Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0004
A. Bush
This chapter assesses al-Andalus as a focus for Jewish identification, noting Jacques Derrida's comparison of al-Andalus to Yiddish as a portable home. By way of Gil Anidjar's Our Place in al-Andalus, it explores the experience of place, showing how al-Andalus can refer to a spatiotemporal context not defined on a map of European Spain. This experience of al-Andalus comes from a place already located as past centuries ago, and the chapter highlights this pluperfect in parallel to Derrida's sense of loss in an urban Algeria where Ladino was no longer commonly spoken years before his birth. This received language of sadness and loss produces a version of mourning and utopia different from the spatial notions of home advocated by either Zionists or assimilationists in the Weimar Jewish Renaissance, pointing instead to a time and place whose boundaries are uncertain by conception, embodying a language that embraces such uncertainty without discomfort.
本章评估安达卢斯作为犹太人身份认同的焦点，注意到雅克·德里达将安达卢斯与意第绪语比较为一个可移动的家。通过Gil Anidjar的《我们在安达卢斯的地方》(Our Place in al-Andalus)，它探索了地方的体验，展示了安达卢斯如何可以指欧洲西班牙地图上没有定义的时空背景。安达卢斯的这种经历来自几个世纪前就已经存在的地方，这一章强调了这一pluperfect与德里达在阿尔及利亚城市中的失落感是平行的，在他出生前的几年里，拉迪诺语不再被普遍使用。这种被接受的悲伤和失落的语言产生了一种哀悼和乌托邦的版本，不同于魏玛犹太文艺复兴时期犹太复国主义者或同化主义者所倡导的家的空间概念，而是指向一个时间和地点，其边界在概念上是不确定的，体现了一种拥抱这种不确定性而不感到不适的语言。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0010
Hannan Hever
This chapter looks at one of the most famous and significant debates in Jewish studies: between Gershom Scholem and Martin Buber over the character of Hasidism. On the face of it, the debate was a literary one, centering on the significance of the Hasidic tale and its role in the interpretation of the Hasidic movement. It was a debate between two conceptions of Hasidism, one as a system of theological concepts, and the other as a way of life. Yet this debate was not merely historicist, but topical and political as well. For in this debate, Buber and Scholem negotiated the question of Jewish sovereignty and endeavored to determine the desired relationship between Jews and the state.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823282005.003.0007
J. Geller
This chapter addresses the famous joke on “the elephant and the Jewish question,” whose prominence is attested by its many iterations not only in collections of Jewish jokes but also in works of philosophy and theory. Drawing together two seemingly unrelated terms such as Jews and elephants and pointing at their close proximity, jokes do not merely comment on the preposterous character of the “rumor about the Jews” that there is an inherent relationship between Jews and nonhuman animals. The joke also points to what escapes theory and calls out its limitations, for theory takes the Jew as well as the animal as categories, singular as they might be, that can be comprehended only vis-à-vis universals. The chapter then looks at how Jewish authors have called into question the human-nonhuman animal divide in their struggle to think through European modernity.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282005.003.0002
M. Jay
This chapter traces Leo Lowenthal's early intellectual life through a series of passionate engagements with traditional and modernist Jewish thought that continued to find expression in his work at the Institute for Social Research and, after 1933, in the United States. As a student in his twenties, Lowenthal was part of the community of young Jewish intellectuals surrounding Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel, an adherent of German philosophy and Orthodox Judaism. He was committed to the Weimar Jewish Renaissance, active in Jewish communal organizations, and joined the psychoanalytic group around Erich Fromm and Frieda Reichmann, an observant Jew whose sanatorium served kosher meals and observed Jewish holidays. The chapter then identifies the traces of Jewish identity in Lowenthal's reading of such traces in the life of Heinrich Heine. Ultimately, Lowenthal's Jewish visibility reflects both on Jewish sources in critical theory and the contributions of critical theory to the evolution of Jewishness.
本章通过对传统和现代主义犹太思想的一系列热情参与，追溯了利奥·洛温塔尔早期的知识生活，这些思想在他在社会研究所的工作中以及1933年后在美国的工作中继续得到体现。在20多岁的学生时代，洛温塔尔是尼希米·安东·诺贝尔拉比(Nehemiah Anton Nobel)周围年轻犹太知识分子社区的一员。诺贝尔拉比是德国哲学和正统犹太教的信徒。他投身于魏玛犹太文艺复兴运动，活跃于犹太社区组织，并加入了埃里希·弗洛姆(Erich Fromm)和弗里达·赖希曼(Frieda Reichmann)周围的精神分析小组。赖希曼是一位虔诚的犹太人，她的疗养院供应洁食，并庆祝犹太节日。然后，这一章在洛温塔尔阅读海因里希·海涅生活中的这些痕迹时，确定了犹太人身份的痕迹。最终，洛温塔尔的犹太可见性既反映了批判理论中的犹太来源，也反映了批判理论对犹太性演变的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-04DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282005.003.0012
Elliot R. Wolfson
This chapter addresses the co-dependence of people's conceptions of end and of beginning. To comprehend the beginning, one must think of it from the perspective of futurity, from the perspective, that is, of the ultimate end. Consequently, the beginning lies not in the past but, rather, in the future. The chapter then relates this mode of philosophizing with the way people understand Jewish eschatology, which lies at the center of Jewish theorization about time. In Jewish eschatology, what is yet to come is understood as what has already happened, whereas what has happened is derived from what is yet to come. Martin Heidegger has dismissed Judaism as a religion that by its very nature cannot experience temporality authentically. Yet his own understanding of temporality accords well with rabbinic conceptions of temporality and later kabbalistic eschatologies.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280186.003.0003
Sergey Dolgopolski
This chapter focuses on Jews, political reason, and the concept of the human and the Jew, discussing the varieties of representation that play a role in perception, consciousness, and rationality. In this context, the figure of the Jew is presented as a type in European discourse, conceptually unrelated to ancient Jewish self-understanding and instead emerging as a fiction made necessary by the logic of Christian self-understanding. The chapter then considers Carl Schmitt's representation of representation, replacing it with a notion of authority embodied in Talmudic discourse, which can be called refutation of refutation. The desired result is an iterative refinement of collective memory as locus of the reasoning process by which ideas are given shared value, with the goal of restoring openness and inventiveness to tradition and eliminating mechanical transmission.
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