TY - JOUR A1 - Hadad, Yemima T1 - “Ich Habe Nicht Geantwortet” BT - Hermeneutics of secrecy, religious silence, and Dialogvergessenheit in Martin Buber’s exchange with Franz Rosenzweig about Halakhah JF - Naharaim : Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte (Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History) N2 - The exchange between Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig on the status of halakha is a well known, but also frustrating fixture in scholarship. For rather than responding to Rosenzweig’s critique, Buber seems to retreat in silence, claiming to be “unable to speak” about his position on Jewish Law. Scholars have generally tried to explain Buber’s failure to respond on philosophical and biographical grounds. What I propose, by contrast, is to revisit the question of Buber’s silence and secrecy from a hermeneutical standpoint, arguing that Buber engaged in a deliberate strategy of concealment that constituted its own form of response. The hermeneutics of silence discloses a call for religious renewal that follows a state of Dialogvergessenheit, but which cannot be made audible. Neither dialogue nor its remembrance can be commanded. While Buber struggles with his Nichtredenkönnen, he also stands in a tradition of secretive hermeneutics – the Jewish hermeneutics of sod. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/naha-2019-0015 SN - 1862-9156 SN - 1862-9148 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 103 EP - 132 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Jacob, Karen T1 - Who are the Bene Israel from India? T1 - Wer sind die Bene Israel aus Indien? N2 - This study explores the identity of the Bene Israel caste from India and its assimilation into Israeli society. The large immigration from India to Israel started in the early 1950s and continued until the early 1970s. Initially, these immigrants struggled hard as they faced many problems such as the language barrier, cultural differences, a new climate, geographical isolation, and racial discrimination. This analysis focuses on the three major aspects of the integration process involving the Bene Israel: economic, socio-cultural and political. The study covers the period from the early fifties to the present. I will focus on the origin of the Bene Israel, which has evolved after their immigration to Israel; from a Hindu–Muslim lifestyle and customs they integrated into the Jewish life of Israel. Despite its ethnographic nature, this study has theological implications as it is an encounter between Jewish monotheism and Indian polytheism. All the western scholars who researched the Bene Israel community felt impelled to rely on information received by community members themselves. No written historical evidence recorded Bene Israel culture and origin. Only during the nineteenth century onwards, after the intrusion of western Jewish missionaries, were Jewish books translated into Marathi . Missionary activities among the Bene Israel served as a catalyst for the Bene Israel themselves to investigate their historical past . Haeem Samuel Kehimkar (1830-1908), a Bene Israel teacher, wrote notes on the history of the Bene Israel in India in Marathi in 1897. Brenda Ness wrote in her dissertation: The results [of the missionary activities] are several works about the community in English and Marathi by Bene-Israel authors which have appeared during the last century. These are, for the most part, not documented; they consist of much theorizing on accepted tradition and tend to be apologetic in nature. There can be no philosophical explanation or rational justification for an entire community to leave their motherland India, and enter into a process of annihilation of its own free will. I see this as a social and cultural suicide. In craving for a better future in Israel, the Indian Bene Israel community pays an enormously heavy price as a people that are today discarded by the East and disowned by the West: because they chose to become something that they never were and never could be. As it is written, “know where you came from, and where you are going.” A community with an ancient history from a spiritual culture has completely lost its identity and self-esteem. In concluding this dissertation, I realize the dilemma with which I have confronted the members of the Bene Israel community which I have reviewed after strenuous and constant self-examination. I chose to evolve the diversifications of the younger generations urges towards acceptance, and wish to clarify my intricate analysis of this controversial community. The complexity of living in a Jewish State, where citizens cannot fulfill their basic desires, like matrimony, forced an entire community to conceal their true identity and perjure themselves to blend in, for the sake of national integration. Although scholars accepted their new claims, the