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Book Synopsis Modern Jewish Mythologies by : Glenda Abramson
Download or read book Modern Jewish Mythologies written by Glenda Abramson and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life. Eli Yassif's introduction illustrates the complex relationship between myth and ritual in modern Jewish culture. In a separate essay, he focuses on the ancient Jewish tale of the Golem, a myth that presents an exemplary test case for the exploration of cultural continuity. Using the testimonies of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain and the battle on the plain of Latrun in the Israeli War of Independence, David Cesarani and Anita Shapira demonstrate that the process of creating myth is related in one way or another to attempts by specific social and ethnic groups to shape their collective memory. Along these lines, Milton Shain and Sally Frankental interrogate the view that during the apartheid period in South African history, South African Jewry operated on a higher moral plane than most other white South Africans. And while Nurith Gertz examines the male superhero that dominated the early national Zionist cinema and reflected the center of gravity in the Zionist myth, Dan Urian analyzes two Israeli plays produced in the 1990s that examine the myth of the biblical Sarah, rewritten from a feminist perspective. Other essays examine widely held cultural beliefs of contemporary Western Jewry. Jonathan Webber questions whether memory is an essentially Jewish value and remembrance a Jewish moral duty. Tudor Parfitt explores Western and Israeli perceptions of the Yemenite Jews, and Sylvie Anne Goldberg, in examining the evolving role of the chevrah kaddisha in Prague, discusses changes in perceptions of communal institutions and traditional and modern Jewish attitudes with regard to death. Finally, Matthew Olshan offers an analysis of Kafka's animal fables as parables for the Jewish response to tradition.
Book Synopsis Modern Jewish Mythologies by : Glenda Abramson
Download or read book Modern Jewish Mythologies written by Glenda Abramson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents ten essays, each of which seeks to demonstrate the function and dynamic effect of myths in Jewish social, political, and psychological life. The essays are based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995.
Download or read book Tree of Souls written by Howard Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tales of Adam, Moses, and other biblical figures, to the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and moon, an anthology of Jewish myth presents seven hundred key stories and through extensive commentary places them in context with the literature of the world.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Wisdom and Jewish Mythology by : Rabbi David Rabeeya
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Wisdom and Jewish Mythology written by Rabbi David Rabeeya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-07-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compendium of ideas based on wisdom gathered by the author over many years of life in Iraq, Israel and the United States. It also explores the mythology surrounding the beliefs and practices of Jews in America. With sharp critical insight, this writing confronts life with biting realism.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism by : Geoffrey W. Dennis
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism written by Geoffrey W. Dennis and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources. This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use. It includes over one thousand alphabetical entries, from Aaron to Zohar Chadesh, with extensive cross-references to related topics and new illustrations throughout. Drawn from the well of a great spiritual tradition, the secret wisdom within these pages will enlighten and empower you. Praise: "An erudite and lively compendium of Jewish magical beliefs, practices, texts, and individuals...This superb, comprehensive encyclopedia belongs in every serious library."—Richard M. Golden, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition "Rabbi Dennis has performed a tremendously important service for both the scholar and the novice in composing a work of concise information about aspects of Judaism unbeknownst to most, and intriguing to all."—Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism
Book Synopsis Mythology Among The Hebrews And Its Historical Development, Tr., With Additions By The Author, By R. Martineau. [followed By] Appendix. Two Essays By H. Steinthal by : Ignácz Goldziher
Download or read book Mythology Among The Hebrews And Its Historical Development, Tr., With Additions By The Author, By R. Martineau. [followed By] Appendix. Two Essays By H. Steinthal written by Ignácz Goldziher and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a seminal work on the mythology and folklore of the Hebrews. Goldziher, a leading scholar of Jewish studies, analyzes the evolution of Hebrew mythology from its origins in ancient Near Eastern cultures to its transformation in medieval and modern Jewish thought. The book includes translations of primary sources, as well as critical assessments of the historical and cultural contexts in which these myths developed. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Hebrew Myths written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews). This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert Graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.
Book Synopsis Israel, the Impossible Land by : Jean-Christophe Attias
Download or read book Israel, the Impossible Land written by Jean-Christophe Attias and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, to trace their origins and history, and to resituate in historical terms the fertile mythology that has peopled and continues to people the Jewish imagination, interposing a screen between a people and their land. Describing the real, however, is not sufficient to disqualify the myths. The authors believe, with the famous French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, that: “Things are not so simple. Myth is not opposed to the real as the false to the true; myth accompanies the real.” Today, Israel is an undeniable fact and no longer has to legitimize its existence. It is in the midst of living through the crises of adulthood. The authors simply want to reconstitute and trace the genealogies of these contemporary crises. Only upon a clear understanding of this present and this past can a future be constructed.
