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In the following pages I discuss how,and to what extent, the eminent Zionist thinker Max Nordau, himself of Sephardic ancestry, viewed the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula in the context of his general critique of assimilation not only in regard to Jews,but in a more comprehensive understanding as well. My focus here is on the significance of assimilation in the history of the Jews on the Iberian Peninsula as reflected in Nordau’s writings, with an additional emphasis on his two visits to Spain, thefirst in 1875 and again between 1914 and 1920. In so doing, I attempt to integrate Ashkenazic and Sephardic history into one field of Jewish Studies. The relationship between the two has not yet been researched comprehensively, particularly in the context of the historical study of Zionism.
Carvajal and the Franciscans
(2022)
Luis de Carvajal the Younger (1567–1596) is without doubt one of the most famous victims of the Mexican Inquisition. In 1595, Luis and his family were found guilty of “Judaizing” and sentenced to death. Due to his autobiography and letters which survived in the dossiers of his trials, scholars have been able to trace important aspects of Carvajal’s life, his religious thought, and his self-fashioning as a Jewish martyr. However, one question that has not yet been entirely discussed is Carvajal’s messianism in the context of New World geographies and influences.
This chapter uses Carvajal’s autobiography, his letters, and his declarations during the trials to analyze the meaning of “the Americas” in Carvajal’s eschatological thought and to reflect upon possible influences from Mexican Franciscans and Christian millenarians with whom Carvajal was in contact between 1590 and 1595. It places Carvajal’s case in the broader context of recent studies of “converso messianism” and Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern eschatological and millenarian settings. It thus contributes to the exploration of entanglements between Jewish and Christian eschatological expectations in the early modern Atlantic World.
In Time and the Other Johannes Fabian analysed how modern conceptions of time were “not only secularized and naturalized but also thoroughly spatialized.” According to Fabian, this was particularly visible in modern anthropology which “promoted a scheme in terms of which not only past cultures but all living societies were irrevocably placed on a temporal slope, a stream of Time – some upstream, others downstream.”3 Anthropologists attributed otherness to a distant past which was traditionally associated with cultural retardation, i.e. a lower degree of development, progress, and civilization. Cultural difference was expressed in terms of temporal distance while temporal distance was attributed to spatial remoteness. The result was a phenomenon that Fabian coined “the denial of coevalness” which pointed towards “a persistent and systematic tendency to place the referent(s) of anthropology in a Time other than the present of the producer of anthropological discourse.
Vor der Gewalt
(2023)
Wilhelm Herzbergs „Das Mädchen von Tanger“ ist an zentraler Stelle seiner Jüdischen Familienpapiere als Binnenerzählung angelegt. In diesem konkreten Fall handelt es sich um eine gerahmte Binnenerzählung, die als fingierte Quelle dem Leser Authentizität vermitteln soll. Die literarischen Vorbilder dieses Genres liegen sowohl in der klassischen indischen und persischen Literatur als auch in der homerischen Odyssee. Die Binnenerzählung wurde von Goethe in seinen Unterhaltungen deutscher Auswanderer (1795) weiterentwickelt. Im 19.Jahrhundert wurde sie stilbildend und erfreute sich großer Beliebtheit. Sie verfügt über eine eigene epische Erzählstruktur und versteht sich als „Erzählung in der Erzählung“ . Dadurch kann sie noch zusätzliche Akzente setzen und zugleich moralische Anleitung für die Leserschaftbereithalten.
Für einen großen Moment in der Religionsgeschichte berührten sich das Judentum als vernunftmäßige Religion (Moses Mendelssohn) und die Rationale Theologie des preußischen Protestantismus. Die aktive Unterstützung der Berliner Judenmission unter Friedrich Wilhelm III markiert die Wendemarke vom Rationalismus zur Restauration.
