Judaica Reference Sources

Judaica Reference Sources
Author: Charles Cutter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313053332

A recipient of the Outstanding Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Librarians in its earlier edition, this updated edition of Judaica Reference Sources maintains its editorial excellence while revising and expanding coverage for the new century. Virtually every aspect of Jewish life, knowledge, history, culture, religion, and contemporary issues is covered in this annotated, bibliographic guide. A critical collection development tool for college, university, public school, and synagogue libraries, Judaica Reference Sources provides entries for over 1,000 reference works, as well as a selective list of related Web sites, in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Works published since 1970 are emphasized. Unique in providing expert guidance to Judaica material for the librarian, the layperson, the student, and the researcher, this reference guide is a versatile tool that will fulfill your every need for Judaica material.

Romanticism/Judaica

Romanticism/Judaica
Author: Sheila A. Spector
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317061292

The twelve essays in Romanticism/Judaica explore the four major cultural strands that have converged from the French Revolution to the present. The first section, Nationalism and Diasporeanism, contains essays on the diasporean mentality of the Romantics, Byron's attitude towards nationalism, and Polish immigrant Hyman Hurwitz's attempt to gain acceptance among the British by having Coleridge translate his Hebrew elegy for Princess Charlotte. Essays of the second section, Religion and Anti-Semitism, deal with the complexities of Jewish/Christian relations in the Romantic Period. Specifically, they discuss philosopher Solomon Maimon's lack of response to Kant's anti-Semitism, novelist Maria Polack's use of Christian subject matter to combat anti-Semitism, and short-story writer Grace Aguilar's incorporation of the British Bible-centered Evangelical culture, along with various strands of British Romanticism. In the third section, Individualism and Assimilationism, essays consider different ways the Jews were assimilated into the dominant culture, specifically through the theater, sports and and post-Enlightenment philosophy. Finally, the volume concludes with Criticism and Reflection: a revaluation of earlier scholarship on Anglo-Jewish literature; the establishment of Harold Fisch's covenantal hermeneutics as a model for reading Keats; and an analysis of Lionel Trilling, M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman in terms of their Jewish origins, suggesting the further implications for Romanticism as a field.

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews

Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews
Author: Bernard Glassman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814343538

Anti-Semitic sentiments are seen here as reflecting deep-seated, irrational responses to the Jewish people, rooted in the teachings of the church and exploited by men who needed an outlet for religious, social, and economic frustrations.

The Throne and the Chariot

The Throne and the Chariot
Author: Kitty Cohen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111392171

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer
Author: Michael Galchinsky
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814344453

Analyses the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.

Enlightenment and Religion

Enlightenment and Religion
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521029872

A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.

Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in Eighteenth-century England

Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in Eighteenth-century England
Author: Thomas Whipple Perry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1962
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674724006

This book is the first thorough account of the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, a notorious but little-understood episode in English history. The author discusses the position of the Jews in the mid-eighteenth century and explains why they sought and obtained passage of the bill, which was opposed with a well-organized propaganda campaign.