{"title":"Entertaining Knowledge: Play and Chance in Premodern Kabbalistic Recipe Books","authors":"Agata Paluch","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913343","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"25 1","pages":"572 - 578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344084","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":"Sour-Cherry Dumplings and Sweet and Sour Meat: How to Cook for Hostile Friends","authors":"Anna Shternshis","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"144 1","pages":"586 - 589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346352","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":"Biting, Rubbing, Running, Burning: Recipe(s) for the \"Mad Dog\" Illness in Talmudic Texts","authors":"Lennart Lehmhaus","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913340","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"57 1","pages":"552 - 560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345799","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 Total State of the Torah: Isaac Breuer and the Foundations of Radical Orthodox Politics","authors":"Itamar Ben Ami","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913350","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When did Orthodox Jewish politics become radical? Some contemporary forms of Orthodox politics incline indeed toward \"totality\" and antiliberalism; however, until the 1930s, Orthodox politics was mostly conservative and not radical. This essay excavates the invention of radical Orthodox politics in the writings of one of Agudath Israel's prominent ideologues, Isaac Breuer. Struggling with the crisis of modernity as it came to light in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s, Breuer developed a Gnostic worldview that deemed reality a site of corruption and sin. To rectify this situation, Breuer formulated a Jewish version of the \"Conservative Revolution,\" calling to establish a \"total state of the Torah\" based on \"the national socialism of the state of God.\" The essay reveals how deeply German right-wing thought influenced Breuer and his circle, and it presents the ideational context of Orthodox radicalism, pointing to Breuer's struggles with his early neo-Kantianism.","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"124 1","pages":"692 - 721"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346121","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":"Ifra Hormiz and the Use of Mini-Corpora in the Study of the Babylonian Talmud","authors":"Michal Bar-Asher Siegal","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913347","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ifra Hormiz is mentioned in five short stories in the Babylonian Talmud, each time accompanied by a description: \"the mother of Shapur Malka,\" Shapur the king. This essay examines the stories about Ifra Hormiz from a literary angle. It suggests that an intratalmudic, comparative, literary analysis of these stories can offer a new perspective on their creation, and that we can better reveal and highlight the differing agendas and motifs of stories that have similar literary nuclei when we examine them as part of a broader corpus of similar stories. This analysis will shed light on the stories' anonymous authors, their intended audiences, and the ways they chose to address gender issues and their attitude toward the Persian rulers of their times.","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"306 1","pages":"615 - 638"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346340","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":"Skin Deep: Cosmetics, Body Care, and Practical Kabbalah in Early Modern Jewish Books of Secrets","authors":"Andrea Gondos","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913344","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"71 1","pages":"579 - 585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343355","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":"Medicine, Magic, Alchemy, Food, and Ink: Recipes in the Cairo Geniza","authors":"Marina Rustow","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913339","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"14 1","pages":"539 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346924","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 Mystical Dynamics of the Holy Spirit in Moses Nahmanides' Writings","authors":"Adam Afterman","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913348","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores Nahmanides' teachings concerning the holy spirit. It demonstrates that he elevated the holy spirit to the highest possible gradation in the godhead—conceived as the divine essence that flows through the various gradations of the godhead and into the perfected individual, inducing a variety of revelations: subprophetic, prophetic, and eschatological. The holy spirit in Nahmanides' thought is the driving force behind his conceptualization of the godhead, the community of Israel and its leadership, and the individual Jew—throughout their various phases of self-actualization, that is, becoming spirit. He placed the holy spirit along a spectrum of spirituality—the least spiritual stage is that of people who glimpse the future and those men of the holy spirit, while the most spiritual stage is that of the eschatological state of being, in which the spiritual faculties permanently overtake the corporeal faculties. Furthermore, Nahmanides crafted spaces structured by the spirit in the forms of the Jerusalem temple and contemporary rabbinic courts. This essay concludes by drawing attention to the similarities between Nahmanides' conception of the holy spirit and the common conception of the holy spirit in medieval Christianity, thereby analyzing Nahmanides' conception of the holy spirit in its historical and religious context: situated between mystical, philosophical, and polemical tensions.","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"13 1","pages":"639 - 668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345028","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":"\"He Should Prepare a Sauce\": Recovering a Haroset Recipe from 'Abbasid Iraq","authors":"Noam Sienna","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913341","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Contribution to the essay forum \"The Jewish Recipe.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"22 1","pages":"561 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343888","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 Aesopic Wisdom of Tevi: A Tale of Two Tongues","authors":"Ayelet Wenger","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.a913346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913346","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay shows that the character of Tevi is not homogenous but a conglomerate of shifting topoi. The tannaitic Tevi is pious, the amoraic Tevi is learned, and a Tevi as portrayed in an episode in Leviticus Rabbah is a smart-mouth. This last shift hints at a different character who has merged into the Tevi cycle: the episode in Leviticus Rabbah parallels an anecdote that appears in the Life of Aesop that has received little scholarly attention. The parallel highlights the shifting nature of Tevis and the transformation of Tevi into something of an Aesop figure: the clever slave who can answer power with wit.The connections between the rabbinic and Greek traditions are, in this instance, prolonged. An ancient reworking of the Leviticus Rabbah episode alters the narrative in ways that align more closely with a different version of the Greek tradition, erasing Tevi and his wisdom from the story. Much like Aesop, the rabbinic slave figure becomes uncannily wise and subsequently—or consequently—disappears.","PeriodicalId":45747,"journal":{"name":"JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"234 1","pages":"591 - 614"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343550","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}