Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2251117
Edwin Seroussi, James Loeffler
ABSTRACTThe writer, Zohar scholar and Zionist activist Ariel Bension (1880–1932) has attracted attention of late from scholars seeking to recover an alternative vision of Zionism with Mizrahi roots in Ottoman Palestine. Yet the instrumentalization of Bension’s biography for the politics of identity in present-day Israel has led to a flattening effect whereby Bension is divorced from his manifold ties to European and global Jewish culture. In this article, we demonstrate those complex transnational and multidisciplinary dimensions of Bension’s life, theatrical oeuvre and thought through a reconstruction of his brief collaboration on a Hebrew musical play and film project with music scholar, composer and educator Avraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882–1938). Presenting newly discovered archival documents, we explore both the tangled array of social identities present in the early Zionist cultural elite and the emergence of a shared global Jewish imaginary in a moment of profound historical change.KEYWORDS: Ariel BensionAvraham Zvi IdelsohnMizrahiZionismMusicTheater Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Gribetz, “Arab–Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem”; Jacobson, From Empire to Empire; Fishman, Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914. Cohen “Ḥayyav u-moto shel ha-yehudi ha-aravi”; Beška, “Responses of Prominent Arabs Towards Zionist Aspirations and Colonization Prior to 1908.”2 Wallach, “Rethinking the Yishuv: Late-Ottoman Palestine's Jewish Communities Revisited.”3 This article is part of our joint research project on the life and work of Avraham Zvi Idelsohn and his legacy. The project focuses on Idelsohn’s estates at the National Library of Israel and at the Hebrew Union College (New York and Cincinnati). For more information, see the Idelsohn Project, hosted at the website of the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, www.theidelsohnproject.org. Accessed August 13, 2023.4 Already in 1976 historian Israel Bartal pointed out to the problematics in the application of the concepts of yishuv yashan (old settlement) and yishuv hadash (new settlement) to the pre-existing and Zionist-driven (since ca. 1880) Jewish populations in Ottoman Palestine correspondingly. We use the term aware of its shortcomings just for convenience. See Bartal, “‘Yishuv yashan’ ve-‘yishuv ḥadash’: Ha-dimui veha-metzi’ut,” as well as Wallach, “Rethinking the Yishuv.” Also, the use of the term “Sephardic” needs qualification as the non-European Jewish population of Jerusalem included immigrants from Middle Eastern and North African countries who were not direct descendants of the Jews from Spain.5 Evri and Behar, “Between East and West.”6 For a broader overview of the current historiographical moment, see Behar, “Fusing Arab Nahda, European Haskalah and Euro-Zionism.”7 Dotan, “Prophets of Secularization.” Dotan graciously made her expanded chapter on Bension available to us. Her
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2252378
Michael Woodiwiss
"The Kosher Capones: a history of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
"犹太黑帮卡彭:芝加哥犹太黑帮的历史"《现代犹太研究杂志》，印刷前，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2258344
Anna Hájková
"“Wahrscheinlich wird es unser Untergang sein” Der Bericht von Erich und Elsbeth Frey an ihre ausgewanderten Töchter (1942) [This will probably be our destruction: the report of Erich and Elsbeth Frey for their emigrated daughters]." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2258356
Geoffrey Levin
"Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“以色列的外交政策:一个民族不应独自居住。”《现代犹太研究杂志》，印刷前，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2258358
Scott Berg
"The Rebellion of the Daughters. Jewish women runaways in Habsburg Galicia." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
"女儿们的叛乱"在哈布斯堡加利西亚，犹太妇女逃跑了。”《现代犹太研究杂志》，印刷前，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2257148
Jintu Alias, Soni Wadhwa
ABSTRACTAn interest in Jewish topographies involves looking at Jewish presence in locations that help relocalize Jewish space. In this article, we argue that the task of reading Jewish identity as a diaspora community calls for a location and geography specific response, especially in aesthetic discourses that unfold Jewish identity situated outside the Eurocentric contexts. Such location-specific readings can enable a “provincializing” of the West-centric construct of Jewish identity. We argue that Malayalam author Sethu's novel Aliyah: The Last Jew of the Village is an interesting case in point. Set in the middle of the twentieth century, the novel deals with the ways in which the Jews living near Cochin, an