AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies最新文献

{"title":"In Hitler’s Munich. Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner (review)","authors":"Andrea Löw","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.a911548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.a911548","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: In Hitler’s Munich. Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner Andrea Löw Michael Brenner. In Hitler’s Munich. Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. Translated by Jeremiah Riemer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 378 pp. Michael Brenner’s study is oppressively topical. Not only is a century from the infamous Beer Hall Putsch being commemorated this year, but the author’s preface to the English-language edition, written after January 6, 2021, clearly connects the events and developments of 1920s Munich with the situation in the United States and elsewhere today: “Germany during the 1920s offers crucial lessons for us today about how democracies become imperiled. History never repeats itself, but in this case it does rhyme. The German example warns us that knocking down an insurrection does not mean the fight for democracy has been won yet” (xi). Brenner describes how Munich turned into the capital of antisemitism and Hitler’s testing ground for Nazism, a city that Thomas Mann characterized as “the city of Hitler” in June 1923 (213). But In Hitler’s Munich is much more; it is a story about Jews in Munich in these crucial years, about their reactions and interpretations and an intellectual history of the 1920s in Munich, Bavaria, and beyond. Brenner asks about the relationship of the Jewish revolutionaries to their Jewishness and how Munich Jews and non-Jews saw them and reacted to what they did. In retrospect, it seems all too easy to see the rise of antisemitism in what would turn into the capital of Nazism as a direct result of the revolutionaries’ political actions. Yet Brenner notes that if history had turned out differently, we might today see this period as “a success story for German Jews, as an episode of pride rather than of shame” (6). Never before and never since have so many Jewish politicians been in the public eye as in Munich during the years following World War I. Large parts of the Jewish community, however, distanced themselves from the revolution, even publicly opposed it, but this role was hardly ever mentioned in the years to follow. Politically conservative German Jews faced a dilemma. Still, there was an extremely wide range of revolutionary protagonists with Jewish background—men and women—and Brenner presents their stories. None of them celebrated Hanukah, still, they felt like outsiders in Catholic Bavaria and they actually were outsiders. It is this very outsider perspective Brenner describes so well in this study, using a wide range of sources, presenting an intellectual history of revolutionary Jews like Kurt Eisner, Erich Mühsam, and Ernst Toller. He also describes the rise of the antisemites who held all prejudices against Eisner against Jews overall. In a rather personal way, Brenner writes about the hate letters to Eisner as one “of the most depressing archival finds in connection with the revolution in Munich” (109). The verbal radicalization becomes very cl","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"24 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135454877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Imprecise Hyperboles” and a “Noble Ruse”: The Longevity of the Ancients and the Patriarchal Narratives of Moses in Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets","authors":"Eric Lawee","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.a911524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.a911524","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Among biblical accounts that invite skepticism, the antediluvian genealogies of Genesis have long attracted attention, with Methuselah famously living close to a millennium and others nearly as long. This study explores an analysis of the issue and its cognates in Revealer of Secrets ( Ẓafenat paʿneaḥ ), a fourteenth-century Torah commentary by Eleazar Ashkenazi that has only recently reentered the light of history. Striking is Eleazar’s teaching that Moses composed the chrono-genealogies in Genesis based on sundry traditions that contained “imprecise narrative hyperboles.” Eleazar also suggests that the patriarchal narratives are a “noble ruse” designed to inculcate belief in the world’s creation. Eleazar's exploration of the topic provides an entrée into the fertile mind and spirited pen of this barely known late medieval rationalist as well as into an unstudied chapter in the history of Jewish reflection on a challenging biblical crux that evoked much reflection and a rich medley of larger religious themes.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135454891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Monumental Histories to a Multiplicity of Histories: The Persistence and Meaning of Master Narratives of Jewish History","authors":"Jason Lustig","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Histories like Heinrich Graetz’s Geschichte der Juden (1854–1876) may have once been prominent and popular, but more recently this genre has fallen out of favor as scholars generally no longer try to write monumental histories of the Jews. This article traces the turn away from monumental histories and how it represents fundamental changes in how scholars understand Jewish history: Graetz and his contemporaries constructed Jewish history as a unified field, but today some question the notion of “a” Jewish history, instead looking to a multiplicity of histories and narratives. Nevertheless, a cohort of leading scholars and popular writers continue to produce synthetic histories of the Jews, and many still produce linear narratives of Jewish history for introductory Jewish history courses. Consequently, this article brings together historiography and pedagogy to comprehend the persistence and meaning of master narrative frameworks as scholars and the public continue to envision Jewish history.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"104 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72480570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina by Raanan Rein","authors":"Mollie Lewis Nouwen","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74617566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust by Joanna Sliwa","authors":"Sean Martin","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79583951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Material in the Babylonian Talmud and Its Sasanian Context","authors":"Simcha Gross","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the study of Jews in late antiquity, scholarship of the past half century has increasingly recognized the significance of the anonymous editors of the Babylonian Talmud. Whereas earlier scholars argued that the Babylonian Talmud was redacted and completed by the last generation or so of the Amoraim, scholars now accept that substantial sections of the anonymous editorial layer(s) postdate the final named Amoraim. However, basic historical questions about these editors and their activities remain unanswered. This paper will offer several case studies that argue that certain anonymous sections in the Talmud refer to known historical events that transpired in the Sasanian Empire in the sixth century, and reveal how the editors were acquainted with, affected by, and participated in broader contemporaneous historical trends.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"51 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75132634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"North Korea’s Translation of Anne Frank and the Politics of Self-Writing","authors":"Dafna Zur","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Diary of Anne Frank was published in North Korea in 2002. Coming in the wake of a devastating famine, the decision to translate this text was likely driven by the need to provide North Korea’s youth with a model of resilience. To appreciate the translator’s interventions, I provide a close reading of the translation and contextualize it historically, and make two assertions. First, that it is productive to understand the diary within North Korea’s writing practices and theories of good literature and translation. Second, I argue that self-writing is less a spontaneous delivery of the true self and more one that is processed through a web of linguistic and social structures, and I offer a consideration of the “politics of self-writing” as a methodological approach. In addition, I show how reception of the diary demonstrates the difficulty of restricting its interpretation, even in North Korea.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"149 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87800826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust by Elizabeth Anthony","authors":"Bettina Brandt","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87852729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction by Erin McGlothlin","authors":"Katharina von Kellenbach","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91194254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Jews and the Reformation by Kenneth Austin (review)","authors":"DavidHoichkiss Price","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"almost incomprehensible. Moreover, these features empower HellnerEshed to make the Idra accessible to her contemporaries, who confront “ideologically narrow agendas and fundamentalist tendencies” (8). This confrontation prompted HellnerEshed’s own turn to the Idra’s “manifesto” to “the religious world,” offering “healing and expansion” (8). HellnerEshed engages with the Zoharic imagination as both an academic and a partisan. She has explicitly situated her standpoint as that of a nonhalakhically observant woman, located outside the “boundaries of the ‘traditional participant’ ”—but who, precisely thereby, has access to a different kind of “fruitfulness” and “freedom.” In all of her work, epitomized in the present book, she splendidly vindicates that claim.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"188 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83023510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}