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Conference CFP: “Levinas, Law and Literature” (Antwerp)

Posted on September 16, 2015 by zjb

CFP: ‘Levinas, Law and Literature’, International Conference, January, 20–22, 2016, Antwerp, Belgium September 6, 2015 in Conferences Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) Center for European Philosophy (University of Antwerp) January, 20–22, 2016, Antwerp Abstract submission deadline: 20/09/2015 One cannot … Continue reading →

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Theology, Poetry, and Crossword Puzzles After Auschwitz (Jacob Petuchowski)

Posted on July 13, 2015 by zjb

Despite its dowdy title and drab cover, Jacob Petuchowski published Theology and Poetry: Studies in Medieval Piyyut as a popular and user-friendly book for the middle brow American Jewish reader. It’s a very modern book, a complex little thing with four … Continue reading →

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Theology, Poetry, and Crossword Puzzles After Auschwitz (Jacob Petuchowski)

Posted on July 13, 2015 by zjb

Despite its dowdy title and drab cover, Jacob Petuchowski published Theology and Poetry: Studies in Medieval Piyyut as a popular and user-friendly book for the middle brow American Jewish reader. It’s a very modern book, a complex little thing with four … Continue reading →

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(Modern) Jewish Studies in China

Posted on May 13, 2014 by zjb

Cousin Joseph Burman stumbled across my letter to Aaron Hughes in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the state of Jewish Studies. Since I think this is relevant to the place of Jewish Studies in the university, I want to mention … Continue reading →

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(American) Judaism (In the World) (New York Times)

Posted on March 18, 2014 by zjb

In this post, the tags come together: American Judaism, cosmopolitanism, literature, tourism. Is this unique to the United States, at least to New York, where Jews and Judaism have a very public profile, a profile represented with some frequency in … Continue reading →

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Delmore Schwartz (Monstrous Children & Dreary People)

Posted on February 24, 2014 by zjb

  When Lou Reed died, I read in an obituary, I think in the Syracuse University student paper or at the Daily Forward, about how he had studied English there with Delmore Schwartz. It was a name with which I … Continue reading →

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Jewish History Jewish Philosophy Jewish Law Jewish Poetry (The Geonim of Babylonia) (Robert Brody)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by zjb

I just recently finished reading Robert Brody’s The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Culture. Scratching the surface, I’m playing a kind of catch up on Jewish history. As an academic discipline, Jewish Studies remains dominated by history and … Continue reading →

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Lou Reed Delmore Schwartz (Syracuse)

Posted on October 28, 2013 by zjb

In Gan Eden with Delmore Schwartz. Lou Reed studied with Schwartz at Syracuse. I forgot the connection to SU, where Reed majored in English –a little piece of American Jewish culture. And Schwartz studied, a little, with Whitehead. You can … Continue reading →

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(American) Religion, Judaism, & Poetry (Robert Frost & Rabbi Victor Reichert)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by zjb

A very interesting article by Naomi Zeveloff, one of my favorite writers at the Jewish Forward, about the friendship between poet Robert Frost and Rabbi Victor Reichert, a Reform rabbi from Cincinnati. It adds a different texture to the American … Continue reading →

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Are we Posthuman yet? (Katherine Hayles) (Embodied Virtuality)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by zjb

I was not expecting to like as much as I did How We Became Posthuman Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by Katherine Hayles. Assuming that Hayles’ book was more akin to Kurzweil’s “singularity” than it is in fact, … Continue reading →

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