@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} } @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} } @incollection{Schneider2023, author = {Schneider, Ulrike}, title = {Die Verpflichtung zum aufrichtigen Erz{\"a}hlen}, series = {Ausgeblendet Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, booktitle = {Ausgeblendet Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, editor = {Haselberg, Lea and Praetorius-Rhein, Johannes and Riedel, Erik and Wenzel, Mirjam}, publisher = {Hanser}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-446-27834-9}, pages = {232 -- 235}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @misc{OPUS4-64707, title = {Themenheft: Das Fremde im Eigenen - das Eigene im Fremden}, series = {Aschkenas : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Geschichte und Kultur der Juden}, volume = {33}, journal = {Aschkenas : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Geschichte und Kultur der Juden}, number = {2}, editor = {Schneider, Ulrike and Jurewicz, Grażyna}, publisher = {DeGruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1016-4987}, pages = {417}, year = {2023}, abstract = {In terms of historiographical potential and literary value, depictions of the lives of others are considered inferior to autobiographies. One finds autobiographies, which promise to provide exclusive insights into the historical inner worlds, epistemically more revealing. While their study has become a very important part of Jewish Studies, investigations into the life stories of others represent a notable research gap. This issue takes this remarkable bias in the perception of the two genres within Jewish Studies as its starting point. The contributions gathered here interrogate historical examples of biographical narrative with the aim of unlocking its historiographical potentials and thus highlighting the relevance of biographical writing for the study of Jewish cultures.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Schneider2023, author = {Schneider, Ulrike}, title = {Thomas Brasch (1945- 2001)}, series = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, booktitle = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, editor = {Haselberg, Lea and Praetorius-Rhein, Johannes and Riedel, Erik and Wenzel, Mirjam}, publisher = {Hanser}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-446-27834-9}, pages = {202 -- 205}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @incollection{Schneider2023, author = {Schneider, Ulrike}, title = {Karl Fruchtmann (1915-2003)}, series = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, booktitle = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, publisher = {Hanser}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-446-27834-9}, pages = {116 -- 121}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @incollection{Schneider2023, author = {Schneider, Ulrike}, title = {Jurek Becker (1937?-1997)}, series = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, booktitle = {Ausgeblendet - Eingeblendet : eine j{\"u}dische Filmgeschichte der Bundesrepublik}, publisher = {Hanser}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {978-3-446-27834-9}, pages = {214 -- 215}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @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} } @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} } @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} } @book{Schulte2023, author = {Schulte, Christoph}, title = {Zimzum}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, address = {Philadelphia}, isbn = {978-1-5128-2436-0}, doi = {10.9783/9781512824360}, pages = {424}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Zimzum is the kabbalistic idea that God created the world by limiting his omnipresence. Zimzum originated in the teachings of the sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria and here, Christoph Schulte follows its traces across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over four centuries. 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} } @incollection{Salzer2023, author = {Salzer, Dorothea M.