skepticism of the rabbinate authorities prevails, and they refuse to marry them to this day, suspecting they are an Indian caste. N2 - In dieser Studie wird versucht, die Identität der indischen Kaste der Bene Israel und ihre Assimilation in die israelische Gesellschaft zu untersuchen. Die große Einwanderung aus Indien nach Israel begann in den frühen 1950er Jahren und dauerte bis Anfang der 1970er Jahre. Anfangs hatten diese Einwanderer mit vielen Problemen zu kämpfen, wie z. B. der Sprachbarriere, der Kultur, dem Klima, der geografischen Isolation und der Rassendiskriminierung. Diese Analyse konzentriert sich auf die drei Hauptaspekte des Integrationsprozesses der Bene Israel: wirtschaftlich, soziokulturell und politisch. Die Studie erstreckt sich über den Zeitraum von den frühen fünfziger Jahren bis zur Gegenwart. Ich werde mich auf die Herkunft der Bene Israel konzentrieren, die sich nach ihrer Einwanderung nach Israel von einem hinduistisch-muslimischen Lebensstil und Bräuchen, die sie in das jüdische Leben in Israel integriert haben, entfremdet haben. Trotz ihres ethnographischen Charakters hat diese Studie theologische Implikationen, da sie eine Begegnung zwischen dem jüdischen Monotheismus und dem indischen Polytheismus darstellt. Alle westlichen Wissenschaftler, die sich mit der Gemeinde Bene Israel befasst haben, waren auf Informationen angewiesen, die sie von den Gemeindemitgliedern selbst erhielten. Es gab keine schriftlichen historischen Zeugnisse über ihre Kultur und Herkunft. Erst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, nach dem Eindringen westlicher jüdischer Missionare, wurden jüdische Bücher ins Marathi übersetzt. Die missionarischen Aktivitäten unter den Bene Israel dienten als Katalysator für die Bene Israel selbst, um ihre historische Vergangenheit zu erforschen. Haeem Samuel Kehimkar (1830-1908), ein Lehrer der Bene Israel, schrieb 1897 Aufzeichnungen über die Geschichte der Bene Israel in Indien in Marathi. Brenda Ness schrieb in ihrer Dissertation: Die Ergebnisse [der missionarischen Aktivitäten] sind mehrere Werke über die Gemeinschaft in Englisch und Marathi von Bene-Israel-Autoren, die im letzten Jahrhundert erschienen sind. Diese sind größtenteils nicht dokumentiert; sie bestehen aus vielen Theorien über die akzeptierte Tradition und sind eher apologetischer Natur. Es gibt keine philosophische Erklärung oder rationale Rechtfertigung dafür, dass eine ganze Gemeinschaft ihr Mutterland Indien verlässt und sich aus freien Stücken in einen Prozess der Vernichtung begibt. Ich betrachte dies als einen sozialen und kulturellen Selbstmord. In ihrem Streben nach einer besseren Zukunft in Israel zahlt die indische Bene Israel-Gemeinschaft einen enorm hohen Preis als ein Volk, das heute vom Osten verworfen und vom Westen verleugnet wird: weil sie sich entschieden hat, etwas zu werden, das sie nie war und nie sein konnte. Wie es geschrieben steht: "Wisse, woher du kommst, und wohin du gehst". Eine Gemeinschaft mit einer alten Geschichte aus einer spirituellen Kultur hat ihre Identität und ihr Selbstwertgefühl völlig verloren. Zum Abschluss dieser Dissertation wird mir das Dilemma bewusst, mit dem ich die Mitglieder der Gemeinschaft Bene Israel konfrontiert habe und das ich nach anstrengender und ständiger Selbstbeobachtung überprüft habe. Ich habe mich dafür entschieden, die Diversifizierungen der jüngeren Generationen in Richtung Akzeptanz weiterzuentwickeln, und möchte meine komplexe Analyse dieser kontroversen Gemeinschaft verdeutlichen. Die Komplexität des Lebens in einem jüdischen Staat, in dem die Bürger ihre grundlegenden Wünsche, wie die Ehe, nicht erfüllen können, zwang eine ganze Gemeinschaft, ihre wahre Identität zu verbergen und einen Meineid zu leisten, um sich um der nationalen Integration willen anzupassen. Obwohl die Gelehrten ihre neuen Ansprüche akzeptierten, überwiegt die Skepsis der Rabbinatsbehörden, die sich bis heute weigern, sie zu verheiraten, da sie sie für eine indische Kaste halten. KW - Bene Israel KW - Bene Israel KW - Indian caste KW - Indischen Kaste KW - racial discrimination KW - Rassendiskriminierung KW - Jewish State KW - Jüdischer Staat Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-554508 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - Viktor Frankel Gazes out at the world from a concentration camp and teaches us how to utilize that gaze in our own spiritual lives JF - CCAR journal Y1 - 2020 SN - 0007-7976 SN - 1058-8760 VL - Fall 2020/Winter 2021 SP - 131 EP - 142 PB - CCAR Journal, Dept. of Religion CY - Cleveland, Ohio ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Homolka, Walter T1 - Truthfulness and the permissibility of falsehood in the Jewish tradition JF - Journal of beliefs and values : studies in religion & education N2 - In this article, I deal with the concept of truth and lie in Jewish traditional literature, examining its development