Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture /

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

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 tru...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Ackelsberg, Martha,
Andreatta, Michela,
Davis, Joseph,
Dynner, Glenn,
Fine, Lawrence,
Fishbane, Eitan P.,
Heschel, Susannah,
Jütte, Daniel,
Levinson, Eyal,
Olyan, Saul M.,
Savran, George,
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava,
HerausgeberIn:
Fine, Lawrence,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 6 illustrations
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Table of 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

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