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Bridging Worlds
A radical revisitation of Immanuel of Rome’s celestial tour, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden. Mahberot Immanuel is a collection of twenty-eight chapters in Hebrew of rhymed prose and poetry written by the poet and amateur philosopher Immanuel of Rome during an era of rapid political change in late medieval Italy. The final chapter, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden(A Tale of Heaven and Hell), like Dante’s Commedia, depicts Immanuel’s visits to hell and heaven. Bridging Worlds focuses on the interrelation of Immanuel’s belletristic work and biblical exegesis to advance a comprehensive and original reading of this final chapter. By reading Immanuel’s philosophical commentaries and lite...
Jewish Literary Eros
In Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts composed of alternating prose and verse), Levy demonstrates that secular love is the common theme across Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Italian texts. At the crossroads of these spheres of intellectual activity, Jews of the medieval Mediterranean composed texts that combined dominant cultures' literary stylings with biblical Hebrew and other elements from Jewish cultures. Levy explores Jewish authors' treatments of love in prosimetra and finds them creative, complex, and innovative. Jewish Literary Eros compares the mixed-form compositions by Jewish au...
The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought
Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, interpreters, and creative rewriters whose explanations more often than not challenged the protagonist's righteousness in order to preserve Divine justice. Beginning with five critical essays on the specific efforts of ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the biblical book, this volume concludes with a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in medieval biblical commentary, in ethical, mystical, and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing in a wide variety of Jewish languages from around the world from the second to sixteenth centuries.
Es kann nicht jeder ein Gelehrter sein
Gelacht und gedacht, erzählt und erzogen wurde in jiddischer Sprache seit dem Hochmittelalter. Auf den letzten Blättern gelehrter Bücher finden wir Rezepte, Zaubersprüche und Gebete. Gereimte Epen kursierten in Abschriften zum geselligen Vortrag. Ein Konvolut von 1382 aus Kairo bezeugt, dass Juden mit deutscher Literatur bestens vertraut waren und sie witzig adaptierten. Aus Geldnot begannen findige Unternehmer im frühen 16. Jahrhundert in Krakau, Augsburg und Venedig mit dem Druck jiddischer Bücher. Jetzt hatten auch Frauen und ungelehrte Männer Zugang zur Bibel und den Religionsvorschriften. Deutsche Reformatoren sahen in jiddischen Bibeln eine Gelegenheit zur Judenmission. Doch die Verbreitung jiddischer Bücher schürte nicht die Feuer des Aufbruchs, sondern stärkte den Zusammenhalt der Gemeinschaft. Sie machte die Frauen unabhängiger und selbstbewusster, denn sie kannten nun die Gesetze. Und an langen Sabbatnachmittagen lasen sie von den Abenteuern jüdischer Helden. Susanne Klingenstein erzählt erstmals die spannende Geschichte der frühen jiddischen Literatur: Wer jiddische Literatur liebt, kann nun ihre Anfänge kennenlernen.
Online Deliberation
Can new technology enhance local, national, and global democracy? Online Deliberation is the first book that attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging new connections between academic research, web designers, and practitioners. Since the most exciting innovations in deliberation have occurred outside of traditional institutions, and those involved have often worked in relative isolation from each other, research conducted on this growing field has to this point neglected the full perspective of online participation. This volume, an essential read for those working at the crossroads of computer and social science, illuminates the collaborative world of deliberation by examining diverse clusters of Internet communities.
Richard Wright
African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