in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature. An essential aspect in understanding this concept is the dualism of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ impulses and the free will of human beings, who were created in the image of God and have the choice to decide between right and wrong. KW - sin KW - Truthfulness KW - falsehood KW - Jewish tradition KW - lie KW - free will KW - God’s image Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2017.1291253 SN - 1361-7672 SN - 1469-9362 VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 180 EP - 187 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Driver, Cory T1 - Translating Jewish Cemeteries in Morocco JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture N2 - This paper addresses issues of translating both words and rituals as Muslim cemetery keepers care for Jewish graves and recite traditional prayers for the dead in Morocco. Several issues of translation must be dealt with while considering these rare and disappearing practices. The first issue to be discussed is the translation of Hebrew inscriptions into French by cemetery keepers. One cemetery keeper in Meknes has tried to compile an exhaustive index of the names and dates represented on the gravestones under her care. The Muslim guard of the Jewish cemetery in Sefrou, on the other hand, has somewhat famously told visitors differing stories about his ability and willingness to pray the Kaddish over the graves of emigrated relatives who cannot return to mark an anniversary death. These practices provide the context for considering how the act of Muslims caring for Jewish graves creates linguistic and ritual translations of traditional Jewish ancestor care. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471385 SN - 978-3-86956-468-5 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 VL - 2019 IS - 25 SP - 89 EP - 102 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ehrensperger, Kathy T1 - Trajectories and future avenues in Pauline Studies and Jewish–Christian relations BT - the relevance of William S. Campbell’s approach to Paul JF - Journal of beliefs and values : studies in religion & education N2 - William S. Campbell’s research on the apostle Paul has been at the forefront of overcoming anti-Jewish interpretations. His career has been characterised by academic rigour and social and interfaith engagement. His interpretive approach is committed to formulating Christian identity in positive relation to others and thus contributes to provide a vital basis for Jewish-Christian and Interfaith relations in general for the future. KW - Pauline studies KW - Christian identity KW - diversity KW - anti-judaism KW - Jewish-Christian relations KW - interfaith relations Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2017.1314988 SN - 1361-7672 SN - 1469-9362 VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 153 EP - 158 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - Tisha B’Av — an Ecological Holiday? JF - Tablet Magazine Y1 - 2020 PB - Tablet Magazine at P.O. CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - Theological “Black Holes” in Religions and the Ways They Lead to Heaven (or Hell) JF - CCAR journal Y1 - 2020 SN - 0007-7976 SN - 1058-8760 IS - Winter 2020 SP - 158 EP - 179 PB - CCAR Journal, Dept. of Religion CY - Cleveland, Ohio ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel A1 - Lang, David A1 - Finkelman, Yoel T1 - The Will is Man’s Only Property: A Reading of a Short Passage from Mr. Shoshani JF - The Lehrhaus Y1 - 2023 UR - https://thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/the-will-is-mans-only-property-a-reading-of-a-short-passage-from-mr-shoshani/# ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - The Unconscious in Rosenzweig’s the Star of Redemption: BT - on a threshold of a possible revelation JF - The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy N2 - This paper discusses Franz Rosenzweig’s use of the term “the unconscious” (das Unbewußte) and possible influences on his understanding of it. I claim that for Rosenzweig, it is through the unconscious that the individual becomes aware of himself and becomes capable of fulfilling his longing to achieve self-fulfillment and eventually to take part in a collective redemption. The unconscious is often perceived as the mental sphere related to trauma and repression in which defense mechanisms and fantasies are evolved. Fantasies are psychological tools that allow the individual to cope with trauma, but they are also “layers of enclosedness,” illusions that should be dissolved. Hence, in the unconscious, we find a possibility of liberation. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341347 SN - 1477-285X SN - 1053-699X VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 102 EP - 126 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER -