1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791560303321

Autore

Lewis Justin Jaron <1961->

Titolo

Imagining holiness : classic Hasidic tales in modern times / / Justin Jaron Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-7735-8304-1

1-282-86676-1

9786612866760

0-7735-7631-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion ; ; 252

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion

Disciplina

296.8/332

Soggetti

Hasidim

Jewish legends

Hasidism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Taste of Hasidic Tales -- Blessing the Moon -- The Candle -- Protection from Fire; Husband and Wife Reunited -- The Ecstasies of Rebbe Levi Isaac of Berdichev -- A Journey with Rebbe Moses Leyb of Sasov -- The Spot of Sugar -- Forgetting the Mishnah -- The Polish Nobleman’s Blessing -- The Reluctant Rabbi -- To Be a Leader -- Wedding Presents -- In the Marketplace: The Stories in Context -- Preliminary Questions -- Authors and Books -- Historical Context -- Literary Context -- Issues of Authenticity -- The Status of the Stories -- Holy Men and HolyBooks: The Tales,the Talmud, and Jewish Law -- Study and Storytelling -- R’Hayim’s Strange Blessings: Halakhah in the Tales -- “TheWorld asIt Is”: Materiality and theBody -- “Taste the Food on My Plate”: Tales of Food and Women -- The Changeling: Women as Protagonists and Narrators -- Eydl of Brody: Stories against Stories -- The Naked Rebbe: Stories of Rebbe Isaac Ayzik of Kaluv and the Holy Body -- The Wounded Body -- Scorched by His Glowing Coal -- A Paradox That No One Can Solve: A



Tale of Circumcision -- Afterword -- Appendix: Names andDates -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hasidic tales are often read as charming expressions of Jewish spirituality. This title offers a radical reappraisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into question received notions of authenticity. It focuses on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early 20th century - primarily the work of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim Michelson.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973253403321

Titolo

Political and historical encyclopedia of women / / Christine Faure, editor ; translated by Richard Dubois ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-135-45690-9

1-280-11439-8

0-203-50593-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (846 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DuboisRichard

FauréChristine

Disciplina

320/.082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Europe

Women - Political activity - North America

Women legislators - Europe

Women legislators - North America

Women's rights - Europe - History

Women's rights - North America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Encyclopedie politique et historique des femmes. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Threshold of Modernity: Are Women Capable of Governing?; The Salic Law; Female Sovereignty and the Subordination of



Women in the Works of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, and Jean Bodin; Women's Political and Military Action during the Fronde; From Natural Subjection to Conventional Indifference: Women in the Political Thought of Sir Robert Filmer, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke; The Age of Revolutions; Women's Role in the English Revolutions

The American Revolution through Women's EyesWomen's Political Action during the French Revolution; Sex or Rank? Women's Status in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment; From the Rights of Man to Women's Rights: A Difficult Intellectual Conversion; Women Militants in the Brabant and Liégeois Revolutions; Women and the Dutch Revolutions of the Late Eighteenth Century; The Trade of Black Women Slaves of the Eighteenth Century; Women's Participation in the Greek Revolution, 1800-1827; 1826: Women in Philhellenism; Utopia and Counterutopia: Women in the Works of Charles Fourier; 1848 in Paris

Women in the German States, 1848-1849Supplemental Bibliography: Women and the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe; The Emancipation of Women in the Works of Marx and Engels; 1871: The Paris Commune; Women in Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1926; Women in the German Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg and the Workers' Councils; The Women's Section of the Comintern, from Lenin to Stalin; Struggles for Democracy; Women's Rights and Suffrage in the United States, 1848-1920; Women's Suffrage and Democracy in Canada; From Women's Rights to Feminism in Europe, 1860-1914

Political Rights of European Women: An Assessment of the Two World WarsWomen's Role in the Spanish Civil War; The Feminine Condition under Nazism: Tradition, Modernity, and Racial Hierarchization; Women's Collaboration and Resistance under Italian Fascism; Women in Vichy France; Women and Salazarism; Liberty and Equality for Women in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe, 1960-1980; Feminism in the 1970s; Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy: The Swiss Case, 1848-1990; Women and Islam in the West; Turkish Immigrant Women in Europe; The Political Success of Scandinavian Women

Women's Representation in Parliaments and Political Parties in Europe and North AmericaBuilding Equality in the Policies of International Organizations; Notes on Contributors; Index of Proper Names

Sommario/riassunto

The original French edition of this encyclopedia has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is proud to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition.