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Old Yiddish Summer School (online), and Lectures on the Yiddish Collection of Oluf Tychsen (online), Rostock University, 5-12 September 2021, Rostock Old Yiddish Summer School

July 29, 2021 by kerry.maciak86453900

Old Yiddish Summer School (online), and Lectures on the Yiddish Collection of Oluf Tychsen (online)

Rostock University

September 2021

Rostock Old Yiddish Summer School

5-12 September 2021

Free online course

This summer school is open to MA students as well as emerging and established scholars who want to to learn and engage with pre-modern Yiddish sources (1500-1800). The aim of this summer school is to teach the Old Yiddish language in its printed and cursive script forms and to discover and edit Yiddish songs from the collections of Rostock University Library.

Language of teaching is German.

For more information, please see:

https://www.uni-rostock.de/forschung/nachwuchsfoerderung/graduiertenakademie/qualifizierungsprogramm/mare-balticum-lectures-rostock-old-yiddish-summer-school-roys-anfangen-will-ich-zu-singen-altjiddische-lieder-der-sammlung-tychsen/

Mare Balticum Online Lectures: “Europe in Jewish Garb. The Yiddish Collection of Oluf Tychsen Contextualized”

Rostock University Library holds one of the major collections of Yiddish works in Germany. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734 – 1815), prolific Orientalist, librarian and Hebraist, was a dedicated scholar of Jewish languages and cultures. His collection contains a substantial and representative selection of premodern Yiddish works, which this lecture series will present and contextualize.

Lectures

Monday, 6. September 2021, 5-7 pm

Heike Tröger (University Library Rostock):

Der Orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen und das Jiddische. Einblicke in Bibliothek und Nachlass [in German]

Tuesday, 7. September 2021, 7-9 pm

Prof. Astrid Lembke (Mannheim University):

Wigalois and Widuwilt – A Knight’s Wanderings from German to Yiddish and Back

Wednesday, 8. September 2021, 7-9 pm

Prof. Simon Neuberg (Trier University):

Jiddische Merckwürdigkeiten (Jiddisch bei J.J. Schudt) [in German]

Thursday, 9. September 2021, 7-9 pm

Prof. Claudia Rosenzweig (Bar-Ilan University, Israel):

A Yiddish Knight from Italy in the Tychsen Collection

Friday, 10. September 2021, 7-9 pm

Dr. Oren Cohen Roman (Haifa University, Israel):

Akeydes Yitskhok: The Binding of Isaac between Epic and Liturgical Poetry in Old Yiddish Literature

For more information and zoom access see: https://www.uni-rostock.de/forschung/nachwuchsfoerderung/graduiertenakademie/qualifizierungsprogramm/mare-balticum-lectures-rostock-old-yiddish-summer-school-roys-anfangen-will-ich-zu-singen-altjiddische-lieder-der-sammlung-tychsen-1/

New Book. The Jews of England and the Revolutionary Era, 1789 – 1815. Jeremy Smilg

July 29, 2021 by kerry.maciak86453900

New Book

The Jews of England and the Revolutionary Era, 1789-1815

Jeremy Smilg

Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

This is a wonderful and accessible book written with energy and enthusiasm incorporating political, social, cultural and religious history. It is the first to explore the responses of English Jewry to the French Revolution and how British politics and culture dealt with ‘the Jew’ at a critical moment of turmoil, fear and excitement.

Professor Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

The emancipation of Jews during the French Revolution and Napoleon’s destruction of European ghettos led to concerns over the loyalty of Anglo-Jewry to the Crown. The wealthy elite of the Jewish community adopted the traditional approach of Jews in the diaspora stressing the community’s loyalty and avoiding the public expression of any view which might be controversial. This outlook which had been adopted for centuries by Jewish communities across the diaspora reflected both Jewish religious injunctions and a desire for self-preservation. In contrast, a small number of Jews broke with this approach and published remarkably contentious views on a range of political and religious subjects.

Drawing on a rich range of sources including songs, novels and prints, the book examines the extent of anti-Jewish sentiment in England. It breaks new ground by using government archives to demonstrate that these negative representations only had a very limited impact on the implementation of the Alien Act of 1793. This book seeks to understand the deeply held fears of the communal elite but also argues that the ground-breaking controversial views of some of the Jewish dissidents were more widely held than has been previously considered. As a study of a minority under pressure, the position of Anglo-Jewry in the period has wider relevance in today’s multicultural world.

June 2021 260 pages, 10 colour and 4 b/w illus

Hardback: 978 1 912676 71 2 £50.00

Ebook: 978 1 912676 72 9 £50.00

New Books. Combined Academic Publishers (CAP).

