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Exile and the Jews
2024
Overview
This first comprehensive anthology examining Jewish responses to
exile from the biblical period to our modern day gathers texts from
all genres of Jewish literary creativity to explore how the
realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Judaism, Jewish
politics, and individual Jewish identity for millennia. Ordered
along multiple arcs-from universal to particular, collective to
individual, and mythic-symbolic to prosaic everyday living-the
chapters present different facets of exile: as human condition, in
history and life, in holiday rituals, in language, as penance and
atonement, as internalized experience, in relation to the Divine
Presence, and more. By illuminating the multidimensional nature of
\"exile\"-political, philosophical, religious, psychological, and
mythological-widely divergent evaluations of Jewish life in the
Diaspora emerge. The word \"exile\" and its Hebrew equivalent,
galut , evoke darkness, bleakness-and yet the condition
offers spiritual renewal and engenders great expressions of Jewish
cultural creativity: the Babylonian Talmud, medieval Jewish
philosophy, golden age poetry, and modern Jewish literature.
Exile and the Jews will engage students, academics, and
general readers in contemplating immigration, displacement,
evolving identity, and more.
Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society,Jewish Publication Society
Subject
ISBN
9780827615557, 0827615558, 9780827619197, 0827619197
