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Spinoza is commonly viewed as a rationalist philosopher emphasising abstract metaphysical truth over concrete human emotions and relations. This view permeates Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'The Spinoza of ...Market Street', which ridicules the intellectualism of Dr Nahum Fischelson, who had studied Spinoza's Ethics 'for the last thirty years' and provocatively asked Spinoza's forgiveness for becoming a fool after consummating his marriage. But is love a thing for fools? Is it accurate to view Spinoza's philosophy in this way? Here I argue that Singer's view of Spinoza is a misleading caricature, for it fails to appreciate Spinoza's emphasis on emotional well-being, which clearly involves a recognition of love's binding force. Spinoza's perfectionist ethic not only allows for a life of love and emotional commitment, as in marriage, but it even goes further in showing us how noble love has the power to make us truly free. Ultimately, I argue that the true Spinoza of Market Street is not Dr Fischelson, but rather Black Dobbe, and that this reading rightly expresses the progressive nature of Spinoza's ethics of love and view of freedom.
In this article I offer a new reading of Beruriah, sparked by my reading of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy.” Notwithstanding the differences in time and literary genre, ...Singer's invention of a twentieth-century version of Beruriah, and the sorrowful ending he creates, prompt us to reread Beruriah as a rabbinic attempt to question the male/female binary and its limitations. In the wake of third-wave feminism, which sees women as now having the choices that Beruriah seems, on some level, to have embraced, this article offers a new feminist reading that builds and expands upon scholarly insights of the past. We have become accustomed to thinking of Beruriah as proof that women became Torah scholars in antiquity, and of medieval commentators such as Rashi as men who sought to call attention to the dangers of women studying Torah. This article proposes that there is more to learn from Beruriah and her husband Rabbi Meir, not to mention Yentl and her study partner, Avigdor.
The German occupiers of Eastern Europe seemed to find it useful to reduce typhus to a myth of "Jewish fever." In reality, the epidemic swept through neighborhoods where people were merely trying to ...survive and defend the boundaries of their religious world, even as they unwittingly enabled the epidemic to spread. Nor were the Germans alone in associating typhus with certain ethnic or social groups. Since the first appearance ofJewish refugees in Warsaw in fall 1914, their presence had stoked fears of epidemics among Poles along with demands from Polish aid organizations that Jewish shelters expel residents with infectious diseases.40 In contrast, the stereotype of the "dirty" or "louse-carrying" Jew was not (to my knowledge) recorded elsewhere in wartime Imperial Russia. There, the "refugee" and not the "Jew," as such, stoked deeply entrenched fears among the public as the figure that possessed the power to "infect" the Russian interior.
The figure of the Daughter of Germany reflects a widespread phenomenon of writing in Israel and the diaspora, not just in Germany and Austria, where Jewish writers began in the 1990s to explore their ...fraught relations with their adopted, readopted, or abandoned Heimat. In the uneasy encounters with present-day Germans, who may have to deal with their suppressed family and national past, Jewish writers find it impossible to free themselves from a history not of their making. This article discusses what the staging of erotic fantasies says about the grappling with the traumatic past. The fetish of the German woman has to do more with sexual stereotypes in cinema and popular culture than with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, but it projects social and cultural anxieties, in particular about ethnic and racial difference. The power relations at play here in the imagination of male and female Jewish writers reflect constructions of Jewish sexuality and masculinity. The German woman as an erotic object of love has a deep and complex history in German-Jewish writing and in the Jewish imaginary in general, which cannot be erased. Although newly arrived Israelis tried to think of Berlin in the 2010s as a place like any other, relations between Germans and Jews remain tainted by their entangled histories and the traumatic past.
This thesis makes a comparative study of two internationally acclaimed texts of Holocaust literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s
Enemies, a love story
and Bernhard Schlink’s
The reader
. Special ...attention will be given to the sociopsychological world of Jews and Germans in the post-Holocaust era, namely the Jews’ collective anxiety and the Germans’ collective shame. While doing so, we will call into focus the traumatic symptoms of the two female protagonists Masha and Hanna respectively, and treat the widespread skepticism towards traditional religions and moral philosophy. The questions of how to reconcile the past and the present and how to face the future constitute the thematic core of the texts in case. Both texts reflect the historical catastrophe and reveal the scarred human psyche. They work to offer illuminating insights into the great complexity of human nature. The two texts are a compelling reminder that religious, political and cultural enmities and conflicts may result in irreparable individual and collective trauma, thus necessitating negotiation, dialogue and cooperation between different cultural groups in order to make constructive (rather than destructive) cultural choices.
