@article{HomolkaPryba2024,
  author    = {Homolka, Walter and Pryba, Andrzej},
  title     = {Preparations for Marriage in the Jewish and Catholic Traditions},
  series = {Religions},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Religions},
  number    = {62},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {2077-1444},
  doi       = {https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010062},
  pages     = {1 -- 14},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {In many churches nowadays, there has been a standardized approach to premarital counseling for couples involving social, pastoral, and psychological perspectives. In contrast, many rabbis and other Jewish officials still concentrate on legal aspects alone. The need for resolving important issues on the verge of wedlock is too often left to secular experts in law, psychology, or counseling. However, in recent years, this lack of formal training for marriage preparation has also been acknowledged by the Jewish clergy in order to incorporate it in the preparatory period before the bond is tied. This case study focuses on Jewish and Roman Catholic conceptions of marriage, past and present. We intend to do a comparative analysis of the prerequisites of religious marriage based on the assumption that both Judaism and the Roman Catholic Church have a distinct legal framework to assess marriage preparation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{LiberatoscioliBorysek2024,
  author    = {Liberatoscioli, Davide and Bor{\´y}sek, Martin},
  title     = {The many faces of early modern Italian Jewry},
  series = {Europ{\"a}isch-j{\"u}dische Studien - Beitr{\"a}ge},
  volume    = {65},
  journal   = {Europ{\"a}isch-j{\"u}dische Studien - Beitr{\"a}ge},
  publisher = {De Gruyter Oldenbourg},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-104915-1},
  pages     = {321},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well as social and economic patterns. The contributions in this volume aim to explore crucial questions concerning the self-perception and identity of early modern Italian Jews from new perspectives and angles.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{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}
}
@article{Hafner2023,
  author    = {Hafner, Johann Evangelist},
  title     = {The abrahamic religions},
  series = {Being an Becoming : Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Mathew Chandrakunnel},
  journal   = {Being an Becoming : Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Mathew Chandrakunnel},
  editor    = {Raja, KCR},
  publisher = {Heritage Publishers},
  address   = {Neu Dehli},
  isbn      = {978-81-7026-542-9},
  pages     = {119 -- 124},
  year      = {2023},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{OPUS4-61714,
  title     = {United in Diversity},
  series = {Europ{\"a}isch-j{\"u}dische Studien - Beitr{\"a}ge},
  volume    = {62},
  journal   = {Europ{\"a}isch-j{\"u}dische Studien - Beitr{\"a}ge},
  editor    = {Menachem Zoufal{\´a}, Marcela and Gl{\"o}ckner, Olaf},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-078310-0},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783110783216},
  pages     = {VII, 242},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and non-Jews, despite or precisely because of the Holocaust trauma? How is the memory of the extermination of 6 million European Jews reflected in memorial events and literature, film, drama, and visual arts media? To what degree do European Jews feel as integrated people, as Europeans per see, and as safe citizens? An interdisciplinary team of historians, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and literary theorists answers these questions for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany. They show that the Holocaust has become an enduring topic in public among Jews and non-Jews. However, Jews in Europe work self-confidently on their future on the "old continent," new alliances, and in cooperation with a broad network of civil forces. Non-Jewish interest in Jewish history and the present has significantly increased over decades, and networks combatting anti-Semitism have strengthened.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Zakrzewski2023,
  author    = {Zakrzewski, Tanja},
  title     = {Identity and violence in early modern Granada},
  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},
  isbn      = {978-1-66691-534-1},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {VII, 245},
  year      = {2023},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Gloeckner2023,
  author    = {Gl{\"o}ckner, Olaf},
  title     = {New Relations in the Making?},
  series = {United in Diversity : Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective},
  journal   = {United in Diversity : Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective},
  publisher = {De Gruyter Oldenbourg},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-078310-0},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783110783216-008},
  pages     = {133 -- 160},
  year      = {2023},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{Schulte2023,
  author    = {Schulte, Christoph},
  title     = {Zimzum},
  series = {Jewish culture and contexts},
  journal   = {Jewish culture and contexts},
  publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
  address   = {Philadelphia},
  isbn      = {978-1-5128-2435-3},
  pages     = {413},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "contraction," "withdrawal," "retreat," "limitation," and "concentration." In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God's self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the sixteenth century, positing that the God who was "Ein-Sof," unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must concentrate himself in the zimzum and withdraw in order to make room for the creation of the world in God's own center. At the same time, God also limits his infinite omnipotence to allow the finite world to arise. Without the zimzum there is no creation, making zimzum one of the basic concepts of Judaism. The Lurianic doctrine of the zimzum has been considered an intellectual showpiece of the Kabbalah and of Jewish philosophy. The teaching of the zimzum has appeared in the Kabbalistic literature across Central and Eastern Europe, perhaps most famously in Hasidic literature up to the present day and in philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem's epoch-making research on Jewish mysticism. The Zimzum has fascinated Jewish and Christian theologians, philosophers, and writers like no other Kabbalistic teaching. This can be seen across the philosophy and cultural history of the twentieth century as it gained prominence among such diverse authors and artists as Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Jonas, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harold Bloom, Barnett Newman, and Anselm Kiefer. This book follows the traces of the zimzum across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over more than four centuries, where Judaism and Christianity, theosophy and philosophy, divine and human, mysticism and literature, Kabbalah and the arts encounter, mix, and cross-fertilize the interpretations and appropriations of this doctrine of God's self-entanglement and limitation},
