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"In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible--the ancient Near East--came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochus IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the Biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by learning to converse with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the way they described their own experiences. Honigman contents that their stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors"--

Jews --- Maccabees. --- Jewish high priests --- Juifs --- Maccabées --- Grands prêtres (Judaïsme) --- Kings and rulers --- History --- History. --- Rois et souverains --- Histoire --- Antiochus --- Bible. --- History of Biblical events. --- 222.9 --- Makkabeeën --- Antiochnus --- Antiochos --- אנטיוכוס --- אנטיוכוס, --- 2 Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 2 Machabees (Apocrypha) --- 2nd Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 2nd Machabees (Apocrypha) --- Maccabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) --- Machabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) --- Makabim 2 --- Second Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- Second Machabees (Apocrypha) --- Sefer ha-Makabim 2 --- 1 Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 1st Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- First Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- Makabim 1 --- Sefer ha-Makabim 1 --- Brothers. --- Antiochus IV, King of Syria, approximately 215 B.C.-164 B.C. --- Bible. Apocrypha. Maccabees, 1st -- History of Biblical events. --- Bible. Apocrypha. Maccabees, 2nd -- History of Biblical events. --- Jewish high priests -- History. --- Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. --- Jews -- Kings and rulers -- Brothers. --- Maccabees --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- Brothers --- Maccabées --- Grands prêtres (Judaïsme) --- Asmoneans --- Hasmonaeans --- Hasmoneans --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Head priests, Jewish --- High priests, Jewish --- Jewish head priests --- Priests, Jewish --- alexander the great. --- ancient greece. --- ancient near east. --- ancient world. --- armed conflict. --- bible study. --- bible. --- biblical accounts. --- biblical stories. --- books in the bible. --- books of the maccabees. --- cultural clash. --- economic influences. --- greece. --- greek culture. --- greek rule. --- hellenistic culture and society series. --- historical perspective. --- historical. --- imperial masters. --- jews. --- judaism. --- judean rebellion. --- king antiochos iv. --- land of israel. --- literary analysis. --- political influences. --- power of culture. --- rebellion. --- religious persecution. --- testimony.

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The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. This book is the first to bring postmodern philosophical and literary approaches into conversation with post-Holocaust Jewish thought. Drawing on the work of Mieke Bal, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, and others, Braiterman assesses how Jewish intellectuals reinterpret Bible and Midrash to re-create religious thought for the age after Auschwitz. In this process, he provides a model for reconstructing Jewish life and philosophy in the wake of the Holocaust. His work contributes to the postmodern turn in contemporary Jewish studies and today's creative theology.

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic Jewry as insular and backward, a result of Christian persecution, they depicted the Sephardim as worldly, morally and intellectually superior, and beautiful, products of the tolerant Muslim environment in which they lived. In this elegantly written book, John Efron looks in depth at the special allure Sephardic aesthetics held for German Jewry.Efron examines how German Jews idealized the sound of Sephardic Hebrew and the Sephardim's physical and moral beauty, and shows how the allure of the Sephardic found expression in neo-Moorish synagogue architecture, historical novels, and romanticized depictions of Sephardic history. He argues that the shapers of German-Jewish culture imagined medieval Iberian Jewry as an exemplary Jewish community, bound by tradition yet fully at home in the dominant culture of Muslim Spain. Efron argues that the myth of Sephardic superiority was actually an expression of withering self-critique by German Jews who, by seeking to transform Ashkenazic culture and win the acceptance of German society, hoped to enter their own golden age.Stimulating and provocative, this book demonstrates how the goal of this aesthetic self-refashioning was not assimilation but rather the creation of a new form of German-Jewish identity inspired by Sephardic beauty.

RELIGION / Judaism / History. --- HISTORY / Social History. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Haskalah --- Jews --- Sephardim --- Jews, Sephardic --- Ladinos (Spanish Jews) --- Sefardic Jews --- Sephardi Jews --- Sephardic Jews --- Jews, Portuguese --- Jews, Spanish --- Jewish Enlightenment --- Enlightenment --- Judaism --- Liberalism (Religion) --- Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement) --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- History --- Cultural assimilation --- Social life and customs. --- Identity --- Intellectual life --- Germany --- Ethnic relations. --- Abraham Geiger. --- Abravanel. --- Antisemitism. --- Antithesis. --- Apostasy. --- Arabs. --- Arthur Ruppin. --- Ashkenazi Jews. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Biblical Hebrew. --- Blood libel. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Central Synagogue. --- Christianity. --- David Sorkin. --- Eastern Europe. --- Edward Said. --- Friedrich Nicolai. --- German language. --- German literature. --- Germans. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gothic architecture. --- Gottfried Semper. --- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. --- Haskalah. --- Hebrew language. --- Hebrews. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Historical fiction. --- Horowitz. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Isaac Satanow. --- Israelites. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish emancipation. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Judah Halevi. --- Judaism. --- Judea. --- Kabbalah. --- Land of Israel. --- Leo von Klenze. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Ludwig Philippson. --- Marrano. --- Martin Jay. --- Maskil. --- Meyer Kayserling. --- Modernity. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Moses ibn Ezra. --- Mosque. --- Nathan Adler. --- Newspaper. --- Nobility. --- Norbert Elias. --- Notion (ancient city). --- Orientalism. --- Persecution. --- Philosopher. --- Piety. --- Poetry. --- Popular culture. --- Princeton University Press. --- Pronunciation. --- Prussia. --- Racism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Ridicule. --- Romanticism. --- Sanskrit. --- Self-criticism. --- Sensibility. --- Sepharad. --- Sephardi Hebrew. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Shlomo. --- Spanish and Portuguese Jews. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synagogue architecture. --- Synagogue. --- The Civilizing Process. --- The Philosopher. --- Torah study. --- Western culture. --- Wissenschaft des Judentums. --- Writing. --- Yad Vashem. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.

