Richard I Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1219752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard I Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard I |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 15 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jerusalem Transformed
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
The Kings of Algiers
Revisiting ‘Two Jewish Historians in Extremis’
Saul Friedländer’s ‘Two Jewish Historians in Extremis: Ernst Kantorowicz and Marc Bloch in the Face of Nazism and Collaboration,’ served as an inspiration for this essay, which sets the wartime musings of two Jewish historians in France – the Ukrainian-born Elias Tcherikower and the French-born Bloch against one another. Though different in nature, Tcherikower’s personal diary in Yiddish (still in manuscript) and Bloch's Strange Defeat, published…
Jews in Tunisia Confront the Alliance Israélite Universelle
Against the Grain
Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steve…
Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908
Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be more widely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewish themes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin. Born into a traditional Jewish family in Łódź in 1865, Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish culture and language as he pursued his artistic calling. Like Maurycy Gottlieb before him, he studied at the School of Art in Kraków, which was then headed by the master of Poli…
J ulie K alman . Orientalizing the Jew
The issue of Orientalism and the Jews has over the past three decades become an engaging concern of modern historians of the Jews and has faced a wide range of problems, far beyond those intimated by Edward Said in his classic work Orientalism (1978). Some scholars have traced this inquiry into the medieval period, others (especially the late Jonathan Hess) have shown how it transpired in debates on the civil status of the Jews in Germany from th…
Hezi Amiur, Meshek beit haikar
This chapter reviews the book Meshek beit haikar: hameshek hame’urav bamaḥshevet hatziyonit (Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought) (2016), by Hezi Amiur. Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought focuses on the history and development of what appears to be the most important of the Zionist farmstead models: the mixed farm. Designated mainly for smallholders, the mixed farm formed the basis for the cooperative …
Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society
Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of Eretz Israel; and Jews from Eastern Europe and “German Jews” were often seen as mirror opposites, whereas Jews under Islam were often characterized pejorat…
Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948), trans. Avi Aronsky. Leiden
This chapter reviews the book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948) (2016), by Jonatan Meir, translated by Avi Aronsky. In Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem , Meir focuses on the proliferation of Sharabian yeshivot and shows that it represented a critical move toward exotericism within what was previously one of the most esoteric branches of modern Kabbalah. He highlights the institutional, economic, and cultural factors underlying this phe…
Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging
This chapter reviews the book Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel (2016), by Judy Jaffe-Schagen. In Having and Belonging , Jaffe-Schagen explores the connection between identity, material culture, and location. Focusing on eight cases involving Chabad, religious Zionists, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Russian Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs, the book shows how various minority groups in Israel are represented th…
Irith Cherniavsky, Be’or shineihem
This chapter reviews the book Be’or shineihem: ’al ’aliyatam shel yehudei polin lifnei hashoah (In the Last Moment: Jewish Immigration from Poland in the 1930s) (2015), by Irith Cherniavsky. In the Last Moment provides an overview of a mass migration that was critical to Polish Jewry and the Yishuv. More specifically, it explores Polish Jews’ immigration to Palestine during the Fifth Aliyah (1930–1939). During the 1930s, strict immigration quotas…
Shelly Zer-Zion, Habima beBerlin
This chapter reviews the book Habima beBerlin: miysudo shel teatron tziyoni (Habima in Berlin: The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater) (2015), by Shelly Zer-Zion. Habima in Berlin tells the story of Habima, Israel’s national theater company. Zer-Zion explores Habima’s European and overseas tour during the period 1926–1931, and especially its extended stay in Berlin, arguing that Habima drew its inspiration from two separate and distinct th…
Holocaust Memory Reframed. Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Holocaust Memory Reframed. Museums and the Challenges of Representation." East European Jewish Affairs, 45(2-3), pp. 340–341
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
Against the grain
"This volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity"--Publisher's summary.
