TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - A religious approach to sexual behavior for our liberal communities from a dialogical jewish perspective BT - Mitzvah, R’shut, Isur — a proposal JF - CCAR journal : a reform jewish quarterly Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-88123-618-7 SN - 0007-7976 SN - 1058-8760 VL - Spring 2022 SP - 125 EP - 146 PB - Central Conference of American Rabbis CY - Cleveland ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - Buber vs. Weber BT - Future sociological research according to Buber’s proposal : the I-thou relationship in scholarly research T2 - The Impact of Religion : on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-374-06410-6 SP - 103 EP - 122 PB - Evangelische Verlagsanstalt CY - Leipzig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krah, Markus T1 - Clinging to Borders and Boundaries? BT - The (Sorry) State of Transnational American Jewish Studies JF - American Jewish History Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2017.0066 SN - 0164-0178 SN - 1086-3141 VL - 101 IS - 4 SP - 519 EP - 533 PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud BT - Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – A silence of negation or a silence of consent? JF - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology N2 - In 1939 Sigmund Freud published his latest book, Moses and Monotheism, which is his most unusual and problematic work. In Moses Freud offers four groundbreaking claims in regard to the biblical story: [a] Moses was an Egyptian [b] The origin of monotheism is not Judaism [c] Moses was murdered by the Jews [d] The murder sparked a constant sense of unconscious guilt, which eventually contributed to the rational and ethical development of Jewish monotheism. As is well known, Freud’s Moses received extremely negative reviews from Jewish thinkers. The social psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, who wrote extensively on Freud as well as on Judaism and the biblical narrative, did not explicitly express his position on Freud’s latest work. This paper offers explanations for Fromm’s roaring silence on Freud’s Moses. KW - Judaism and psychoanalysis KW - Moses and monotheism KW - Jewish philosophy Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2140184 SN - 2169-2327 SN - 2169-2335 SN - 1783-1377 SN - 0006-2278 VL - 83 IS - 4 SP - 240 EP - 262 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - Green Spiritual Technologies BT - Putting the Anthropocene Era to Rest (One Day a Week) JF - Counterpoint: navigating knowledge Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.counterpointknowledge.org/green-spiritual-technologies-putting-the-anthropocene-era-to-rest-one-day-a-week/ PB - Kocku von Stuckrad CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Hegener, Wolfgang T1 - In the beginning was the scripture T1 - Im Anfang war die Schrift BT - Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Bible BT - Sigmund Freud und die Jüdische Bibel N2 - Sigmund Freud, der Begründer der Psychoanalyse, hat sein intellektuelles Leben mit der Jüdischen Bibel begonnen und es zugleich mit ihr auch beendet. Am Anfang stand die gemeinsame Lektüre in der Philippson-Bibel vor allem mit seinem Vater Jacob Freud und am Ende seine Beschäftigung mit der Figur des Mose. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht den Spuren dieser Beschäftigung systematisch nach und zeigt, dass die Jüdische Bibel für Freud ein konstanter Bezug war und seine jüdische Identität bestimmt hat. Dies wird anhand der Analyse von Familiendokumenten, des Religionsunterrichts sowie der Bezugnahme auf die Bibel in Freuds Schriften und Korrespondenzen gezeigt. N2 - Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, began his intellectual life with the Jewish Bible and also ended it with it. He began by reading the Philippson Bible together, especially with his father Jacob Freud, and ended by studying the figure of Moses. This study systematically traces this preoccupation and shows that the Jewish Bible was a constant reference for Freud and determined his Jewish identity. This is shown by analysing family documents, religious instruction and references to the Bible in Freud's writings and correspondence. KW - psychoanalysis KW - Jewish studies KW - Freud-research KW - Talmudic Judaism KW - Freud-Forschung KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Talmudisches Judentum KW - Psychoanalyse Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-618827 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gallas, Elisabeth A1 - Hieke, Anton A1 - Jünger, David A1 - Kleinecke, Ulrike A1 - Krah, Markus T1 - Introduction: "Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives," Potsdam (Germany), July 20-22, 2016 T2 - American Jewish History N2 - In recent years, “transnationalism” has become a key concept for historians and other scholars in the humanities and social sciences. However, its overuse threatens to dilute what would otherwise be a distinct approach with promising heuristic potential. This danger seems especially pronounced when the notion of transnationalism is applied