}, title = {"God Is Not Just One People's God, Not a National God, But the Only God of All Nations"}, series = {Religious knowledge and positioning - the case of nineteenth-century educational media}, volume = {3}, booktitle = {Religious knowledge and positioning - the case of nineteenth-century educational media}, editor = {K{\"a}bisch, David and von der Krone, Kerstin and Wiese, Christian}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-079590-5}, doi = {10.1515/9783110795905-009}, pages = {117 -- 132}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-64267, 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{OPUS4-64382, title = {Quellen zur j{\"u}dischen Geschichte im Heiligen R{\"o}mischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten}, edition = {2. {\"u}berarbeitet}, publisher = {B{\"o}hlau}, address = {Wien}, isbn = {978-3-205-21788-6}, doi = {10.7767/9783205218760}, pages = {240}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Der systematische Erwerb von Kenntnissen im Umgang mit Quellen in j{\"u}dischen Sprachen ist im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ein Desideratum. Das vorliegende Buch liefert hierzu eine praktische Einf{\"u}hrung. Die ausgew{\"a}hlten handschriftlichen und gedruckten Quellen dokumentieren j{\"u}dische Geschichte von der Fr{\"u}hen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert in vier j{\"u}dischen Sprachen - Hebr{\"a}isch, Jiddisch, Judendeutsch und Judenspanisch. Neben der jeweils als Faksimile wiedergegebenen Quelle werden eine Transkription und eine deutsche {\"U}bersetzung geboten. Das Buch erm{\"o}glicht nicht nur einen Einstieg in die Quellenkunde, insbesondere die Pal{\"a}ographie, sondern durch Kurzbeschreibungen der Texte auch einen Einblick in die Geschichte der Juden im Heiligen R{\"o}mischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten. Das Lehrbuch liegt nun in einer {\"u}berarbeiteten Neuauflage vor.}, language = {de} } @misc{Hecht2023, author = {Hecht, Louise}, title = {Review : {\"O}sterreichs friedlicher Kreuzzug 1839-1917 : Das Heilige Land in Außenpolitik, Gesellschaft und Mentalit{\"a}ten der Habsburgermonarchie by Barbara Haider-Wilson}, series = {Austrian Studies}, volume = {30}, journal = {Austrian Studies}, publisher = {Modern Humanities Research Association}, address = {London}, issn = {2222-4262}, doi = {10.1353/aus.2022.0000}, pages = {214 -- 216}, year = {2023}, abstract = {On his journey to the 'Orient' in 1856, the cultural entrepreneur from Vienna Ludwig August Frankl (1810-94) discussed the recent Hatt-{\i}-H{\"u}mayun, the new constitution promulgated by Sultan Abd{\"u}lmecid I for the Ottoman Empire, with a Turkish state official. Frankl said that the European nations wondered whether the Ottoman Empire would be able to enact this revolutionary legislation, especially given the fact that they themselves had not yet implemented the full emancipation of religious minorities in their countries. 'Equal rights for all religions,' he exclaimed. 'While England orders this legislation for an, Your Mightiness will excuse the common expression, uncivilized nation, they do not comply with it in their own Parliament' (Ludwig August Frankl, Nach Jerusalem! (1858), i, 191). While criticizing England's hypocritical policy, Frankl, as an Austrian Jew, was actually referring to the discriminatory legislation against Jews in his own country, the Habsburg Monarchy. European Jews, whose legal emancipation had been postponed since the eighteenth century, were in awe of the Ottoman reforms that fundamentally reversed the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims with the stroke of a pen. The chequered relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the European powers, or more precisely, the Habsburg Monarchy, from the nineteenth century until the First World War, is the topic of Barbara Haider-Wilson's comprehensive study {\"O}sterreichs friedlicher Kreuzzug 1839-1917.}, language = {de} } @article{Behrendt2023, author = {Behrendt, Marie Ch.}, title = {Die {\"O}ffentlichkeitsarbeit des Council of Jews from Germany in deutsch-j{\"u}dischen Nachkriegsperiodika}, series = {On the transcultural nature of jewish periodicals : interconnectivity and entanglements}, volume = {84}, journal = {On the transcultural nature of jewish periodicals : interconnectivity and entanglements}, editor = {Marten-Finnis, Susanne and Nagel, Michael and Leo Baeck Institut London,}, publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-16-162044-7}, issn = {2569-4383}, doi = {10.1628/978-3-16-162252-6}, pages = {251 -- 274}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @book{Salzer2023, author = {Salzer, Dorothea M.