 Subjects -> MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (Total: 56 journals)
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Abstract: This issue is published in memory of Rachel Feldhay Brenner (1946–2021), a prolific scholar and beloved teacher. She was the Harvey L. Temkin and Barbara Myers Temkin Professor in Hebrew Language and Literature and Elaine Marks Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she had worked on the faculty for almost thirty years. She continued to teach until days before her death, and her sudden and untimely passing came as a shock to many of her colleagues and friends.She demanded much of her students and even more of herself. She didn't suffer fools, but she used her keen critical eye to develop the talents and scholarship of a generation of female academics. Her presence at the ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- Rachel Feldhay Brenner: In Memoriam
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Abstract: The sudden death of Rachel Brenner on February 4, 2021, reverberates with profound loss that will not diminish over time. With her deep learning, canny wisdom and wit, and passion for critical understanding, she will remain unforgettable. We will miss Rachel as a brilliant scholar, generous and tireless colleague, teacher, and mentor, and above all else, as a vibrant and loving friend. Fluent in several languages, Rachel never failed to acknowledge the inadequacy of any language to express the complicated feelings we negotiate between academic detachment and the passions that draw us to our subjects. It was this empathetic insight that endowed her research and teaching with an inimitable depth of feeling and which ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- The Universe Is No Consolation: Hyam Plutzik, Jewish Identity, and the
Ethics of Post-Holocaust Reading-
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Abstract: And elsewhere, alone, upon an abyss, The man is marching down a road.the victims speak, telling of their crime and punishment. Their crime is all too often that of merely being alive; the punishment is usually the fire, or sometimes the self-dug grave. I imagine passages: "I was so and so, I was so and so, I did such and such; for this I went into the fire."In a life that was prematurely cut short in 1962 at age fifty, Hyam Plutzik published three books of poetry: Aspects of Proteus (1949), Apples from Shinar (1959), and Horatio (1961). Despite the brevity of his mature writing life—just over twenty years—his posthumous Collected Poems, issued in 1987, adds uncollected and unpublished poems, some of which Plutzik ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- American Jews Face Israel in Philip Roth's Writing: Identity, Generation,
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Abstract: In recent years, the Jewish-American relationship with Israel has become increasingly divisive. A contentious moment during Bernie Sanders's first presidential campaign was the suspension of Jewish outreach coordinator Simone Zimmerman over an off-color social media post about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview, Zimmerman described not only how her anti-occupation activism puts her in a taxing spot in the Jewish-American community but also how she believes that "challenging the myths that we've been taught"1 about Israel is necessary. She affirms that a new positioning of American Jewry towards Israel—even if it goes against long-standing communal norms—is among the prerequisites for ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- The Acts of Writing Oneself into Jewishness in Recent Jewish Brazilian
Literature: Autofiction and Identity after the Holocaust in Jacques Fux's
Antiterapias (2012)-
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Abstract: In the introduction to the issue of the EIAL journal (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe/Interdisciplinary Studies of Latin America and the Caribbean) dedicated to Jewish Latin America (2012/vol. 23, no. 1), Raanan Rein and Edna Aizenberg refer to cultural, linguistic, ideological, and political practices of "going-against-narrowness" among Latin American Jews. Those practices challenge constraining definitions and perceptions of identity and its markers (national, ethnic, religious, gender, etc.). One such cultural practice is "offering models for memory work through Holocaust commemoration"1 that includes, among other approaches, the imaginative writing which engages with the ... Read More
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- Trauma and Guilt in Yoram Kaniuk's Writings: Soap (2018) and the Blood
Bond Between the Living and the Dead-
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Abstract: Ha-yehudi ha-a'haron (The Last Jew), Yoram Kaniuk's 1981 novel, begins with the return of the protagonist Boaz Schneerson from the war. He has forgotten his name and does not know who he is, where he is going, or the identities of the people he encounters. He meets a girl he does not remember, barely understands that she is talking to him, and stubbornly and aggressively pulls a ring off her finger. Boaz sees a tree where "leaves dropped slowly like a gentle rain of dead children";1 When asked "where were you in the war'" he answers, more to himself, "I've got a collection of gold teeth of dead Arabs. And an ear that my friend, who died, would chew like gum."2 The smell and taste of blood still haunts him ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox
Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield, and: Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in
