{"title":"Historical and Political Reflections on the Jewish-Christian Dialogue","authors":"Rainer Kampling, Karma Ben Johanan","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560205","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Jewish-Christian dialogue has a dynamic, ongoing character, which impacts greatly not only on the relations between the two faith communities, but also on the self-reflection of each community itself ( Kampling ). Considered from a political point of view, moreover, the Jewish-Christian dialogue is characterised by a structural asymmetry, which has at least three underlying reasons: (1) the numerical imbalance between Christian and Jewish communities; (2) the different ways Christianity and Judaism perceive each other; and (3) the different roles assumed by Christianity and Judaism throughout history ( Ben Johanan ).","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388159","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":"Peter von der Osten-Sacken (1940–2022)","authors":"Ursula Rudnik, Jonathan Magonet","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560213","url":null,"abstract":"Prof. Dr Peter von der Osten-Sacken is one of the important post-Shoah German theologians who gave many impulses for new paradigms of Christian-Jewish relations in Germany. With his theological work he laid the foundation of a fundamental critique and the redefinition of a Protestant theology in the face of Judaism.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135387987","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":"Modes of Relation in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas","authors":"Silvia Richter","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560204","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses the different modes of relation that are exhibited in the work of Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995). Starting with the thesis that there is no single definition of relation as such in Levinas's thought, the article focuses, first, on his early work, On Escape (1935), Time and the Other (1947), Existence and Existents (1947) and the captivity notebooks ( Carnets de captivité ), and elaborates the relation between the I and the Other against the background of his notions of fecundity and eros. The notion of subjectivity is consequently presented in its relationship to the face and the infinite, highlighting an ethical mode of relation between the subject and the Other. Finally, Levinas's Talmudic readings are taken to motivate the messianic mode of relation – opening up, in the conclusion, a new approach to the Other from the perspective of a messianic subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388337","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":"Generation Enraged","authors":"Dekel Peretz","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560208","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How does the increasing diversification of both the Jewish and general population in Germany influence Jewish self-positioning in German society? It seems that especially young Jews no longer perceive themselves in a binary relationship to the majority society alone, but as part of a heterogeneous, post-migrant society. The journal Jalta – Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart [Yalta – Positions on the Jewish Present], published between 2017 and 2020, served as an important mouthpiece for the young generation's rage and desires. This study identifies and expounds upon three sets of relationships within German society that Jalta wishes to redefine: relationships within Jewish communities, relationships between Jews and the majority society, and relationships of Jews to other minorities.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388342","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":"Now Is All We Have","authors":"Jeffrey Newman","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560210","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the world wars, the pandemic, Covid-19, may be the first crisis to engulf us globally, but others, particularly climate change, threaten. What is the role of faith communities and the potential for ethical action for each of us as individuals? How might our theological understanding affect our decisions? This article, which is partly autobiographical, raises issues of time, truth and understanding.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388533","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}
Tony Bayfield, Yael Splansky, Michael Marmur, Elizabeth Marmur, Amanda Golby, Maurice Michaels, Jeffrey Newman, Walter Rothschild, Chani Smith, Danny Smith, Awraham Soetendorp, Jackie Tabick
{"title":"Rabbi Dow Marmur","authors":"Tony Bayfield, Yael Splansky, Michael Marmur, Elizabeth Marmur, Amanda Golby, Maurice Michaels, Jeffrey Newman, Walter Rothschild, Chani Smith, Danny Smith, Awraham Soetendorp, Jackie Tabick","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560212","url":null,"abstract":"This obituary was first published in the London Jewish Chronicle, 11 August 2022 Rabbi Dow Marmur was one of the G'dolim , the Greats of his generation. Since his generation was that of the Shoah, his defiant determination, scholarship and humanity is an astonishing testimony to the rabbinic and human spirit.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135387979","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 Exile of Speech","authors":"Angela West","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560211","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rabbis considered that a ‘pathology of speech’ in humans brought about the Biblical Flood. Lockdown has reminded us of new threats to our future. In the language of science, positivist certainties have given way to quantum probabilities, often expressed reductively as data. The data-driven society maintains the illusion of individual freedom, while concentrating power in the hands of the few, subjecting the diversity of the many to a standardised norm. The sages also sought to apply a single rule for all, but honoured diversity by training in the art of making careful distinctions. Recent neurological research views the brain as formed by the bodily needs of survival and the common culture of the group. The evolution of language is better understood as the application of conceptual metaphor to the governance of individual and community. This fits well with the rabbis’ understanding of how the misuse of language endangers our collective well-being.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388333","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":"‘In and Out of Each Other's Worlds’","authors":"R. Dickson","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560104","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The art of Austrian Kindertransportee Helga Michie has been much discussed, particularly in the context of the work of her identical twin, Holocaust writer Ilse Aichinger. This article, however, focuses in particular on Michie's daughter, English-born painter Ruth Rix, and the relationship with her mother. It considers Rix's appropriation of images inspired by Austrian family photographs and more than a hundred picture postcards, provided by Michie. Across two generations, the art of mother and daughter – overshadowed by the Holocaust – is introduced, examining how each influenced the other, with Rix grappling with both memory and postmemory. As she suggests, Michie offered a ‘doorway’ into Austria, and she, conversely, one to Englishness, though both strayed constantly ‘in and out of each other's worlds’. Motifs inspired by private and wider tragedies highlight shared concerns: fracture, family, memory, identity, loss and notions of home, creating a trans-generational body of work which, when taken as a whole, is even more powerful than when viewed apart.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42685075","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":"Inherited Trauma, Place, Embodied Memory and Artistic Practice","authors":"Lorna Brunstein, Katie M O'Brien","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560107","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Based on a pre-recorded video conversation between artist Lorna Brunstein and 44AD gallery director Katie O'Brien, this written interview discusses Brunstein's experience of growing up as a second-generation survivor and the ways in which she has explored this identity in her creative art practices. The conversation offers insight into Brunstein's family history and discusses the role that inherited trauma, place and embodied memory play in her installations and interactive artwork.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44495535","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":"Editorial","authors":"Jonathan Magonet","doi":"10.3167/ej.2023.560101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560101","url":null,"abstract":"The impulse that led to the topic of this issue was an invitation to the editor from Dr Glenn Sujo to attend the conference ‘Migration, Memory and Visual Arts: Second Generation (Jewish) Artists’ held by the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, on 7 May 2021, at which he was a keynote speaker. The topic resonated on various levels with themes explored in this journal. Following the conference I approached Dr Sujo who kindly put me in touch with the organisers of the conference, Dr Imogen Wiltshire and Dr Fransiska Louwagie. As editor I want to express my gratitude to Dr Sujo for supporting the project and I am joined in that by the guest editors Drs Wiltshire and Louwagie (now based at the Universities of Lincoln and Aberdeen, respectively). They were immediately responsive to the invitation to edit a thematic issue for the journal and were successful in securing additional financing to cover the cost of the colour reproductions that are an essential feature of this publication. I thank them for their work in curating the original conference, reframing it for this new context and for our collaboration that has led to this valuable record. Drawing on both Dr Wiltshire's expertise as an art historian of modern and contemporary art and Dr Louwagie's background in second-generation writing and memory studies, this issue brings together articles by scholars and artists on the underexplored topic of second-generation visual art practices.","PeriodicalId":41193,"journal":{"name":"European Judaism-A Journal for the New Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41381944","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}