Rennaissance of Jewish Literature and Art (1950)

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Reflexions sur l'Art et la Judaisme (1951)

Le Flambeaue, dixie me anniversaire. Table des Matieres: Editorial, par le Redacteur _______________________________________________5, Renan, etait-il Judeophobe ? Par Maurice Lamin_______________________________________________6, Napoleon et le Sanhedrin, par Joseph Erushalmy_______________________________________________10, L’Ecolc Rabbinique de France, par Salomon J. Kohn_______________________________________________12, Esquisse de Jacques Halevy, par Gilbert S. Rosenthal_______________________________________________14, Variations sur un theme en S mineur, par F. Weindling --------------------- 15, Les influences bibliques sur Emile Durkhcim, par S. Wexler----------------- 16, Marcel Proust nous depcint une famille juivc, par T. Kronengold ----------- 19, Pocmc, par Jules Ehrman --------------------------------------------------- 24, Bernard Lazarc — Une biographic, par Philip Silverstein ------------------- 24, — Le Paria dans Le Fumier de Job, par Arthur Abramson ______ 26, Bibliographic de quelques oeuvres franchises traduites cn hebreu, par Jack. Adelman 28./Le Juif moderne d’apres "Israel” de Henry Bernstein, par Charles Spirit --- 30/Reflexions sur 1’Art et le Judaisme, par Norman Lamm ---------------------- 36le flambeau, la publication franfaise de, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, CONSEILLER, Profcsscur Sidney D. BRAUN, REDACTEUR EN CHEF, Jules EHRMAN, REDACTEUR ASSOC1EJack ADELMAN, Washington Heights, New York 33, N. Y.sun adultere, il est chatie par son fils et fi- nalement vaincu, demeurant seul comme son peuple. Cependant, arriviste qu’il est, il continucra probablemcnt a avoir ses sue- ses, alors que le fils qu’il admirait meme en champion antisemite est une figure tragi- que. Nous rejetons naturellement son anti- semitisme aussi grossier que celui des autres gentlemen s’adonnant a ce jeu. Mais s’il y a de la verite dans la remarque de Gutlieb que "pour persuader a 38 millions de chre'.icns que la presence, parmi eux, de 60,000 juifs constituait un peril nati…

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The Emerging Jewish World (1987)

Honored to deliver this lecture – in memory of a great, distinguished Jewish gentleman – George Webber, made possible by his loving, loyal family. We’re told (by the apostles of Marshall McLuhan) – books are obsolete – replaced by high-tech media. Maybe. But THE Book – never (לא ימוש)! הספר התורה הזה מפיך – not only a commandment, but also a promise. It was Mohammed who called us “People of the Book.” He didn’t mean Jewish novels, Jewish cookbooks, or even Jewish newspapers. 2. We told (apostles Marshall McLuhan)—books obsolete (high-tech media). Maybe. But THE BOOK—never! 3. Was Mohammed called us People of the Book. Meant not Jewish novels, Jewish cook-books, even Jewish newspapers but: What makes Jewish book Jewish—it in some way reflects or engages some aspect of Torah—and that CAN come, but not necessarily so, in form of novels, cookbooks—or even newspapers. "Jewish books"—must contain Jewish נשמה.4.And that brings me to my theme: "The Emerging Jewish World" or: The State of Jewish Torah—II. 1. The cohesive, organic, unified Jewish life that prevailed before the Emancipation has, for the most part, been shattered. Hence, contemporary Jewish life is marked by fragmentariness and atomization rather than wholeness. That wholeness—which included religion, nationalism, and community (כלל ישראל, עם ישראל)—has unravelled. Except for those whose religious commitment to Judaism remains strong, the greatest efforts of Jews who want to remain Jewish have been directed to: Israel and Zionism and UJA (or British version) Local Jewish Community = Federation (USA), Boards of Deputies (Eng.) Often (usually!)—both combine as elements of (sociologists) "JEWISH CIVIC RELIGION". These, plus "rituals" (as Bar Mitzvah, seder, Hanukkah gifts) but without discernible religious passion. I share with you a question posed to me by a Jewish community near New York: Is this Jewish civic religion—this JEWISHNESS without JUDAISM—an authentic form of Jewish identity, or a form of—idolatry? 2…

General Jewish Thought