July 27, 2021 by EAJS Administrator

Combined Academic Publishers (CAP)

New Books

Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora

Devi Mays

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Stanford University Press

Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation as they migrated and settled into new homes.

Paperback: 9781503613218

August 2020 360 pages £22.99

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503613218/forging-ties-forging-passports/

Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939

Natan M. Meir

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Stanford University Press

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust.

Paperback: 9781503613058

July 2020 360 pages £22.99

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503613058/stepchildren-of-the-shtetl/

The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Dalia Kandiyoti

Stanford University Press

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos’ descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. Dalia Kandiyoti explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity.

Paperback: 9781503612433

August 2020 336 pages £19.99

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503612433/the-conversos-return/

Thinking about God: Jewish Views

Kari H. Tuling

Series: JPS Essential Judaism

The Jewish Publication Society

Who—or what—is God? Does God intervene in our lives? Is God good—and, if yes, why does evil persist in the world? In investigating how Jewish thinkers have approached these and other questions, Rabbi Kari H. Tuling elucidates many compelling—and contrasting—ways of thinking about God in Jewish tradition.

Paperback: 9780827613010

August 2020 424 pages £24.99

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780827613010/thinking-about-god/

With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad

Yoram Bilu

Series: Spiritual Phenomena

Stanford University Press

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the designated Messiah of the Chabad Hasidic movement. Decades after his death, a group of radical Hasidim still keep the Rebbe close through traditional means and digital technologies. Bilu focuses on this group to explore how religious practice can sustain the belief that a messianic figure is present and accessible.

Paperback: 9781503612419

July 2020 344 pages £20.99

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503612419/with-us-more-than-ever/

Reconceptualising Monotheism: Concepts and Cultures in Ancient Israel Oxford / Online 4 November 2021 (09:00 – 18:00) Workshop (Free and open to the public; Registration now open)

July 20, 2021 by kerry.maciak86453900

Reconceptualising Monotheism: Concepts and Cultures in Ancient Israel

Oxford / Online

4 November 2021 (09:00 – 18:00)

Workshop (Free and open to the public; Registration now open)

Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College & Online

Link for Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reconceptualising-monotheism-concepts-and-cultures-in-ancient-israel-tickets-161876887127

Programme of Events

8.45 – 9:00
Prof. Hindy Najman and Dr Hywel Clifford (University of Oxford) and Prof. Joachim Schaper (University of Aberdeen): Welcome & Introduction

9.00 – 9:45
Prof. Joachim Schaper (University of Aberdeen): “Media Archaeology” and Research into the Origins of Jewish Monotheism: Some Thoughts on Method, in Dialogue with Jan Assmann and others

9.45 – 10:30
Prof. Eckart Otto (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Historical Dialectics in the Judean History of Religion on its Course to Monotheism

10.30–10.45

Break

10.45 – 11:30
Dr. Catherine Quine (University of Nottingham): The End of Queenship: Gender, Absence, and the Development of Monotheism

11.30 – 12:15
Dr. Hywel Clifford (University of Oxford): The apologetic and the axial: “monotheism” between Israelite Yahwism and early Greek philosophy

12.15 – 1:00
Dr. Antonella Bellantuono (University of Lille): Religious Coexistence in Antiquity: the Relationship between Jewish Monotheism and the Egyptian cults

1.00–2.00

Lunch

2.00 – 2:45
Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University): Choosing the Proper Terminology: A Biblical Quest Toward Monotheism

2.45 – 3:30
Prof. Daniel Fleming (New York University): Yahweh before Israel: A Pastoralist People of the Levantine Interior

3.30–3.45

Break

3.45 – 4:30
Prof. Friedhelm Hartenstein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Monotheism, Aniconism, and Mental Images in the Light of Deuteronomy 4

4.30 – 5:15
Dr. Nathan Macdonald (University of Cambridge): Priestly Monotheism

5.15 – 6:00
Prof. Konrad Schmid (University of Zurich): The Readability of the World: The Priestly Monotheism and Its Quest for God‘s Transcendence and the World‘s Rationality

6.00 – 6:30
Prof. Hindy Najman: Plenary & Close

New book: The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 67

July 15, 2021 by kerry.maciak86453900

The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition

Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 67

Editors: Catherine Bartlett and Joachim Schlör

Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way.

Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

E-Book (PDF) – ISBN: 978-90-04-43546-9 – Publication Date: 22 July 2021

Hardback – ISBN: 978-90-04-43545-2 – Publication Date: 22 July 2021

For more information: https://brill.com/view/title/57143