Marc Saperstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Saperstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Saperstein |
| SIGNATURE | SAPERSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations
Jews and Christians have interacted for two millennia, yet there is no comprehensive, global study of their shared history. This book offers a chronological and thematic approach to that 2,000-year history, based on some 200 primary documents chosen for their centrality to the encounter. A systematic and authoritative work on the relationship between the two religions, it reflects both the often troubled history of that relationship and the massi…
Sir Martin Gilbert
I first met Martin Gilbert in May 2000, when he was given an honorary degree at the graduation ceremonies of The George Washington University, where I was Professor of History and chairman of the Program in Judaic Studies. But I felt that I had known him long before that, through his books
American Jewish Preaching on the First World War
Joseph Krauskopf immigrated from his native Prussia to the United States at the age of fourteen, and was ordained with the first class of students at the newly established Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Quickly establishing a reputation for his spellbinding oratory, he became rabbi of Knesseth Israel in Philadelphia, one of the largest Reform congregations in the United States, with a membership composed predominantly of congregants with Ger…
Morris Joseph and the West London Synagogue in the First World War
A graduate of Jews' College, Morris Joseph became the leading spokesman for British Reform Judaism as spiritual leader of the West London Synagogue. Though not a pacifist, he was one of the founders of the Jewish Peace Society in 1913. Unlike French and German colleagues who emphasized their patriotic loyalty to their ruler, love of their fatherland and bonds with their fellow citizens in fighting an evil adversary, Joseph expressed deep dismay i…
Rabbis, stay out of politics’
The preaching of rebuke, in which rabbis openly criticized the behavior of their congregants, was an established component of Jewish pulpit discourse. But until the modern period, this applied to internal Jewish affairs: the failure to observe certain rituals properly, or broader social issues including sexual mores and economic values. From the middle of the nineteenth century many Jewish preachers began to engage problems of the broader society…
Leadership and Conflict
This book offers a multifaceted analysis of how Jewish leaders in medieval and early modern times responded to the challenges presented by a changing world. Based largely on the study of sermons and response, the book reveals how they handled intellectual, social, and political diversity and conflict. As medieval Jews were exposed to new philosophical ideas, many began to question and challenge rabbinical leadership. The book explores the process…
Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn
Learning about Judaism from Apostate Writings
Learning about Judaism from Apostate Writings Marc Saperstein Yaacov Deutsch. Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe. Translated from the Hebrew by Avi Aronsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 304. Michael T. Walton. Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 242. …
Positions of Jewish Leadership
Another Way, Another Time
Meir Persoff is the author of two previous books relevant to his topic: a biography of the previous Chief Rabbi, Immanuel Jakobovits: A Prophet in Israel (Vallentine Mitchell, 2002), and a study of
Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001
Wartime sermons reveal how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also illustrate how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here were delivered by American and British rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum from the Napoleonic Wars to the attacks of 9/11. Each sermon is prefaced…
Jewish Preaching Times of War, 1800-2001
El carácter del liderazgo rabínico en la generación de la expulsión
Algunos historiadores judíos han criticado duramente los líderes espirituales e intelectuales de los sefardíes en los años previos a la expulsión de 1492, como pone de manifiesto Norman Roth en una publicación de 1995: “Una característica importante de los sefardíes del siglo XV fue la falta casi total de liderazgo”. Con el fi n de cuestionar algunos de los presupuestos subyacentes, este artículo pone en tela de juicio algunas de las asunciones f…
Jewish Secularism on the March
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Shmuel Feiner, translated by Chaya Naor. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 330 pp. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, David Biale, Princeton University Press, 2011, 228 pp.ISBN 0812242734 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?: French Jewry and the Problem of Church and State, Zvi Jonathan Kaplan, Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 2009. 148 …
Rabbi Hugo Gryn as Preacher
