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Un-Settled Questions: Frontier Logic and Satmar Political Theology 未解决的问题:前沿逻辑和萨特玛政治神学
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903292
S. Shuman
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A City Transfigured: The Structure of the Bialystok Jewish Community after World War II 变形的城市:二战后比亚韦斯托克犹太社区的结构
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903280
Joanna Sadowska
Abstract:This article concerns the Jewish community living in Bialystok, northeastern Poland's largest city. It used to be an important center of Jewish social and cultural life, with over forty thousand Jewish residents before World War II. As a consequence of the Holocaust, the population of the community decreased to a maximum of 1,500. The research, based mainly on statistical data from Jewish social institutions, reveals further changes, mainly caused by migratory movements and the processes of acculturation and assimilation, which led to the total disappearance of that community within less than thirty years. Another subject of the analysis is the demographic and professional structure of this population in the postwar years. The research shows that the unique demographic structure was the result of varied chances of survival during the war: higher in the case of men and people of working age. The professional activity of Bialystok Jews was characterized by a low rate of regular employment, especially in industry, and a relatively high rate of work in cooperatives and craft workshops. This professional structure differed significantly from the situation before the war and also from that typical in Polish society in general during this period, but with the passage of time, the uniqueness of the Jewish community decreased.
摘要:本文关注波兰东北部最大城市比亚韦斯托克的犹太社区。它曾经是犹太人社会和文化生活的重要中心,在第二次世界大战之前有超过4万名犹太居民。大屠杀的后果是,社区人口最多减少到1 500人。这项研究主要根据犹太社会机构的统计数据,揭示了进一步的变化,主要是由移民运动和文化适应和同化过程引起的,这些变化导致该社区在不到三十年的时间内完全消失。分析的另一个主题是战后人口的人口结构和职业结构。研究表明,这种独特的人口结构是战争期间各种生存机会的结果:男性和工作年龄的人的生存机会更高。比亚韦斯托克犹太人的专业活动的特点是经常就业率低,特别是在工业方面,而在合作社和工艺车间工作的比例相对较高。这种职业结构与战前的情况有很大不同,也与这一时期波兰社会的典型情况有很大不同,但随着时间的推移,犹太社区的独特性减弱了。
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A Specter Haunting Holocaust Studies: The Muselmann 大屠杀研究的幽灵:缪斯曼
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903287
Sharon B. Oster
Abstract:Attention to the figure of the Muselmann in Holocaust studies is finally picking up steam, in what is a long overdue conversation. Recent studies of the concept and phenomenon are challenging long-held assumptions about to whom and what the term Muselmann refers, what it meant in the Nazi concentration camps, and what it means now. This essay responds to two pieces published here, "Did Jews Die as Muslims at Auschwitz? Spectres of the Muselmann," by Kathrin Wittler, and "Witnessing the Ghost, Letting the Ghost Witness," by Alexander Williams. Raising key questions about the term Muselmann, these essays together illustrate the ongoing problems it poses for Holocaust studies. While Wittler provides a historical excavation of the Orientalist and colonialist associations that cleave to the word Muselmann, one desperately needed in Holocaust studies, Williams approaches the subject theoretically, in effort to make the term perform sweeping conceptual work. Explaining "spectral" figures in Holocaust testimony remains fruitful, but doing so through inherited definitions of Muselmänner, based on a few iconic survivor testimonies, simplifies the ethical implications of the phenomenon, and perpetuates its problematic semantic history. I therefore argue that scholars would do well to use the term carefully and critically, lest we perpetuate these problems. Other recent studies on the topic that look at a wider variety of survivor perspectives prove the Muselmann to be an incoherent category and raise new ethical questions about concentration camp prisoner agency. As such work shows, it is time to demystify the specter haunting Holocaust studies.