island-city in the southern province of Kerala in India, respond to the call for a “return” to Israel. As the Jews and other communities respond to the developments around a possible return, the Jewish and non-Jewish characters in the novel all unpack a different discourse about how Jews belong to Cochin, a phenomenon that can be appreciated once one begins to understand that Jews, as a quintessential diaspora community, have had multiple histories of inhabiting geographies. Foregrounding these locations, through provincializing, might offer possibilities of challenging stereotypes in literary critiques.KEYWORDS: SethuCochinMuzirisidentityprovincializing Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Dasgupta and Egorova, “Introduction,” 12 Nandy, “Time Travel to a Possible Self,” 316.3 Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe.4 Singh, “Are you Jewish?,” 2.5 Ibid, 3.6 Benayoun, “Contemporary Diasporas, Nationalism, and Transnationalism Politics”.7 Singh, “Are you Jewish?,” 3.8 Boum, Memories of Absence.9 Lyotard, Heidegger and “the jews”.10 See Boyarin and Boyarin, Powers of Diaspora, 16–17 for the discussion on Indian diaspora.11 See Lyotard, Heidegger and “the jews”; see Carroll, “Introduction,” in Heidegger and “the jews”; See also Nancy, The Inoperative Community.12 Balibar, “Is there a Neo- Racism”.13 Boyarin and Boyarin, “Diaspora,” 70814 Ibid, 69715 Train, “Well, How Can You be Jewish and European?”.16 Hammerschlag, The Figural Jew, 267.17 There is a huge body of work around the study of Jews in Europe. See, “Preface” in The Origins of the Modern Jew, 1967 as an example of a study focusing on German Jewry in the context of Enlightenment and the nineteenth century; Fudeman, Vernacular Voices; Ari, Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities; Hess, Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity.18 Ginsburg, Land, and Boyarin, eds. Jews and the Ends of Theory.19 Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, 4.20 Ibid., 4.21 Ibid.22 Ibid. (italics original)23 Ibid., 3.24 Ibid., 5.25 Sofer, “To Which Race Did Jesus Belong?”, 210–7; also see chapters from the mentioned book, Goldstein, “The Jewish Racial Problem,” 254–9; Weissenberg, “The Jewish Racial Problem,” 76–81; see Auerbach
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2258351
Eugene J. Fisher
"The nun in the synagogue. Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“犹太教堂里的修女。以色列以犹太教为中心的天主教。”《现代犹太研究杂志》，印刷前，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2252362
Alvin H. Rosenfeld
losophers suddenly burst onto the scene again, encouraged by the new regime, but with a new philosophy – that of Aristotle. Stroumsa tells us that the Almohad prince, Abū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf (reigned 1163–84), did not exactly commission the three layers of commentaries on Aristotle from Averroes, but the same “mode” applies to Almohad law, which starts from principles rather than being case law, and radical Aristotelianism, in which the same principles have to be universally applied (therefore, for example, Ptolemy cannot base his astronomy on “ad hoc solutions for specific problems” (153)). Nevertheless, Neoplatonic aspects remain prominent among Almohad philosophers. In the earlier section of the narrative it is difficult to distinguish philosophy from mysticism, especially in the case of Ibn Masarra’s tradition which inspired Ibn al-‘Arabī, the famous Sufi (d. 1240). Despite their various approaches Jewish and Muslim philosophers had in common their “yearning for perfection, for the sublime and the transcendent” (169). Stroumsa concludes the book with comments on the introduction of this Andalusian material into Europe through Arabic-Latin translations in the twelfth century, and the continuation of Arabic and Hebrew thought in al-Andalus beyond the twelfth century, when it became mysticism. The story continues!
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2252366
Eric Lohr
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2023.2252433
Tomasz Kamusella
successfully than Al Capone and his Jewish equivalents ever could. Sadly, the interpretation that Kraus reflects was first articulated by Loesch in a speech to students at Princeton University in 1930. He proclaimed: “It’s the foreigners and the first generation of Americans who are loaded on us... The real Americans are not gangsters... the Jews [are] furnishing the brains and the Italians the brawn”. A version of this crudely xenophobic interpretation of organized crime came to dominate popular and professional perceptions of the problem and lay behind RICO and other organized crime control measures that have not come close to eradicating organized crime in the United States.
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