Lisa Silverman
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Chaya Halberstam deposited The Legal Language of Everyday Life in Rabbinic Religion on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
Drawing on Robert Orsi’s view of lived religion, this chapter proposes that the discourse of law served as a vehicle in rabbinic religion to mediate relationships between heaven and earth. It argues that religious-legal practice is most similar, in Late Antiquity, to the practice of divination: an ordinary social institution that shaped human l…[Read more]
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Chaya Halberstam changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Chaya Halberstam changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Rachel S. Harris's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Rachel S. Harris changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Shachar Pinsker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Shachar Pinsker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Rafael Neis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Shachar Pinsker changed their profile picture on AJS Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Barbara Mann started the topic Representing the Nonhuman (CFP for joint session Hebrew and Global Jewish) in the discussion
Hebrew Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoRepresenting the Nonhuman: A panel on Jewish and/or Hebrew animal narratives, zoopoetics, nature writing, ecocriticism, and posthumanist literature and cinema.
Contact: Naama Harel, nh2508@columbia.edu
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Barbara Mann started the topic The Space Between in Modern Hebrew Literature (CFP for 2018) in the discussion
Hebrew Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLiterary depictions of walls, borders, fences and other barriers. Modern Hebrew literature as a discursive space of bridging or division
Contact: Phillip Hollander, phollander@wisc.edu
Deadline: March 20, 2017
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Barbara Mann started the topic Literature and the Economy in Modern Hebrew Literature (CFP for 2018) in the discussion
Hebrew Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLiterature and the economy — circulation, economic networks, poetic currency, real estate, commodities, fetishes and Marxist critique in modern Hebrew writing.
Contact — Barbara Mann, bamann@jtsa.edu
Deadline — March 20, 2017
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Barbara Mann started the topic Suggestions for Hebrew Forum Sessions for MLA 2018 in the discussion
Hebrew Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease contribute any ideas you may have. CFPs for the 2018 convention will go out at the end of February.
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Barbara Mann changed their profile picture on AJS Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Barbara Mann changed their profile picture on AJS Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Barbara Mann's profile was updated on AJS Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Rebekka Grossmann's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] - Load More
