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Between history and legend
(2010)
In the early modern period, Jewish historiography moved from the Hebrew domain into the Yiddish one. Jewish writers have succeeded to match the historical literature to the particular needs of their audience. The most popular Yiddish chronicle of this kind was written in Amsterdam in the 18th century by Menachem Man Amelander, following both the Jewish and Christian genre. This paper briefly surveys the genre characteristics of this chronicle and the way it served the purpose of guarding Jewish memory and tradition.
rezensiertes Werk: Grossman, David: Eine Frau flieht vor einer Nachricht. - München : Hanser, 2009. - 728 S. ISBN 978-3-446-23397-3
rezensiertes Werk: Andernacht, Dietrich: Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main von 1520–1616 / Dietrich Andernacht. Aus dem Nachlass hg. von Helga Andernacht in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt und dem Arye-Maimon-Institut für Geschichte der Juden an der Universität Trier. - Hannover : Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007. - 2 Bde., IX + 1419 S. (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden, Abteilung B: Quellen ; 2/1, 2/2)
On the example of the women’s magazines in Yiddish “Yidishe Froyenvelt” (1902- 1903), “Di Froy” (Vilnius1925-1933), “Froyen-Shtim” (Warsaw 1925) and “Di Froyen-Velt” (New York 1913) this article presents: • how feminist postulates are connected with questions of Jewish identity in a religious and political context • how the model image of a modern Jewish woman is presented • what the main spheres of feminist interests presented in the magazines are (a struggle for equal rights within the Jewish community as well as other social spheres, searching for and presenting outstanding women in the Jewish and world history, descriptions of women’s professional activities, psychological analysis of a woman's nature, establishing ties and a feeling of solidarity between women’s movements of other nations) • how the traditional women's roles are presented (mother, wife, housewife) • what degree of women’s participation in the edition of these periodicals is (a list of articles' authoresses and literature works appearing on columns of the periodicals) • whether and how a feminist discourse affects a language structure of the periodicals Comparing magazines from the beginning of the 20th century and the latter part of 1920s the article answers the question what direction did Jewish feminism evolve to and what content rose or fell in importance.
Geographical turn
(2010)
Halakha and Microhistory
(2010)
Shifra was a Jewish businesswoman in Moravia in the fifteenth-century. In 1452 due to financial fraud she was arrested in Brno. Her life was saved by some members of the local Jewish community, who renounced their financial claims against their Christian neighbours in the exchange of Shifra’s life. However, one member of the community consented to the agreement only on condition that the other members would pay his losses. The case was extensively discussed in the correspondence of contemporary rabbis, among them Israel Bruna and Israel Isserlein. Their letters about the Shifra-affair reveal some important characteristics of the rabbinic authority in the late medieval Ashkenaz.