{"title":"Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era by Allison E. Schottenstein","authors":"Marni Davis","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88226927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It has long been acknowledged that deep knowledge of biblical and rabbinic literature on the part of early modern Hebrew poets and prose writers played a vital role in the creation of modern Hebrew literature and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. As Benjamin Harshav notes, “Secular Hebrew poetry grew in the soil of Hebrew study in the religious society against which all Hebrew poets rebelled in their youth.” In light of this, Marina Zilbergerts’s new study of the yeshiva and the rise of modern Hebrew literature might seem, at first, like old news. Far from it, however. Whereas previous studies of this subject emphasized the role of Haskalah, Zionism, or secularism, Zilbergerts examines the rise of the modern yeshiva, with its elite ethos of Torah lishmah (Torah study for its own sake), as a way of explaining the seemingly miraculous rise of Hebrew literary culture. The book sets out to answer several questions from this vantage point: How and why did modern Hebrew literature come to be, and why in the setting of late nineteenthcentury Russia? Given the utter impracticality of creating a literature in a language that no one actually spoke, and the ideological push in Russian culture for writing that was materially useful to society, how did these midand late nineteenthcentury Hebrew writers make the case for their writing? Zilbergerts argues that the textcenteredness of the modern yeshiva led to an orientation where texts became more real than the physical world, where the “play and pleasure” of textual learning took on heightened importance. The result of viewing Torah as an omnisignificant literature to be interpreted and debated through a variety of hermeneutic and literary strategies was a blurring of the conventional boundary between sacred and secular Hebrew texts. All this laid the groundwork for these textcentered values to be transferred to secular Hebrew literary production once these young writers left the yeshiva. In addition to considering the autotelic value of text in yeshiva culture, Zilbergerts considers corresponding patterns of study and ideological dissent among nineteenthcentury Russian Orthodox seminarians. Yeshiva and Russian Orthodox students alike experienced both the exhilaration of elite study and deep
{"title":"The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature by Marina Zilbergerts (review)","authors":"Wendy Zierler","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0036","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been acknowledged that deep knowledge of biblical and rabbinic literature on the part of early modern Hebrew poets and prose writers played a vital role in the creation of modern Hebrew literature and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. As Benjamin Harshav notes, “Secular Hebrew poetry grew in the soil of Hebrew study in the religious society against which all Hebrew poets rebelled in their youth.” In light of this, Marina Zilbergerts’s new study of the yeshiva and the rise of modern Hebrew literature might seem, at first, like old news. Far from it, however. Whereas previous studies of this subject emphasized the role of Haskalah, Zionism, or secularism, Zilbergerts examines the rise of the modern yeshiva, with its elite ethos of Torah lishmah (Torah study for its own sake), as a way of explaining the seemingly miraculous rise of Hebrew literary culture. The book sets out to answer several questions from this vantage point: How and why did modern Hebrew literature come to be, and why in the setting of late nineteenthcentury Russia? Given the utter impracticality of creating a literature in a language that no one actually spoke, and the ideological push in Russian culture for writing that was materially useful to society, how did these midand late nineteenthcentury Hebrew writers make the case for their writing? Zilbergerts argues that the textcenteredness of the modern yeshiva led to an orientation where texts became more real than the physical world, where the “play and pleasure” of textual learning took on heightened importance. The result of viewing Torah as an omnisignificant literature to be interpreted and debated through a variety of hermeneutic and literary strategies was a blurring of the conventional boundary between sacred and secular Hebrew texts. All this laid the groundwork for these textcentered values to be transferred to secular Hebrew literary production once these young writers left the yeshiva. In addition to considering the autotelic value of text in yeshiva culture, Zilbergerts considers corresponding patterns of study and ideological dissent among nineteenthcentury Russian Orthodox seminarians. Yeshiva and Russian Orthodox students alike experienced both the exhilaration of elite study and deep","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"240 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90885932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust by Natalia Aleksiun (review)","authors":"Gershon C. Bacon","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"196 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82105537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law by Sara J. Milstein","authors":"J. DeGrado","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82837593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
