{"title":"Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation by Ari Mermelstein (review)","authors":"Malka Z. Simkovich","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"408 - 410"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85970317","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 Hebrew Orient: Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901–1938 by Jessica L. Carr (review)","authors":"Zohar Segev","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"458 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84247045","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 Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany by Debra Kaplan (review)","authors":"A. Teller","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"267 1","pages":"420 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75776205","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":"Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France by Julia Elsky (review)","authors":"N. Underwood","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"28 6","pages":"465 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72615669","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}
Abstract:This paper discusses the Jewish discourse on the blessing She-lo ʿAsani Goy (Who has not made me a gentile), which originated in Germany in the nineteenth century and reflects a Jewish attempt to bridge the gap between tradition and modernity. While liberal Jews omitted this blessing or changed it, some Orthodox Jews suggested making only modest changes to the wording of the blessing. Others objected to any changes, but gave new interpretations to the prayer in a manner that strengthened the Modern Orthodox stance. This analysis forms a case study of an ostensibly venerable tradition that is in reality a modern response to new challenges.
{"title":"The Blessing \"Who Has Not Made Me a Gentile\" and Its Alternatives: The Evolution of one Blessing in German Jewish Space in the Nineteenth Century","authors":"Asaf Yedidya","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper discusses the Jewish discourse on the blessing She-lo ʿAsani Goy (Who has not made me a gentile), which originated in Germany in the nineteenth century and reflects a Jewish attempt to bridge the gap between tradition and modernity. While liberal Jews omitted this blessing or changed it, some Orthodox Jews suggested making only modest changes to the wording of the blessing. Others objected to any changes, but gave new interpretations to the prayer in a manner that strengthened the Modern Orthodox stance. This analysis forms a case study of an ostensibly venerable tradition that is in reality a modern response to new challenges.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"398 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79169685","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 the research does a great service to the movement of religious feminism among Modern Orthodox women—as opposed to the Haredi and “traditionalist” interviewees who often seemed to have little interest in change—I could not help but wonder if TaylorGuthartz’s conclusions idealized Modern Orthodoxy. While asserting that most Orthodox women maintain the status quo rather than engage in resistance and change, she argues that they do not do so “unthinkingly or blindly.” I am not sure that is true, and that conclusion is far beyond the scope of this study with a few dozen interviewees. Moreover, I’m not sure that “most” Orthodox women stay Orthodox. There is no data on Orthodox women who leave, especially Modern Orthodox women, who have no formal or organized communal structures after they leave. This is a topic that is in dire need of new research. This book, which at times is more history than sociology, exposes important dynamics while inviting followup research. The analysis at times makes too many generalizations about women from different denominations, arguing that denominational affiliation is an indicator of attitudes about feminism and other issues. However, these assumptions and generalizations are not always warranted from qualitative research and require broader study. The author’s bias about Modern Orthodox women—that they are the most courageous, scholarly, and authentically grappling from among the different interviewees—also needs to be taken into check. Despite the extensive analysis, there is still much that we do not know about women’s agency within patriarchal societies. Yes, women can be courageous. But sometimes women—like men—are afraid of change. And sometimes, despite everything, the system works for them. One of my favorite lines in the book is: “Perhaps it would be more just to reposition ‘resistance’ as the stance adopted by men who seek to oppose and limit women’s religious adaptation and creativity as they respond to changing circumstances” (34). That is powerful—but I’m not sure how many of her interviewees would feel the same way.
