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Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture / ed. by Lawrence Fine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; 12Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) : 6 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271090108
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.3/62 23
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  • BJ1286.F75 F75 2021eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Studying Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture -- Part 1 Love, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men -- Chapter 1 “Cherished in Life, for They Loved Each Other Exceedingly” Friendship in Medieval Ashkenaz -- Chapter 2 God in the Face of the Other Mystical Friendship in the Zohar -- Chapter 3 Friendship and Gender The Limits and Possibilities of Jewish Philosophy -- Part 2 Women and the Bonds of Friendship -- Chapter 4 “She and Her Friends” On Women’s Friendship in Biblical Narrative -- Chapter 5 Friends and Friendship in the Memoir of Glückel of Hameln Learning from Experience -- Chapter 6 “Got Yourself Some Friends? Now Build a Movement!” Friendship in the Jewish Women’s Movement in the United States -- Part 3 Friendship and Its Challenges -- Chapter 7 Jacob and Esau Twinship, Identity, and Failed Friendship -- Chapter 8 Hebraica Amicitia Leon Modena and the Cultural Practices of Early Modern Intra-Jewish Friendship -- Chapter 9 Friendship and Betrayal Hasidism and Secularism in Early Twentieth-Century Poland -- Part 4 Crossing Boundaries Friendship Between Women and Men, and Between Jews and Gentiles -- Chapter 10 Interfaith Encounters Between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond Toward a Framework -- Chapter 11 Friendship, Jewish Female Philosophers, and Feminism -- Chapter 12 A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it truly is. Covering the vast expanse of Jewish tradition, from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century, this collection of essays traces the history of the beliefs, rituals, and social practices surrounding friendship in Jewish life.Employing diverse methodological approaches, this volume explores the particulars of the many varied forms that friendship has taken in the different regions where Jews have lived, including the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, Europe, and the United Sates. The four sections—friendship between men, friendship between women, challenges to friendship, and friendships that cross boundaries, especially between Jews and Christians, or men and women—represent and exemplify universal themes and questions about human interrelationships. This pathbreaking and timely study will inspire further research and provide the groundwork for future explorations of the topic.In addition to the editor, the contributors are Martha Ackelsberg, Michela Andreatta, Joseph Davis, Glenn Dynner, Eitan P. Fishbane, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Jütte, Eyal Levinson, Saul M. Olyan, George Savran, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Studying Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture -- Part 1 Love, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men -- Chapter 1 “Cherished in Life, for They Loved Each Other Exceedingly” Friendship in Medieval Ashkenaz -- Chapter 2 God in the Face of the Other Mystical Friendship in the Zohar -- Chapter 3 Friendship and Gender The Limits and Possibilities of Jewish Philosophy -- Part 2 Women and the Bonds of Friendship -- Chapter 4 “She and Her Friends” On Women’s Friendship in Biblical Narrative -- Chapter 5 Friends and Friendship in the Memoir of Glückel of Hameln Learning from Experience -- Chapter 6 “Got Yourself Some Friends? Now Build a Movement!” Friendship in the Jewish Women’s Movement in the United States -- Part 3 Friendship and Its Challenges -- Chapter 7 Jacob and Esau Twinship, Identity, and Failed Friendship -- Chapter 8 Hebraica Amicitia Leon Modena and the Cultural Practices of Early Modern Intra-Jewish Friendship -- Chapter 9 Friendship and Betrayal Hasidism and Secularism in Early Twentieth-Century Poland -- Part 4 Crossing Boundaries Friendship Between Women and Men, and Between Jews and Gentiles -- Chapter 10 Interfaith Encounters Between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond Toward a Framework -- Chapter 11 Friendship, Jewish Female Philosophers, and Feminism -- Chapter 12 A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Contributors -- Index

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The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it truly is. Covering the vast expanse of Jewish tradition, from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century, this collection of essays traces the history of the beliefs, rituals, and social practices surrounding friendship in Jewish life.Employing diverse methodological approaches, this volume explores the particulars of the many varied forms that friendship has taken in the different regions where Jews have lived, including the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, Europe, and the United Sates. The four sections—friendship between men, friendship between women, challenges to friendship, and friendships that cross boundaries, especially between Jews and Christians, or men and women—represent and exemplify universal themes and questions about human interrelationships. This pathbreaking and timely study will inspire further research and provide the groundwork for future explorations of the topic.In addition to the editor, the contributors are Martha Ackelsberg, Michela Andreatta, Joseph Davis, Glenn Dynner, Eitan P. Fishbane, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Jütte, Eyal Levinson, Saul M. Olyan, George Savran, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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