... known as Spain, and on their particular colonial venture in the New World, in the centuries closer to the beginning of the New World encounter — a period of both internal expansion and renewed tensions at the boundaries of Christendom, Judaism, and Islam. The book considers the period from the twelfth...

...This chapter, which discusses the connection between malaria control and Judaism in mandatory Palestine, mentions Hermann Zondek, who likened the symptoms of Judaism as a social disease to the physical symptoms of malaria. It argues that the problematic condition of Jews in Europe has its roots...

... space and their new suburban landscape while still connecting themselves to a host of spiritual, cultural, aesthetic, and political ideals framed by their self-perception as an urban people. activism Adas Adat Shalom Bagley Community Council Bagley neighborhood Conservative Judaism demographics...

...The chapter outlines the rifts and modes of distinction within the Orthodox neighborhood. “Orthodox” Judaism hides a plethora of affiliations, sub-affiliations, and other markers of status and position. I map some of these differences—between Hasidic and Yeshivish, between Modern and “strict...

... Hasidism Katz Jack Judaism orthodox interaction identity social worlds theory of action I walk through the dark suburban-looking streets of my middle-class Los Angeles neighborhood to a Hasidic evening class. There is one every Tuesday evening. I get a phone call from David, the organizer, on Friday...

... Chabad and Chabad Lubavitcher Hasidism Crown Heights Brooklyn Cunin Baruch Schneerson Menachem Mendel Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood Kotler Aharon Warner Benjamin dietary restrictions urban sociology sociology of religion place entrepreneurship Orthodox Judaism Los...

...Chapter 3 documents and briefly discusses the chronologies of the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam subsequent to their births. While these religions shared a lot in common, there were salient differences among them as well, especially in how evolved in medieval societies...

... for transcendent norms that might ground the values of a polity. Christendom anti Jewish polemic in coproduction of religious communities as constant but not smooth massacres graves of victims of Valencia massacre of 1391 as act of God Christians and Christianity anti Islam polemics and Jews and Judaism Joan...

... versus anti Judaism Borges Jorge Luis history and historiography Arab thesis in Jews and Judaism race and racism agricultural allusions and sexual boundaries before and after 1391 Christians and Christianity anti Islam polemics and Hebrew Bible Adam and Eve and interreligious love and sex...

...Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers are in fact much...

... terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism. The book locates the promise—or threat—of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, it demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its...

...This chapter examines Jean-Paul Sartre's role in the history of the Jewish question in France. Despite not being an expert on Judaism and writing only occasionally on the topic, Sartre's 1946 phenomenological essay on the anti-Semite and the Jew, Réflexions sur la question juive...

...This chapter considers Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas in dialogue to reveal a theory of the trope. It argues that Blanchot approaches Levinas's account of ethics and Judaism with a concern for the function of uprootedness not only in literature but also in politics. Although Blanchot...

... particularism and universalism as a confrontation between the carnal Jew and spiritualized Judaism. While the figure of the Jew began as the essentialized and accidental simplification of a very real historical people, it became a trope with a history in its own right. Emmanuel Levinas suggested...

... he dubbed the “theologico-political problem.” Throughout his life, Strauss pondered over the relation of the political order to revelation in general and Judaism in particular. The author addresses Strauss's views on religion and examines his thought on philosophical and political issues. The author...

...This chapter focuses on the author's decision to revisit the world of sorcery following a cancer diagnosis. His knowledge of sorcery provided comfort in the village of the sick. His own religious background, Judaism, gave him a set of abstract principles about the world in which he lived...

... and the political discourses surrounding Greeks and Jews. The book also considers how the Greek/Jew polarity played a key role in the transition from Christian anti-Judaism to secular anti-Semitism, as well as the narrative of the struggle between faith and reason from Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund...

... two essays, one by Moses Mendelssohn and another by Immanuel Kant, which answer the question “What is Enlightenment?” Mendelssohn highlights the intriguing role assumed by Judaism in the Enlightenment's wider interrogation of religion. His attempts to improve the social status of Jews was mirrored...

... antisemitism. While the chapter mainly seeks to understand Durkheim’s ideas about the Jews and Judaism in relation to French antisemitism, it also briefly compares his depictions of Jews to his characterization of four other social groups or categories: Protestants, women, Germany, and Europe’s colonial...

... on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism. Exploring the tension between Hebraism and Hellenism, it looks at the philosophical tradition behind the development of classical...