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 The Chronicle #60/2002 HUC-JIR and Faculty Publications Winter 2001-Summer 2002 Yaacov Chefetz: There They Will Try to Change Your Name (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum/New York). The exhibition catalog for Chefetz's art installation with essays by Professor Samuel Bacharach and Hana Kofler. Dr. Susan Einbinder, Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Princeton University Press). An examination of Hebrew poetry, written by medieval French Jews during the time of the Crusades, which reflects responses to persecution, encouragement for resistance, and commemoration of Jewish martyrs. Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ed. Minhag Ami: My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 5, Birkhot Hashachar (Morning Blessings) (Jewish Lights Publishing). This volume provides the Hebrew text with a new translation and helps readers find meaning in the prayers through commentaries from scholars with traditional, modern, feminist, halakhic, Talmudic, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives. Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition (Beacon Press). An exploration of the Jewish way of living which addresses the Jewish relationship to God and questions of purpose in life, as well as the importance of blessings, study, spirituality, and Israel. Dr. David Levine, Communal Fasts and Rabbinic Sermons - Theory and Practice in the Talmudic Period (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad). A literary, halakhic, and historical study of communal fasting as a social and religious response to public misfortune or calamities. Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot, Eds., Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797-1798 (HUC Press). A bilingual edition of weekly satirical dialogues in Yiddish between members of the "established" and "breakaway" Jewish communities in late 18th century Amsterdam. Dr. Natan Ofek, Kafka and Jewish Existence: The Abused, Rupture and Hope (Tzivonim). An examination of the dilemmas of modern Jewish existence through an analysis of Kafka's life, and a contribution to the understanding of his work. Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, Ed., A Reader and Web/Bibliography on Gender Identity, the Intersexed and Transsexuals: Religious, Legal and Policy Issues. Testimonies and accounts of legal, medical, and psychological issues, as well as Jewish sources, on transsexuals and the intersexed. Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener and Daniel Judson, Meeting at the Well: A Jewish Spiritual Guide to Engagement (UAHC Press). A guide for couples to apply the wisdom and traditions of Judaism, drawn from examples in biblical and classic rabbinic texts, to gain insight into and strengthen their relationships, and to build their Jewish lives together. Dr. Gary P. Zola, Ed., Dr. Fred Krome, Managing Ed., The American Jewish Archives Journal. Volume LIII, Nos. 1&2 (The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives). The history of the American Jewish experience explored through writings exploring motion picture reform, Jewish social services in Atlanta, Jewish women and vocational education, among other topics. |
