Seidler-Feller / Myers Swimming against the Current

Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64469-375-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 446 Seiten

Swimming against the Current comprises essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. These articles, like the honoree, challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom, focusing on four categories: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, Modern Jewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seidler-Feller, Shaul

Myers, David N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Portrait of Chaim Seidler-Feller
Shaul Seidler-Feller and David N. MyersBibliography of Publications by Chaim Seidler-Feller Part I. The Sources of the Tradition: Bible and TalmudOrder as Meaning: Juxtaposition in the Bible
Isaac GottliebBehind Every Great Prophet Is a Woman: The Women in Exodus 2 in Talmudic Interpretation
Shana Strauch Schick Study of Torah as a Discourse of Violence: Milhamtah shel Torah, Variations on a Theme
Aryeh CohenDiscipleship in Rabbinic Literature
Moshe Halbertal Secular Legal Paradigms and Talmudic Law: Rav Tsa‘ir on Legal Loopholes
Elana Stein Hain Part II. Jewish Thought and Theology Buber, Scholem, and the Me’or enayim: Another Perspective on a Great Controversy
Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green On Not Finishing the Work: A Commentary on Avot 2:16 143
Michael WalzerThe Faith of Abraham
Howard Wettstein The Ascent and Decline of the “Historical Jew”
Moshe Idel Divine Command Theory in Jewish Law and Ethics
Elliot N. Dorff Part III. Modern Jewish History and Sociology Polio Season: Transformations of Philip Roth’s “Jewish Mother” from Sophie Portnoy to Marcia Steinberg
Sylvia Barack Fishman Go to School, Work, Marry, Have Children, Be Jewish: Jewish Women and Jewish Men in the United States and Israel
Sergio DellaPergola The Day of Reckoning: Max Radin and the Rule of Law in International War Crimes
Eugene R. Sheppard Antisemitism: Reflections and Ruminations
Deborah E. Lipstadt Part IV. Zionism and Jewish Politics Sovereignty and Ethics in the Thought of Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi
Suzanne Last Stone Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the Maimonidean Law of Siege: An Essay on the Ethics of Jewish Warfare
David Ellenson Invoking the Indigenous, for and against Israel
Carole Goldberg Jewish Folk Art and Ideology: The Simhat Torah Flag through the Ages
Shalom Sabar Student Tributes Meira Wolkenfeld
Adam Greenwald
Mayim Bialik
Jonathan Jacoby Colleague Tributes Laurie L. Levenson
Edward Feld
David Berner
Saul Andron List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Seidler-Feller Shaul:
Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with Sharon Liberman Mintz and David Wachtel, he coedited The Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library.Myers David N.:
David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he directs the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books in the field of Jewish history.Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with Sharon Liberman Mintz and David Wachtel, he coedited The Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library.David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he directs the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books in the field of Jewish history.