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- In Memoriam
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Abstract: Dara E. Goldman, Leader, Scholar, and Friend. In Memory.On May 13, the University of Illinois community received the tragic news of the premature departure of one of our most respected colleagues: Dara Goldman. She had suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed and died on campus. The tragedy for her family and for the many who counted on her friendship and her wisdom is unspeakable. Her untimely passing also deprives two fields of research—Jewish Studies and Latin American Studies—of her unique and precious voice. Dara sent me her curriculum vitae two days before she died, because I had asked her if she wanted to serve on the Executive Committee of the European Union Center. With her habitual generosity, she had agreed ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Of Sports, Identity, and the Cultural Context: The Failed Attempts to
Create a Baseball Culture in Pre-State and Early Israel, 1927–1960-
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Abstract: According to one of the internet sites that discuss Israel's professional baseball league—which ultimately operated for only one season, in 2007—the first attempt to introduce baseball in pre-State Israel took place in 1927, at the Sephardic Orphanage in Jerusalem. That year, as recounted, the institution's governess distributed baseball bats and balls to the children so that they could practice and play in the institution's yard. Yet the children, being completely unfamiliar with the rules of the game, reportedly struck up a game of soccer instead, using the small, hardened balls.1It is impossible (perhaps also unnecessary) to assess the authenticity of such a story. Conversely, several sources assert that the ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- "Husky Jewish Boys": The Jewish Defense League and the Project of American
Jewish Masculinity-
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Abstract: Jewish militancy reached a short but visible apex in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though not an explicitly male movement, Jewish militant groups—particularly in the Jewish Defense League (JDL)—were dominated by men, and much of their image was based on contemporary conceptions of mainstream American masculinity. The goal of JDL, Jewish defense, and its motto, "Never Again," implied a universal goal of protection for all Jewish people. Its rhetoric, however, was pointedly male, and the organization intended that its actions be carried out by Jewish men and boys. The JDL and the movement of which it was a part have been largely dismissed as representing fringe-fanaticism that left little mark on Jewish American ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The Epistemic Dimension of Antisemitism
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Abstract: The subject of this essay is a variety of antisemitism I will term epistemic antisemitism. Epistemic antisemitism injures, wrongs, or marginalizes Jews in their capacities as knowers—testifiers, communicators, exponents or purveyors of knowledge.2 It is by no means the only form of antisemitism, nor (necessarily) the most important or foundational type. However, I do believe it is a distinct type and that it occupies an underappreciated niche in the ecology of antisemitism. In particular, epistemic antisemitism is particularly well-suited to insulate the broader structure of antisemitism from critique or challenge—and indeed, it plays a central role in obstructing collective Jewish political or social action ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The Jewish Mockery of Suicide: Counterculture in Early Twentieth-Century
Hungarian Jewish Literature-
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Abstract: In 1921, the philosopher Jenõ Posch chose chose to talk about suicide at his inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, an unlikely topic for such an occasion. His lecture was subsequently published in the most influential Hungarian literary periodical of the time, the Nyugat, and provoked a vivid debate reflecting "the actuality of the question in the Hungarian thought of this time."1 From when general population statistics were first recorded in the mid-nineteenth century through the entire twentieth century, Hungary has had particularly high rates of suicide.2 Statistics based on police records and death registries compiled by the KSH, the central statistics office, show that that suicide rates in ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Israeli Disraeli: Benjamin Disraeli's Afterlives in Israeli Culture
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Abstract: In one of his final works, published posthumously, historian David Cesarani set out to make sense of Benjamin Disraeli's enigmatic career. Erudite and crisply written, Disraeli: The Novel Politician (2016) insists that historians in recent decades have "revisioned Disraeli as a Jewish figure and located him in the sweep of European Jewish history."1 Offering a corrective to this tendency, Cesarani's book seems "eager to banish [its] subject from a Jewish pantheon," as one reviewer noted.2Cesarani's intervention, or perhaps provocation, highlights trends that have shaped Disraeli scholarship in recent decades. Although Benjamin Disraeli's Jewish ancestry was undoubtedly a central component of his Victorian public ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Skinned Alive: Sketching the Postwar French Jew in Jean-Michel Goldberg's
Écorché juif-
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Abstract: In the wake of the Holocaust, France saw the emergence of a diverse group of French Jewish works that testify to the gradual writing into history of French responsibility in the persecution of its Jews. Écorché juif (1980), published under the pseudonym Jean-Michel Goldberg, is a now obscure exemplar of this trend.1 Conspicuously hybrid in genre and ludic in tone, Écorché juif playfully mobilizes conventions of autobiography (with its confessions, religious conversions, and lessons), memoir (with its historically worthy content), and the bildungsroman (the novel of education), combining eyewitness testimony and a disquieting portrait of the postwar French Jew through the story of Goldberg's avatar, Jean Rubint. ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War by Jaclyn
