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The Blessed Human Race
Acknowledgements p. vii Preface p. ix I China: Learning to reconsider 1 Baoding Revisited p. 3 2 Beijing Spring p. 9 3 We Flee China p. 17 4 Marx, Money, and Mysticism after Mao p. 25 5 China, Marx, and Islam p. 33 6 Happiness in Chinese Culture p. 43 II Reconsiderations 7 Reconsidering Marx p. 53 8 Reconsidering Salvation through Faith p. 63 9 Reconsidering Abraham p. 71 10 Reconsidering 20th Century Music p. 77 11 Reconsidering The Magic Flute p. 85 12 Reconsidering Cosi Fan Tutte p. 87 13 Reconsidering Shakespeare p. 91 14 Reconsidering Dark Restaurants p. 97 15 Reconsidering Tipping p. 99 16 Reconsidering Wasting Food p. 101 17 Reconsidering Santa Claus p. 105 18 Reconsidering Sports p. 107 19 Reconsidering Gay and Jewish Success p. 109 20 Reconsidering the Human Race p. 113 Index p. 119.
The Three Blessings
In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man thanks God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave. Yoel Kahn traces the history of this prayer from its extra-Jewish origins to the present, demonstrating how different generations and communities understood the significance of these words.Marginalized and persecuted groups used this prayer to mark the boundary between "us" and "them," affirming their own identity and sense of purpose. After the medieval Church seized and burned books it considered offensive, new, coded formulations of the three blessings emerged as forms of spiritual resistance. Book owners voluntarily expurgated the passage to save the books from being destroy...
Language Crossings
This vivid collection explores the fascinating connections between language use, language learning, and one's cultural identity. The essays, many of them by well-known writers, represent a diversity of cultures, ages, and nationalities, making the wide range of viewpoints they present both entertaining and instructional. In a time when issues of cultural identity are constantly explored and hotly debated, this volume illuminates the dynamic interaction between the personal, the political, and the theoretical. It is an essential read in a multicultural world.
Translating Religion
Translations of Hebrew and Aramaic sacred texts into Jewish languages, religiolects, and varieties have been widespread throughout the Jewish world. This volume is a study of the genre of these translations, known as the šarḥ, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum, traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of the sacred texts. Rather than viewing the translation as only verbatim, the study traces in great detail the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled in their work.
Autumn in Brooklyn
The author of WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC and other short story collections has kept a daily diary for forty years, since he was 18 in the summer of 1969. Here are entries from his diary for the autumn of 1978, when he was 27, living in Brooklyn with his family, writing short stories and about to have his first book published by a New York publisher.
Bono Homini Donum
The volume starts with a -- posthumous -- paper by Alexander Kerns, written by Benjamins Schwartz, on the Indo-European tense system. This is followed by a rich array of papers on the reconstruction of older languages, ranging from Indo-European and Afroasiatic to Cretan.
Yiddish & English
"With a collection of quotations from literature and the press, Steinmetz documents the unusually high lexical, semantic, and intonational exchanges between Yiddish and English in America. He offers more than 1,200 Yiddish words, expressions, idioms, and phrases that have melted into the English vernacular.".