摘要:对大屠杀研究中Muselmann形象的关注终于开始了,这是一场早该进行的对话。最近对这一概念和现象的研究正在挑战长期以来的假设,即Muselmann一词指的是谁和什么,它在纳粹集中营意味着什么,以及它现在意味着什么。这篇文章回应了这里发表的两篇文章,凯瑟琳·维特勒的《犹太人作为穆斯林死于奥斯威辛吗?缪斯曼的幽灵》和亚历山大·威廉姆斯的《见证鬼魂,让鬼魂见证》。这些文章提出了关于Muselmann一词的关键问题,共同说明了它给大屠杀研究带来的持续问题。虽然Wittler对东方主义者和殖民主义者的联想进行了历史挖掘,这些联想与大屠杀研究中迫切需要的Muselmann一词有关,但Williams从理论上探讨了这个主题,试图让这个词进行全面的概念工作。解释大屠杀证词中的“光谱”数字仍然富有成效,但通过继承Muselmänner的定义,基于一些标志性的幸存者证词,简化了这一现象的伦理含义,并使其有问题的语义历史永久化。因此,我认为学者们最好谨慎而批判性地使用这个词,以免我们使这些问题长期存在。最近关于这一主题的其他研究着眼于更广泛的幸存者视角,证明Muselmann是一个不连贯的类别,并提出了关于集中营囚犯代理的新的伦理问题。正如这些工作所表明的那样,是时候揭开困扰大屠杀研究的幽灵的神秘面纱了。
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Critical Pedagogical Jewish Studies: Whiteness, Racism, and Jewish Ethno/National Fissures 批判性犹太教育学研究:白人、种族主义和犹太民族/国家分裂
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903281
Elizabeth Ingenthron
Abstract:Critical pedagogy makes for an enriched approach to Jewish Studies because of shared principles and values also found in Jewish traditions and teachings. The first step of critical pedagogy is to pose the world as a problem. This article agrees with scholarship suggesting that whiteness and racism are fundamental problems of our time. After synthesizing Jewish Studies with a critical pedagogical approach that focuses on the problems of whiteness and racism, the next important step in critical pedagogy is reflection—in this instance, reflection on the relationship between Judaism, whiteness, and racism. This article uses critical whiteness studies as a theoretical framework for reflecting on these relationships. There are two overarching schools of thought in critical whiteness studies—one being that whiteness can be rearticulated to "antiracist white," and the other arguing that whiteness must be abolished. The following article builds upon the latter, making a proposal for one way that Judaism might contribute to liberation movements led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color toward the abolition of whiteness and racism. Finally, the article explores cultural action, the third step of critical pedagogy, at the ideological and material levels. Bringing critical whiteness studies to Jewish Studies reveals one of the many possible ways that Judaism can help to dismantle whiteness and racism.
摘要:批判性教育学为犹太研究提供了丰富的方法,因为在犹太传统和教义中也发现了共同的原则和价值观。批判性教育学的第一步是将世界视为一个问题。这篇文章赞同学术界的观点,即白人和种族主义是我们这个时代的根本问题。在将犹太研究与专注于白人和种族主义问题的批判性教学法相结合之后,批判性教学法的下一个重要步骤是反思——在这种情况下,反思犹太教、白人和种族之间的关系。本文将批判性白度研究作为反思这些关系的理论框架。在批判性白人研究中,有两个主要学派——一个学派认为白人可以重新表述为“反种族主义白人”,另一个学派则认为必须废除白人。以下文章以后者为基础,提出了一种犹太教可能有助于黑人、原住民和有色人种领导的解放运动的方式,以废除白人和种族主义。最后,文章从思想层面和物质层面探讨了批判教育学的第三步——文化行动。将批判性白人研究纳入犹太研究揭示了犹太教有助于消除白人和种族主义的许多可能方式之一。
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Hasidic-Americans 哈西德派美国人
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903290
J. Karp
this stimulating
这种刺激
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Transmatriation? Avishag the Shunammite in Three Contemporary Israeli Novels Transmatriation吗?当代以色列三部小说中的书念女艾维沙
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903282
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
Abstract:While numerous postbiblical authors consider the major figures in the Davidic dynasty, others have turned their attention to the more peripheral characters in the David cycle. The three Israeli novels discussed in this article—Yael Lotan's Avishag (2002), Avraham Burg's Avishag (2011), and Eva Etzioni-Halevy's But the King Did Not Know Her (2014)—focus on Avishag the Shunammite. Although all draw on the same biblical text, each develops it in a particular direction. Lotan's Avishag embodies both political and feminist features, developing from a young maiden into a royal secret agent. Burg's reading is a political one: he remains loyal to the patriarchal point of view by choosing a male narrator; hence his Avishag is still a relatively minor character. Etzioni-Halevy's novel falls into the category of feminist historical/biblical romance. Her protagonist, Avishag, positioned as a romance heroine, develops from a passive maiden into a mature woman who seeks to determine her own fate. Moreover, since Avishag's character in the biblical narrative is mentioned in the middle of the inheritance struggle between David's sons Adonijah and Solomon, each of the novelists uses it as a springboard for rereading the Davidian story through a different prism. By choosing different narrators, different languages (English, pseudo-biblical Hebrew, and contemporary Hebrew), and slightly different genres, each of the authors adapts the biblical story to enhance a different reading of the Bible, making the ancient story accessible and fresh to contemporary readers as an "old vessel filled with new wine."
