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After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish \"Quest for the Historical Jesus\" might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.

Two Jewish boys – Danny, with traditional views and Reuven with liberal views share a common struggle in finding their place in the world. Silence as a parenting technique can be damaging or a form of discipline for the sake of spiritual self-discovery and improvement.By experiencing one’s pain and suffering, we can find our soul and destroy our indifference towards others. Unlike David Malter, Reuven’s father, who has a relationship based on dialogue with his son, Reb Saunders, Danny’s father teaches his son compassion and caring for the world through silence. For him, silence is a substitute for words in expressing one’s inner self. His son’s mind is excellent, but his soul is empty, and a mind with a soul is more important than knowledge.While Danny feels the pain of silence due to his relationship with his father, Reuven feels the pain of silence when he no longer keeps contact with Danny.The paper demonstrates that silence, if taught efficiently, is not a symbol of oppression and tyranny but a tool for achieving self-knowledge and taking the correct choices in life.

John Meier's previous volumes in the acclaimed seriesA Marginal Jeware founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can nevertheless arrive at a consensus on fundamental historical facts of his life. In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the series, Meier approaches a fresh topic-the teachings of the historical Jesus concerning Mosaic Law and morality-with the same rigor, thoroughness, accuracy, and insightfulness on display in his earlier works. After correcting misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus' time, this volume addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels. What emerges from Meier's research is a profile of a complicated first-century Palestinian Jew who, far from seeking to abolish the Law, was deeply engaged in debates about its observance. Only by embracing this portrait of the historical Jesus grappling with questions of the Torah do we avoid the common mistake of constructing Christian moral theology under the guise of studying \"Jesus and the Law,\" the author concludes.

Richard Wagner’s essay Das Judenthum in der Musik, published under the pseudonym K. Freigedank in September 1850, was anonymously reviewed by music writer and theorist Johann Christian Lobe in January 1851. Wagner published a revised version of the article in 1869 as a separate publication under his own name, and in the same year Lobe reprinted a virtually unchanged version of his review as the opening chapter of his collection of writings Consonanzen und Dissonanzen. The following study is in two parts: first, Wagner’s 1869 version of his pamphlet is examined from the perspective of Cosima von Bülow and Friedrich Nietzsche, followed by a review of the strategies Lobe used to contend with racism in writings on music.

Richard Wagner’s essay Das Judenthum in der Musik, published under the pseudonym K. Freigedank in September 1850, was anonymously reviewed by music writer and theorist Johann Christian Lobe in January 1851. Wagner published a revised version of the article in 1869 as a separate publication under his own name, and in the same year Lobe reprinted a virtually unchanged version of his review as the opening chapter of his collection of writings Consonanzen und Dissonanzen. The following study is in two parts: first, Wagner’s 1869 version of his pamphlet is examined from the perspective of Cosima von Bülow and Friedrich Nietzsche, followed by a review of the strategies Lobe used to contend with racism in writings on music.

Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in both Germany and in Austria (where 98% live in the capital, Vienna) after 1945. The author explains the process of reconstruction over the next six decades, and its results in each country.The monograph focuses on the variety of prevailing perceptions about topics such as: the state of Israel, one's relationship to the country of residence, the Jewish religion, the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the influx of post-soviet immigrants. Cohen-Weisz examines the changes in Jewish group identity and its impact on the development of communities. The study analyzes the similarities and differences in regard to the political, social, institutional and identity developments within the two countries, and their changing attitudes and relationships with surrounding societies; it seeks to show the evolution of these two country's Jewish communities in diverse national political circumstances and varying post-war governmental policies.

The story of Jesus’ burial in Mark 15 presents Jewish funeral traditions that show Jesus’ connection to Judaism. This study looks closely at the burial process in Mark, focusing on what happens when Joseph of Arimathea asks for Jesus’ body and makes it ready for burial and where it is placed before the Sabbath starts. It puts these practices into the context of Jewish funeral rituals when Jesus lived. Furthermore, by contextualising these burial customs, this research proposes that Mark uses these rituals to underline Jesus’ conformity to Jewish identity and present a theological continuity between Jesus and the Jewish faith, despite the Gospel’s eventual message to a broader audience. In exploring how these burial practices function as cultural identity markers, this article contributes to scholarship on the Jewishness of Jesus, arguing that Mark’s burial account reinforces a communal and cultural bond that defines Jesus’ identity within his Jewish heritage.ContributionThis article underlines the importance of Jewish funerary customs in Mark 15:42–47 as identity markers affirming Jesus’ Jewishness. By analysing burial practices such as body preparation and timing, it contextualises Jesus’ burial within Second Temple Judaism, demonstrating his alignment with Jewish traditions. This study offers a nuanced perception of how Mark integrates cultural practices to portray theological continuity between Jesus and Judaism while addressing a broader audience.

This is a detailed, wide-ranging interview with the Booker-Prize-winning novelist, broad-caster and public intellectual Howard Jacobson, conducted by the author of the only monograph on his work. On the eve of the publication of his memoir, Mother’s Boy, Jacobson discusses that work, his relationship with his parents, his attitude towards other novelists, and his views on, among other things, Jewishness, antisemitism, poetry, art, television and Trump.

This essay returns to the story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner lynched in 1915 by a mob that catalyzed the regrettable reemergence of the KKK. Philip Roth describes the lynching of Frank in his alternative history, The Plot Against America (2004), and reading the historical event alongside the novel furnishes a means to see how deeply the interconnection between hatreds flows in the United States more than one hundred years later and to help unpack some of what we suffer now. A through-line exists between the KKK then and Trump-era white supremacist groups now. This article contends that while focusing on questions of Jewishness and its representations is crucial, we also need to work cross-racially/culturally in order to understand and thus combat the logics of white supremacy. The case of Leo Frank and the diatribes and hate speeches that ultimately fueled his lynching highlight the long historical imbrication of Blackness and Jewishness in the United States, which then, in turn, fed Nazi propaganda. Understanding what has been unleashed under Trump and exploring ways that Jewish studies scholars can address multiple forms of white supremacy requires an historically informed approach to the concurrent and mutually-fueling rise in racism and antisemitism.