajes). Sutcliffe focuses on the converso
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Miguel de Barrios and his study of three generations of the cultural fusions and boundary- Landau family from Prague. I crossings so distinctive of early particularly enjoyed the modern Jewish history. Roger contribution by Rebecca Kobrin Chartier’s study (in French, that highlights the plight of which was, unlike the chapters Jewish Maidservants in East written originally in Hebrew, not European Society from 1700- translated into English) of the 1900 and adds a much needed converso lawyer and dramatist focus on women and class that Antônio José da Silva’s tragic reflects the social functions and suffering at the hands of the basic values of Jewish society in Inquisition, however, highlights that period. the dangers of ‘mingled The last section takes the reader identities’ in this period. ‘from the early modern to the The chapters in part four discuss late modern (and back again)’ ‘the long eighteenth century in an and reflects on the task of early modern key’, a pun on historians of the early modern Ruderman’s influential study on period. Beth S. Wenger and Israel Anglo-Jewry titled Jewish Bartal examine Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key, historiography (with studies on and focuses on 18th century 18th century American Jewry Jewish culture as ‘a hinge and Mendele Moykher Sforim between the Early Modern and respectively) that raise the late’. The distinguished late important questions about links Israeli historian Michael Heyd between the past and the presents a critical review of present. Wenger makes a strong ‘secularisation’ for Christian and case for including early American Jewish history in the late 17th Jews in the study of early modern and early 18th centuries, Judaism. Vivian Liska’s suggesting that it is intrinsically discussion of scholarship on linked to ‘the loss of social Rachel Varnhagen is a thoughtful consensus concerning the piece on the problems of ladders linking this world and periodisation. Yosef Kaplan the transcendental source of offers a fascinating account of an meaning’ (234) which no longer exchange between the German- had the public role they born Israeli historian Yitzhak previously held. Yaacov Dweck’s Baer and the Spanish-born study on the bibliophile and Argentine historian Claudio prolific author Hayim Yosef Sánchez Albornoz about the role Azulai explores Hebrew book of Jews in medieval Spanish culture and the importance of history. libraries for the development of Jewish intellectual life. Andrea The book concludes with a list of Schatz and David S. Katz examine Ruderman’s publications that the role of Jewish and Christian demonstrates the breadth of a mediators and interpreters (the remarkable scholarly career. The maskil Naphtali Herz Wessely Festschrift is not only a fitting and the English historian and MP tribute to Ruderman as original Edward Gibbon respectively) and influential across historical and cultural scholar, tireless ‘mover and boundaries. Shmuel Feiner shaker’ in the international explores a particular episode in Jewish Studies scene, Doktorvater Moses Mendelssohn’s life that led and mentor, colleague and friend, him briefly to believe in a true but also a very impressive humanist revolution, while collection of innovative and Sharon Flatto examines the inspiring scholarship. shifting attitudes towards Mendelssohn, Haskalah and Jewish acculturation in a case
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