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Show moreStudy of the Shoah has proceeded over recent decades through a variety of venues, including history, sociology, psychology, religious thought, literature, and the arts. It has been our contention that each of these approaches, while valuable, represents an incomplete segment of the Shoah and will not provide a comprehensive sense of understanding the events. As practicing Jews and Christians, our colloquium examines the impact of the Shoah on our religious commitment by demonstrating how a dialogical encounter with selected biblical texts can foster mutual understanding and respect as well as personal transformation among its participants. Moreover, because we believe that study of the Shoah requires that we transcend the objectivity and data driven detachment of standard academic approaches, we encourage students at whatever level to enter into a confrontation with the reality of the Shoah, its aftermath, and the potential directions which we can take in a post-Auschwitz world. The development of an interfaith approach to this confrontation offers a model for dialogue as well as a subjective approach to learning.
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Show moreStudy of the Shoah has proceeded over recent decades through a variety of venues, including history, sociology, psychology, religious thought, literature, and the arts. It has been our contention that each of these approaches, while valuable, represents an incomplete segment of the Shoah and will not provide a comprehensive sense of understanding the events. As practicing Jews and Christians, our colloquium examines the impact of the Shoah on our religious commitment by demonstrating how a dialogical encounter with selected biblical texts can foster mutual understanding and respect as well as personal transformation among its participants. Moreover, because we believe that study of the Shoah requires that we transcend the objectivity and data driven detachment of standard academic approaches, we encourage students at whatever level to enter into a confrontation with the reality of the Shoah, its aftermath, and the potential directions which we can take in a post-Auschwitz world. The development of an interfaith approach to this confrontation offers a model for dialogue as well as a subjective approach to learning.
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Show moreStudy of the Shoah has proceeded over recent decades through a variety of venues, including history, sociology, psychology, religious thought, literature, and the arts. It has been our contention that each of these approaches, while valuable, represents an incomplete segment of the Shoah and will not provide a comprehensive sense of understanding the events. As practicing Jews and Christians, our colloquium examines the impact of the Shoah on our religious commitment by demonstrating how a dialogical encounter with selected biblical texts can foster mutual understanding and respect as well as personal transformation among its participants. Moreover, because we believe that study of the Shoah requires that we transcend the objectivity and data driven detachment of standard academic approaches, we encourage students at whatever level to enter into a confrontation with the reality of the Shoah, its aftermath, and the potential directions which we can take in a post-Auschwitz world. The development of an interfaith approach to this confrontation offers a model for dialogue as well as a subjective approach to learning.
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Show moreStudy of the Shoah has proceeded over recent decades through a variety of venues, including history, sociology, psychology, religious thought, literature, and the arts. It has been our contention that each of these approaches, while valuable, represents an incomplete segment of the Shoah and will not provide a comprehensive sense of understanding the events. As practicing Jews and Christians, our colloquium examines the impact of the Shoah on our religious commitment by demonstrating how a dialogical encounter with selected biblical texts can foster mutual understanding and respect as well as personal transformation among its participants. Moreover, because we believe that study of the Shoah requires that we transcend the objectivity and data driven detachment of standard academic approaches, we encourage students at whatever level to enter into a confrontation with the reality of the Shoah, its aftermath, and the potential directions which we can take in a post-Auschwitz world. The development of an interfaith approach to this confrontation offers a model for dialogue as well as a subjective approach to learning.
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Circumcision traditions, modern Jews, United States. Description and analysis of liturgical and folk traditions practiced by families at home-
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Circumcision traditions, modern Jews, United States. Description and analysis of liturgical and folk traditions practiced by families at home-based circumcision ceremonies, and by the mohel who performed the circumcisions for them in both urban and rural Illinois.
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Show moreTwenty diverse responses to a survey on the beliefs about the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. The survey was completed by Larimee Cortnik for Women in the Bible: Ethnographic Approaches to Rite and Ritual, Story, Song and Art (JDST - RLGN 268, Prof. J. Neulander) in Fall 2008.
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During the years of mass Yiddish migration to the Americas, the United States and Canada formed a single, contiguous ?culture area? for the per
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During the years of mass Yiddish migration to the Americas, the United States and Canada formed a single, contiguous ?culture area? for the performance of klezmer, or traditional Yiddish, folk music. But a new revival of a medieval klezmer tradition has recently occurred in both countries. This essay examines the klezmer musicians? Backwards March, performed to welcome the Sabbath at KlezKanada, an annual summer retreat that celebrates Yiddish arts and letters in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. The tradition is traced from its medieval origin to modernity in Eastern Europe, through its recent migration to North America. The work demonstrates the creative and strategic ways that Klezkanada, and its wintertime counterpart?the American Klezkamp?both adhere to the same tradition while holding fast to their own distinct cultural boundaries.
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