  language  = {en}
}
@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}
}
@book{OPUS4-64301,
  title     = {Minor perspectives on modernity beyond Europe},
  series = {Gesellschaften und Kulturen des sephardischen Judentums I Sephardic Societies and Cultures},
  volume    = {1},
  journal   = {Gesellschaften und Kulturen des sephardischen Judentums I Sephardic Societies and Cultures},
  editor    = {Hirsch, Jonathan and Attia, Yael and Samson, Kathleen},
  publisher = {Ergon Verlag},
  address   = {Baden-Baden},
  isbn      = {978-3-95650-971-1},
  pages     = {206},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies are often thought to be at odds. Both disciplines intensively debate modernity, troubling its universalist claims and showing the contradictory nature of its promises. The call to provincialize Europe allows scholars from both disciplines to think, articulate and represent modern experiences beyond Europe and engage critically with traditions of modernity across disciplines, temporalities and geographies. Mapping Sephardi and other minor perspectives on modernity from across the globe in this volume, we are presenting fascinating cases and exploring new terrain where a fruitful encounter between Jewish and Postcolonial Studies can happen.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Liberatoscioli2023,
  author    = {Liberatoscioli, Davide},
  title     = {The new testament and the qur'an as depicted in Abraham Silveira's 'Telling' Mute book},
  series = {European Judaism : a journal for the new Europe},
  volume    = {56},
  journal   = {European Judaism : a journal for the new Europe},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Berghahn},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0014-3006},
  doi       = {10.3167/ej.2023.560206},
  pages     = {47 -- 61},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Interfaith controversies and disputes regarding the role of reason in interpreting the Scriptures characterised scholarly discussion in the Low Countries between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jewish author Abraham G{\´o}mez Silveira contributed to this discussion with an eclectic body of literature. This article focuses on his Libro Mudo (Mute Book), which embodies his efforts to present the Jewish religion as the only rational one and the Christian dogma as irrational. In order to corroborate his reading, Silveira mostly bases his argumentation on non-Jewish texts. By selecting passages from the New Testaments, Christian religious commentaries as well as Qur'anic excerpts, Silveira aims to demonstrate that even non-Jewish sources prove the rationality of the Jewish theological system. The novelty of Silveira's approach consists in confuting Christian dogma by accepting the Gospels as reliable historical sources. In this argumentative structure, the Qur'an has a similar although not identical function.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Zakrzewski2023,
  author    = {Zakrzewski, Tanja},
  title     = {Miguel de Luna as arbitrista},
  series = {Hamsa : journal of Judaic and Islamic studies : revista de estudos judaicos e isl{\^a}micos},
  journal   = {Hamsa : journal of Judaic and Islamic studies : revista de estudos judaicos e isl{\^a}micos},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Universidade de {\´E}vora},
  address   = {{\´E}vora},
  issn      = {2183-2633},
  doi       = {10.4000/hamsa.4231},
  pages     = {1 -- 13},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This article deals with Miguel de Luna, a Morisco from Granada, who is most famous for his involvement in the Lead Books of Sacromonte affair. In the following pages I will, however, focus on a facet of his life that has been rather neglected. Rather than recount again his activities as translator for Arabic, I will shed light on his work as physician and claim that his medical paper on the benefits of bathing and the reopening of public baths in Granada may very well put him in league with the arbitristas, a group of intellectuals who advised the monarch in economic and financial matters.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{Borysek2023,
  author    = {Bor{\´y}sek, Martin},
  title     = {Jewish Communal Autonomy and Institutional Memory in Venetian Crete},
  series = {Studies in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {75},
  journal   = {Studies in Jewish History and Culture},
  publisher = {Brill},
  address   = {Leiden},
  isbn      = {978-90-04-54742-1},
  issn      = {1568-5004},
  doi       = {10.1163/9789004547421},
  pages     = {227},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In the first book-length study of Takkanot Kandiyah, Martin Bor{\´y}sek analyses this fascinating corpus of Hebrew texts written between 1228 -1583 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. Collected in the 16th century by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali, the communal byelaws offer a unique perspective on the history of a vibrant, culturally diverse Jewish community during three centuries of Venetian rule. As well as confronting practical problems such as deciding whether Christian wine can be made kosher by adding honey, or stopping irresponsible Jewish youths disturbing religious services by setting off fireworks in the synagogue, Takkanot Kandiyah presents valuable material for the study of communal autonomy and institutional memory in pre-modern Jewish society.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BecciHafner2022,
  author    = {Becci, Irene and Hafner, Johann Evangelist},
  title     = {A New Synagogue, a Garrison Church, and a Mosque},
  series = {Space and Culture},
  volume    = {26},
  journal   = {Space and Culture},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Sage Publications},
  address   = {Thousand Oaks, Calif.},
  issn      = {1552-8308},
  doi       = {10.1177/12063312221134572},
