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{"title":"Andalus and Sefarad: on philosophy and its history in Islamic Spain","authors":"Charles Burnett","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252360","url":null,"abstract":"judge in striking ways, Hasidic ideas are sometimes off the chart—for example, denying that sin is real, or asserting that God encourages it. What is more, a thinkable solution to the problem of evil turns out to be the existence of a multiverse, and the fate of the individual may be explained through reincarnation; while Gellman also proposes panpsychism, the theory that mind is central to the universe, a doctrine traceable back to Spinoza but especially salient in the work of A. N. Whitehead. I suspect that many readers will feel that some of this is a bridge too far. The attractive thing about this book is its intellectual humility: the author suggests, he does not insist. For anyone interested in Jewish ideas about God, it will prove a stimulating if not always convincing read. Gellman himself is not convinced by all his arguments but puts them forward humbly and eirenically for consideration.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"599 - 600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46501368","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 religious architecture: from Biblical Israel to modern Judaism","authors":"Barry L. Stiefel","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252363","url":null,"abstract":"L. Daniel Staetsky offers a well-grounded empirical study of the reactions of British and French Jews to these issues. In a brilliant expose of the dynamics of anti-Zionist and antisemitic discourse, Alan Johnson convincingly demonstrates that, in the writings of Norman Finkelstein and others, “what the demonized and essentialized ‘Jew’ once was, demonized and essentialized Israel now is: malevolent in its very nature, all-controlling, full of blood lust, and the obstacle to a better, purer, and more spiritual world” (115). This malign view of Israel and, by extension, Jews, in general, is common in certain leftist circles and some Muslim countries and communities, as Dave Rich, Rusi Jaspal, and Matthias Kὕntzel all deftly show in their contributions. Rich’s chapter is particularly valuable for exposing antisemitic conspiracy theories among Muslims in Great Britain. Jaspal elaborates upon this theme in studying anti-Jewish sentiments within segments of Britain’s Pakistani Muslim communities. The views he uncovers include a pervasive strain of Holocaust denial as well as the notion that to quote one of his interviewees, “Zionism is evil. It’s no different than Nazism” (164). Those who participated in his study, Jaspal concludes, “manifested a firm commitment to anti-Zionism and generally perceived Israel’s destruction as an Islamic mission” (180). Kὕntzel reaches similar conclusions in his study and adds a note of lament in the face of “the British left’s inability to identify and fight Islamic antisemitism” (197-98). The role of intellectuals in fostering these destructive views is clearly spelt out in the book’s concluding chapters, one by David Seymour in his commentary on Alain Badiou and the radical tradition of antisemitism and, in more subtle ways, in Robert Fine’s chapter on Hannah Arendt. Much of this book’s focus is on antisemitism within Great Britain, but the problems treated here are part of a global phenomenon, making Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism an eye-opening collection of essays for anyone wishing to learn about today’s widespread and growing anti-Jewish hostility.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"601 - 602"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42413412","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":"Singing in a foreign land: Anglo-Jewish poetry 1812-1847","authors":"Joseph Phelan","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"596 - 597"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465070","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":"Perfect goodness and the God of the Jews: a contemporary Jewish theology","authors":"John Barton","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252355","url":null,"abstract":"reflections upon. The provocative title of the book AWoman Called Moses is but a short part of one of those chapters in which Attias reflects on Moses’ complaint in Numbers 11 that he did not birth the people and should hardly be asked by God to suckle them like a child. Arguably it does the book an injustice and may lose it to some of the audience who would most appreciate it. The original French title Moïse fragile does a much better job of capturing the book’s character.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"598 - 599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48064574","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 Woman Called Moses: a prophet for our time","authors":"Nathan MacDonald","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"597 - 598"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41831249","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":"Kurt Eisner. A modern life","authors":"Jakub S. Beneš","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"604 - 605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42230496","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":"Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture","authors":"Debra Shostak","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2252364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2252364","url":null,"abstract":"by the emerging scholar, Jess Olson, in “Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” he identifies the “unprecedented number of modern, monumental houses of Jewish worship between 1830 and 1930 in Europe and North America was a remarkable departure from Jewish architectural history in the diaspora” (288). The second is by the eminent scholar Samuel Gruber, in “Modern Synagogue Architecture,” where he states, “Monumental synagogues in the State of Israel often present similar expressive tendencies to those in America and Europe” (324). A third impactful chapter was Maya Balakirsky Katz’s “The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism,” where she finds that “Hasidic rebbes operated hundreds of such shtieblach, especially in the New York City neighbourhoods of Borough Park, Williamsburg, and Monsey and in the Israeli neighbourhoods of Bene Berak and Geula” (336). Together, the findings from these three chapters suggest that there is a significant quantity of Jewish material culture of the built environment that is being glossed over because the majority of synagogue/Jewish architecture scholars are focused on the more ancient structures of the Levant and Europe. More qualitative studies could be conducted on these underrepresented chapter subjects. Jewish Religious Architecture also lacks a concluding chapter where the content editor could have tied together big ideas across chapters as well as explained the reasoning for gaps in the scholarly contributions as directions for future research. The other chapters of Jewish Religious Architecture are of very good quality, but this publication is following an entrenched canon of Jewish art and architectural history at a time when the field of art and architectural history is considering new and innovative directions for studying visual material culture. This is exemplified by Yale University’s announcement eliminating the traditional western art history canon from its curriculum. While not as academic as Jewish Religious Architecture, this book has nearly the same pattern of chapter subjects as H. A. Meek’s The Synagogue (2003) and And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World by Yom Tov Assis (2000), among others. Since Jewish Religious Architecture is the first volume of the new Brill series Jews, Judaism, and the Arts, the series editors should consider current trends in art and architectural history scholarship in relation to that of or by Jews, such as the abandonment of an official canon of material.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"602 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60417174","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 messiah waits for you!”: agency and Zionism in the German-Jewish reception of a Talmudic tale","authors":"Ghilad H. Shenhav","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2236575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2236575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47342834","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":"Cartooning from the right: Israel’s Religious Zionist cartoonists and the judicial overhaul","authors":"M. Reingold","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2242300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2242300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49535859","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":"Minorities aiding minorities? British Jewish response to Armenian suffering in the late Victorian era","authors":"Oded Y. Steinberg","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2242289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2242289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46767439","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}