{"results":[{"id":"ss_f7e00a76a04d5c656977fa1ab9ebded45c6f9aad","title":"German Jews Beyond Judaism","authors":[{"name":"G. Mosse"}],"abstract":"Preface I. A Cultural Emancipation II. German Jews and German Popular Culture III. Intellectual Authority and Scholarship IV. A Left-Wing Identity V. The End and a New Beginning? Notes Index","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"doi":"10.2307/j.ctt16rpqnk","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f7e00a76a04d5c656977fa1ab9ebded45c6f9aad","is_open_access":true,"citations":94,"published_at":"","score":71.82},{"id":"doaj_https://doi.org/10.57928/5k6k-m932","title":"A Name is Like a Talisman: A Jewish Family’s Cosmopolitan Journey Through Diaspora","authors":[{"name":"Whatley, Katherine G.T."}],"abstract":"This article tells the story of a diasporic Jewish family across generations, continents, and languages through a shared name—Katherine—showing how names serve as talismans, linking present and past. Centered on the author’s grandmother, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who lived in Europe and Australia, and the author, raised in Japan, it explores how Jewish names act as markers of memory, identity, politics, and religion. The author argues that Jewish naming rituals reflect the diasporic, cosmopolitan nature of prewar Jewish society. She examines tensions between assimilation and non-assimilation, secularism and mysticism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, advocating for a renewed sense of multilingual, cosmopolitan Jewish identity. Drawing on Judaism, Buddhism, and esoteric mysticism, the author presents multilingualism and cosmopolitanism as inherent strengths of Jewish diasporic life—and as vital in today’s world. Through her own translational upbringing and family history, she offers a deeply personal narrative intertwined with 20th-century upheavals and calls for a revival of prewar Jewish cosmopolitanism.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Social sciences (General)","Fine Arts","Literature (General)"],"doi":"https://doi.org/10.57928/5k6k-m932","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/10822/1100961","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"ss_f777d74bd354292afa49a978b5bccf06cb8184c8","title":"The Territorial Dimension of Judaism","authors":[{"name":"W. 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To contrast the universal patterns and particularities of the cases of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the issue includes two contributions analysing Spain and Britain. Together, the articles provide empirical in-depth knowledge of the character and dissemination of conspiracist antisemitism in a particular time and within a particular region. Our aim is to expand the general knowledge of conspiracism as a historical phenomenon through the prism of antisemitism. In the introduction, we present the conditions of historical antisemitism in each case study as well as the conceptual framework of this issue, focusing on terms such as conspiracism, conspiracy and conspiracy theories. We argue that antisemitism can be interpreted as a longue-durée conspiracist tradition, marked by a dialectic interaction between continuity and dynamic changes.\n","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Judaism"],"doi":"10.30752/nj.142243","url":"https://journal.fi/nj/article/view/142243","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.3989/sefarad.023-007","title":"Adoption of the tri-radical root system among Iberian Exegetes, acceptance and rejection. The case of Moses ibn Chiquitilla","authors":[{"name":"Daniel Isaac"}],"abstract":"\nThis article looks at the role of formal grammatical analysis in the writings of Moses ibn Chiquitilla; tracing the adoption of triliteralism among grammarians in Iberia. One of the enduring difficulties of recounting a history of the major developments in the study of Hebrew grammar is the patchwork nature of the material available. With the availability of the Firkovitch collection at the Russian National Library (RNL), source material from the 11th-century grammarian, translator, and exegete, Moses ibn Chiquitilla, is now available. Of what little survives of Ibn Chiquitilla’s writings, a large portion of his biblical commentary on Psalms is preserved in one manuscript, Evr-Arab. I 3583 alongside smaller portions belonging to other libraries. In this article, I trace the development of debates among grammarians as portrayed in the writings of Ibn Chiquitilla. I reach the conclusion that among the circles of grammarians in Saragossa in the 11th and 12th centuries, Ibn Chiquitilla tends towards the opinions of Judah Ḥayyūj, accepting the theoretical underpinnings of his system of grammar. He rejects any except\n","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Philology. Linguistics","Judaism"],"doi":"10.3989/sefarad.023-007","url":"https://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/view/1187","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.3390/rel13020155","title":"Supersessionism: Admit and Address Rather than Debate or Deny","authors":[{"name":"Amy-Jill