“ A FOOLISH ENCROACHMENT UPON THE ALLIED HIGH COMMAND ”? AMERICAN JEWISH PERSPECTIVES ON REQUESTING U.S.MILITRY INTERVENTION AGAINST THE HOLOCAUST
in Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
October 2000; published online October 2000.
Journal Article. Subjects: Judaism. 0 words.
According to recently received authentic information, the German authorities have evecuated the last Ghetto in Warsaw, bestially murdering about one hundrad thousand Jews.Mass murdeers continue….The...
“A Heretic Who has No Faith in the Great Ones of the Age”: the Clash Over the Honor of Or Ha-Ḥayyim*
in Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
May 2009; published online May 2009.
Journal Article. Subjects: Judaism. 15672 words.
A. J. Heschel's Rabbinic Theology as a Response to the Holocaust
in Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
October 2003; published online October 2003.
Journal Article. Subjects: Judaism. 0 words.
“A Kind of Conclusion”
in Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: Judaism. 2735 words.
Along with drawing together the themes of this book as a whole and summarizing Maimonides' esoteric writing, the conclusion briefly addresses the question of human perfection in Maimonides' work. It...
“A Mighty Multitude of Israelites”
in The Ten Lost Tribes
November 2009; published online September 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: Judaism. 9828 words.
This chapter shows how the story of the ten tribes gained purchase in European imagination. It centers on the story of David Reuveni, a man from Yemen who showed up in Rome at the time of the first...
A Mother Tongue in the Fatherland
in Becoming Hebrew
November 2008; published online January 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: Judaism. 11719 words.
This chapter begins with the centrality of the Hebrew language in the creation of the Yishuv's culture. Aside from the goal of establishing linguistic unity in a multilingual reality, the language...
‘A Peculiar Problem’: A Short History of Scholarship on the Essenes
in The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea
November 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: Judaism. 9734 words.
The history of scholarship on the Essenes has been one embedded within a large project to define Judaism at the time of Jesus. This was generally done with underlying assumptions about the...
“A Recognizable Jewish Type:” Saul Bellow's Dr Tamkin and Valentine Gersbach as Jewish Social History
in Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
October 2007; published online October 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: Judaism. 10024 words.
“A Very Modest Experiment”—The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940–1945
in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook
January 2008; published online January 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: European history; Judaism. 0 words.
Aaron
in A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
January 1999; published online January 2003.
Reference Entry. Subjects: Judaism. 109 words.
Brother of Moses; Aaron together with his sister Miriam, features in the Bible among the three leaders of the