The Nun In The Synagogue

Author : Emma O'Donnell Polyakov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780271087269
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nun in the Synagogue written by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and Israel, offering an exploration of biographical narratives and reflections on Holocaust trauma, conversion, Zionism, and religious identity.

Author : Emma O’Donnell Polyakov
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088745
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nun in the Synagogue written by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nun in the Synagogue documents the religious and cultural phenomenon of Judeocentric Catholicism that arose in the wake of the Holocaust, fueled by survivors who converted to Catholicism and immigrated to Israel as well as by Catholics determined to address the anti-Judaism inherent in the Church. Through an ethnographic study of selected nuns and monks, Emma O’Donnell Polyakov explores how this Judeocentric Catholic phenomenon began and continues to take shape in Israel. This book is a case study in Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and the state of Israel during a time of rapidly changing theological and cultural contexts. In it, Polyakov listens to and analyzes the stories of individuals living on the border between Christian and Jewish identity—including Jewish converts to Catholicism who continue to harbor a strong sense of Jewish identity and philosemitic Catholics who attend synagogue services every Shabbat. Polyakov traces the societal, theological, and personal influences that have given rise to this phenomenon and presents a balanced analysis that addresses the hermeneutical problems of interpreting Jews through Christian frameworks. Ultimately, she argues that, despite its problems, this movement signals a pluralistic evolution of Catholic understandings of Judaism and may prove to be a harbinger of future directions in Jewish-Christian relations. Highly original and methodologically sophisticated, The Nun in the Synagogue is a captivating exploration of biographical narratives and reflections on faith, conversion, Holocaust trauma, Zionism, and religious identity that lays the groundwork for future research in the field.

Author : Mordecai Schreiber
Publisher : Shengold Books
ISBN 13 : 9780884001508
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rabbi and the Nun written by Mordecai Schreiber and published by Shengold Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Kaye and Sister Eve are passionately committed to their religious vocations, yet in spite of their differing beliefs become attracted to each other, only to find out they have to choose between their faith and their feelings for each other.

Author : Harvey P. Getz
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482879751
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Come the Gypsies written by Harvey P. Getz and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins with the author and his wife about to be robbed by a band of roving gypsy girls. During the attempted heist, he not only comes up with a plan to fend off the thieves but, during those few seconds, reviews his life in order to examine why he has things that others now wish to steal. In the book, the reader writes about his childhood, his school days, the military, and his life in Pennsylvania and New York City. Later, he travels across the vast Pacific Ocean to Okinawa, where he finds romance. As the story progresses, the adventures of living and working in such exotic places as Singapore, California, Portugal, Sicily, Italy, Turkey, Sardinia, and finally, back to Okinawa become the heart of the story.

Author : Hanna Zacks
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462004938
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Meets the Eye written by Hanna Zacks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book, More than Meets the Eye; A Journey into the Mysteries of Psychic Phenomena, I invite the reader to join me in a fascinating trip to the field known as parapsychology. Parapsychology, or psi phenomena, are psychic events which do not lend themselves to regular explanation based on evidence provided by the senses; they are said to be extrasensory. These phenomena are: telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and precognition. Our communication is based ordinarily on hearing or reading the others words, but in telepathic communication we are said to know the others thoughts directly, without the mediation of the senses. In clairvoyance, known also as remote viewing, we are said to see remote places without using the eyes. In psychokinesis we are said to be able to bend, push, or break objects without touching them, and in precognition we have direct glimpses of the future. Are telepathy, clairvoyance and other kinds of psychic phenomena real, or are they figments of an overly active imagination? And what about phenomena such as out-of-body experiences, apparitions of dead people, and reincarnation? Are such phenomena real? On the basis of my own experience, of the experiences of people I had interviewed, and of information I had gleaned from books by credible authors, I reach certain interesting conclusions which I share with the reader.

Author : Dan Urman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112544
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Synagogues written by Dan Urman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism?

Author : Jacob R. Marcus
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201769
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob R. Marcus and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. The medieval epoch in Jewish history begins around the year 315, when the emperor Constantine began enacting disabling laws against the Jews, rendering them second-class citizens. In the centuries following, Jews enjoyed (or suffered under) legislation, either chosen or forced by the state, which differed from the laws for the Christian and Muslim masses. Most states saw the Jews as simply a tolerated group, even when given favorable privileges. The masses often disliked them. Medieval Jewish history presents a picture wherein large patches are characterized by political and social disabilities. Marcus closes the medieval Jewish age (for Western Jewry) in 1791 with the proclamation of political and civil emancipation in France. The 137 sources included in the anthology include historical narratives, codes, legal opinions, martyrologies, memoirs, polemics, epitaphs, advertisements, folk-tales, ethical and pedagogical writings, book prefaces and colophons, commentaries, and communal statutes. These documents are organized in three sections: The first treats the relation of the State to the Jew and reflects the civil and political status of the Jew in the medieval setting. The second deals with the profound influence exerted by the Catholic and Protestant churches on Jewish life and well-being. The final section presents a study of the Jew "at home," with four sub-divisions with treat the life of the medieval Jew in its various aspects. Marcus presents the texts themselves, introductions, and lucid notes. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.

Author : Risto Ilmari Uro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004532366
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Synagogues, Volume 2 written by Risto Ilmari Uro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism? The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004112544).

Author : Daniela Flesler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253050111
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory Work of Jewish Spain written by Daniela Flesler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the "re-discovery" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured "Jewish quarters," excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.

Author : Carl Roemer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491733578
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Was the World of Jesus? written by Carl Roemer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some ways, the Gospels are like the text of a drama. If youve read the script of a play and then seen it performed, you realize how different a text can be interpreted when it is transferred from page to stage. All of the Gospels were originally read aloud to an audience that was intimately familiar with the background, and that gave the words immediacy, meaning, and vibrancy. In todays world, we are no longer privy to that scenery. In order to fully grasp the message of the gospels, we must bring that context to our minds eyes as much as possible. What Was the World of Jesus?: A Journey for Curious Pilgrims seeks to provide the necessary scenery so that the Gospels can again be heard in a way that is closer to the experience of that original audience hearing them read aloud. Author Carl Roemer presents it in the form of a journey or pilgrimage, leading us on an adventure into a world that is very different from our own world. On this journey, we can encounter the story behind the storya background that opens up a fresh, new experience of the Gospels and shares the words and actions of Jesus as they were experienced by early Christians.