Abstract:This essay addresses a significant characteristic of Nahmanides' Torah commentary on the Joseph narrative—his striking emphasis on Joseph's integrity and loyalty to his Egyptian master. This emphasis throughout the Joseph narrative is exceptional and is lacking in the commentaries of Nahmanides' predecessors.
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Abstract:This essay offers a reading of early rabbinic laws of neighbors and reconstructs a distinctive political theory with a "partnership" concept at its heart. The thesis presented here begins with the idea that for the early rabbis, there is a form of partnership that arises spontaneously—i.e., with no need for agreement or contract—between people who live in close vicinity. In this way, individual neighbors become partners in spaces, objects, and structures situated between their private properties, and the people of the city become partners in all public matters and assets. Private-law reasoning serves the rabbis to theorize the life of the city as a whole. A major implication of this theory is that ultimate political authority lies in the hands of the people of the city, not in those of potential affluent or religious leaders. The people of the city rule the city because it is theirs in partnership. This civic theory, it is proposed, should be read in the intellectual context of Roman political thought. The rabbis are shown to exploit the gap between the views of Cicero and the Roman jurists about the city and to produce a political theory beneficial to provincial cities that would be recognizable to Roman intellectuals of their time. The people of the city, therefore, rule as equals among themselves and as autonomous vis-à-vis external imperial power. Reading the early civil legal principles in this way serves to expand the canon of Jewish political thought.
{"title":"Partnership: Private Law and Political Theory in Rabbinic Laws of Neighbors","authors":"Benjamin Schvarcz","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a reading of early rabbinic laws of neighbors and reconstructs a distinctive political theory with a \"partnership\" concept at its heart. The thesis presented here begins with the idea that for the early rabbis, there is a form of partnership that arises spontaneously—i.e., with no need for agreement or contract—between people who live in close vicinity. In this way, individual neighbors become partners in spaces, objects, and structures situated between their private properties, and the people of the city become partners in all public matters and assets. Private-law reasoning serves the rabbis to theorize the life of the city as a whole. A major implication of this theory is that ultimate political authority lies in the hands of the people of the city, not in those of potential affluent or religious leaders. The people of the city rule the city because it is theirs in partnership. This civic theory, it is proposed, should be read in the intellectual context of Roman political thought. The rabbis are shown to exploit the gap between the views of Cicero and the Roman jurists about the city and to produce a political theory beneficial to provincial cities that would be recognizable to Roman intellectuals of their time. The people of the city, therefore, rule as equals among themselves and as autonomous vis-à-vis external imperial power. Reading the early civil legal principles in this way serves to expand the canon of Jewish political thought.","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"205 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88881149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:On March 8, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion landed in Boston to deliver a major address at Brandeis University. Although the focus of the rest of his U.S. trip was diplomatic, he ended his stay with New York appearances on March 16 at the Reform movement's HUC–JIR, the Conservative-associated JTS, and the Orthodox-affiliated YU. At all four campuses, he encouraged American Jewish students to spend a year of study in Israel, a practice that was uncommon at that time but has since become de rigueur. Yet close examination of archived transcripts, taped recordings of the events, and first-hand accounts reveal significant differences in each presentation. Together with contemporaneous descriptions, personal diary accounts, and in concert with fresh academic understandings of Ben-Gurion articulated in recent years, these provide novel insight into Ben-Gurion's relationship with American Jewry and its various components—especially religious denominations—at this relatively advanced stage in his public career.Several scholars have asserted that after the establishment of Israel in 1948, Ben-Gurion's Zionist worldview transformed from one that negated the exile and promoted mass immigration to one that emphasized solidarity between world Jewry and the modern Jewish state. Aspects of the 1960 campus visits support this interpretation. At the same time, based on the evidence presented here, I contend that through his focus on the student population instead of the established American Jewish power bases, Ben-Gurion aimed to cultivate a fresh constituency that could still be motivated toward his original vision.