Levine"}],"abstract":"Supersessionism, in the sense of advancing upon and thereby replacing an anterior tradition, is intrinsic to both Jewish and Christian identity. The move forward is to acknowledge it rather than debate or deny it, and then to determine how its presence does not preclude positive roles for the superseded group. Because Christian supersessionism is today a primary interest in inter-religious dialogue, this article focuses on how it has been and might be approached. Attempts to deny supersessionism in the New Testament must be based in hermeneutics since historical-critical exegesis cannot secure this conclusion. Today, interest in Christian supersessionism is driven not only by theological concerns but also factors concerning identity, including the role of messianic Judaism in Church communities; approaches to Zionism, the “scandal of particularity,” ethnic identity, and debates over cultural appropriation.","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Religions. Mythology. Rationalism"],"doi":"10.3390/rel13020155","url":"https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/2/155","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"ss_b7a662c109ad97b941baef975847d6102f09f747","title":"Ancient Judaism","authors":[{"name":"S. Parks"},{"name":"S. Sheinfeld"},{"name":"M. Warren"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2021,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.4324/9781351005982-5","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b7a662c109ad97b941baef975847d6102f09f747","is_open_access":true,"citations":26,"published_at":"","score":65.78},{"id":"ss_1bb8e9fe70aab2f6b0c2a6babde6ae68c485e209","title":"The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism","authors":[{"name":"Jason A. Staples"}],"abstract":"In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impacted Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about Israelite identity in antiquity, his argument is based on a close analysis of a vast corpus of biblical and other early Jewish literature and material evidence. Staples demonstrates that continued aspirations for Israel's restoration in the context of diaspora and imperial domination remained central to Jewish conceptions of Israelite identity throughout the final centuries before Christianity and even into the early part of the Common Era. He also shows that Israelite identity was more diverse in antiquity than is typically appreciated in modern scholarship. His book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the so-called 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity and how earliest Christianity itself grew out of hopes for Israel's restoration.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2021,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"doi":"10.1017/9781108906524","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1bb8e9fe70aab2f6b0c2a6babde6ae68c485e209","is_open_access":true,"citations":17,"published_at":"","score":65.50999999999999},{"id":"ss_18f6dba0302c5ae28af388e504ad4052db9e836e","title":"6. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective","authors":[{"name":"J. Plaskow"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":["Sociology"],"doi":"10.1515/9781644693629-060","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/18f6dba0302c5ae28af388e504ad4052db9e836e","is_open_access":true,"citations":43,"published_at":"","score":65.28999999999999},{"id":"doaj_10.37680/adabiya.v16i1.703","title":"Cinta dan Identitas Agama: Tinjauan Konsep Cinta Erich Fromm dalam Novel Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah","authors":[{"name":"Imam Wicaksono"}],"abstract":"\nThis study aims to reveal the symptoms, forms, and purposes of love of the characters in the novel Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah, and how they behave when their love for fellow human beings is hindered by the boundaries of their religion (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) thus resulting in conflict and opposition within the novel environment. This research is a literature study by analyzing Arabic literary works in the form of novels and used Erich Fromm's psychosocial approach to the concept of love. The novel Fi Qalbi Untsa 'Ibriyyah presents the characters who initially live in a peaceful atmosphere and love each other, then the love turned into conflict after their different religious identities are unveiled. The characters have two choices: either following their feelings of love for humanity regardless religious identity or leaving their love by reason of obeying religious boundaries as a form of love for God. Research becomes important when it is found that love that departs from feelings of personal liking without seeing social ties can actually lead to many conflicts when it comes to meeting religious identity and its boundaries.