to Jewish history, which, paradoxically, most scholars would agree, is at its core transnational. Many studies have analyzed how Jewries in different times and places, from the biblical era to the present, have been shaped by people, ideas, texts, and institutions that migrated across state lines and between cultures. So what is new about transnationalism in Jewish Studies? What new insights does it offer? American Jewry offers an obvious arena to test transnationalism’s significance as an approach to historical research within Jewish studies. As a “nation of nations,” the United States is made up of a distinct and unique society, built on ideas of diversity and pluralism, and transcending old European concepts of nation and state. The transformative incorporation in American life of cultural, political, and social traditions brought from abroad is one feature of this distinctiveness. American Jewish history and culture, in particular, are best understood in the context of interaction with Jews in other places, both because of American Jews’ roots in and continued entanglement with Europe, and because of their differences from other Jews. These considerations guided the participants in a roundtable that formed a prologue to an international conference held July 20–22, 2016, at the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam and the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany. The conference title, “Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives,” indicated the organizers’ conviction that the transnational approach does have the potential to shed fresh light on the American Jewish experience. The participants were asked to bring their experiences to the table, in an effort to clarify what transnationalism might mean for American Jewish Studies, and where it might yield new approaches and insights. The conference brought together some thirty scholars of various disciplines from Europe, Israel, and the United States. In addition to exploring a relatively new approach (at least, in the field of American Jewish Studies), the conference also served a second purpose: to further the interest in American Jewry as a subject of scholarly attention in countries outside the U.S., where the topic has been curiously neglected. The assumption underlying the conference was that a transnational perspective on American Jewry would bring to bear the particular interests and skills of scholars working outside the American academy, and thereby complement, rather than replicate, the ways American Jewish Studies have been pursued in North America itself. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2017.0065 SN - 0164-0178 SN - 1086-3141 VL - 101 IS - 4 SP - 517 EP - 518 PB - Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - Kabbalah and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Amsterdam BT - The Sephardic and Ashkenazic Producers of Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh (1701) JF - Sephardim and Ashkenazim: Jewish-Jewish encounters in history and literature Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-11-069530-4 SN - 978-3-11-069552-6 SP - 155 EP - 182 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thulin, Mirjam ED - Elyada, Ada ED - Wallach, Kerry T1 - Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? BT - family history and the Transnational Turn in (German-)Jewish Studies JF - German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations KW - German-Jewish History Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-80073-677-1 SN - 978-1-80073-678-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800736771 VL - 2022 SP - 17 EP - 37 PB - Berghahn CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - Modern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric Archive JF - Lux in Tenebris : The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-90-04-33495-3 SN - 978-90-04-33494-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334953_018 SN - 1871-1405 VL - 23 SP - 397 EP - 424 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ehrensperger, Kathy T1 - Narratives of Belonging BT - The Role of Paul's Genealogical Reasoning JF - Early Christianity N2 - Die Darstellungen genealogischer Netzwerke waren in der Antike Ausdruck der Weltsicht ihrer Erzähler, mit deren Hilfe Nähe und Distanz zwischen verschiedenen Gruppen und Völkern ausgedrückt und hergestellt werden konnte. Auch Paulus bedient sich genealogischer Argumente, um die Beziehung nicht-jüdischer Christus-Gläubiger zu Israel und ihrem Gott zu verdeutlichen. Es handelt sich um eine ethnozentrische Argumentation, deren Fokus aber gleichzeitig eindeutig theozentrisch ist. KW - genealogies KW - identity KW - Israel KW - seed of Abraham KW - promise Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/186870317X15017545210233 SN - 1868-7032 SN - 1868-8020 VL - 8 SP - 373 EP - 392 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - On prayer and dialectic in modern Jewish philosophy BT - Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig JF - Religions N2 - This paper is founded on two philosophical assumptions. The first is that