Papers by Jonathan Schorsch
Schöpfung für das Leben: Schöpfungsspiritualitäten in Deutschland im Dialog, 2024
This essay finds in the historical record concerns or discussions of
sabbath that reflect the eco... more This essay finds in the historical record concerns or discussions of
sabbath that reflect the ecological and social ecological dimensions
that draw our attention today. I am interested in the lived experience
people had of traditional sabbaths, what some scholars call popular
religion: did nature, the other-than-human world, play a role? what
did this mean to them? I show that green or wild sabbaths have a long,
even respectable history that goes back at least to Romanticism.
Jahrbuch des Selma Stern Zentrums für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 2023
Despite their small numbers, the western Sephardim make up one of the more fascinating Jewish gro... more Despite their small numbers, the western Sephardim make up one of the more fascinating Jewish groups. e title of this essay asks whether their sca ered communities across the Atlantic coasts of western Europe and the eastern coasts of the Americas formed an empire, a question that could be taken as being somewhat facetious. A er all, their commercial domination and political savvy notwithstanding, their numbers were minuscule, they controlled no recognized territory, had no military and no unified government. Nonetheless, at the end of my essay, a er reviewing their history all too quickly, I will take up this question of a western Sephardic empire again.
Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts: Between Bible and Liturgy, 2019
Sephardim and Ashkenazim: Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature, 2021
The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, 2019
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardi Communities, 2019
Sanctifying those who govern, harnessing official religion for state ends, inspiring the people, ... more Sanctifying those who govern, harnessing official religion for state ends, inspiring the people, channeling their dreams-even in modernity angels adorn public structures and monuments, whether in victory pillars, war memorials, or paintings of the apotheosis or heavenly ascension of great leaders. The Apotheosis of Pittsburgh, by the then-renowned American artist John White Alexander, is a series of 48 murals, all painted by Alexander between 1905 and 1915, in the grand staircase of the Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Art Museum) in Pittsburgh, a cultural haven sponsored by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, dedicated in 1895. Alexander died in 1915, leaving his enormous mural cycle unfinished.
Since the 1992 quincentennial of the Iberian events of 1492, a large number of autobiographies by... more Since the 1992 quincentennial of the Iberian events of 1492, a large number of autobiographies by Jews who are not Ashkenazim have been published in a variety of languages. In this article, I seek to contextualize this outpouring of memory work and self-analysis. Focusing on memoirists of Spanish-Portuguese background, however attenuated, I read the tarnished but treasured place of Sefarad in these recent works and interpret the authors' often ambivalent self-location with regard to Sephardic identity. A fruitful contrast can be made with the initial flourishing of Ashkenazic autobiography in the nineteenth century. I compare the recent works with their Sephardic predecessors as well as with other non-Ashkenazic but not Spanish-Portuguese memoirs, finding in general a late modernist devaluation of religion, tradition, and tribalism, but also hints of a perhaps postmodernist return of the repressed.
Book Reviews by Jonathan Schorsch
Books by Jonathan Schorsch
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This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimu... more This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections. Chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in 19th-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude towards Sephardic Jews, David Nassy’s famous Essai historique sur la Colonie de Suriname (1788), Savannah’s 18th-century the Sephardic community of Savannah, Freemasonry and Sephardim in Jamaica, the figure of Columbus in recent literature about the Caribbean, Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race in recent Caribbean literature, the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Canadian Jewish identity and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a 16th-century Portuguese military defeat.
Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2
The Food Movement, Culture and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews and Politics, 2018
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Papers by Jonathan Schorsch
sabbath that reflect the ecological and social ecological dimensions
that draw our attention today. I am interested in the lived experience
people had of traditional sabbaths, what some scholars call popular
religion: did nature, the other-than-human world, play a role? what
did this mean to them? I show that green or wild sabbaths have a long,
even respectable history that goes back at least to Romanticism.
Book Reviews by Jonathan Schorsch
Books by Jonathan Schorsch
Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2
sabbath that reflect the ecological and social ecological dimensions
that draw our attention today. I am interested in the lived experience
people had of traditional sabbaths, what some scholars call popular
religion: did nature, the other-than-human world, play a role? what
did this mean to them? I show that green or wild sabbaths have a long,
even respectable history that goes back at least to Romanticism.
Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2