}, title = {Mit der Bibel in die Moderne}, series = {Studia Judaica}, volume = {122}, journal = {Studia Judaica}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Boston}, isbn = {978-3-11-074874-1}, issn = {0585-5306}, doi = {10.1515/9783110748741}, pages = {367}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts entwickelte sich im Zuge der j{\"u}dischen Aufkl{\"a}rung erstmals eine explizit an ein kindliches Lesepublikum gerichtete Literatur. Den j{\"u}dischen Aufkl{\"a}rern galt die verst{\"a}rkte Auseinandersetzung mit der Hebr{\"a}ischen Bibel als M{\"o}glichkeit, an j{\"u}dische Traditionen anzukn{\"u}pfen, gleichzeitig aber auch neuen Vorstellungen und Erwartungen, die von j{\"u}discher und nichtj{\"u}discher Seite an ein modernes Judentum gestellt wurden, gerecht zu werden. Daher geh{\"o}rten Kinderbibeln, die eine Auswahl an oftmals {\"u}berarbeiteten Texten der Hebr{\"a}ischen Bibel bieten, zu den ersten solcher Werke, die ver{\"o}ffentlicht wurden. Im 19. Und dem fr{\"u}hen 20. Jahrhundert entwickelte sich die J{\"u}dische Kinderbibel zur erfolgreichsten Gattung j{\"u}disch-religi{\"o}ser Bildungsmedien. Auswahl und Bearbeitung der Texte folgten dabei bestimmten p{\"a}dagogischen, philosophischen und religi{\"o}sen Anliegen und waren auf ein konkretes Lesepublikum abgestimmt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht diese Werke als Quelle gesellschaftlicher und religi{\"o}ser Transfer-, Transformations- und Innovationsprozesse ihrer Zeit. Dabei wird zun{\"a}chst der historische Kontext der Entstehungszeit und anschließend die Entwicklung der Gattung bis in das 21. Jahrhundert nachgezeichnet und mit eingehenden Textanalysen illustriert. Grundlage und Leitlinien der Untersuchung bilden die Analyse verschiedener Bearbeitungsstrategien in Bezug auf den biblischen Text. Neben der religionshistorischen Perspektive werden auch literatur-, sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen auf die Gattung J{\"u}dische Kinderbibel angewandt.}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-64800, title = {J{\"u}dische Leben erz{\"a}hlen}, series = {J{\"u}dische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne}, volume = {30}, journal = {J{\"u}dische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne}, editor = {Jurewicz, Grażyna and Schr{\"o}der, Marie}, publisher = {Neofelis}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-95808-429-2}, doi = {10.52007/9783958084803}, pages = {298}, year = {2023}, abstract = {J{\"u}dische Leben erz{\"a}hlen versammelt Werkstattberichte von Autorinnen und Autoren biographischer Studien, die in jahrelanger, intensiver Besch{\"a}ftigung mit den Hinterlassenschaften von Menschen j{\"u}discher Herkunft deren Leben erforscht haben. Mit dem Ziel, aus der erfolgten Praxis f{\"u}r die k{\"u}nftige Biographieforschung zu lernen, bieten die Praktikerinnen und Praktiker des biographischen Genres erhellende Einblicke in die historiographischen und literarischen Aspekte ihrer Arbeit. Ihre Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten, zu denen unter anderem so einmalige Pers{\"o}nlichkeiten j{\"u}discher Geschichte wie Salman Schocken, Itzik Manger, Friedrich Pollock und Susan Taubes geh{\"o}ren, verk{\"o}rpern ein breites Spektrum j{\"u}discher Erfahrungen in der Moderne. Eine biographische Erschließung solcher Erfahrungsr{\"a}ume stellt oft eine große Herausforderung dar. Multiple Identit{\"a}ten, Mehrsprachigkeit, Transterritorialit{\"a}t, Exil, Flucht und Schoah sind nur einige Beispiele f{\"u}r Erfahrungen und Ph{\"a}nomene, deren ‚Biographierbarkeit' alles andere als einfach ist und die sich sogar - wie im Fall der Schoah - jeder Darstellbarkeit entziehen k{\"o}nnen. Bei der lebensgeschichtlich orientierten Erforschung und Schilderung dieser Ph{\"a}nomene bedarf es einer besonderen methodologischen Diskussion, zu der die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes im R{\"u}ckblick auf ihre abgeschlossenen biographischen Projekte essenzielle Beitr{\"a}ge leisten. Ihre Werkstattberichte machen deutlich, dass Biographie zu den schwierigsten historiographischen Genres geh{\"o}rt, sie aber gleichzeitig der historischen Forschung im Allgemeinen und der Erforschung j{\"u}discher Geschichte im Speziellen besondere M{\"o}glichkeiten bietet.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Martin2024, author = {Martin, Katja}, title = {Beerdigen oder verbrennen?}, publisher = {arijeh-verlag}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-944693-04-0}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {398}, year = {2024}, language = {de} } @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} }