{"title":"Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody by Saul Noam Zaritt (review)","authors":"A. Torres","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0077","url":null,"abstract":"While the research does a great service to the movement of religious feminism among Modern Orthodox women—as opposed to the Haredi and “traditionalist” interviewees who often seemed to have little interest in change—I could not help but wonder if TaylorGuthartz’s conclusions idealized Modern Orthodoxy. While asserting that most Orthodox women maintain the status quo rather than engage in resistance and change, she argues that they do not do so “unthinkingly or blindly.” I am not sure that is true, and that conclusion is far beyond the scope of this study with a few dozen interviewees. Moreover, I’m not sure that “most” Orthodox women stay Orthodox. There is no data on Orthodox women who leave, especially Modern Orthodox women, who have no formal or organized communal structures after they leave. This is a topic that is in dire need of new research. This book, which at times is more history than sociology, exposes important dynamics while inviting followup research. The analysis at times makes too many generalizations about women from different denominations, arguing that denominational affiliation is an indicator of attitudes about feminism and other issues. However, these assumptions and generalizations are not always warranted from qualitative research and require broader study. The author’s bias about Modern Orthodox women—that they are the most courageous, scholarly, and authentically grappling from among the different interviewees—also needs to be taken into check. Despite the extensive analysis, there is still much that we do not know about women’s agency within patriarchal societies. Yes, women can be courageous. But sometimes women—like men—are afraid of change. And sometimes, despite everything, the system works for them. One of my favorite lines in the book is: “Perhaps it would be more just to reposition ‘resistance’ as the stance adopted by men who seek to oppose and limit women’s religious adaptation and creativity as they respond to changing circumstances” (34). That is powerful—but I’m not sure how many of her interviewees would feel the same way.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"462 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88294274","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":"Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology by Michael Fishbane (review)","authors":"Daniel M. Herskowitz","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"401 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88840787","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}
Scholem research, includes an assessment of the mutually constitutive relationship between Kabbalah scholarship and contemporary spirituality. For example, chapter 3, titled ”The New Age of Kabbalah Research,“ discusses the image of ”Kabbalah Research as a Spiritual Path,“ and the ”New Age Affinities“ of research in the wake of Scholem. Chapter 4, titled ” ‘Authorized Guardians’: The Rejection of Occult and Contemporary Kabbalah,“ documents a politics of authenticity waged by academics posturing as Kabbalah’s ”authorized guardians“ against contemporary appropriators of the traditional lore. Such posturing flies in the face of two considerations: (a) the domain of contemporary Jewish spirituality requires research in its own right (this is now a growing area of research initiated in large part by Huss himself); and (b) the scholarly discourse has, by virtue of its broad dissemination of the phrase “Jewish mysticism,” facilitated the very appropriations it bemoans. All of this exemplifies what is most deserving of praise in this volume, namely, its candor in divulging the inflamed politics of Kabbalah and Hasidism research. In sum, Mystifying Kabbalah is a courageous book that celebrates the potential of ideology criticism to invigorate and refine a venerable tradition of scholarship. It is a book that challenges scholars to relinquish their attachments to inherited paradigms and provides a cogent, if not humbling, account of the road taken.
{"title":"Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies by Sheila E. Jelen (review)","authors":"M. Caplan","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0062","url":null,"abstract":"Scholem research, includes an assessment of the mutually constitutive relationship between Kabbalah scholarship and contemporary spirituality. For example, chapter 3, titled ”The New Age of Kabbalah Research,“ discusses the image of ”Kabbalah Research as a Spiritual Path,“ and the ”New Age Affinities“ of research in the wake of Scholem. Chapter 4, titled ” ‘Authorized Guardians’: The Rejection of Occult and Contemporary Kabbalah,“ documents a politics of authenticity waged by academics posturing as Kabbalah’s ”authorized guardians“ against contemporary appropriators of the traditional lore. Such posturing flies in the face of two considerations: (a) the domain of contemporary Jewish spirituality requires research in its own right (this is now a growing area of research initiated in large part by Huss himself); and (b) the scholarly discourse has, by virtue of its broad dissemination of the phrase “Jewish mysticism,” facilitated the very appropriations it bemoans. All of this exemplifies what is most deserving of praise in this volume, namely, its candor in divulging the inflamed politics of Kabbalah and Hasidism research. In sum, Mystifying Kabbalah is a courageous book that celebrates the potential of ideology criticism to invigorate and refine a venerable tradition of scholarship. It is a book that challenges scholars to relinquish their attachments to inherited paradigms and provides a cogent, if not humbling, account of the road taken.","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"429 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82856181","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":"Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (review)","authors":"E. Sztokman","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"460 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86785725","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":"To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah by Dvora Hacohen (review)","authors":"C. F. Gensheimer","doi":"10.1353/ajs.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54106,"journal":{"name":"AJS Review-The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies","volume":"238 1","pages":"434 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76885872","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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