摘要:虽然许多后圣经作者都认为大卫王朝的主要人物,但其他人则将注意力转向了大卫周期中更边缘的人物。本文讨论的三部以色列小说——Yael Lotan的《Avishag》(2002年)、Avraham Burg的《Avihag》(2011年)和Eva Etzioni Halevy的《但国王不认识她》(2014年)——都聚焦于Shunamite的Avishag。尽管所有这些都借鉴了相同的圣经文本,但每一个都朝着特定的方向发展。洛坦笔下的Avishag集政治和女权主义于一身,从一个年轻的少女发展成为一名皇家特工。伯格的阅读是一种政治性的阅读:他选择了一位男性叙述者,仍然忠于父权制的观点;因此他的Avishag仍然是一个相对次要的角色。Etzioni Halevy的小说属于女权主义历史/圣经浪漫主义的范畴。她的主人公Avishag被定位为一个浪漫的女英雄,从一个被动的少女发展成一个寻求决定自己命运的成熟女性。此外,由于阿维沙格在圣经叙事中的角色是在大卫的儿子阿多尼亚和所罗门之间的遗产斗争中被提到的,所以每一位小说家都将其作为跳板,从不同的角度重读大卫的故事。通过选择不同的叙述者、不同的语言(英语、伪圣经希伯来语和当代希伯来语)和略有不同的流派,每一位作者都对圣经故事进行了改编,以增强对圣经的不同阅读,使古代故事对当代读者来说是一个“装满新酒的旧容器”
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On the Construction of National Symbol in S. Y. Abramovitsh's Susati 论阿布拉莫维奇《苏萨提》中国家符号的建构
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903279
Rhona Burns
Abstract:This paper focuses on the way national symbol is constructed in the Hebrew novel Susati, which was written as a national allegory at around the turn of the twentieth century. The paper sheds new light on the Jewishness of the chosen aesthetic representation. The paper argues that Abramovitsh's symbolic method accentuates a new understanding of Jewish national existence that is represented through the behavioral constructions that develop between the novel's human protagonist and the animal protagonist—the mare—as well as between these two and the devil. This elaborate and complicated literary representation mirrors the chaotic reality experienced by many Jews in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
摘要:本文着重探讨二十世纪之交作为民族寓言创作的希伯来语小说《苏萨提》中民族象征的建构方式。这篇论文为所选择的美学表现的犹太性提供了新的线索。文章认为,阿布拉莫维奇的象征方法强调了对犹太民族存在的新理解,这种理解通过小说中人类主人公和动物主人公——母马——以及这两者和魔鬼之间的行为建构来表现。这种精心复杂的文学表现反映了20世纪初东欧许多犹太人所经历的混乱现实。
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Witnessing the Ghost, Letting the Ghost Witness: Exploring the Impediments of Witness Narratives in Holocaust Camp Testimonies through Spectrality and the Metaphor of the Muselmann 见证鬼魂,让鬼魂见证——从“幽灵”和“缪斯曼”的隐喻看大屠杀集中营证言中证人叙述的障碍
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903285
Alexander Williams
Abstract:Within debates surrounding "Levi's Paradox"—the idea that through their survival, survivors are not necessarily the "complete witnesses" of the Holocaust—the Muselmann is frequently posited as able to reconcile this conundrum. Within testimonial literature, these emaciated prisoners were perceived as ghost-like entities who were neither alive nor dead but somehow between life and death. The observed absence left in witness narratives thereby appears to be testimony from inside the experience of these Muselmänner. What is ubiquitously overlooked in such analyses is that the Muselmann primarily functions as a metaphor—rendering the absent dead legible in language. Ignoring this risks instrumentalizing the Muselmann, which threatens to allow the metaphor to become shorthand for something more generic—obfuscating the reality that Muselmänner signify real Holocaust victims.However, all metaphors contain a potential for semantic flexibility. Cannot the Muselmann's ability to pollute rigid dichotomies therefore be approached productively and more ethically when refocalizing him as a ghostly entity in testimonial literature? By examining passages from Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After, this article asks: if the Muselmann is viewed as a ghostly or spectral metaphor—a haunting force within the Holocaust's literary corpus—how might this spectral witness be able to draw attention to erasure and historical blind spots? Constituting an ethical and an interpretive undertaking, this refocalization simultaneously allows one to speak with the Muselmann and enables these anonymous victims to manifest themselves anew as haunting forces through literary testimony.