Vorwort
(2021)
לא מעט ביוגרפיות חשובות מרחיבות דעת ומשכילות נכתבו על אודות איש הרוח והפילוסוף מרטין בובר – הוגה עז רושם, שהדי הגותו, אמרותיו וכתביו אוחזים בנו גם היום למעלה מחצי מאה לאחר מותו. יחד עם זאת, כל הביוגרפיות יחדיו, חשובות ומעמיקות כפי שהן, אינן משתוות בעצמתן הספרותית לספרון קצר זה, שניתן לראות בו מעין אוטוביוגרפיה מזוקקת הכתובה בצורה של פרגמנטים קצרים.
לא בכדי השווה מוריס פרידמן את העצמה הפואטית-פילוסופית של הפרגמנטים האוטוביוגרפיים שלפנינו אל ספריו של בובר אני ואתה (1923) ודרכו של אדם על פי תורת החסידות (1948). אכן בזכרונות אלו שבובר מעלה טבוע משהו מן הטון של סיפורי החסידות ומן המסר של הפילוסופיה הדיאלוגית. ואולם, בניגוד לשני הספרים הקודמים שהוזכרו, פגישות לא נכתב כספר אלא הפך לספר בדיעבד. זוהי למעשה אסופה של זכרונות קצרים ומלאי תובנה שנכתבו ופורסמו בזמנים שונים וראו אור לראשונה כיחידה אחת באסופת המאמרים אודות הפילוסופיה של מרטין בובר (1967), בעריכתם של ארתור שליפ ומוריס פרידמן. מוריס פרידמן מעיד שהיה שותף לבחירה, סידור ולעריכה של הפרגמנטים שלפנינו יחד עם בובר, ובעוד שחלק מהפרגמנטים פורסמו בתקופות מוקדמות יותר, חלקם נכתבו לכבוד האסופה. פרידמן אף מדגיש את ערכם המעשי של סיפורי פגישות אלה בדינמיקות קבוצתיות ובסמינרים ואת כוחם לעורר בקורא זיכרונות וחוויית אישיים.
Idolatry
(2021)
Treife
(2021)
Strafe
(2021)
Strafrecht
(2021)
Sünde
(2021)
Schächten
(2021)
This book brings together case studies dealing with historical as well as recent phenomena in former socialist nations, which testify the transfer of knowledge about religion and atheism. The material is connected on a semantic level by the presence of a historical watershed before and after socialism as well as on a theoretical level by the sociology of knowledge. With its focus on Central and Eastern Europe this volume is an important contribution to the research on nonreligion and secularity.
The collected volume deals with agents and media within specific cultural and historical contexts. Theoretical claims and conceptions by single agents and/or institutions in which the imparting of knowledge about religion and atheism was or is a central assignment, are analyzed. Additionally, procedures of transmitting knowledge about religion and atheism and of sustaining related institutionalized norms, interpretations, roles and practices are in the focus of interest.
The book opens the perspective for the multidimensional and negotiating character of legitimation processes, being involved in the establishment or questioning of the institutionalized opposition between religion and atheism or religion and science.
The will of the masses
(2020)
This article describes the way of Conrado Balweg from the Tingguian-tribe in the Cordillera mountains/Philippines, who was educated in Catholic seminaries, entered a missionary congregation, was ordained priest and joined the communist insurgency New People’s Army. There he quickly attained the rank of a political officer and military commander. Balweg held teachings on Marxism in remote villages, he organized several ambushes on government troops and conducted people’s courts against traitors. Over time he developed a special indigenous Maoism and broke away from the party-line and, which was the reason why he was killed by the NPA in 1999. In a contextualized biographical portrait we track the question: How did Maoist thought become part of Balweg’s conviction? As a hypothesis we assumed, that Maoist thought was integrated in Catholic tenets (e.g. interpreting God’s will as the will of the masses). After a close analysis of intellectual backgrounds and political events it turned out, that Maoist ideology superseded religious motives instead. This is crucial to understand if violence was justified in the name of God or in the name of the people.
Normen
(2020)