- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
jewishphilosophy place @ Facebook
-
Recent Posts
- The Murder of Philando Castile & Teaching Cops To Kill (Dave Grossman)
- Bright Light on Hudson River (Deleuze)
- (Shipwrecked Minds) Religion & Political Reaction (Mark Lilla)
- (Art of Empire) Porous Fired Bodies (Qin and Han)
- Loose Texture and Bovine Sympathy (Isaiah Berlin)
- (Deleuze & Guattari) Jews + Jews + Jews (Cynthia Baker)
- Truth, Justice, and the American Way (James Comey)
- Jew اليهودي
- Jewish Queer Youth Response to Jewish Voice For Peace
- (A Nation of Merchants) On Jews, Kant or Borat
- Robot Religion
- Tick Tock to Apocalypse (Egypt) (June 1967)
- Arts and Sciences: The death of a beautiful relationship
- Immortal Body at Rest in an Ancient Chinese Techno Case
- Truth, Lies, Trump, & Paris
- (Levantine) Aesthetic Judaism (Lucette Lagnado)
- Between Right and Left (Amos Oz at Israel Ha’Yom)
- Doonesbury Déjà vu
- Donald (of Arabia)
- Alan Mintz (z”l)
- Dancing Trees (Central Park)
- Trump’s Islam Speech & Religious Studies
- (Body) Maimonides & Dance (Epistle to Yemen)
- Literary Walk (Central Park)
- A Fascist Impulse in Religious Zionism (Tomer Persico)
- (Vital Forms) Art Swarms (East Harlem)
- Love and Law- Rav Shagar on Religious Zionism 2005
- What Poetic about the Poets’ Walk (Bard College)
- Israeli Settlements & International Law (Nathaniel Berman)
- Free, Home (2nd Avenue)
- aesthetics affect American Judaism ancient Near East animals anti-Semitism architecture art BDS Bible blog body Buber and Rosenzweig Buddhism China Christianity cinema cosmopolitanism Deleuze ephemera ethics France Gaza gender God Heidegger Heschel Holocaust Husserl image in-the-car India Islam Israel Jerusalem Jewish Philosophy Jewish Studies Judaism Kabbalah-Hasidut law Levinas liberalism literature Maimonides Mendelssohn messianism Mordecai Kaplan Museums & Galleries music nature New York obama object Palestine parks & gardens Passover philosophy photography politics race reason religion religion and science ritual science secularism Shabbat & holidays suffering synagogue Syracuse Syracuse University Syria talmud-midrash technology what i'm reading
Recent Comments
Blogroll
- art21blog
- immanent frame
- Jewish Art Theory (Ben Schachter)
- justice in the city
- ottomans and zionists
- patterns that connect
- perverse egalitarianism
- philosophy and law
- radical banjo
- the book of doctrines and opinions
- The Home of Schlemiel Theory
- the magnes zionist
- the talmud blog
- then and now
- tokyo green space
Archives
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
Monthly Archives: January 2015
A Baal Shem Tov Doubt re: Heavenly Communications
[Eliezer Sobel, Baal Shem Tov in His Carriage] Jewish philosophy puts a lot of stock in revelation. It’s supposed to do all the work. But what’s the nature of that “communication”? Here’s a doubt by the Baal Shem Tov. It’s … Continue reading
(With a Drone) How to Shoot Auschwitz (.)(?)
There are so many questions that hang over this little project, relating in particular to memory and to the passage of time, to imaging technologies and to post-catastrophe aesthetics. You can see the clip here, produced by the BBC. Hovering … Continue reading
Non Jewish Jewish Studies (Apropos to Something Aaron Hughes Said)
Not at Syracuse University in the Department of Religion. Apropos to the point made by Aaron Hughes in The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship, I’m delighted to report that Jewish Studies is not too Jewish. This semester I’m teaching … Continue reading
Posted in uncategorized
Tagged American Judaism, Jewish Studies, Syracuse University
Leave a comment
Spring Semester 2015 (Space, Place, Things, and Bodies)
My goings on this semester at Syracuse University this semester. Jewish Studies and contemporary Jewish thought & philosophy can look like this: –Jewish Studies Seminar: Kabbalah and Mystical Architecture (looking at space and place in the Zohar: creation, circumcision, Tabernacle) (Scholem, … Continue reading
A Little Antisemitic Joke (Reading Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy)
“Sheer idiocy to say that experimental research is Nordic-Germanic and that rational research, on the contrary is of foreign extraction! We would then have to resolve to number Newton and Leibniz among the “Jews.” Writing against science, math, calculation, Heidegger makes … Continue reading
Hier ist kein warum [Reading Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)]
Professional happenstance led me to reading Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Written between 1936 and 1938, it was published posthumously in 1989, and then again in 1994 as a second edition. I’ve heard that the one to read … Continue reading
