Ḥiddushim : : Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial / / ed. by Jonathan D. Sarna, Arthur Green, Michael Fishbane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Rachel,; Band, Arnold J.,; Fishbane, Michael,; Gillman, Abigail Esther,; Green, Avraham Yiẓḥaq,; Hellner-Eshed, Melila,; Holzer, Elie,; Jacobson, David C,; Judson, Daniel,; Kanarek, Jane L.,; Kates, Judith A.,; Klein, Daniel,; Lerner, Anne Lapidus,; Mayse, Ariel Evan,; Polen, Nehemia,; Rhodes, Shayna,; Robinson, Ira,; Rose, Or N.,; Rosenberg, Michael,; Sarna, Jonathan D.,; Savran, George,; Shire, Michael,; Starr, David B.,; Stillman, Avinoam J.,; Troen, Ilan,
• HerausgeberIn: Fishbane, Michael,; Green, Arthur,; Sarna, Jonathan D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, “is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and share ongoing struggles, to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” A compilation of captivating essays on Jewish studies alongside powerful personal memoirs from the College’s earliest years until today, Ḥiddushim captures and celebrates the spirit of a learning community connected to its source and brimming with spiritual and intellectual creativity as it carries forward its legacy of rootedness and renewal into the future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Message from the Editors -- Section I: Memory and History -- 1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College -- 2 Four Men Entered an Orchard -- 3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester -- 4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir -- 5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962) -- 6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College -- 7 Across Five Pesaḥs -- Section II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature -- 8 The Fate of the First Clothing -- 9 Seeking Sarah -- 10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion -- 11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation -- 12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin -- 13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story -- 14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions -- 15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah -- 16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement -- 17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey -- 18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader -- 19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah -- 20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav -- 21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi -- 22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom -- Section III: Studies in Jewish Education -- 23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz -- 24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood -- 25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education -- Contributors -- Index