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In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects of Jewish life, including business, family, religious issues, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. Taken together, the responsa constitute an extremely rich source of information about the everyday lives of Sephardic Jews. The book looks at questions asked between 1492--when the Jews were expelled from Spain--and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for Ottoman Jewish sea traders, the trials of an ex-husband accused of a robbery, and the rights of a sexually abused wife. Goldish provides a sizeable introduction to the history of the Sephardic diaspora and the nature of responsa literature, as well as a bibliography, historical background for each question, and short biographies of the rabbis involved. Including cases from well-known communities such as Venice, Istanbul, and Saloniki, and lesser-known Jewish enclaves such as Kastoria, Ragusa, and Nablus, Jewish Questions provides a sense of how Sephardic communities were organized, how Jews related to their neighbors, what problems threatened them and their families, and how they understood their relationship to God and the Jewish people.

Sephardim --- Jews --- Jews, Sephardic --- Ladinos (Spanish Jews) --- Sefardic Jews --- Sephardi Jews --- Sephardic Jews --- Jews, Portuguese --- Jews, Spanish --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Turkey --- Anatolia --- Anatolie --- Ānātūlī --- Asia Minor --- Asia Minore --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Turk Uls --- Buturuki --- Cộng hoà Thỏ̂ Nhĩ Kỳ --- Dēmokratia tēs Tourkias --- Devlet-i Aliye Osmaniye --- Durka --- Durkka dásseváldi --- Gweriniaeth Twrci --- Jamhuri ya Uturuki --- Jamhuuriyada Turki --- Jumhūrīyah al-Turkīyah --- Komara Tirkiyeyê --- Lýðveldið Turkaland --- Lýðveldið Tyrkland --- Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìnira ilẹ̀ Túrkì --- Osmanlı İmparatorluğu --- Osmanskai︠a︡ Imperii︠a︡ --- Ottoman Empire --- Pobblaght ny Turkee --- Poblacht na Tuirce --- Repóbblica d'l Turchî --- Repubbleche de Turchie --- Repubblica di Turchia --- Republic of Turkey --- Republic of Türkiye --- República da Turquia --- Republica de Turchia --- Republica de Turquía --- Republica Turcia --- Republiek Turkeye --- Republiek Turkije --- Republiek van Turkye --- Republik bu Tirki --- Republik Tierkei --- Republik Turkäi --- Republik Türkei --- Républik Turki --- Republik Turkia --- Republika e Turqisë --- Republika ng Turkiya --- Repùblika Tërecczi --- Republika Turcija --- Republika Turcji --- Republika Turcyje --- Republika Turecko --- Republika Turkiya --- Republika Turkojska --- Republika Turska --- Republika Turt︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Republiḳah ha-Ṭurḳiyah --- Republiken Turkiet --- Republikken Tyrkia --- Republikken Tyrkiet --- République de Turquie --- République turque --- Repuvlika de Turkiya --- Ripablik kya Buturuki --- Ripoliku Turkiyakondre --- T.C. (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) --- Tagduda n Tturk --- TC --- Teki --- Tëreckô --- Ṭerḳay --- Ṭerḳishe Republiḳ --- Thekhi --- Thỏ̂ Nhĩ Kỳ --- Thú-ngí-khì --- Tiakei --- Tierkei --- Tiki --- Tirki --- Tırkiya --- Tirkiye --- Ti︠u︡rk --- Ti︠u︡rk Respublika --- Ti︠u︡rkii︠a︡ --- Ti︠u︡rkii︠a︡ Respublika --- Tlacatlahtocayotl Turquia --- Tʻŏkʻi --- T'ŏk'i Konghwaguk --- Tʼóok Bikéyah --- Torkėjė --- Tȯrkiă --- Törkie --- Törkieë --- Tȯrkii︠a︡ --- Tȯrkii︠a︡ Jȯmḣu̇rii︠a︡te --- Török Köztársaság --- Törökország --- Toruko --- Toruko Kyōwakoku --- Tourkia --- Tourkikē Dēmokratia --- Tturk --- Tu er qi gong he guo --- Tū-ī-gì --- Tū-ī-gì Gê̤ṳng-huò-guók --- Tu'erqi --- Tu'erqi gong he guo --- Tu'erqi Gongheguo --- Tuirc --- Tunkī --- Turchî --- Turchia --- Turchie --- Turchy Respublikæ --- Turcia --- Turcija --- Turcijas Republika --- Turcja --- Turcland --- Turcyjo --- Turechchyna --- Turecká republika --- Turecko --- Tureke --- Turet︠s︡ka Respublika --- Turėtskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Tureuki --- Türgi --- Türgi Vabariik --- Türgü --- Türgü Vabariik --- Turk --- Turkäi --- Turkaland --- Turkamastor --- Türkän --- Turkanʹ respubliksʹ --- Turkee --- Türkei --- Turkeya --- Turkeye --- Turki --- Turkia --- Turkia Respubliko --- Turkieë --- Turkiet --- Turkii --- Tu̇rkii︠a︡ --- Tu̇rkii︠a︡ Respublikasy --- Tu̇rkiĭė --- Tu̇rkiĭė Respublikata --- Turkija --- Turkije --- Turkin tasavalta --- Turkio --- Turkiyā --- Turkiya Republika --- Türkiyä Respublikası --- Turkiyah --- Turkiyakondre --- Türkiye --- Türkiye Cumhuriyeti --- Türkiýe Respublikasy --- Turkki --- Turkojska --- Turkowska --- Turkujo --- Turkya --- Turkyah --- Turkye --- Turqia --- Turquía --- Turquie (Repupblic) --- Turska --- Turtchie --- Turt︠s︡i --- Turt︠s︡i Respubliki --- Turt︠s︡iĭ --- Turt︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Turtsyi︠a︡ --- Turukiya --- Tuykia --- Twrci --- Tyrkia --- Tyrkiet --- Tyrkland --- Tẏrt︠s︡i --- Uturuki --- Vysokai︠a︡ Porta --- Whenua Korukoru --- Τουρκική Δημοκρατία --- Τουρκία --- Δημοκρατία της Τουρκίας --- Република Турска --- Република Турция --- Република Турција --- Турска --- Турцыя --- Турци --- Турци Республики --- Турция --- Турција --- Турций --- Турція --- Турчы Республикæ --- Турэцкая Рэспубліка --- Турк --- Туркань республиксь --- Туркамастор --- Турецька Республіка --- Турецка Республіка --- Турецкая Республика --- Туреччина --- Тюрк --- Тюрк Республика --- Тюркия --- Тюркия Республика --- רפובליקה הטורקית --- תורכיה --- טערקישע רעפובליק --- טערקיי --- טורקיה --- تركيا --- جمهورية التركية --- トルコ --- トルコ共和国 --- 土耳其 --- 土耳其共和國 --- 터키 --- 터키 공화국 --- Ethnic relations --- Admonition. --- Adultery. --- Age of majority. --- Agunah. --- Algiers. --- Annulment. --- Apostasy. --- Aristotelianism. --- Bathing. --- Benveniste. --- Bibliography. --- Bigamy. --- Blood libel. --- Book of Leviticus. --- Christendom. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Concubinage. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Converso. --- Crucifixion of Jesus. --- Crypto-Judaism. --- Debasement. --- Debtor. --- Decree. --- Defamation. --- Disease. --- Domestic violence. --- Dowry. --- Early modern period. --- Embarrassment. --- Engagement. --- Excommunication. --- Expatriate. --- Feudalism. --- Gentile. --- Hakham. --- Heresy. --- House of Habsburg. --- Idolatry. --- Injunction. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Karaite Judaism. --- Kastoria (regional unit). --- Kaunos. --- Ketubah. --- Ketubot (tractate). --- Kohen. --- Land of Israel. --- Livelihood. --- Maimonides. --- Manumission. --- Masturbation. --- Melamed. --- Morganatic marriage. --- Mr. --- Muhammad. --- Nagid. --- Natalie Zemon Davis. --- Nickname. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Patras. --- People of the Book. --- Persecution. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Piety. --- Power of attorney. --- Precedent. --- Prostitution. --- Protestantism. --- Rabbi. --- Renunciation. --- Responsa. --- Retinue. --- Safed. --- Same-sex relationship. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Slavery. --- Social class. --- Spain. --- Spanish and Portuguese Jews. --- Spouse. --- Statute. --- Suffering. --- Talmud. --- Tax. --- The Other Hand. --- Tiberias. --- Torah study. --- Umar. --- Uskoks. --- Washing. --- Welding. --- Western Europe. --- Women in Judaism. --- Writ.