the Digital Age by Ayala Fader (review)-
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Abstract: In the Spring of 2020, Netflix released UnOrthodox, the dramatic retelling of Deborah Feldman's exit from Hasidic Brooklyn. In a matter of weeks, Esty, played by Shira Haas (who has been nominated for a Golden Globe for this role), left her family, her home, her religious observance, her wig, and her clothing as she became an ostensibly secular woman in Berlin. This version of Feldman's story obfuscates the years that she spent trying to live within a religious context, despite her misgivings, and as such, the Netflix version reinforces a popular image of leaving a religious community as both abrupt and final. In two recent books, Ayala Fader and Schneur Zalman Newfield present meticulous social science research ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community ed. by Sean Martin
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Abstract: In 1962, following a period of intense suburbanization, Cleveland—best known today by the ignominious moniker "the mistake by the lake"—was described as a "city without Jews." Perhaps ironically, the person who coined this nickname was the executive director of the Cleveland Jewish Federation, which more recently has sponsored a new edited volume, Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community. Its goal is to update Lloyd Gartner's 1978 work, History of the Jews of Cleveland, which stopped at World War II. Co-editors Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski have recruited an impressive array of contributors, including a mix of Cleveland specialists and scholars of American Jewry, who help move this story into the ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- The Objects that Remain. Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination by
Laura Levitt (review)-
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Abstract: In the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a glimpse of gold flashes up, only to be quickly occluded from the viewer's gaze. The wooden box enclosing the treasure is nailed shut, and the camera pans out to reveal a warehouse full of identical boxes, all labeled "Top Secret—Army Intel—Do Not Open!" This iconic last shot of the movie, juxtaposing the numinous and the bureaucratic, the singular and the anonymous, came to mind as I read Laura Levitt's The Objects that Remain. In her powerful meditation, Levitt contemplates the experience of holding and beholding objects that pulse with almost otherworldly power even as they sit in archives, vaults, and storage facilities.The objects to which Levitt turns her ... Read More
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- Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context by Golan Moskowitz
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Abstract: Several times in his later life, the renowned illustrator and author Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) would claim that the highest compliment his work ever received was when a child to whom he had sent an autographed drawing had loved it so much that he actually ate it, putting into literal practice the cry of the Wild Things in Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are (1963) that "we'll eat you up—we love you so!" This anecdote encapsulates the blurriness between life and art, between constructive and destructive wildness, and between emotion and action that characterized the work of Maurice Sendak, lauded as "the most important children's book artist of the 20th century" (per his obituary in The New York Times). In ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in
Modern Israel by Alexander Kaye (review)-
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Abstract: For many years, analysts and politicians in and out of Israel have expressed concern about the growing rift between its secular and religious citizens. Orthodox control of many state institutions (as well as special financial and draft benefits) and growing calls for Israel to be ruled by halacha (Jewish law as interpreted by Orthodox authorities) have led many secular Israelis to fear that Israeli democracy was being replaced with a theocratic "halakhic state." Often, this is connected with the movement to settle the West Bank, conquered in the 1967 Six Day War, and incorporate that territory into Israel: the so-called "Greater Israel" movement.In this pathbreaking new work, Alexander Kaye locates the source of ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
- Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and
Remarkable Jewish Library by Joshua Teplitsky (review)-
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Abstract: Joshua Teplitsky's first book, Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library (Yale University Press, 2018), is a biography about David Oppenheim, the Chief Rabbi of Prague from 1703 until his death in 1736. The author recounts how Oppenheim's Library became the most important space for Jewish scholarship during the early modern period, as evinced by remarkably well-documented historical research.The Library is now preserved in the Bodleian catalogue of Oxford University, and is one of the two essential Hebrew catalogues in the Bodleian—the Hyman archive being the other one. The relevance of Oppenheim's Library was recognized by the Hebrew scholars Steinschneider ... Read More
PubDate: 2021-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
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