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Item Open Access Item Metadata only Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel(Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock, 2021) Fine, Steven; Saks, Jeffrey; Carmy, Shalom"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon's Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted.These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon's Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism's aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon's Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide. Contributing authors: Shulamith Z. Berger, Shalom Carmy, Zafrira Cohen Lidovsky, Steven Gine, Hillel Halkin, Avraham Holtz, Alan Mintz, Jeffrey Saks, Moshe Simkovich, Laura Wiseman, and Wendy Zierler Source: PublisherItem Open Access Appreciating the Bavli in the context of Christian sources and classical rhetoric: A public dialogue.(A joint project of Judaic Studies @ YU, The Center for Israel Studies, The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs and the Bernard Revel Graduate school of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University., 2021-02-03) Hidary, Richard; Fine, Steven; Siegal, Michal Bar-AsherRichard Hidary, Associate Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University on Appreciating the Bavli in the Context of Christian Sources and Classical Rhetoric, Recorded November 17th, 2020Item Metadata only The Arch of Titus in New York City(2017-11-03) Fine, Steven; Neathawk, Lindsay; Sanders, Donald H.; Michaels, Bonni-DaraDocuments installation of Arch of Titus replica to the Yeshiva University Museum.Item Metadata only Ashrei Yoshvei Veitekha: Joy in the ancient synagogue(Palgrave Macmillan., 2023) Fine, Steven; Brown, Erica; Weiss, ShiraItem Open Access Civility, Citizenship and Torah [video](Yeshiva University Libraries, 2020-10-20) Fine, Steven; Stone, Suzanne Last; Carmy, Shalom; Rynhold, DanielProfessor Suzanne Last Stone & Professor Shalom Carmy - Civility, Citizenship and Torah, Recorded October 20th, 2020Item Open Access Civility, Citizenship and Torah.(A joint project of Judaic Studies @ YU, The Center for Israel Studies, The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs and the Bernard Revel Graduate school of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University., 2020-10-20) Fine, Steven; Stone, Suzanne Last; Carmy, ShalomProfessor Suzanne Last Stone & Professor Shalom Carmy - Civility, citizenship and Torah, Recorded October 20th, 2020Item Metadata only Jewish history and archaeology with Dr. Steven Fine.(DriveIn Productions, 2021-03-08) Fine, Steven; Westrich, UriUri talks with Dr. Steven Fine about his scholarship in Jewish history and archaeology. Why are these subjects important? What are some of the challenges a religious person could encounter when studying these subjects? They also discuss some of Dr. Fine's work related to the Menorah, the Arch of Titus, the Samaritan people, and more!Item Metadata only Jewish religious architecture: From biblical Israel to modern Judaism(Brill, 2019) Fine, Steven; Fine, StevenJewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural traditionItem Open Access “Ma‘aseh ha-Menorah” Agnon’s “Tale of the Menorah” between Buczacz and Modern Israel(Wipf & Stock, 2021) Fine, Steven; Saks, Jeffrey; Carmy, Shalom"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon's Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted. These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon's Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism's aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon's Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide.Item Metadata only Rabbi Akiva in 3D: Artifact, text, and the recent history of Judaism in late antiquity(De Gruyter., 2023) Fine, Steven; Ehrlich, C. S.; Horowitz, S. T.; https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/fine-stevenSummary "This volume examines new developments in the fields of premodern Jewish studies over the last thirty years. The essays in this volume, written by leading experts, are grouped into four overarching temporal areas: the First Temple, Second Temple, Rabbinic, and Medieval periods. These time periods are analyzed through four thematic methodological lenses: the social scientific (history and society), the textual (texts and literature), the material (art, architecture, and archaeology), and the philosophical (religion and thought). Some essays offer a comprehensive look at the state of the field, while others look at specific examples illustrative of their temporal and thematic areas of inquiry. The volume presents a snapshot of the state of the field, encompassing new perspectives, directions, and methodologies, as well as the questions that will animate the field as it develops further. It will be of interest to scholars and students in the field, as well as to educated readers looking to understand the changing face of Jewish studies as a discipline advancing human knowledge" -- Provided by publisherItem Open Access Review of Abraham Tal, ed., Tibåt Mårqe: The ark of Marqe: Edition, translation, commentary.