there is a difference between two patterns of recognition: the dialectical and the dialogical. The second assumption is that the origins of the dialogical pattern may be found in the relationship between human beings and God, a relationship in which prayer has a major role. The second assumption leads to the supposition that the emphasis of the dialogic approach on moral responsibility is theologically grounded. In other words, the relationship between humanity and God serves as a paradigm for human relationships. By focusing on Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig, in the context of prayer and dialectic, this paper highlights the complexity of these themes in modern Jewish thought. These two important philosophers utilize dialectical reasoning while also criticizing it and offering an alternative. The conclusions of their thought, in general, and their position on prayer, in particular, demonstrate a preference for a relational way of thinking over a dialectical one, but without renouncing the latter. KW - dialectic KW - dialogue KW - prayer KW - modern Jewish philosophy KW - religious existentialism Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14080996 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 14 IS - 8 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - On prayer and dialectic in modern Jewish philosophy JF - The Turn: Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik Y1 - 2023 SN - 2569-2054 VL - 6 SP - 45 EP - 96 PB - Al Mustafa Institut CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Brechenmacher, Thomas T1 - Peace orders of modern times BT - introduction to the overall theme T2 - Historisches Jahrbuch Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-451-38586-5 SN - 0018-2621 VL - 139 SP - 3 EP - 6 PB - Herder CY - Freiburg Breisgau ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - Reason and the Future of Historical Consciousness BT - Examining a Possible Influence of Hermann Cohen on Erich Fromm JF - Archivio di filosofia = Archives of philosophy Y1 - 2020 SN - 0004-0088 SN - 1970-0792 VL - 88 IS - 1 SP - 149 EP - 164 PB - Fabrizio Serra Ed. CY - Pisa ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - So Many Things are Yours BT - New Hebrew Poetry by Admiel Kosman N2 - The poet and Talmud scholar examines Jewish texts, sexuality, and human vulnerability in poems that brim with wonder, sadness, sensuality, and humor. Kosman’s second volume in English explores Jewish texts ―Bible, Talmud, midrash ― alongside bodies, physical desires, military experiences, even a refrigerator. Demons and fantasy enter these poems; so do politics, so does God. These are not religious poems in a conventionally liturgical, “inspirational” sense; yet they point to the big questions that religion asks: about love, hate, desire, violence, transgression, disappointment. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1938890918 PB - Zephyr Press CY - Brookline ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - Tanakh, Mishnah and Talmud BT - a brief introduction T2 - Revenge : History and Fantasy : exhibition catalogue Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-446-27246-0 SP - 39 EP - 46 PB - Hanser CY - München ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krah, Markus T1 - The Americanization of Simon Dubnow BT - Reception and Interpretation in Postwar Discourse on American Jewry T2 - Dubnow Institute Yearbook KW - American Jewish History KW - Modern Jewish History KW - East European Jewish History Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-525-37080-3 SN - 978-3-666-37080-9 VL - XVII SP - 539 EP - 568 PB - Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht CY - Göttingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - The Jews' Indian BT - Colonialism, pluralism, and belonging in America JF - American Jewish history Y1 - 2021 SN - 0164-0178 SN - 1086-3141 VL - 105 IS - 1-2 SP - 300 EP - 303 PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - The temptation in the garden of R. Hiyya bar Ashi and his wife JF - European Judaism N2 - The narrative in BT Kiddushin 81b about R. Hiyya bar Ashi tells of a sage who waged a battle with his Urge after he refrained from engaging in sexual relations with his wife. He, however, did not reveal to her the battle being waged within him, but rather pretended to be an ‘angel’. When his wife incidentally found it, she disguised herself as a harlot and set out to seduce him. After they had engaged in sexual relations, the rabbi wanted to commit suicide. The traditional readings view R. Hiyya as the hero of the tale. This article claims that the aim of the narrative is to present the rabbi as being carried away by dualistic-Christian conceptions. The article further argues that the topic of the narrative is not sexual relations, but dialogue. KW - asceticism KW - dialogue KW - evil inclination KW - gender KW - Judaism KW - sex KW - Talmud Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2017.500214 SN - 0014-3006 SN - 1752-2323 VL - 50 IS - 2 SP - 129 EP - 146 PB - Berghahn Journals CY - Brooklyn 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 -