Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd

Автор: Novak, Professor Of Religion And Philosophy And The J Richard And Dorothy Shiff Chair Of Jewish Studies David (syracuse University New York)
Название: Jewish justice
ISBN: 1481305298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481305297
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Bible, the Talmud, and ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy, Novak asserts Judaism's integral place in communal discourse of the public square.According to Novak, biblical revelation has universal implications - that it is ultimately God's law to humanity because humans made in God's image are capable of making intelligent moral choices. The universality of this claim, however, stands in tension with the particularities of Jewish monotheism (one God, one people, one law). Novak's challenge is for Judaism to capitalize on the way God's law transcends particularity without destroying difference. Thus it is as Jews that Jews are called to join communities across the faithful denominations, as well as secular ones, to engage in debates about the common good. Jewish Justice follows a logical progression from grounded ethical quandaries to larger philosophical debates. Novak begins by considering the practical issues of capital punishment, mutilation and torture, corporate crime, the landed status of communities and nations, civil marriage, and religious marriage. He next moves to a consideration of theoretical concerns: God's universal justice, the universal aim of particular Jewish ethics, human rights and the image of God, the relation of post-Enlightenment social contract theory to the recently enfranchised Jewish community, and the voices of Jewish citizens in secular politics and the public sphere. Novak also explores the intersection of universality and particularity by examining the practice of interfaith dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Автор: Elderfield John, Shiff Richard, Winters Terry
Название: Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute
ISBN: 0300247125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300247121
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: A celebration of the stunning collection of artworks donated in honor of the creation of The Menil Drawing Institute

Featuring outstanding 20th-century drawings promised or bequeathed to the Menil Collection for the opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, this elegant volume is a testament to the growing significance of drawings as stand-alone artworks over the past century. The drawings come from the private collections of well-known connoisseurs Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney, and include works by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Eva Hesse, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock. Its chief curator Edouard Kopp profiles the Drawing Institute's nature and scope, and noted scholars John Elderfield and Richard Shiff discuss historical aspects of drawing, while Terry Winters muses from an artist's viewpoint.

Автор: Ofer Shiff
Название: Survival Through Integration (paperback): American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
ISBN: 900423330X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004233300
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large.

Автор: Shiff Ofer
Название: The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel
ISBN: 0815610351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815610359
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In early February 1949 American Jewry's most popular and powerful
leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), had summarily resigned from all
his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for
Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. In the immediate years
prior to his resignation, during the second half of the 1940s, Silver was the
most outspoken proponent of the founding of a sovereign Jewish state. He
was the most instrumental American Jewish leader in the political struggle
that led to the foundation of the State of Israel. Paradoxically, this historic
victory also heralded Silver's personal defeat.
Soon after Israel's declaration of independence, he and many of his
American Zionist colleagues were relegated to the sidelines of the Zionist
movement. Almost overnight the most influential leader--one who was admired
and feared by both supporters and opponents--was stripped of his
power within both the Zionist and the American Jewish arenas.
Shiff's book discerns the various aspects of the striking turnabout in
Silver's political fate, describing both the personal tragic story of a leader
who was defeated by his own victory, and the much broader intra-Zionist
battle which erupted in full force immediately after the founding of Israel.
Drawing extensively on Silver's personal archival material, Shiff presents
an enlightening portrait of a critical episode in Jewish history. This book is
most relevant for anyone who attempts to understand the complex homeland-
diaspora relations between Israel and American Jewry.