@book{RauschenbachSchapkow2023, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina and Schapkow, Carsten}, title = {Sephardic History Beyond Europe}, volume = {8}, editor = {Rauschenbach, Sina and Hirsch, Jonathan and Schapkow, Carsten}, publisher = {Hentrich \& Hentrich}, address = {Berlin, Leipzig}, isbn = {978-3-95565-635-5}, pages = {164}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This year's edition of the Yearbook of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (ZJS) highlights innovative approaches to the study of Sephardic history in colonial and postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The authors intertwine the particularities of their case studies with reflections on patterns of belonging, memorial cultures, and a transnational network of connections spanning from early modern times to the twentieth century. In the context of the early modern Atlantic world, two essays explore the notion of a Sephardic empire among Portuguese Jewish communities as well as transatlantic entanglements in and beyond the Danish Caribbean. In the frameworks of Spain as well as (post-)colonial Egypt and Morocco, three articles reflect on Jewish citizenship, modes of belonging, and present-day commemorative events of Jewish history across the Mediterranean and beyond. These collected contributions are the outcome of activities at the ZJS dedicated to Sephardic Studies during the academic year 2020—21.}, language = {en} } @article{Rauschenbach2021, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Confessional divides, cross-confessional connections, and Jewish responses}, series = {Studia Rosenthaliana : journal of the history, culture and heritage of the jews in the Netherlands}, volume = {47}, journal = {Studia Rosenthaliana : journal of the history, culture and heritage of the jews in the Netherlands}, number = {1}, publisher = {Peeters}, address = {Leuven}, issn = {1783-1792}, doi = {10.5117/SR2021.1.001.RAUS}, pages = {1 -- 26}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Studies in the Jewish reception of Christian theological discussions beyond the proper field of polemics are rare and only in their beginnings. Until now, scholars have often argued that Portuguese Jews discussed Christian concepts of divine foreknowledge and human free will because they were either struggling with their own Christian past or sought to help their 'New Jewish' coreligionists to turn into reliable members of the Amsterdam Sephardic community. This article uses the example of the Catholic Controversia de auxiliis, and the Protestant fight over Predestination before and after the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) to argue that Portuguese Jews such as Menasseh ben Israel and Daniel Levi de Barrios recognised the cross-confessional dimension of the Christian debates on divine grace; they used their Iberian background and knowledge to order and explain what they observed; and they displayed their position as outsiders to deconstruct religious boundaries, imagine alternative religious landscapes, and finally re-insert themselves into their newly created religious maps and orders. The argument is based on a close reading of one chapter of the last volume of Menasseh ben Israel's Conciliador (1651) as well as Daniel Levi de Barrios's poem Libre Alvedrio y Harmonia del Cuerpo, por disposicion del alma (1680).}, language = {en} } @article{Rauschenbach2021, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Sephardim and Ashkenazim}, series = {Sephardim and Ashkenazim}, journal = {Sephardim and Ashkenazim}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Oldenburg}, isbn = {978-3-11-069530-4}, doi = {10.1515/9783110695410-001}, pages = {1 -- 22}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @book{Rauschenbach, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Judaism for Christians}, series = {Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory}, journal = {Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory}, publisher = {Lexington Books}, address = {Lanham, Boulder, New York, London}, isbn = {978-1-4985-7296-5}, pages = {IX, 265}, language = {en} } @misc{Rauschenbach2020, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Rezension zu: Totzeck, Markus M.: Die politischen Gesetze des Mose. Entstehung und Einfl{\"u}sse der politia-judaica-Literatur in der Fr{\"u}hen Neuzeit. - G{\"o}ttingen: Vandenhoeck \& Ruprecht, 2019. - ISBN 978-3-525-57073-9}, series = {Grotiana}, volume = {41}, journal = {Grotiana}, number = {1}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, issn = {0167-3831}, doi = {10.1163/18760759-04101013}, pages = {251 -- 254}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{Rauschenbach2021, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Rezension zu: Forced conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam: coercion and faith in premodern Iberia and beyond / Hrsg.: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal ; Yonatan Glazer-Eytan - Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020. - Pp. xiv + 418. - (Numen Book Series, 164.). - ISBN: 978-90-04-41681-9 ; ISSN: 0169-8834}, series = {The journal of ecclesiastical history}, volume = {72}, journal = {The journal of ecclesiastical history}, number = {2}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-90-04-41681-9}, issn = {0022-0469}, doi = {10.1017/S0022046920002778}, pages = {402 -- 404}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @incollection{Rauschenbach2022, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Carvajal and the Franciscans}, series = {Apocalypse Now}, booktitle = {Apocalypse Now}, editor = {Tricoire, Damien and Laborie, Lionel}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {Abingdon, New York}, isbn = {978-1-00-308105-0}, doi = {10.4324/9781003081050-9}, pages = {22}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Luis de Carvajal the Younger (1567-1596) is without doubt one of the most famous victims of the Mexican Inquisition. In 1595, Luis and his family were found guilty of "Judaizing" and sentenced to death. Due to his autobiography and letters which survived in the dossiers of his trials, scholars have been able to trace important aspects of Carvajal's life, his religious thought, and his self-fashioning as a Jewish martyr. However, one question that has not yet been entirely discussed is Carvajal's messianism in the context of New World geographies and influences. This chapter uses Carvajal's autobiography, his letters, and his declarations during the trials to analyze the meaning of "the Americas" in Carvajal's eschatological thought and to reflect upon possible influences from Mexican Franciscans and Christian millenarians with whom Carvajal was in contact between 1590 and 1595. It places Carvajal's case in the broader context of recent studies of "converso messianism" and Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern eschatological and millenarian settings. It thus contributes to the exploration of entanglements between Jewish and Christian eschatological expectations in the early modern Atlantic World.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Rauschenbach2024, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Presentism and the denial of coevalness}, series = {Von Neuem: Tradition und Novation in der Vormoderne}, volume = {GRM-Beiheft 113}, booktitle = {Von Neuem: Tradition und Novation in der Vormoderne}, editor = {Huss, Bernhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter GmbH}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-8663-4}, doi = {10.33675/2024-82538663}, pages = {195 -- 211}, year = {2024}, abstract = {In Time and the Other Johannes Fabian analysed how modern conceptions of time were "not only secularized and naturalized but also thoroughly spatialized." According to Fabian, this was particularly visible in modern anthropology which "promoted a scheme in terms of which not only past cultures but all living societies were irrevocably placed on a temporal slope, a stream of Time - some upstream, others downstream."3 Anthropologists attributed otherness to a distant past which was traditionally associated with cultural retardation, i.e. a lower degree of development, progress, and civilization. Cultural difference was expressed in terms of temporal distance while temporal distance was attributed to spatial remoteness. The result was a phenomenon that Fabian coined "the denial of coevalness" which pointed towards "a persistent and systematic tendency to place the referent(s) of anthropology in a Time other than the present of the producer of anthropological discourse.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Rauschenbach2023, author = {Rauschenbach, Sina}, title = {Vor der Gewalt}, series = {Religionsgespr{\"a}che und Religionspolemik im Mittelalter}, volume = {96}, booktitle = {Religionsgespr{\"a}che und Religionspolemik im Mittelalter}, editor = {Reinle, Christine}, publisher = {Jan Thorbecke Verlag}, address = {Ostfildern}, isbn = {978-3-7995-6898-2}, pages = {273 -- 295}, year = {2023}, language = {de} }