  pages     = {215 -- 228},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {In postsocialist Potsdam, religious diversity has risen surprisingly in public life since 1990 although more than 80\% of the residents have no religious affiliation. City and state authorities have actively embraced issues around immigration and integration as well as the promotion of religious diversity and interreligious dialogue and have linked this to the agenda of rejuvenating the city's religious heritage. For years, negotiations have been going on about the need of a mosque, the reconstructions of a synagogue and the so-called "Garrison Church," a landmark military church building. These initiatives have been dominating the public space for different reasons. They implied, beyond religion, questions of memory, identity, immigration, and culture. This article puts these three cases into perspective to offer a nuanced understanding of the importance of religious spaces in secular contexts considering city politics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KosmanHadad2022,
  author    = {Kosman, Admiʾel and Hadad, Yemima},
  title     = {The societal role of the man of spirit according to Martin Buber},
  series = {Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion : HUCA},
  volume    = {91},
  journal   = {Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion : HUCA},
  publisher = {College},
  address   = {Cincinnati},
  issn      = {0360-9049},
  doi       = {10.15650/hebruniocollannu.91.2020.0207},
  pages     = {207 -- 259},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This study offers a view into Buber's conception of the social role of the "person of spirit" - the individual who, in other contexts, would be called philosopher, thinker, or intellectual.A key element of the person of spirit's role, according to Buber, is the evaluation of social reality - judging the public's ability to be guided by the realm of the spirit at any given hour while responding to the challenges that this particular hour may present. The person of spirit is required to constantly mediate between "heaven" and "earth" - between the ideal and reality - even if in a particular situation the moral action which has to be taken can only be partial, and will fall short of the absolute demand of the spirit.Buber emphasizes that the influence of the spirit on reality always begins with an effort of the "person of spirit" to transform him or herself from a monological to a dialogical person. Without a dialogical affinity between the person of spirit and their community, there can be no real effect of the spirit on reality.The person of spirit is, therefore, according to Buber, fully involved in the social life of the community. Our study shows that Buber shaped this figure of the "person of spirit" by combining the model of the biblical prophet, who is sent to the people, with the model of the Hasidic leader who acts according to the principle of the "Descent of the Zaddik." The person of spirit is required to live their life in a "Thou" relationship with their community, and is therefore frequently descending from an elevated spiritual level to the level of the people, in order to empathetically share their mundane worries, fears, and afflictions.By comparing the models of the biblical prophet and the Hassidic Zaddik to the model of the Greek prophetes and Plato's philosopher-king, we can, according to Buber, reflect on the role of the person of spirit in society in our time as well.},
  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}
}
@article{Borysek2022,
  author    = {Bor{\´y}sek, Martin},
  title     = {In search of ovidian hebrew},
  series = {Acta Universitatis Carolinae : AUC},
  journal   = {Acta Universitatis Carolinae : AUC},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Karolinum Press},
  address   = {Prag},
  issn      = {0567-8269},
  doi       = {10.14712/24646830.2022.11},
  pages     = {29 -- 56},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This paper focuses on the first substantial translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into modern Hebrew, whose author was Yehoshua Friedman (1885-1934). The first part of the paper sets Friedman into the context of modern Hebrew classical philology and explores the character of his verse. The core of the text consists of three case studies of selected excerpts from Ovid's story of Apollo and Daphne (Met. I, 456-465; 481-482; 545-552). Based on detailed linguistic and stylistic analysis of these texts, I argue that Friedman did not simply adopt a pre-existing linguistic register, but rather created an original Ovidian idiom that helped to win him lasting significance in the history of Hebrew translations from classical languages.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{HeywoodJones2021,
  author    = {Heywood Jones, David},
  title     = {Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau},
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-030-46234-5},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-46235-2},
  pages     = {viii, 264},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. The story of Moses Hirschel offers us an excellent case-study to investigate the complex reciprocal relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish enlighteners in a prosperous and influential Central European city on the cusp of the 18th century.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Hadad2021,
  author    = {Hadad, Yemima},
  title     = {Gilgul of Meaning},
  series = {Azimuth : philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Azimuth : philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {Inschibboleth Edizioni},
  address   = {Roma},
  isbn      = {978-88-5529-285-6},
  issn      = {2282-4863},
  pages     = {105 -- 128},
  year      = {2021},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Dershowitz2021,
  author    = {Dershowitz, Idan},
  title     = {The valediction of Moses},
  series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft},
  volume    = {133},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0044-2526},
  doi       = {10.1515/zaw-2021-0001},
  pages     = {1 -- 22},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Wilhelm Moses Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy fragments have long been deemed forgeries, with Shapira himself serving as the obvious suspect. I provide new evidence that Shapira did not forge the fragments and was himself convinced of their authenticity. Indeed, the evidence for forgery is illusory. In a companion monograph, I show that the Shapira fragments are not only authentic ancient artifacts but are unprecedented in their significance: They preserve a pre-canonical antecedent of the Book of Deuteronomy.},
  language  = {en}
}