I, Ahasuerus: Chouchani 先生在以色列，1952-56 年

IF 0.5 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.2979/jss.2023.a882888

Yair Mintzker

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摘要:1952年10月，一名神秘男子登上了一艘从马赛开往海法的船。在过去的几年里，他一直住在法国，在那里他被称为“乔查尼先生”，并向Elie Wiesel和Emmanuel Levinas等人教授《塔木德》。有一次在以色列，他的名字是“本寿山”。在这两个国家，没有人知道他的真实身份，但所有见过他的人都感到震惊:乔恰尼/本寿山几乎无所不知，他会说惊人的多种语言，给人的印象是来自不同的历史时代。在这篇文章中，我将重现Chouchani先生/Ben Shoushan先生在1952 - 1956年间在以色列的生活。我认为，为了充分理解他的故事，我们需要在三个背景下阅读:20世纪50年代早期的以色列历史，乔卡尼/本·寿山所吸引的人的传记，以及流浪犹太人亚哈随鲁的古老传说。

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I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952–56

Abstract: In October 1952, a mysterious man boarded a ship sailing from Marseille to Haifa. In the previous several years he had been living in France, where he was known as "Monsieur Chouchani" and taught Talmud to Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. Once in Israel, he went by the name "Ben Shoushan." In neither country did anyone know his true identity, but all who met him were astounded: Chouchani/Ben Shoushan appeared practically omniscient, he spoke an astonishing number of languages, and he gave the impression of someone who had come from a different time in history. In this article, I reconstruct Monsieur Chouchani/Ben Shoushan's time in Israel between 1952–56. I claim that in order to understand his story fully, one needs to read it against three contexts: Israeli history of the early 1950s, the biographies of the people Chouchani/Ben Shoushan attracted, and the ancient legend of Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew.

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