Against the Grain
Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steve…
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
This book examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the 20th century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. The book treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires into the nature and proliferation of Jewish museums following the Holocaust and the fall of Communism in Western and Eastern Europe. In …
Writing Jewish History after the Holocaust
Writing Jewish History after the Holocaust Richard I. Cohen David Engel . Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 314. I. Amid the tremendous outpouring of Jewish historical studies in recent years, several works have appeared that contest the character, direction, and the very writing of Jewish history today.1 These books embark on dif…
Insiders and Outsiders
Beyond Enlightenment
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study…
Michael Berkowitz. The Jewish Self-Image in the West. New York
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Representations of the Jewish Body in Modern Times
Jewish Icons
With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that ove…
Beyond Enlightenment
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study…
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
The Burden of Conscience
Studies In Contemporary Jewry
Subject History of Religion Judaism and Jewish Studies Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Histoire politique des Juifs de France
Studies In Contemporary Jewry An Annual
This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda.
Art and its uses
God in Levinas
Jewish Icons
With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that ove…
Representations of the Jewish Body in Modern Times
Michael Berkowitz. The Jewish Self-Image in the West. New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Enlightenment
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study…
Insiders and Outsiders
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
This book examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the 20th century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. The book treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires into the nature and proliferation of Jewish museums following the Holocaust and the fall of Communism in Western and Eastern Europe. In …
Writing Jewish History after the Holocaust
Writing Jewish History after the Holocaust Richard I. Cohen David Engel . Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 314. I. Amid the tremendous outpouring of Jewish historical studies in recent years, several works have appeared that contest the character, direction, and the very writing of Jewish history today.1 These books embark on dif…
Against the Grain
Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steve…
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
Against the grain
"This volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity"--Publisher's summary.
Holocaust Memory Reframed. Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Holocaust Memory Reframed. Museums and the Challenges of Representation." East European Jewish Affairs, 45(2-3), pp. 340–341
Hezi Amiur, Meshek beit haikar
This chapter reviews the book Meshek beit haikar: hameshek hame’urav bamaḥshevet hatziyonit (Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought) (2016), by Hezi Amiur. Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought focuses on the history and development of what appears to be the most important of the Zionist farmstead models: the mixed farm. Designated mainly for smallholders, the mixed farm formed the basis for the cooperative …
Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society
Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of Eretz Israel; and Jews from Eastern Europe and “German Jews” were often seen as mirror opposites, whereas Jews under Islam were often characterized pejorat…
Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948), trans. Avi Aronsky. Leiden
This chapter reviews the book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948) (2016), by Jonatan Meir, translated by Avi Aronsky. In Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem , Meir focuses on the proliferation of Sharabian yeshivot and shows that it represented a critical move toward exotericism within what was previously one of the most esoteric branches of modern Kabbalah. He highlights the institutional, economic, and cultural factors underlying this phe…
Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging
This chapter reviews the book Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel (2016), by Judy Jaffe-Schagen. In Having and Belonging , Jaffe-Schagen explores the connection between identity, material culture, and location. Focusing on eight cases involving Chabad, religious Zionists, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Russian Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs, the book shows how various minority groups in Israel are represented th…
Irith Cherniavsky, Be’or shineihem
This chapter reviews the book Be’or shineihem: ’al ’aliyatam shel yehudei polin lifnei hashoah (In the Last Moment: Jewish Immigration from Poland in the 1930s) (2015), by Irith Cherniavsky. In the Last Moment provides an overview of a mass migration that was critical to Polish Jewry and the Yishuv. More specifically, it explores Polish Jews’ immigration to Palestine during the Fifth Aliyah (1930–1939). During the 1930s, strict immigration quotas…
Shelly Zer-Zion, Habima beBerlin
This chapter reviews the book Habima beBerlin: miysudo shel teatron tziyoni (Habima in Berlin: The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater) (2015), by Shelly Zer-Zion. Habima in Berlin tells the story of Habima, Israel’s national theater company. Zer-Zion explores Habima’s European and overseas tour during the period 1926–1931, and especially its extended stay in Berlin, arguing that Habima drew its inspiration from two separate and distinct th…
J ulie K alman . Orientalizing the Jew
The issue of Orientalism and the Jews has over the past three decades become an engaging concern of modern historians of the Jews and has faced a wide range of problems, far beyond those intimated by Edward Said in his classic work Orientalism (1978). Some scholars have traced this inquiry into the medieval period, others (especially the late Jonathan Hess) have shown how it transpired in debates on the civil status of the Jews in Germany from th…
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