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In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.

Jewish law --- History. --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy. --- Jewish Theology. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Religion—Philosophy.

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This book traces the historical phenomenon of “the Jew as Legitimation.” Contributors discuss how Jews have been used, through time, to validate non-Jewish beliefs. The volume dissects the dilemmas and challenges this pattern has presented to Jews. Throughout history, Jews and Judaism have served to legitimize the beliefs of Gentiles. Jews functioned as Augustine’s witnesses to the truth of Christianity, as Christian Kabbalist’s source for Protestant truths, as an argument for the enlightened claim for tolerance, as the focus of modern Christian Zionist reverence, and as a weapon of contemporary right wing populism against fears of Islamization. This volume challenges understandings of Jewish-Gentile relations, offering a counter-perspective to discourses of antisemitism and philosemitism. .

Religion. --- Religions. --- Judaism and culture. --- Europe --- Religious Studies. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- History of Modern Europe. --- Comparative Religion. --- History—1492-. --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Judaism. --- Brotherhood Week --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Europe—History—1492-.

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This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- History --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Literature, Medieval. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Judaism and culture. --- Medieval Literature. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Europe --- Gay culture Europe --- 476-1492.

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This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st. It presents a critical, up-to-date analysis of Santob de Carrión, also known as Sem Tob, a writer and thinker whose philosophy arose in the Spain of the three great cultures: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, who then coexisted in peace. The author first presents a historical and cultural introduction that provides biographical detail as well as context for a greater understand of Santob's philosophy. Next, the book offers a dialogue with the work itself, which looks at politics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and theodicy. The aim is not to provide an exhaustive analysis, or to comment on each and every verse, but rather to deal only with the most relevant for today’s world. Readers will discover how Santob believed knowledge must be dynamic, and tolerance fundamental, fleeing from dogma, since one cannot avoid a significant dose of moral and aesthetic relativism. Subjectivity, within its own codes, must seek a profound ethics, not puritanical but which serves to escape from general ill will. Santob offers a criticism of wealth and power that does not serve the people which appears to be totally relevant today. In spite of the fame he achieved in his own time, Santob has largely remained a vestige of the past. By the end of this book, readers will come to see why this important figure deserves to be more widely studied. Indeed, not only has this medieval Spanish philosopher searched for truth in an unstable, confused world of contradictions, but he has done so in a way that can still help us today.

Philosophy. --- Judaism and culture. --- Ethnology --- Europe --- Medieval philosophy. --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- European Culture. --- Europe. --- History—476-1492. --- Judaism --- Jewish philosophy --- History. --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Religions --- Semites --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Philosophy (General). --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Philosophy, medieval. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Gay culture Europe --- History --- 476-1492. --- Social aspects

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This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938. Who were Vienna’s Jews, how did they react and respond to Nazism, and why? Drawing upon the voices of the individuals and families who lived during this time, together with new archival documentation, Ilana Offenberger reconstructs the daily lives of Vienna’s Jews from Anschluss in March 1938 through the entire Nazi occupation and the eventual dissolution of the Jewish community of Vienna. Offenberger explains how and why over two-thirds of the Jewish community emigrated from the country, while one-third remained trapped. A vivid picture emerges of the co-dependent relationship this community developed with their German masters, and the false hope they maintained until the bitter end. The Germans murdered close to one third of Vienna’s Jewish population in the “final solution” and their family members who escaped the Reich before 1941 chose never to return; they remained dispersed across the world. This is not a triumphant history. Although the overwhelming majority survived the Holocaust, the Jewish community that once existed was destroyed.

History. --- Judaism and culture. --- Religion and sociology. --- Europe, Central --- Europe --- World War, 1939-1945. --- History of World War II and the Holocaust. --- History of Modern Europe. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- Religion and Society. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- History—1492-. --- Jews --- History --- Social conditions --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust survivors --- Persecutions --- Vienna (Austria) --- Austria --- Emigration and immigration --- Survivors, Holocaust --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Nazi persecution --- Wien (Austria) --- Vi︠e︡denʹ (Austria) --- Vedenʹ (Austria) --- Vena (Austria) --- Wiedëń (Austria) --- Bécs (Austria) --- Vindobona (Austria) --- Videnʹ (Austria) --- Vienne (Austria) --- Viena (Austria) --- Wienn (Austria) --- Dunaj (Austria) --- Wean (Austria) --- Wenen (Austria) --- Wina (Austria) --- Wene (Austria) --- Uigenna (Austria) --- فيينا (Austria) --- Fīyinnā (Austria) --- Vyana (Austria) --- Вена (Austria) --- Горад Вена (Austria) --- Виена (Austria) --- Beč (Austria) --- Fienna (Austria) --- Viin (Austria) --- Βιέννη (Austria) --- Вена ош (Austria) --- Vena osh (Austria) --- Vieno (Austria) --- Viene (Austria) --- Vín (Austria) --- Veen (Austria) --- 빈 (Austria) --- Венæ (Austria) --- Venæ (Austria) --- וינה (Austria) --- Ṿinah (Austria) --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Europe, Central-History. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Europe, Central—History.