\n\r\n\nPenelitian bertujuan mengungkap gejala, bentuk, dan tujuan perasaan cinta tokoh-tokoh dalam novel Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah, serta bagaimana mereka bersikap ketika perasaan cinta kepada sesama manusia terhalang oleh batasan agama yang mereka anut (Yahudi, Islam, dan Kristen) sehingga mengakibatkan konflik dan pertentangan di antara mereka. Penelitian ini berbentuk studi pustaka dengan melakukan analisis terhadap karya sastra Arab yang berbentuk novel serta menggunakan pendekatan psikososial Erich Fromm tentang konsep cinta, dimana Fromm berpandangan bahwa cinta merupakan solusi dari semua permasalahan manusia. Fi Qalbi Untsa ‘Ibriyyah menampilkan kehidupan para tokoh yang awalnya dalam suasana damai saling mencintai tanpa melihat identitas agama, tetapi kemudian cinta mereka berubah menjadi konflik setelah mengetahui perbedaan agama di antara mereka. Para tokoh memiliki dua pilihan, antara mengikuti perasaan cinta kepada manusia tanpa memandang identitas agama atau melepaskan rasa cinta tersebut dengan alasan menaati batasan agama sebagai wujud cinta kepada Tuhan. Penelitian menjadi penting ketika ditemukan fakta bahwa cinta yang berangkat dari perasaan suka kepada personal tanpa melihat ikatan sosial ternyata bisa melahirkan banyak konflik ketika bertemu dengan identitas agama beserta batasan-batasannya.\n","source":"DOAJ","year":2021,"language":"","subjects":["Islam","Social Sciences"],"doi":"10.37680/adabiya.v16i1.703","url":"https://ejournal.insuriponorogo.ac.id/index.php/adabiya/article/view/703","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":65},{"id":"ss_76e6e70963dd4bda31e743e0c0ba5076b6f73766","title":"Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism","authors":[{"name":"M. Zahn"}],"abstract":"List of Figures page vi List of Tables vii Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations x","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"doi":"10.1017/9781108769983","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/76e6e70963dd4bda31e743e0c0ba5076b6f73766","pdf_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AFA551553F57D82EC7D409C5B98F9064/9781108477581c1_28-55.pdf/rewriting_revision_and_reuse.pdf","is_open_access":true,"citations":27,"published_at":"","score":64.81},{"id":"ss_6df84f7d280b1458d3b6cfe271fe6e74f29c4f24","title":"Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters","authors":[{"name":"Walter T. Wilson"},{"name":"A. Angelini"},{"name":"F. Michele"},{"name":"Eric Reymond"},{"name":"Thierry Daniel Murcia"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1bd4n9z","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6df84f7d280b1458d3b6cfe271fe6e74f29c4f24","is_open_access":true,"citations":21,"published_at":"","score":64.63},{"id":"ss_0d18ed5b22ca3d1a428507d57c739e6d4c3e0bb6","title":"The Principles of Judaism","authors":[{"name":"Samuel Lebens"}],"abstract":"In this book Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as they were proposed in the fifteenth century by Rabbi Joseph Albo, and seeks to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world out of nothing? Could such a world be anything more than a figment of God’s imagination? What is the Torah, and what must a person believe before it would make sense to treat it as Orthodox Judaism does? What does Judaism expect from a Messiah, and what would it mean for a world to be redeemed? These questions are explored in conversation with a wide array of Jewish sources—the Bible, Philo, the rabbis of the Mishna and Talmud, the medieval rationalists and mystics, the Hassidim, and more, with an eye towards diverse fields of contemporary research, such as cosmology, logic, the ontology of literature, and the metaphysics of time. This book is an attempt to articulate the most fundamental axioms of Orthodox Judaism in the vernacular of contemporary philosophy.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":["Philosophy"],"doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843252.001.0001","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0d18ed5b22ca3d1a428507d57c739e6d4c3e0bb6","pdf_url":"https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780198843252.pdf","is_open_access":true,"citations":20,"published_at":"","score":64.6},{"id":"ss_dcfc8c13367c83dd155b639f4999fc4547f1f443","title":"Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion","authors":[{"name":"D. Boyarin"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2018,"language":"en","subjects":["Philosophy"],"doi":"10.2307/j.ctt2111gsh","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/dcfc8c13367c83dd155b639f4999fc4547f1f443","is_open_access":true,"citations":57,"published_at":"","score":63.71},{"id":"ss_8222a4fe6dcc9b6959caec2949901713b3b3f9d4","title":"Christian anti-Judaism and early object relations theory","authors":[{"name":"M. Hewitt"}],"abstract":"The central ideas of early object relations theory are heavily inflected with Christian anti-Judaism, particularly as found in the work of Ian Dishart Suttie, now credited as the founder of this tradition. The critique of Freud launched by Suttie repudiates Freudian theory as a “disease” inextricably connected to Freud being a Jew. Suttie’s portrayal of Judaism both conforms to and replicates those theological commitments that privilege a triumphalist, supersessionist Christianity that breaks with Judaism, understood as devoid of love, ethics, and social justice interests. The paper argues that the elements organizing the central concepts that structure Suttie’s Christian prejudice constitute distorting ideological interests that circulate and shape important strands of contemporary object relations theory. Central to the authors discussed is a repudiation of Freud’s theory of unconscious drives on the basis of privileging love and intersubjectivity as the motivators of human psychological development made possible by Jesus and Christianity. The paper demonstrates that contemporary object relations theory remains heavily indebted to Suttie while remaining oblivious to his explicit anti-Judaism.