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Bones and blood: family ties and the experience of immigration in Anzia Yezierska's “Bread givers” and Fae Myenne Ng's “Bone”

1996

Yezierska, Anzia (1880-1970)

2021

Anzia Yezierska è un' ebrea Polacca immigrata negli Stati Uniti. Nei primi anni '20, fu una delle prime scrittrici a portare storie di donne ebree immigrate ad un pubblico americano mainstream. Questo saggio traccia le tappe della carriera e della produzione letteraria dell'autrice con particolare attenzione al contesto storico in cui scrisse e fu ricevuta dal pubblico a lei contemporaneo e all'importanza della sua scrittura per le generazioni successive. Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. In the early 1920s, she was the first writer to bring stories of Jewish immigrant women to a mainstream audience. This essay outlines her literary career, highlighting her significant wor…

Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska (1925)

2021

This essay analyzes Anzia Yezierska's novel "Bread Givers" (1925) its critical reception from presentation to the present day, the historical context of its production and reception and its enduring significance.

The Dark Trienium: Valencia, 1389-1391. Unrest coinciding with an assault on the Jewish district

2012

Estudio de base documental sobre el auge del antijudaísmo desde 1371 y el asalto a la judería de Valencia en julio de 1391, al poco tiempo de su ampliación. Sitúa el hecho en el contexto de las tensiones políticas en la Corona de Aragón y en la ciudad, donde se enfrentaban sendos bandos: actuaciones entre 1375 y 1392 del inquisidor Nicolau Eimeric (Directorium inquisitorum) contra herejes y su condena de obras de Ramon Llull. Cortes de 1388-1389. Guerras en el ámbito pirenaico en 1390. Políticas de abastecimiento y defensa de la ciudad de Valencia y oposición de villas y nobles del reino al municipio de la capital, que arma una milicia montada en mayo de 1391. Represión de maleantes y medid…

The Jewish doctors involved in the development of health resorts in eastern Galicia at the late 19th and early 20th century (Central and Eastern Euro…

2018

Summary Background The involvement of Jewish doctors and scientists in the development of health resorts in eastern Galicia (part of the Austrian monarchy after 1772, and since 1918 as part of independent Poland, now part of Ukraine) is unquestionable; however, awareness of this fact is not that common. Meanwhile, also due to their work and activity, small borderland resorts became important medical, cultural and social centers of the region. The involvement of Jewish doctors in the development of Galician health resorts resulted from, among others, the rich and multi-layered tradition and integration of Judaism with the hygiene regulations and moral principles of the religion. The eastern …

The Firstborn of Death: Monotheism and the Mythology of Death in Job 18

2019

AbstractJob 18 depicts the destruction of the wicked as a kind of ambush by “the firstborn of death.” Much of the discussion of this passage has centered on this figure’s identification, and whether one should look primarily to Ugaritic or Mesopotamian mythological traditions for its background. Yet the passage as a whole concludes with a reference to a single “God,” knowledge of whom is determinative for human fate. This raises a basic question concerning the relation between “God” and the “firstborn of death.” Through a close comparison with the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the Neo-Assyrian Underworld Vision on the one hand, and Job 5 and Deuteronomy 32 on the other, this paper argues that “th…

The Earliest Reference to Israel and Its Possible Archaeological and Historical Background

2017

Manfred Görg proposed to read the name Israel on a broken Egyptian inscriptionäm21687, which is now kept in the storage facilities of the New Museum in Berlin. New research during the last number of years has confirmed this reading, although the writing of the name is different from that of the Merenptah inscription. Some characteristics appear to demonstrate that this inscription is older than the Israel stela of Merenptah and may likely date to the 14th or earlier 13th centurybce. The paper will present some ideas about an earlier beginning of the formation of what is generally called Israel and about the way, how this early Israel came about.

The Centrality and Interpretation of Psalms in Judaism prior to and during Medieval Times: Approaches, Authorship, Genre, and Polemics

2020

Abstract This study discusses the centrality of the book of Psalms among the Jews and in Judaism. It outlines the seven most important and influential rabbinic exegetical works on Psalms, in the period before and during the medieval age: Targum Psalms and Midrash Psalms Shocher Tov, from some time in the Talmudic period; and five prominent medieval commentaries: Saadia Gaon, Moses haCohen ibn Gikatilla, Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, and David Kimchi. I briefly introduce each interpretative work and focus on selected aspects: The commentators’ distinct exegetical methods, their approaches to the questions of the authorship and genre of Psalms, and polemics with inside (e.g., Karaites) and outside…

Literary-Stylistic Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible

2020

Abstract Biblical scholarship has concentrated almost exclusively on cases of unintentional metathesis, particularly as a tool of textual criticism. But metathesis is not only a result of accidents and mistakes; it can also be deliberately employed as a literary-stylistic device. Accordingly, this study addresses all three of these categories of metathesis in the biblical literature, but focuses particularly on Literary-stylistic metathesis that is an intentional form of metathesis, in which an author or editor has deliberately chosen to use two or more words that share the same characters in inverse order.

Some Remarks on the Use of Garšūnī and Other Allographic Writing Systems by the Melkites

2019

Abstract The aim of this paper is to address the question to what extent and for what reasons the Melkites, especially of Southern Syria and Egypt, resorted to allographic writing systems, of which garšūnī, the writing of Arabic with Syriac letters, was only one mode. Indeed, various languages such as Greek, Arabic, Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) coexisted in the Melkite community, which is characterized by its linguistic diversity. Melkite garšūnī texts can be dated to between the 11th and the late 13th centuries. While the Melkites were not the first to use garšūnī, this mode of writing was in this period far more widespread among them than in the other oriental Christian …