Ḥiddushim: Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial

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Ḥiddushim

Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial

Edited by: Michael Fishbane , Arthur Green and Jonathan D. Sarna

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, is an opportunity “to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured…to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” Gathering incisive essays in Jewish studies alongside powerful personal stories, Ḥiddushim celebrates a community connected to its source and brimming with spiritual and intellectual creativity as it looks toward the future.

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Social Sciences Education Theory and History of Education

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Message from the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Section I: Memory and History
1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College Daniel Judson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
2 Four Men Entered an Orchard Arnold J. Band Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	48
3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester Ira Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir Ilan Troen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962) Jonathan D. Sarna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College Daniel Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
7 Across Five Pesaḥs Shayna Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
Section II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature
8 The Fate of the First Clothing Rachel Adelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
9 Seeking Sarah Anne Lapidus Lerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion George Savran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation Judith A. Kates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin Jane L. Kanarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story Michael Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions Michael Fishbane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	184
15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah Melila Hellner-Eshed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement Avraham Yiẓḥaq Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey Ariel Evan Mayse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader Nehemia Polen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	260
19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah Avinoam J. Stillman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav David C Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Or N. Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom Abigail Esther Gillman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	332
Section III: Studies in Jewish Education
23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz Elie Holzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood David B. Starr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education Michael Shire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

May 17, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9781644698570

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

416

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644698570

eBook ISBN: 9781644698570

Keywords for this book

Hebrew College; Centennial; colleges and universities; learning; higher education

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;

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