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Mit den ›Nachträgen‹ liegt nun der letzte Schriftenband der Jubiläumsausgabe vor. Er ergänzt die ›Jubiläumsausgabe‹ um Texte und Briefe, die entweder erst nach Erscheinen des jeweiligen Bandes entdeckt wurden oder bei Fortsetzung der Ausgabe nach dem Krieg als verschollen galten. Bei den philosophischen Fragmenten handelt es sich u.a. um bisher unbekannte Entwürfe für die ›Morgenstunden‹ und ›An die Freunde Lessings‹. Zu den Judaica zählen Mendelssohns Übertragungen hebräischer Gedichte des 18. Jahrhunderts, seine Übersetzung der Grundartikel des Judentums und seine Anmerkungen zu Michaelis’ Rezension von Dohms ›Ueber die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden‹. Zu Mendelssohns Briefpartnern zählen u.a. Abbt, Iselin, Lessing, Friedrich II., Engel, Lavater, Michaelis, Penzel, Nicolai, Dohm, Kuh, Lowth, Carmer und Ramler.
Der Messias kommt nicht
(2022)
Die Geschichte des Messias im Judentum ist eine Geschichte enttäuschter Hoffnungen. Immer wieder gab es Heilsfiguren, denen diese Rolle zugeschrieben wurde. Doch die Erlösung von Besatzung und Fremdherrschaft, Exil, Unterdrückung und Verfolgung blieb aus. Deshalb geriet die Erwartung des Messias an die Peripherie jüdischer Theologie. In ihrem Gang durch die jüdische Geistesgeschichte zeigen die Autoren die Abkehr von einem personalen Messias und die Bekräftigung der Hoffnung der Propheten auf ein universales messianisches Zeitalter. Dies betont die Pflicht aller Menschen, an der Heilung der Welt mitzuwirken. Deutlich wird: Die Messiasidee kann keine Brücke zwischen Christentum und Judentum sein.
You be a Mensch
(2022)
Gen 32,23-32
(2022)
Über alle Erwartungen
(2022)
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.
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.
אל מול הצו המקראי של "לֹא תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל וְכָל תְּמוּנָה": שלושה ספרים חדשים על האמנות היהודית
(2022)
"אברך יהודי חיוור וצנום, שזקנו צהוב, בלוריתו עבותה ועיניו גדולות": שמונים שנה למותו של הלל צייטלין
(2022)
Tanakh, Mishnah and Talmud
(2022)
שינוי מזערי
(2022)