摘要:在围绕“李维斯悖论”(Levi's Paradox)的辩论中,幸存者不一定是大屠杀的“完整见证者”,穆塞尔曼经常被认为能够调和这个难题。在证言文献中,这些瘦弱的囚犯被视为幽灵般的实体,他们既不活着也不死,但不知何故处于生与死之间。因此,在证人叙述中观察到的缺席似乎是来自这些Muselmänner经历内部的证词。在这些分析中普遍被忽视的是,Muselmann主要起到隐喻的作用——在语言中使缺席的死者清晰可见。忽视这一点有可能使Muselmann工具化,这可能会使这个比喻成为更通用的东西的缩写——混淆Muselmänner象征真正大屠杀受害者的现实。然而,所有隐喻都包含着语义灵活性的潜力。因此,当穆塞尔曼在证明文学中将他重新塑造为一个幽灵般的实体时,就不能有效地、更合乎道德地对待他污染僵化的二分法的能力吗?通过研究普里莫·李维(Primo Levi)的《如果这是一个人》(If This Is a Man)和夏洛特·德尔博(Charlotte Delbo?这种重新定位构成了一种道德和解释事业,同时允许人们与Muselmann对话,并使这些匿名受害者能够通过文学证词重新表现出令人难忘的力量。
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The Bais Yaakov Network: A Case Study for a Transnationally Sustainable Community Leadership Bais Yaakov网络:跨国可持续社区领导的案例研究
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903283
Dikla Yogev
Abstract:The Bais Yaakov school network represents an unusual phenomenon: a school system with strong transnational tendencies. Founded in 1917 in Poland, it developed rapidly there in the interwar period; in the 1930s, it also struck roots first in Mandate Palestine and then in North America. The Bais Yaakov network of schools, which flourishes today, tells a story of sustainability over time and space. This paper presents historical analysis and social network analysis (SNA) of the early years of the Bais Yaakov network, analyzing Hebrew press newspaper articles published between 1930 and 1948 to demonstrate how a number of key leaders in the schools' administration played a crucial role in developing the network. This network involved not only the schools themselves, but also religious advocacy and government relations. Key actors leveraged their brokering power with these larger organizations in order to expand the network in Poland and the Land of Israel. The organizational affiliations of key actors thus shed light on the place of Bais Yaakov within a larger network of community organizations: in both locations, these leaders usually held a double role as educators as well as important community figures within the broader Orthodox Jewish context. These findings suggest that the sustainability of transnational networks depends on strong leaders who are involved within the network to promote its specific global identity but who are also active and powerful in the local peripheries, amplifying network visibility within local and broader communities and maintaining beneficial connections with local governmental authorities.
摘要:拜斯-亚科夫学校网络代表了一个不同寻常的现象:一个具有强烈跨国倾向的学校系统。它于1917年在波兰成立,在两次世界大战期间在那里迅速发展;20世纪30年代,它也首先在巴勒斯坦托管地扎根,然后在北美扎根。今天蓬勃发展的Bais-Yaakov学校网络告诉了一个跨越时间和空间的可持续发展故事。本文介绍了Bais-Yaakov网络早期的历史分析和社会网络分析(SNA),分析了1930年至1948年间发表的希伯来文报刊文章,以展示学校管理中的一些关键领导人如何在网络发展中发挥关键作用。这个网络不仅涉及学校本身,还涉及宗教宣传和政府关系。主要行动者利用其与这些较大组织的中介力量,扩大在波兰和以色列土地上的网络。因此,关键行为者的组织关系揭示了拜斯·亚科夫在更大的社区组织网络中的地位:在这两个地方,这些领导人通常在更广泛的正统犹太背景下扮演着教育工作者和重要社区人物的双重角色。这些发现表明,跨国网络的可持续性取决于强有力的领导者,他们参与网络内部,以促进其特定的全球身份,但在当地周边地区也很活跃和强大,在当地和更广泛的社区中扩大网络的知名度,并与当地政府当局保持有益的联系。
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Rooted in Brooklyn 植根于布鲁克林
IF 0.5 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2023.a903289
J. W. Joselit
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