Journal•ISSN: 1472-5886
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Judaism & The Holocaust. It has an ISSN identifier of 1472-5886. Over the lifetime, 746 publications have been published receiving 3860 citations.
Topics: Judaism, The Holocaust, Politics, Zionism, Hebrew
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TL;DR: This article argued that the language spoken in Israel today is a semi-engineered Semito-European hybrid language, and that it is more like a species than an organism, rather than an entity per se.
Abstract: A language is an abstract ensemble of idiolects – as well as sociolects, dialects and so on – rather than an entity per se. It is more like a species than an organism. Still, the genetic classification of Israeli Hebrew as a consistent entity has preoccupied linguists since the language emerged about 120 years ago. As a consequence, Israeli Hebrew affords insights into the politics and evolution not only of language, but also of linguistics. The author of this article maintains that the language spoken in Israel today is a semi‐engineered Semito‐European hybrid language. Whatever one chooses to call it, one should acknowledge, and celebrate, its complexity.
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TL;DR: This article examined the contemporary revival of Kabbalah and investigated the relationship between contemporary Kabbala and New Age phenomena. But they did not examine the connection between the New Age and Neo-Hasidic groups.
Abstract: In recent years, a remarkable revival of interest in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism has taken place in Israel, the United States and other, mostly Western, countries. This revival, which includes a resurgence of kabbalistic and hasidic doctrines and practices and an integration of kabbalistic themes in various cultural fields, coincides with the emergence of the New Age and other related spiritual and new religious movements in the Western world in the last decades of the twentieth century. New Age themes appear in various contemporary kabbalistic and Neo‐hasidic movements, and there are significant similarities between these movements, the New Age and other recent spiritual and religious revival movements. This article will examine the contemporary revival of Kabbalah and investigate the relationship between contemporary Kabbalah and New Age phenomena. It will demonstrate that central characteristics of the new spiritual culture appear not only in contemporary Kabbalah and Neo‐hasidic groups that explicit...
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TL;DR: Batnitzky's book as mentioned in this paper began life not as a manuscript but as an undergraduate course in modern Jewish thought at Princeton and made use of the course's organizing question "is Judaism, in fac...
Abstract: Leora Batnitzky's book began life not as a manuscript but as an undergraduate course in modern Jewish thought at Princeton. The book makes use of the course's organizing question—is Judaism, in fac...
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TL;DR: Muller's title, Capitalism and the Jews, might sound worryingly reminiscent of the trash offered up by the Nazi weekly, Der Sturmer; the book, however, confound any such inferences as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Jerry Muller's title, Capitalism and the Jews, might sound worryingly reminiscent of the trash offered up by the Nazi weekly, Der Sturmer; the book, however, confounds any such inferences. Muller's...
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