TY - BOOK A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - Approaching you in English : selected poems Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-9815521-4-9 PB - Zephyr Press CY - Brookline, Mass. ER - TY - BOOK ED - Jacob, Walter ED - Homolka, Walter T1 - Hesed and Tzedakah : from Bible to modernity T3 - Aus Religion und Recht N2 - From a Jewish perspective, divine action in this world revolves around two poles: Hesed and Tzedakah. There is one fundamental difference between them: Hesed describes those actions of God that arise not from obligation, but instead are spurred by pure love for humankind, by grace and mercy. Tzedakah by contrast touches on God's righteous interaction within his covenant, as well as justice observed by man seeking harmony with God's will. Each of the terms applies to both God and man. Hesed and Tzedakah emanate from God, and eventually should transform a person into a Hasid and a Tzaddik. The authors of this volume parse the subtlety of different meanings behind this pair of terms - from Bible to modernity. Y1 - 2006 SN - 978-3-86596-090-0 VL - 6 PB - Frank & Timme CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Küng, Hans A1 - Homolka, Walter T1 - How to do good and avoid evil : a global ethic from the sources of judaism N2 - In 1993, the Parliament of the World's Religions endorsed the "Declaration toward a Global Ethic" composed by Hans Küng. In it, representatives from all the world's religions agreed on principles for a global ethic and committed themselves to directives of nonviolence, respect for life, solidarity, a just economic order, tolerance, and equal rights and partnership between men and women. But the declaration was just the first step. In this impressive volume, Hans Kueng, probably the most famous living Roman Catholic theologian, and Rabbi Walter Homolka, head of Germany's Abraham Geiger rabbinical seminary and distinguished professor, draw on the Jewish tradition to show the riches that Judaism can offer people of all faiths and nonbelievers in achieving these directives. Presenting key sacred texts and theological writings, the authors make the case for binding values and basic moral attitudes that can be found in Judaism's universal message of a better world. Exploring Judaism's focus on ethical conduct over declarations of faith, the authors show that making ethical decisions is indispensable in an ever-changing world. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-1-59473-255-3 PB - SkyLight Paths Pub CY - Woodstock, Vt ET - Hardcover ed., 1. print ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Diemling, Patrick T1 - Is reincarnation compatible with the Christian faith? : a survey through Christian theology N2 - Many Christians react in alarm when being confronted with reincarnation. They tend to regard it as an alien or exotic idea or sometimes even as an occult or dangerous teaching that leads away from the Christian path. Thus, belief in rebirth is often regarded as clearly not compatible with orthodox Christianity. However, no less than 30% of people in the Western world believe in a form of reincarnation, which indicates the urgency for an academic examination of this subject. Patrick Diemling examines under what conditions or restrictions a person who is attracted by the notion of reincarnation could at the same time remain fundamentally loyal to Christ. In a survey through the pivotal sections of Christian theology (such as soteriology, cosmology and eschatology), he investigates the critical points regarding the question of a possible compatibility of reincarnation with the Christian faith. What does the Bible say about reincarnation? What are the points of disagreement between orthodox Christians and defenders of the idea of rebirth? How would Christian theology need to be modified so as to integrate belief in reincarnation? The present volume tries to answer these questions. Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-639-01836-3 PB - VDM Verl. Dr. Müller CY - Saarbrücken ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rauschenbach, Sina T1 - Judaism for Christians BT - Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) T3 - Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-4985-7296-5 SN - 978-1-4985-7297-2 PB - Lexington Books CY - Lanham, Boulder, New York, London ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Grözinger, Karl Erich T1 - Kafka and Kabbalah Y1 - 1994 PB - Continuum CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK ED - Homolka, Walter T1 - Leo Baeck : philosophical and rabbinical approaches T3 - Aus Religion und Recht N2 - Leo Baeck (1873-1956) can be considered to be one of the most important proponents of German Jewry. Over the course of his life, he strove constantly to combine tradition and modernity within Judaism. Baeck educated young rabbis at Berlin's "Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums" (College for the Science of Judaism) and sought dialogue between Christianity, Islam, and other religions. Indebted to Baeck's legacy the Abraham Geiger College dedicated its annual study conference in 2006 to this brilliant Jewish thinker - to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death on November 2, 1956. This volume celebrates the wide spectrum of Leo Baeck's heritage. Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-86596-115-0 VL - 9 PB - Frank & Timme CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK ED - Hirsch, Jonathan ED - Attia, Yael ED - Samson, Kathleen T1 - Minor perspectives on modernity beyond Europe BT - an encounter between jewish studies and postcolonial thought T3 - Gesellschaften und Kulturen des sephardischen Judentums I Sephardic Societies and Cultures N2 - 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. N2 - Jüdische Studien und Postkoloniale Studien werden oft als gegensätzliche Ansätze verstanden. Dabei gibt es wesentliche Gemeinsamkeiten: Beide Disziplinen setzen sich intensiv mit der Moderne auseinander, hinterfragen ihren universalistischen Anspruch und zeigen die Widersprüchlichkeit ihres Versprechens auf. Die Forderung, Europa zu provinzialisieren, ermöglicht es Wissenschaftler:innen beider Disziplinen, Erfahrungen mit der Moderne, die sich auf Kontexte außerhalb Europas beziehen, zu denken, zu artikulieren und darzustellen sowie sich kritisch mit Traditionen der Moderne über Disziplinen, Zeitkonzepte und Geografien hinweg auseinanderzusetzen. Dieser Band stellt sephardische und andere marginalisierte Perspektiven aus der ganzen Welt auf die Moderne dar. Er präsentiert faszinierende Fallbeispiele und erkundet neues Terrain, auf dem eine fruchtbare Begegnung zwischen jüdischen und postkolonialen Studien stattfinden kann. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-95650-971-1 VL - 1 PB - Ergon Verlag CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - BOOK ED - Grözinger, Karl Erich ED - Dan, Joseph T1 - Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashknazi Judaism : International Symposium, held in Frankfurt/Main 1991 Y1 - 1995 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ; New York ER - TY - BOOK ED - Deeg, Alexander ED - Homolka, Walter ED - Schöttler, Heinz-Günther T1 - Preaching in Judaism and Christianity : encounters and developments from biblical times to modernity ; [first International Conference on "Preaching in Judaism and Christianity" ... in Bamberg between the 6th and 8th of March 2007] T3 - Studia Judaica N2 - It is a widespread idea that the roots of the Christian sermon can be found in the Jewish derasha. But the story of the interrelation of the two homiletical traditions, Jewish and Christian, from New Testament times to the present day is still untold. Can homiletical encounters be registered? Is there a common homiletical history - not only in the modern era, but also in rabbinic times and in the Middle Ages? Which current developments affect Jewish and Christian preaching today, in the 21st century? And, most important, what consequences may result from this mutual perception of Jewish and Christian homiletics for homiletical research and the practice of preaching? This book offers the papers of the first international conference (Bamberg, Germany, 6th to 8th March 2007) which brought together Jewish and Christian scholars to discuss Jewish and Christian homiletics in their historical development and relationship and to sketch out common homiletical projects. Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.reference-global.com/isbn/978-3-11-020524-4 SN - 978-3-11-019665-8 VL - 41 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rauschenbach, Sina A1 - Schapkow, Carsten ED - Rauschenbach, Sina ED - Hirsch, Jonathan ED - Schapkow, Carsten T1 - Sephardic History Beyond Europe N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-95565-635-5 VL - 8 PB - Hentrich & Hentrich CY - Berlin, Leipzig ER - TY - BOOK ED - Rauschenbach, Sina T1 - Sephardim and Ashkenazim BT - Jewish-Jewish encounters in history and literature T3 - Europäisch-jüdische Studien / Beiträge ; 18 N2 - Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism have long been studied separately. Yet, scholars are becoming ever more aware of the need to merge them into a single field of Jewish Studies. This volume opens new perspectives and bridges traditional gaps. The authors are not simply contributing to their respective fields of Sephardic or Ashkenazic Studies. Rather, they all include both Sephardic and Ashkenazic perspectives as they reflect on different aspects of encounters and reconsider traditional narratives. Subjects range from medieval and early modern Sephardic and Ashkenazic constructions of identities, influences, and entanglements in the fields of religious art, halakhah, kabbalah, messianism, and charity to modern Ashkenazic Sephardism and Sephardic admiration for Ashkenazic culture. For reasons of coherency, the contributions all focus on European contexts between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-069530-4 SN - 978-3-11-069552-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695410 PB - De Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - BOOK ED - Grözinger, Karl Erich T1 - The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy Y1 - 1991 CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK ED - Menachem Zoufalá, Marcela ED - Glöckner, Olaf T1 - United in Diversity BT - Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective T3 - Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge N2 - 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. KW - Zeitgenössisches Judentum KW - Christlich-jüdische Beziehung KW - Diaspora Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-11-078310-0 SN - 978-3-11-078321-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783216 VL - 62 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schulte, Christoph T1 - Zimzum BT - God and the Origin of the World T3 - Jewish culture and contexts N2 - 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 Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1-5128-2435-3 SN - 978-1-5218-2436-0 N1 - Originally published as: Zimzum: Gott und Weltursprung. - Berlin : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014 PB - University of Pennsylvania Press CY - Philadelphia ER -