{"title":"On Fine and Functional Arts of the Crimean Karaites in the 19-20th Centuries","authors":"Ekaterina Akav","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2019.19.5.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2019.19.5.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126380577","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":"Jewish Education and the “Spiritual Problems of Rationalism” under the Reign of Nicholas I","authors":"Ilya Barkussky","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the reasons that caused public Jewish schools founded at the time of the Jewish educational reforms in the Russian Empire in the 1840s, to restrain from hiring foreign instructors. Based on the analysis of historiographic sources, it is shown that the de-cision was mainly due to the discrepancy between the original modernist vision of the reform and the traditionalist nature of its implementation.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122092344","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":"Pauline Wengeroff’s Memoirs of a Grandmother: The Evolution of One Household Item and Its Metaphoric Value Through Generations","authors":"Anna Waisman","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century byPauline Wengeroff (published in 1908–1910 in Berlin) is a unique example of a Jewish autobiography written by a woman that depicts the Jewish traditional, preassimilation mode of life as the Golden Age. Reminiscing on the bygone times, the author also muses over her own, rather complicated relationship with the traditional and the modern. For her, the conflict between the two signifies the battle of sexes that was lost by women. A knife, described in some contexts as a household object, in others assumes a metaphorical value symbolizing the idyllic Jewish past and the dramatic changes undergone by the Jewish people, by Jewish women and by the memoirist herself. A woman with a knife, featured in the first volume as a symbol and a defender of the Jewish tradition, later morphs into a tragic figure, both a sacrifice and a sacrificer.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"47 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114026031","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":"Interpretations of the Aggadah in the Commentaries of the Maharal of Prague, the Gaon of Vilna and R. Nachman of Bratslav","authors":"Natalia Kasparova","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines three commentaries on the Aggadah story of the Talmudic sage Rabbah bar bar Hana’s incredible journeys: by the Maharal of Prague (16th cent.), the Gaon of Vilna (18th cent.) and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (end 18th – 19th cent.) While all three authors see the story in an allegorical vein, each one has their own focus and seems to wander away from the text proper and interpret it through the lens of their own set of ideas, be it philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, asceticism or mysticism. So Maharal of Prague sees the Haggadah as kind of philosophical and mystical treatise. He hints to the reader that this Haggadah contains the secrets of metaphysics and Kabbalah. For the Vilna Gaon the story has an ethical message. He sees the crow as talmid haham whose face is black from malnutrition and studying the Torah at night. Rabbi Nachman is the most exalted and ecstatic scholar of all three. He uses the interpretation of Haggadah as part of his mystical lessons. The topic of his lesson is Messianic Deliverance.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129430665","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":"About Origin of Some Jewish Manuscripts (Fond 182 of the RNL Manuscript Department)","authors":"A. Lisitsyna","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"In the Soviet time, libraries only preserved the names of private and, occasionally, institutional collections. Standalone manuscripts or small sets of manuscripts would become part of the collections in national languages. The information concerning the origins of new arrivals was not considered valuable enough to keep record of. Such was the case of Fond 182 of the Manuscript Department of the Russian National Library, commonly referred to as the Schneerson Library. Close examination of the content, handwriting, binding, stickers and owners’ inscription may allow us to identify some of the manuscript’s former owners. Thus, the collection contains not only the manuscripts of the Schneerson family proper, but also those belonging to Zelig Persits, Yaakov Maze, Benyamin Epstein, Bentsion Ettlinger, and the Karaite national library “Karay Bitikligi”, as well as the materials – mostly fragments – that should have been ascribed to the Günzburg Collection and some “trophy” manuscripts that were brought over to the USSR after the WWII and due to the lack of qualified scholars, wound up in Fond 182.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128573486","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":"A Historical and Philological Commentary on Genesis 1:1–3","authors":"Nadiia Dobrydnik","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.0","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines phonetic, lexical, grammatical and mor-phological devices employed in Gen 1:1–3 in the light of the literary tra-ditions of the Middle East, in particular that of ancient Mesopotamia.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645325","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":"Тhe Image of Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi in Talmudic Literature","authors":"Yaakov Sinichkin","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines a variety of sources from the Babylonian Talmud and the Midrash trying to establish why, despite the visible veneration of Rabbi Yehuda-ha-Nasi (called also just Rabbi, Rabbi Judas the Prince in Talmudic literature), he was also heavily and sharply criticized both for his moral character and his ways of management.","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127368785","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 Ascetic Practices in the Third Book of Ezra","authors":"Daria Openchenko","doi":"10.31168/2658-3380.2019.19.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2658-3380.2019.19.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380329,"journal":{"name":"Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125214453","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}