... Rabbi Amnon of Mayence and Esther Minna of Worms Israel J. Yuval Translated by Naomi Goldblum Historians have increasingly, in recent years, become literary analysts. Chroni- cles have become narratives; debates...

...Alick Isaacs Duke University Press 2005 S y m p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 BENAMOZEGH’S TONE A Response to Rabbi Steinsaltz Alick Isaacs In the present context and for the present audience, the contribution...

...Shira Wolosky Daniel Boyarin, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 408 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 647 pp...

... has nothing to do with their adversarial relations. The effort of this article is to show that, even before postmodernism was heard of, nationalist thinkers such as Rabbi A. I. H. Kook (1865 – 1935), Rabbi M. A. Amiel (1883 – 1946), Rabbi Abraham Hazan (1920 – 2003), and Professor André Neher (1914...

...Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Duke University Press 2005 Sym p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 PEACE WITHOUT CONCILIATION The Irrelevance of “Toleration” in Judaism Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz The interactions that are possible between Jews and non...

... be two lovers in this narrative, there may be three objects of love: the rabbi, his wife, and the Torah. In the story, Rav Rehumi is so ravished by Torah that he forgets his wife. Since the narrative does not predicate that he chose not to visit her but, rather, that he was swept away, the author...

... and W. V. Quine, and in contrast to those of philosophical liberals, in particular J. S. Mill. Both the rabbis and the pragmatists emphasize the harmony that innovation must maintain with extant webs of meaning. Conceptions of objectivity and subjectivity in Jewish medieval rationalism and in early...

...Paul Fenton Five illustrations of exceptional instances of Muslim philo-Semitism are presented in this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia. The first appears in a responsum of the fourteenth-century Spanish rabbi Isaac Ben Sheshet dealing with the Muslim admission of Jewish...

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... term meshumad, it may be useful to examine the lives of two Jews, the Catholic convert Oswald Rufenstein (1922 98), already mentioned, and Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik (c. 1805 81), an ultratraditionalist rabbi who, in his Hebrew commentary on the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke, argued...

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... Winter 2005 COLUMNS Peace without Conciliation: On Cosmopolitanism The Irrelevance of “Toleration” in Judaism Neither Order nor Peace: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz A Response to Bruno Latour 41 Ulrich...

... out of that window—looked out, not impassively like the Ostra Brama Madonna, but helplessly. Kahane, a rabbi, was hidden in the palace by the archbishop and his staff. Compared to the Ukranians in the park below, Rabbi Kahane was unfree. Compared with his fellow Jews...

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... and to the Torah have suffered much at differ- ent times and in many places.”9 It is only natural that this history will influence and at times adversely affect our ongoing dialogue. I was deeply moved when I listened to some words of Rabbi Raymond Apple, the Senior Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney...

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