{"title":"Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, and Judith Roumani (eds.), Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018. xiv + 321 pp.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0040","url":null,"abstract":"One can only welcome a publication on Jewish Libya, a field of study that is still quite neglected in comparison with the number of works published on other North African countries, and Morocco in particular. However, whereas the images in this book are abundant, one remains somewhat dissatisfied by the texts. The volume covers a long historical span that ranges from the Jewish revolt against the Romans in Cyrenaica (in eastern Libya) to the pogrom of 1967 and the subsequent departure of the last Jews from the country. The various chapters are a mix of annotated, scholarly research and ...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128350831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tamar Wolf-Monzon, Bahir vegavohah kezemer: Ya’akov Orland: poetikah, historiyah, tarbut (Ya’acov Orland: Poetics, History, Culture). Sdeh Boker: The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, 2016. 512 pp. + audio disc.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Ya’acov Orland (1914–2002), a young contemporary of the Israeli poets Avraham Shlonsky, Nathan Alterman, and Leah Goldberg, was a prolific and versatile poet, playwright, and translator, one among the first generation of creative artists whose entire output was produced in Mandatory Palestine and later, the state of Israel. Many of Orland’s highly musical poems were popular with those composers who created the magnificent repertory of popular Hebrew songs known as ...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Hammerschlag, Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 272 pp.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past three decades, growing scholarly attention has been paid to the place of Judaism in Jacques Derrida’s thought. Such attention is certainly justified, given that, from the second half of the 1980s, religion in general—and Judaism, in particular—became one of Derrida’s central concerns. Derrida’s writings on Judaism and on religious themes are often interpreted as part of the turn in his thought from texts dealing with questions of language, literature, and the history of philosophy to those focusing in the main on ethics, politics, and religion. Moreover, this turn is often interpreted as a move on the part of Derrida toward Emmanuel Levinas, following his early critique of the latter in an essay titled “Violence and Metaphysics.”...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121194090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Research of Jewish Texts","authors":"Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In his introduction to a volume titled Companion to the Digital Humanities (2004), a pioneering figure in the field, Roberto Busa, looked at the challenges posed by globalization to digital humanities.1 Busa was mainly referring to the narrow linguistic aspect of the problem when he sketched a vision for a virtual project he called ...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"32 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120858609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uzi Rebhun, Jews and the American Religious Landscape. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. x + 236 pp.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of Judaism in America, as well as interested laypersons, will welcome Uzi Rebhun’s new book, Jews and the American Religious Landscape. A seemingly short volume, it provides a comprehensive study of the latest demographic trends among American Jews and offers a thoroughgoing analysis of the socioeconomic, religious, and political realities in which American Jews live their lives, and in relation to which they make their decisions....","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123375986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, and Robert Weinberg (eds.), Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 292 pp.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"The ritual murder (or blood libel) continues to exert enormous fascination on scholarly and lay communities alike. Perhaps the most perplexing question is why it enjoyed its heyday in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Originating in England and Germany in the 12th...\u0000","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126093609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew Baigell, The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877–1935. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2017. 240 pp. Matthew Baigell, Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880–1940. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. 280 pp.","authors":"Matthew Baigell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Matthew Baigell has accomplished the enviable achievement of juggling two distinguished careers as an art historian. He first came to prominence as a scholar of the arts of the United States, writing both on canonical painters (among them, 19th-century landscapists Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt) and on 20...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121101143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lost Souls of Meshugah","authors":"J. Schwarz","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Great works of literature always take root in particular linguistic, cultural and national traditions, but they are at the same time capable of transcending the limitations of the local and the parochial to reach readers beyond the boundaries of their provenance, either in the original forms or in successful translations....\u0000","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"41 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131116038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fighting Partition, Saving Mount Scopus","authors":"Adi Livny","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In March 1948, David Werner Senator, the administrative director of the Hebrew University, wrote a letter to a colleague, Akiba Ernst Simon, who was in New York at the time. After describing the mounting level of violence between Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Senator noted:...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131412148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jeffrey Summit, Singing God’s Word: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 293 pp.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the 12th century, a Jewish scholar from the (then) Provençal town of Lunel left his home to embark on a long journey to the towns and yeshivot of southwestern Germany, northern and southern France, the Provence, England, and Spain. The scholar, R. Abraham ben Nathan (Hayarḥi), compiled his learnings with the great teachers of his time, alongside observations of the local communities he visited, into a book that became a rich source for contemporary liturgical and sociological research in the field of Jewish medieval Europe: his ...","PeriodicalId":363580,"journal":{"name":"Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114314840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}