while demonstrating the complicated nature of the dispersal of former Nazis following World War II. He points out that “Argentina sought, as did many other countries, to recruit scientists, technicians, and military experts trained in Germany and employed in that country until 1945, hoping that they might contribute their expertise to programs designed to enhance the development, industrialization, and modernization of Argentina” (64–65). The United States and the Soviet Union were at the forefront of these efforts. Rein further notes that the travel and entrance of many of these Germans “was not the result of a clear and coherent policy” and that many purchased visas at locations in Europe from immigration officials there, often using “falsified travel documents issued either by highly placed members of the Catholic Church in Europe . . . or by the Red Cross’ International Committee” (66). Finally, Rein points to the long history of Argentine elites seeking “cultured” immigrants from northern Europe to help advance Argentina. The book is at its strongest when making concise arguments. The way that the introduction sets out the themes of the book is outstanding, and it is a testament to Rein’s skill that he weaves the threads of the arguments throughout the book. It lags at times when profiling the men who were Peronists or within the Peronist orbit. It’s understandable that Rein wanted to explore the individual stories of the Jewish men in Argentina who played roles in the Peronist government, but at times the amount of biographical information seems too much. Rein’s book is first and foremost a work of Argentine history. It is meant for those with a strong grasp of the historical record and historiography around Peronism and modern Argentine history—it was initially published in Spanish for an Argentine audience. At the same time, it brings the strands of Jewish history into the story, and motivated readers without much prior knowledge of Argentina will be able to follow Rein’s arguments. This book is an outstanding contribution to the Peronist historiography and the literature on Jews in Argentina. Wide in scope, with an enormous attention to detail and nuance throughout, few historians beyond Rein would be able to produce a work of this importance and quality.
{"title":"Zionism’s Redemptions: Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism by Arieh Saposnik (review)","authors":"Noam Pianko","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0031","url":null,"abstract":"while demonstrating the complicated nature of the dispersal of former Nazis following World War II. He points out that “Argentina sought, as did many other countries, to recruit scientists, technicians, and military experts trained in Germany and employed in that country until 1945, hoping that they might contribute their expertise to programs designed to enhance the development, industrialization, and modernization of Argentina” (64–65). The United States and the Soviet Union were at the forefront of these efforts. Rein further notes that the travel and entrance of many of these Germans “was not the result of a clear and coherent policy” and that many purchased visas at locations in Europe from immigration officials there, often using “falsified travel documents issued either by highly placed members of the Catholic Church in Europe . . . or by the Red Cross’ International Committee” (66). Finally, Rein points to the long history of Argentine elites seeking “cultured” immigrants from northern Europe to help advance Argentina. The book is at its strongest when making concise arguments. The way that the introduction sets out the themes of the book is outstanding, and it is a testament to Rein’s skill that he weaves the threads of the arguments throughout the book. It lags at times when profiling the men who were Peronists or within the Peronist orbit. It’s understandable that Rein wanted to explore the individual stories of the Jewish men in Argentina who played roles in the Peronist government, but at times the amount of biographical information seems too much. Rein’s book is first and foremost a work of Argentine history. It is meant for those with a strong grasp of the historical record and historiography around Peronism and modern Argentine history—it was initially published in Spanish for an Argentine audience. At the same time, it brings the strands of Jewish history into the story, and motivated readers without much prior knowledge of Argentina will be able to follow Rein’s arguments. This book is an outstanding contribution to the Peronist historiography and the literature on Jews in Argentina. Wide in scope, with an enormous attention to detail and nuance throughout, few historians beyond Rein would be able to produce a work of this importance and quality.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"229 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86252248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers (review)","authors":"Jeffrey S. Gurock","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"211 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74084894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past by Liora R. Halperin (review)","authors":"Tamir Sorek","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82383149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War by Shay Hazkani","authors":"A. Jacobson","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84000696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture by Reuven Kiperwasser","authors":"Matthew Goldstone","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76802179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid","authors":"Nancy Sinkoff","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2023.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2023.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79756404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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