Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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The future of the past: On creating meaningful Jewish memories for our students
(Urim, 2021)Dannie Epstein Grajower a"h was a teacher who understood and modelled all four points I consider indispensable for success as a Jewish educator. 1) Jewish tradition mattered to her. Personally. A lot. 2) She understood ... -
German Pietism In Northern France: The Case Of R. Isaac Of Corbeil
(New York, NY : Michael Sharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Hoboken, NJ : distributed by Ktav, 1997)The three major figures of German Pietism (Hasidut Ashkenaz), R. Samuel he-Hasid, his son R. Judah he-Hasid (d. 1217), and R. Judah's student R. Eleazar of Worms (d. ca. 1230), were all descended from the Qalonymides, ... -
Gershom ben Judah
(Chiacgo: Pitzroy Dearborn, 2000)Talmudic thought in medieval Ashkenaz effectively begins with Gershom ben Judah, or Rabbenu Gershom as he is usually called. He headed the academy at Mainz and composed a talmudic commentary (embellished by his successors ... -
“Getting Along” in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish–Irish Relations in New York City 1940–1970.
(MDPI, 2018)Abstract: The history of conflict between New York City’s Irish Americans and east European Jews dates back to the close of the 19th century. They disputed over jobs, union memberships, housing, and frequently over ... -
Good and evil, truth and falsity: Maimonides and moral cognetivism.
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Haazinu: Teshuvah, punishment and the leadership of Moshe
(Maggid Books, 2010)The essence, the substance, of the teachings of Judaism, needs to be constant from one generation to the next. But the idiom, style, manner, approach and mode of communication of that essence or that substance, may, and ... -
Haftarah of Tishah Be-Av morning: Themes of destruction and exile
(Maggid Books, 2011)Thus, the haftarah for Tishah Be-Av morning serves two functions. One, that it shares with all other haftarot, is to express themes relevant to that particular day's Torah reading. The other, unique to it, is to elicit ... -
Halakhah (Medieval Judaism).
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Halakhah and Metziut (Realia) in Medieval Ashkenaz: Surveying the Parameters and Defining the Limits
(Chur, New York : Harwood Academic Publishers, 2003)Even a cursory perusal of the literature of the rishonim brings the reader face to face with the ways in which medieval halakhists dealt with social realia that appeared, prima facie, to conflict with talmudic law. On ... -
Halakhic authority in a world of personal autonomy
(Maggid Books, 2012)Jewish tradition allows for a variety of religious experiences ; Jewish authority speaks in a multiplicity of voices. -
Hashivotam ha-mishpatit shel ha-milim "ve-hugad le-kha" :Keriyah hadashah be-dev' 17: 2-7.
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Haskalah, secular studies and the close of the yeshiva in Volozhin in 1892
(Max Stern Division Communal Services, 1990)This is exactly the issue at stake here. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the Neziv allowed secular studies in Volozhin. There is also no doubt whatsoever that he did so entirely against his will, when circumstances ... -
“He Said, He Said”: Repetition of the Quotation Formula in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives.
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2019)Repetition of the quotation formula ( ויאמר and the like) is a common literary device used in biblical narrative to signal discontinuity. The discontinuity often involves a pause in the discourse. Instead of—or in addition ... -
The Heading of the Book of the Words of Noah on a Fragment of the Genesis Apocryphon: New Light on a 'Lost' Work
(Brill, 1995-04)Nevertheless, the Words of Noah cannot be viewed as Noah's testament. The third-person references to Noah's sons in col. 12 (1. 13 "I and all my sons"; 1. 16 "I invited my sons") and elsewhere"' make it impossible ... -
Hebrew: Ancient Hebrew
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Herod’s Temple: an Ornament to the Empire.
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Hesed: Divine or human? The syntactic ambiguity of Ruth 2:20.
(New York, NY : Michael Sharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Hoboken, NJ : distributed by Ktav, 1997., 1997)Clarity may be cherished by biblical interpreters; but ambiguity evokes their ingenuity, generating vibrant debate. Ruth 2:20, a turning point in the tale of two destitute widows who suddenly perceive a silver lining on ... -
History and memory of self: The autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden
(Hannover, 1998)In the unfolding of the Jewish historical experience, the literary genre of autobiography is a relatively late arrival. While others in the societies within which Jews lived chose to express themselves in this manner, ... -
The History of the Ancient Hebrew Modal System and Labov’s Rule of Compensatory Structural Change
(Benjamins, 2020)The ideas which I hat presented here are related to Labov' s research in a number of obvious ways, but there is an additional, less obvious, relationship which ought to be noted. They are inspired by the grand program ... -
The History of the Tosafists and their Literary Corpus According to Rav Soloveitchik's Interpretations of the Qinot for Tishah B'av
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2018)Although Rav Soloveitchik was well aware of the events of his day and of important events from both the Jewish past and from the broader history of the world, he evinced little interest, at least in his· published works ...