Book Synopsis A Specter Haunting Europe by : Paul Hanebrink
Download or read book A Specter Haunting Europe written by Paul Hanebrink and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time.” —Samuel Moyn “Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.” —The Nation For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Haunting Europe shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism. “It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is...A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.” —Mark Mazower, Financial Times “From the start, the fantasy held that an alien element—the Jews—aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies...The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
Download or read book The Myths of Zionism written by John Rose and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a controversial book. It is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism. John Rose shows how this powerful political force is based in mythology; ancient, medieval and modern. Many of these stories, as with other mythologies, have no basis in fact. However, because Zionism is a living political force, these myths have been used to justify very real and political ends -- namely, the expulsion and continuing persecution of the Palestinians. Chapter-by-chapter, John Rose scrutinises the roots of the myths of Zionism. Mobilising recent scholarship, he separates fact from fiction presenting a detailed analysis of their origins and development. This includes a challenge to Zionism's biblical claims using very recent and very startling Israeli archaeological conclusions. He provides a detailed exploration of Judaism's links to the Middle East. He shows clearly that Zionism makes many false claims on Jewish religion and history. He questions its rationale as a response to European anti-Semitism, and shows that, if there is ever to be peace and reconciliation in the land of Palestine, this intellectual dishonesty must be addressed.
Download or read book Golem written by Maya Barzilai and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The Golem condition -- 1. The face of destruction: Paul Wegener's World War I Golem films -- 2. The Golem cult of 1921 New York: between redemption and expulsion -- 3. Our enemies, ourselves: Israel's monsters of 1948 -- 4. Supergolem: revenge after the Holocaust -- 5. Pacifist computers and Jewish cyborgs: fighting for the future
Book Synopsis The Origins of Israeli Mythology by : David Ohana
Download or read book The Origins of Israeli Mythology written by David Ohana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is claimed that Zionism as a meta-narrative has been formed through contradiction to two alternative models, the Canaanite and crusader narratives. These narratives are the most daring and heretical assaults on Israeli-Jewish identity. The Israelis, according to the Canaanite narrative, are from this place and belong only here; according to the crusader narrative, they are from another place and belong there. The mythological construction of Zionism as a modern crusade describes Israel as a Western colonial enterprise planted in the heart of the East and alien to the area, its logic and its peoples. The nativist construction of Israel as neo-Canaanism demands breaking away from the chain of historical continuity. These are the greatest anxieties that Zionism and Israel needed to encounter and answer forcefully. The Origins of Israeli Mythology seeks to examine the intellectual archaeology of Israeli mythology, as it reveals itself through the Canaanite and crusader narratives.
Book Synopsis The Invention of the Jewish People by : Shlomo Sand
Download or read book The Invention of the Jewish People written by Shlomo Sand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths. After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.
Download or read book The Non-Torah written by The Iamcs and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there such a thing as an "oral Torah" that was given by God to the Jews? Rabbinic Orthodox Judaism is founded on the mythological premise that Moses received not just a written Torah, but also an oral Torah from God at Sinai, which was supposedly passed on to future rabbinic leaders right up to today. The mythology of the oral Torah gained traction in the aftermath of the fall of the Second Temple in the year 70 C.E., and as the Talmud was written during the centuries following. In the same generation that witnessed the fall of the Temple Jewish people by the thousands, throughout Israel and the Diaspora, were proclaiming that Yeshua is the Son of David, King of Israel, and the Messiah promised by the Jewish prophets of the Tanakh (Old Testament). In this book you will see that the "Torah" of rabbinic Judaism is actually a non-Torah, created for the purpose of leveraging the power of those who created the myth. Meanwhile, the true salvation of Israel and of all the world is found written in the pages of the Bible - both Tanakh and New Testament. In this age of the modern messianic Jewish revival, the mythology of oral Torah is being exposed, and the true Messiah is being revealed to Jewish people everywhere.
Author :Mordecai Menahem Kaplan Publisher :Wayne State University Press ISBN 13 :9780814325520 Total Pages :416 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (255 download)
Book Synopsis The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion by : Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Download or read book The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion written by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central text for the Reconstructionist Judaism movement.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology by : William Harwood
Download or read book Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology written by William Harwood and published by World Audience Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold it! Sit! Stay! That’s better. No, I am not suggesting that you go to the New York Times and tell them, “I have a book, written by the devil. Only he’s not really the devil. He’s an extra-terrestrial. And he’s not evil. He’s God’s good brother. It’s God who is evil.” Do you think I came to you to have you put in a funny farm? You’re to publish my manuscript under your own name, as science fiction. Isn’t science fiction the only format under which any sane moral philosophy could be published for the past fifty years? You agree? I am so glad. I have to go now. The Overlords are waiting to take me home.
Book Synopsis Hebrew Mythology; by : Milton Woolley
Download or read book Hebrew Mythology; written by Milton Woolley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Hebrew Mythology', the author explores the ancient myths and legends of Hebrew culture. Through detailed analysis of stories and beliefs, Woolley leads the reader on a journey of discovery about the rich and diverse mythology of the Hebrew people, and how these myths still resonate in modern times. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in the history and culture of the Middle East, and the role of religion in shaping societies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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