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2018,"language":"en","subjects":["Philosophy"],"doi":"10.1177/2050303218800378","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8222a4fe6dcc9b6959caec2949901713b3b3f9d4","is_open_access":true,"citations":54,"published_at":"","score":63.62},{"id":"ss_fb93935552cafd047a453654ed8c348bff54e41a","title":"American Judaism","authors":[{"name":"J. Sarna"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["Philosophy"],"doi":"10.2307/j.ctvhrczf4","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fb93935552cafd047a453654ed8c348bff54e41a","is_open_access":true,"citations":20,"published_at":"","score":63.6},{"id":"ss_6f651fd7a82325822d649d448162e98af438a9af","title":"Creating an embodied queer Judaism: liturgy, ritual and sexuality at San Francisco’s Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, 1977–1987","authors":[{"name":"G. Drinkwater"}],"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gay and lesbian synagogues, unique to the American religious landscape, first appeared in the early 1970s. At the height of the gay synagogue movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, over two dozen such congregations met the spiritual needs of gay and lesbian Jews across the United States. As they grew and expanded, these synagogues incubated a new “queer Judaism” centred on innovative rituals, liturgy, and embodied practices grounded in gay and lesbian (and later, also bisexual and transgender) experiences. In this essay, I offer a 10-year case study of the development of queer Judaism at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav (CSZ), San Francisco’s gay and lesbian synagogue, founded in 1977. Within the landscape of gay and lesbian synagogues, CSZ stands out for being founded in San Francisco when that city was the capital of American gay culture. Inspired by the Gay Liberation Movement and the flowering of grassroots Jewish community organizing in the late 1960s and 1970s, the founders of CSZ asserted a right to difference, building and promoting links between Judaism, sexuality, gender, and identity. In this context, CSZ helped build a queer, sex-positive Judaism that celebrated and politicized sexual minorities, created new forms of chosen family, and fostered an ethic of egalitarian and lay-led inclusiveness.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["Sociology"],"doi":"10.1080/14725886.2019.1593687","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6f651fd7a82325822d649d448162e98af438a9af","is_open_access":true,"citations":16,"published_at":"","score":63.48},{"id":"ss_8fcd7e061e8f6c3e2faeeeb16f29734a9db37f14","title":"Who Is a Jew (in Africa)? Definitional and Ethical Considerations in the Study of Sub-Saharan Jewry and Judaism","authors":[{"name":"William F. S. Miles"}],"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent decades, the fulcrum of African Jewry has shifted from long-established Ethiopian communities to emerging ones in West and Central Africa. This transition from “old” to “new” expressions of Judaism in Africa reanimates the question, “Who is a Jew?” The matter is problematized by the existence of multiple and diverse communities who purport Israelite lineage but eschew normative Judaism. This article offers a “concentric circles” model to bring conceptual and theological clarity to this issue. The outer circle or ring includes African “tribes” (as the term is used by African themselves) that claim ancient Hebrew lineage but still subscribe to institutionalized Christianity (Protestant or Catholic) or indigenous belief systems (animist or ancestral), or a combination of these. A middle circle or ring encompasses groups that have modified their practices and beliefs to resemble Jewish or Israelite religion but in fundamentally non-normative ways (e.g., practicing priestly sacrifice or retaining Jesus Christ as a Messianic touchstone). The core ring represents those African communities that do adopt normative Judaism, albeit with Africanized accretions. Some scholarly consensus regarding the legitimacy of wide-ranging claims to Jewish identity in Black Africa is critical to the analytical and ethical integrity of the study of African Judaism.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"doi":"10.1080/21520844.2019.1565199","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8fcd7e061e8f6c3e2faeeeb16f29734a9db37f14","is_open_access":true,"citations":13,"published_at":"","score":63.39}],"total":70650,"page":1,"page_size":20,"sources":["DOAJ","CrossRef","Semantic Scholar"],"query":"Judaism"}