Representing Jewish Thought

Proceedings of the 2015 Institute of Jewish Studies Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
9789004446137 (ISBN)

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Representing Jewish Thought offers essays on modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought pertinent to Jewish past and present, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performing arts.

Representing Jewish Thought originated in the conference, convened in honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, on the theme of visual representations of Jewish thought from antiquity to the early modern period. The volume encompasses essays on various modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought, pertinent to Jewish past and present. It explores several approaches to the study of the transmission of ideas in historical sources, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performative arts. The volume has brought together scholars from different subfields of Jewish Studies, covering thousands of years of Jewish history, who invite further scholarly reflection on the expression, transmission, and organisation of knowledge in Jewish contexts.

Agata Paluch, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is research associate at Free University of Berlin. She has published on Jewish mystical literatures, including Megalleh ʻAmuqot: The Enoch-Meṭaṭron Tradition in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neṭa Shapira of Kraków (1585-1633) (Cherub Press, 2014).

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Ada Rapoport-Albert: an Appreciation

Mark Geller

1 Introduction

Agata Paluch

2 “Letters of Thought” (otiyot ha-maḥshavah) and “Primordial Intellect”: from Ecstatic Kabbalah to Hasidism

Moshe Idel

3 Staging Hasidism: Representation of the “Yossele Schumacher Affair” in a Hasidic Yiddish Play Vi iz Yossele?

Wojciech Tworek

4 The Manuscript in Chabad: Joining Souls?

Naftali Loewenthal

5 Copying, Compiling, Commonplacing in Kabbalistic Manuscript Collectanea: Sefer Ḥesheḳ and the Kabbalah of Divine Names in Early Modern Ashkenaz

Agata Paluch

6 The “Munich Talmud”: an Exceptional Book of French Jews

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

7 Moral Exegesis? Hermeneutics and Exegetical Strategies in Seder Eliyahu (Zuṭa)

Lennart Lehmhaus

8 Zodiacs of Heaven and Earth

Helen R. Jacobus

9 Playing Hide and Seek: Is There a Jewish Way to It?

Frank Alvarez-Pereyre

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	IJS Studies in Judaica ; 21
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	547 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9789004446137 / 9789004446137
Zustand	Neuware