Tag Archives: Jewish Studies

(Dribs & Drabs) Canon & Translation (Ashkenaz)

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

Scholars in the field call upon Jewish Studies and Jewish Philosophy and Thought to pay attention to the thought world of Eastern European Jews, what I have been calling Ashkenaz, and they complain about the ignorance of their colleagues who … Continue reading →

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Judaism, Gender, Secularism, and Religion (Cornell University)

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

Kudos to Cara Rock Singer for organizing Gendering and Embodying the Jew: Judaism, Secularism, and the Politics of Difference, a workshop held yesterday at Cornell. Alongside the intensive look at gender, most interesting for me is the way religion was … Continue reading →

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A Liberal Zionist Trick Teaching Israel (Anti-Zionism Comes First)

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

Teaching Israel this year I decided to move things around. I used to teach the classical Zionist sources and then dive straight into the conflict with the Palestinians and the occupation of the West Bank, and these dominated the course. … Continue reading →

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(Inflection Point) Teaching Modern Jewish Philosophy & Thought

Posted on January 16, 2019 by

I think I figured out how to get away with it. It involves a graphic trick and a conceptual model based on a lively interaction between (theoretical) form and (Jewish) content. Last semester was a fiasco. I wanted to teach … Continue reading →

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(Modern Jewish Thought & Religion) and (Religion & Jewish Studies)

Posted on January 9, 2019 by

One last query about modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy and thought attached to a query about Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. The first is about “religion” and the study of modern (and contemporary Jewish thought, the other about the place … Continue reading →

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(A Modest Proposal) Subjects-Of or Objects-For (Jewish Philosophy & Thought)

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

[Richard Serra, One Ton Prop (House of Cards), 1969] Here’s a thought. As a historical thing, Jewish Philosophy and Thought has been the practice in which Jews and a putative Judaism are the subjects of thought and the objects of … Continue reading →

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(Who’s In & Who’s Out) How We Think (One More Question re: Jewish Philosophy & Thought)

Posted on January 3, 2019 by

Saving the ugliest question for last. How does the study of Modern Jewish Philosophy and Thought position in the canon Jewish thinkers like Arendt, Benjamin, Cassirer, Jonas about whom Jewishness (i.e. a Jewish social and intellectual subject position and experience) … Continue reading →

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