{"title":"Ben-Gurion and American Jewish Students at the Cusp of the Sixties: Between Solidarity and Persuasion","authors":"Adam S. Ferziger","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On March 8, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion landed in Boston to deliver a major address at Brandeis University. Although the focus of the rest of his U.S. trip was diplomatic, he ended his stay with New York appearances on March 16 at the Reform movement's HUC–JIR, the Conservative-associated JTS, and the Orthodox-affiliated YU. At all four campuses, he encouraged American Jewish students to spend a year of study in Israel, a practice that was uncommon at that time but has since become de rigueur. Yet close examination of archived transcripts, taped recordings of the events, and first-hand accounts reveal significant differences in each presentation. Together with contemporaneous descriptions, personal diary accounts, and in concert with fresh academic understandings of Ben-Gurion articulated in recent years, these provide novel insight into Ben-Gurion's relationship with American Jewry and its various components—especially religious denominations—at this relatively advanced stage in his public career.Several scholars have asserted that after the establishment of Israel in 1948, Ben-Gurion's Zionist worldview transformed from one that negated the exile and promoted mass immigration to one that emphasized solidarity between world Jewry and the modern Jewish state. Aspects of the 1960 campus visits support this interpretation. At the same time, based on the evidence presented here, I contend that through his focus on the student population instead of the established American Jewish power bases, Ben-Gurion aimed to cultivate a fresh constituency that could still be motivated toward his original vision.","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"53 1","pages":"273 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76918536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Critical scholarship on tannaitic midrash has long postulated that aggadic traditions common to works associated with the schools of Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Ishmael stem from a shared collection of midrashic traditions, some of which may date to the Second Temple period. One such tradition is the collection of legends that grew up around Serah, the long-lived daughter of the patriarch Asher, first appearing in the Mekilta and the Tosefta. In this research note, I examine additional evidence to support the claim for the prerabbinic nature of the traditions at the root of the legends associated with Serah, notably the brief mention of Anna the prophetess in the Gospel of Luke (2.36–38) and a Samaritan tradition about Sherah, the Samaritan Aramaic form of Serah, found in the fourth-century c.e. strata of the Samaritan compilation, Tibat Marqe. The similarities between these texts suggest that they may be extant examples of an earlier interpretive tradition of connecting the genealogy of a long-lived Israelite or Jewish woman with the tribe of Asher to signify her as one who discloses special or forgotten knowledge, a tradition with likely origins in the Second Temple period.
{"title":"Bat Asher and the Disclosure of Special Knowledge: A Second Temple Interpretive Tradition?","authors":"Jonathan Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Critical scholarship on tannaitic midrash has long postulated that aggadic traditions common to works associated with the schools of Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Ishmael stem from a shared collection of midrashic traditions, some of which may date to the Second Temple period. One such tradition is the collection of legends that grew up around Serah, the long-lived daughter of the patriarch Asher, first appearing in the Mekilta and the Tosefta. In this research note, I examine additional evidence to support the claim for the prerabbinic nature of the traditions at the root of the legends associated with Serah, notably the brief mention of Anna the prophetess in the Gospel of Luke (2.36–38) and a Samaritan tradition about Sherah, the Samaritan Aramaic form of Serah, found in the fourth-century c.e. strata of the Samaritan compilation, Tibat Marqe. The similarities between these texts suggest that they may be extant examples of an earlier interpretive tradition of connecting the genealogy of a long-lived Israelite or Jewish woman with the tribe of Asher to signify her as one who discloses special or forgotten knowledge, a tradition with likely origins in the Second Temple period.","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"191 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74065128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.
摘要:本文为本期法国犹太研究论坛的投稿。
{"title":"Trails of Posters: French Colonial Moroccan Tourism Redux","authors":"A. Boum","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"30 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74103676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.
摘要:本文为本期法国犹太研究论坛的投稿。
{"title":"Dusting Off the Before-Lives of Resistance","authors":"Ethan Katz","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"23 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78458095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.
摘要:本文为本期法国犹太研究论坛的投稿。
{"title":"A Murky Business: Doing Jewish History in France, 1961","authors":"L. Leff","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay is a contribution to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"5 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82188878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie B. Dohrmann, L. Leff, Jay R. Berkovitz, Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, P. Simon-Nahum, Ethan Katz, A. Boum, Richard I. Cohen, S. Everett, J. Katz, S. Lipton, Haggai Olshanetsky, Lucia Raspe, Daniel May, Alex S. Ozar, S. Ury
Abstract:
This essay is the introduction to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.
摘要:本文为本期法国犹太研究论坛的导论。
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Abstract:In several lectures and essays in the 1950s and 1960s, Leo Strauss offered a succinct critique of Zionism: that despite its ostensible rejection of religious authority, political Zionism would ultimately slide into religious Zionism, which would in turn negate the aims of Zionism itself. In this essay, I argue that this analysis is not only surprisingly prescient but is much more central to Strauss's mature thought than generally recognized. In this, I agree with scholars who have suggested that Strauss's engagement with Zionism as a young man in Germany in the 1920s was formative for the development of his mature accounts of both politics and Judaism. Yet in contrast to existing scholarship, I argue that Strauss grew increasingly critical of Zionism as he concluded that the Zionist rejection of religious authority amounted ultimately to a rejection of morality. In this, Zionism reflected in the most blatant form the failure endemic to modern politics. I suggest that this point provides the hinge between Strauss's early Zionism, his mature critique of modern politics, and his account of Judaism's political power. The force of the critique also, counterintuitively, helps explain Strauss's lifelong attachment to Zionism. Strauss, I argue, remained committed to Zionism not despite but because it was destined to fail. I suggest that Strauss's analysis remains provocative and relevant, particularly for those who might disagree with his conclusions.
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This essay is the introduction to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.
摘要:本文为本期法国犹太研究论坛的导论。
{"title":"French Jewish Studies: Editor's Introduction","authors":"Natalie B. Dohrmann","doi":"10.1353/jqr.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay is the introduction to this issue's forum on French Jewish studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":22606,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Quarterly Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79480660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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