160 research outputs found
Chaim Bloch Collection 1916-1969
No full textCorrespondence, including letters from Leo Baeck, Salo Baron, Julie Braun-Vogelstein, Martin Buber, Werner Cahnmann, Max Dienemann, Ismar Elbogen, Erich Fromm, Hermann Fürnberg, Nahum Glatzer, Nahum Goldmann, Max Gruenewald, Max Grunwald, Siegfried Guggenheim, Ernest Jones, Hermann Kesten, Guido Kisch, Adolf Kober, Franz Kobler, Joachim Prinz, Lessing Rosenwald, Ingrid Warburg, Alma Mahler-Werfel, and Franz Werfel.Clippings and manuscripts on Judaism, Hasidism, Zionism, Nazi Germany, and on Bloch's life and work.Born in Nagybocskó, Austria-Hungary (now in the Ukraine) on June 27, 1881, Chaim Bloch was ordained as a rabbi and emigrated to Vienna in 1915. He served as a chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and afterwards worked as an author in Vienna. Most prominently, he wrote a book about the Golem of Prague. In 1939, Bloch emigrated to Great Britain and then moved on to the United States, where he continued his literary work. Chaim Bloch died in New York City on January 23, 1973.digitize
Author, Playwright and Rabbi Chaim Potok to Speak at UD\u27s Distinguished Speaker Series
No full textNews release announces that Chaim Potok will speak on Authority and Rebellion: The Writer and the Community, at UD
'A narrative community : the voices of Israeli backpackers', by Chaim Noy : [book review]
No full textBook review of: 'A Narrative Community - The Voices of Israeli Backpackers ' by Chaim Noy. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, USA 48201 2007, xii + 238 pp (appendices, references, subject index, author index) $29.95 Hbk. ISBN 978-0-8143-3176-
Exile and Identity: Chaim Potok\u27s Contribution to Jewish-American Literature
No full textQuestions of identity and exile are deep in the bones of the Jewish people. In this thesis I will discuss the manifestations of exile and identity in the works of Chaim Potok, a Jewish-American novelist. Potok’s work has long been excluded from the canon of Jewish-American criticism. I suspect this exclusion is due to critical oversight, as Potok’s characters lead more traditional Jewish lives in terms of religious beliefs, backgrounds, and behaviors. In order to prove the critical value of Potok’s work I will note the gaps in Jewish-American criticism where Potok’s work is missing. Then I will concentrate around two of Potok’s novels, The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, examining these works in terms of exile and identity themes that come across in other Jewish-American works. By finding the aforementioned gaps in Jewish-American criticism and explaining the characteristics of Potok’s novels that fill those gaps, I will connect the new ideas of Potok with the more accepted ideas of other Jewish authors. For many years, Jewish-American authors have remained distanced from their traditional Jewish roots and have written about characters who remained distanced from these roots as well. The choice between Jewish religious tradition and progress in the secular world was just that, a choice. Jewish-American characters were either more Jewish than they were American, or more American than they were Jewish. Through Chaim Potok’s characterization of Danny Saunders, Reuven Malter, and Asher Lev, Potok creates narratives that allow for characters to have a third alternative: to remain faithful to Jewish religious tradition and participate in secular American life. This thesis serves to claim that Chaim Potok’s hopefulness, depicted in The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev must be married with a more typically “Jewish” bitterness in order to provide a clear picture of Jewish-American identity that is true for our world today. Incorporating Chaim Potok’s work into the Jewish-American canon would broaden the spectrum of Jews who are represented in Jewish-American literature and eliminate the pervasive idea of how a Jewish author is supposed to write
Southern Columns v.38-1 1986
No full textFeatures the article Eminent Author Chaim Potok To Speak . Best-selling American novelist Chaim Potok will be visiting the campus March 19 and 20 as a part of the President\u27s Lecture Series.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter/1108/thumbnail.jp
The Judaic heritage: A key to understanding the works of Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine
No full textThe paintings created by Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine cannot be fully understood without placing them in the context of their Judaic heritage. In the past, art historians have focused on the formal qualities of their art, and not the context in which they were created, thereby overlooking the foundation of their art. Both painters recreated Judaic rituals and laws through their art. Chagall portrayed his heritage lovingly, and created whimsical paintings of Judaic traditions. Soutine rebelled against his heritage, and chose to paint subjects that were strictly forbidden by Mosaic laws. By studying the biographies of both artists, analyzing the symbolism in over one hundred paintings, and relating these works to specific periods in the artists' lives, the author found their art to be imbued with Judaic symbolism. Therefore, the content of their work relied heavily on Judaic culture, and cannot be understood without some knowledge of their heritage.Thesis (M.A.)--The American University, 1993.School code: 0008
The Judaic heritage: A key to understanding the works of Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine
No full textThe paintings created by Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine cannot be fully understood without placing them in the context of their Judaic heritage. In the past, art historians have focused on the formal qualities of their art, and not the context in which they were created, thereby overlooking the foundation of their art. Both painters recreated Judaic rituals and laws through their art. Chagall portrayed his heritage lovingly, and created whimsical paintings of Judaic traditions. Soutine rebelled against his heritage, and chose to paint subjects that were strictly forbidden by Mosaic laws. By studying the biographies of both artists, analyzing the symbolism in over one hundred paintings, and relating these works to specific periods in the artists' lives, the author found their art to be imbued with Judaic symbolism. Therefore, the content of their work relied heavily on Judaic culture, and cannot be understood without some knowledge of their heritage.</p
Best-Selling Author Rabbi Chaim Potok to Speak at UD; Kickball Games Help UD Students Feel Like Kids Again; UD Students Take Rural Retreat to Learn About Life on a Farm; UD Students Sponsor 10K Walk to Help Fight Cancer
No full textNews release announces that Rabbi Chaim Potok will speak on Authority and Rebellion: The Writer and the Community. ; UD students will take part in a kickball tournament; Students will learn how to milk a cow and scoop eggs during a Rural Plunge; The UD Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Phi Sigma Rho sorority are sponsoring the first Hope Walk for cancer
The Aesthetics of Qualitative (Re)search
No full text The author offers a reflexive recount of an ethnography conducted at a tourist heritage site. Inspired by critical writings on the aesthetics of (social) scientific practices and texts, the author examines ethnographic practices that take place in the conjoined coercive contexts of tourism and national commemoration. A number of affinities between ethnographic, touristic, and commemoration practices are highlighted, and so are the epistemologies on which they rest and types of knowledge(s) that they help produce. These affinities include the role of authenticity and unmediated encounters, collecting and documenting practices, and lastly practices involved in presentation of artifacts (data vs. souvenirs). The narrative account/recount that the author offers involves visual images, and an examination of the technologies that produce and process them. These present the centrality if visuality in both contexts of tourism (photography, gaze, seeing) and contemporary ethnographic practices and the ways that visual images tell and conceal stories concerning the production of knowledge in social science research. </jats:p
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