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Abstract: Jaclyn Granick's compelling new book, International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War, powerfully reminds its readers of the enormous impact of World War I, not only on the lives of millions of Jews across Europe and in Palestine, but on the philanthropic, social, and political structures of the Jewish world. Granick's book focuses on the devastating turmoil unleashed by World War I and examines the efforts of American Jews to stabilize and sustain the lives of Jews trapped in the "shatterzone" between the crumbling Russian, Austrian, German, and Ottoman empires. Through her thought-provoking exploration of the dynamics of Jewish humanitarian work, Granick offers reader a complex picture of ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a
Multibillion-Dollar Institution by Lila Corwin Berman (review)-
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Abstract: In 1932, Abba Hillel Silver, a Reform rabbi who was to become one of American Jewry's most prominent leaders, delivered a sermon to his congregation in Cleveland on the grave economic crisis facing the country. Silver castigated the authorities' handling of the crisis and spoke about the ways in which Jewish and non-Jewish philanthropic organizations had responded to the calamity. In Silver's view, contrary to the situation in Europe, the American government at both federal and local levels refrained from dealing with matters of welfare, preferring to pass on the responsibility for these issues to philanthropic organizations. These organizations were unequipped to handle the enormous scale of hardship and ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States by Laura Limonic
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Abstract: This is a timely book. Sociologist Laura Limonic reminds readers about the ways in which different socioeconomic, racial, and cultural contexts shape a wide range of experiences that nonetheless are grouped together in the label "Latino," making us wonder what we mean when we utilize it. The book also speaks about the assimilation of one ethno-religious group in the United States, suggesting that Latino Jews' achievement of upward mobility results partly from the fact that they "approximate the white mainstream" (23). In particular, Limonic outlines the challenges experienced by Latino Jews as they arrive in the United States seeking to make a new life. Never fully fitting in among Latino groups or among Jewish ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change by Emily Sigalow
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Abstract: Emily Sigalow's American JewBu is a groundbreaking new work on an important topic that has not previously received the sustained attention from religious studies scholars it deserves. The first known person in the United States to undertake an initiation ceremony into Buddhist traditions was a late nineteenth-century, Swiss-born Jew named Charles Strauss. Buddhist studies scholars have dubbed individuals like Strauss "convert Buddhists" to signify that, though not raised as Buddhists, they have adopted a Buddhist identity. Since Strauss, Jews have played a significantly disproportionate role in these so-called convert Buddhist communities. Their prominence as influential writers, teachers, and founders of convert ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The Touch of an Angel by Henryk Schönker (review)
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Abstract: First published in Polish in 2005 and adapted into a documentary film in 2015, The Touch of an Angel is a Holocaust survivor memoir by Henryk Schönker (1931–2019) that recounts the fate of one Jewish family from Oświęcim, the town better-known by its German name, Auschwitz. Oddly enough, even though this account begins and ends in Auschwitz and concerns the Holocaust, it has little to do with the camp itself. Rather, it is the story of one of the town's prominent families. The Schönkers were community leaders before the war and, after the German occupation, Henryk Schönker's father Leon Schönker, a factory owner and painter, reluctantly led the town's Judenrat (Jewish council).Henryk Schönker's narrative divides ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Italya. Jewish Stories, Italian History by Germano Maifreda (review)
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Abstract: A melting pot of cultures in the heart of Western Christendom, Italy, or the "island of divine dew," as described by the creative Hebrew etymology I-tal-ya, has seen a diversified presence of native, Ashkenazi, and Sephardic Jews for over two millennia. The Italian-Jewish coexistence and interaction has had a great historical impact on society that contributed to the identity-making and evolution of the country. However, despite an exceptionally long Jewish existence in the peninsula that dates back to Roman times, most Italians still think about Jews' vicissitudes as something apart from the nation's mainstream history. Jews have always been seen as an isolated, passive, and persecuted minority, and thus, their ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy by
Tamar Herzig (review)-
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Abstract: When Isabella d'Este was 59 years old, she sat for a portrait by the Venetian master Titian but was displeased with the result. She therefore had the artist paint her anew, this time as she believed she had appeared forty years earlier—or, more accurately, as she wished to be seen. And indeed, throughout her life, the Marchioness of Mantua was seen as a supreme arbiter of taste, fashion, and refinement. Lacking the means to display her importance through buildings and monuments, she did so through her personal appearance and, in particular, thanks to her jewelry. Her exquisite gold bracelets were as central to her image as Cesare Borgia's famous sword. Both were created by the Jew known as Salamone da Sesso—until ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food ed. by Aaron
S. Gross et al (review)-
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Abstract: I write this review from the perspective of a religion and food scholar and as an outsider to Jewish Studies. The study of religion and food is a burgeoning subfield within religious studies, and scholarship on Judaism and food has been well represented within the subfield. Yet implicit and explicit contentions within Feasting and Fasting leads me to believe that Jewish Studies itself has not centered the study of Judaism and food. It should, as Gross and his colleagues argue here.Hasia R. Diner's preface and Aaron S. Gross's introduction provide the theoretical framing for Feasting and Fasting. Diner's opening sentence, a two-word punch meant for historiographers as much as readers, simply declares, "Food matters" ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-07-22T00:00:00-05:00
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