(Society of Biblical Literature, 2020) Fine, StevenSamaritan studies has always been a niche discipline. For a century and a half, individual scholars have “found” the Samaritans and fallen in love with their literature and culture—and with the Samaritan community itself. Today the significance of Samaritan studies is increasingly recognized. This is thanks to a small but dedicated international group of scholars and their project of establishing Samaritan studies as an interdisciplinary field of study. This community includes historians, philologists, biblical scholars, talmudists, classicists, Islamicists, folklorists, cultural anthropologists, and archaeologists. These scholars revived the study of Samaritanism during the second half of the twentieth century, creating the infrastructure for future growth. They published text editions, final reports of excavations, translations, language studies, and lexicons, as well as synthetic analysis of primary sources. They have studiously published the results of their labors in ways accessible to scholars and to educated general readers. They even created A Companion To Samaritan Studies, edited by Reinhard Pummer, Abraham Tal, and Alan D. Crown (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1993), to help the novice through the complex thicket that has naturally developed around Samaritan studies, a field that stretches from biblical Israel to the present and multiple languagesItem Open Access Review of Ross Shepard Kraemer: The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity what Christianity cost the Jews(SBL, 2020) Fine, StevenRoss Shepard Kraemer’s important volume, The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, opens with a reflection on our own time. She writes with passion of her experience of writing this volume while thinking about medieval anti-Semitism, Nazism, Islamic fundamentalism, and the most recent Jewish experience in America and elsewhere.Item Open Access “Said Rabbi Shimon: When I went to Rome, There I saw the Menorah…” Some Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project.(Yeshiva University, 2012-07) Fine, StevenSome Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration ProjectItem Open Access Seeing matzah: From the Talmud to medieval haggadot.(2021-03-24) Perelis, Ronnie; Fine, StevenCrisis and Hope: YU Voices brings today's topics to life through in-depth interviews with leading experts in Jewish Studies and beyond from Yeshiva University. Item Open Access "The Students Of Beit Shamai Stood Below and They Killed the Students of Beit Hillel:" A Call from Hazal for Mutual Respect in Times of Bitter Dispute.(The Rabbi Isaac Elechanan Theological Center and the Center for Jewish History, Yeshiva University, 2021-07-18) Fine, StevenOne of the most astounding features of Hazal, the sages of the Mishnah and of both Talmudim, is their public willingness to discuss their most sensitive experiences, including their most public and bitter disputes. We meet Hillel and Shamrnai, Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabban Gamaliel, Rabbi Yohanan and Resh Laqish, Rabba and Abaye, as real people. In the history of religion such immediacy and honesty is quite unusual. No other religious literature tells of the foibles and doubts, mistakes and even pettiness of its culture heroes - with the goal of inviting us into their world forour own moral betterment. Stepping back, the level of access to which every talmid and talmidat hakhamim, every "student of the sages," is privy, is astonishing. As we approach Tisha be-Av, I share one lesser-known episode of internal conflict among the earliest Sages, the trauma it left behind, and ways that Sages in later centuries reflected on this event.Item Open Access Who were the Maccabees really? Hanukkah, the Hasmoneans and Jewish memory.(New York, NY: A joint project of Judaic Studies @ YU, The Center for Israel Studies, The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs and the Bernard Revel Graduate school of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University., 2020-12-15) Fine, Steven; Angel, JosephProfessors Joseph Angel and Stephen Fine. "Who were the Maccabees, really? Hanukkah, the Hasmoneans and Jewish memory. " Recorded December 15th, 2020.Item Open Access Who were the Maccabees, really? Hanukkah, the Hasmoneans and Jewish memory [video](Yeshiva University Libraries, 2020-12-15) Angel, Joseph; Fine, Steven; Perelis, RonnieProfessors Joseph Angel and Stephen Fine discuss: Who Were the Maccabees, Really? Hanukkah, the Hasmoneans and Jewish Memory. Recorded December 15th, 2020.Item Open Access Why was Titus killed by a gnat? Reflections on a rabbinic legend(Academic Studies Press., 2023) Fine, Steven; Ele, Z.; Seidler-Feller, S.Summary "Emet le-Ya'akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around "facing the truths of history": Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter's life and work and a bibliography of his publications"-- Provided by publisher