Rabbi Hugo Gryn was both the leading rabbinic figure of British Reform Judaism for several decades and one of the best-known and highly admired rabbis in British society. The sermons he delivered regularly throughout the entire period of his leadership as Rabbi of the West London Synagogue show that preaching was a significant component of his rabbinic role. Most of the extant texts of Gryn's sermons are not fully written, but rather detailed out…
John Rayner as Preacher
John Rayner certainly believed that delivering regularly a carefully prepared sermon was an integral and important component of the rabbi's role. The evidence is in his more than 1,000 sermon texts that serve as an important historical source for Liberal Judaism in the U.K. Rayner helped future scholars by preparing a detailed listing of all his sermons, from 21 June 1953 ('Ordination') to number 1,137, on 5 October 2003 (Kol Nidre: 'The People's…
Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim
Attempts to Control the Pulpit
This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public fig…
Western Jewish Perceptions of Russian Jews at the Beginning of the First World War
As illuminated by the contemporary Jewish press and the texts of Jewish sermons, many British Jews were initially deeply ambivalent about going to war on the side of Czarist Russia, with its legacy of recent pogroms, against Germany and Austria, both with emancipated Jewish communities. Jews in the west were reassured by reports that the Russian Jews had been uplifted by a wave of patriotic enthusiasm, expressed in massive numbers of volunteers f…
Is the Sermon on Its Deathbed
This address and subsequent responses were delivered on 30 June 2008 at a gathering of LBC rabbinic graduates who had been serving as rabbis for 25 years or more
Jewish Preaching on Leviticus
This paper is divided into three sections illustrating uses of the Book of Leviticus in three different contexts: Internal Jewish Issues, Jewish-Christian Relations and Social Justice
Preparing Rabbis for the Future
The thesis I would submit to you this morning may be somewhat surprising: it is that the task of the rabbinic programme at Leo Baeck College is impossible. We have a five-year programme of study. What do we want to accomplish with our students by the end of this period? What kind of training do we believe that our rabbis will require for meeting the needs of the progressive Jewish community, and the general Jewish community in the next generation…
A Response to Michael Meyer's Paper
I hope it will be clear that in the point I am about to raise, I am not quarrelling with Michael's paper, and – while I do not in principle repudiate Joachim Prinz's effort to 'deflate what we might call the myth of Leo Baeck's sainthood' – that is certainly not my purpose at present. I would rather explore briefly the aspect that Michael identified in the first part of his presentation as central to Leo Baeck's legacy for us as progressive Jews:…
Exile in Amsterdam
British Jewish Preachers in Time of War (1800–1918)
Beginning in the eighteenth century, occasions related to war became a significant new venue for Jewish preaching. The declaration of war or its conclusion, a government‐proclaimed Day of National Fasting and Prayer or of Thanksgiving, a major victory or defeat of the nation’s armed forces – all generated sermons by Jewish preachers, who not infrequently publicized what they said beyond the synagogue walls. These sermons reflect the patriotic ide…
Cursing the Christians? A History of the Birkat HaMinim
British Jewish Preachers in Time of War (1800–1918)
Beginning in the eighteenth century, occasions related to war became a significant new venue for Jewish preaching. The declaration of war or its conclusion, a government‐proclaimed Day of National Fasting and Prayer or of Thanksgiving, a major victory or defeat of the nation’s armed forces – all generated sermons by Jewish preachers, who not infrequently publicized what they said beyond the synagogue walls. These sermons reflect the patriotic ide…
Children with a Star
Current Israeli Scholarship on Medieval Hebrew Literature
Recent Publications in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Journal Article RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE: A REVIEW ESSAY Get access Marc Saperstein Marc Saperstein HARVARD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 2, Issue 3, October 1982, Pages 311–323, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/2.3.311 Published: 01 October 1982
Judaica
Journal Article JUDAICA Get access Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth. Judah Nadich. The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983, 477 pages. $25.00. Marc Saperstein Marc Saperstein Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 3, September 1984, Page 608, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/52.3.608 Published: 01 September 1984
Christians and Jews-Some Positive Images
The dean of contemporary Jewish historians, S. W. Baron, has shown that many modern conceptions of Jewish experience in medieval Christian Europe suffer from a fundamental distortion. Writing history was not a natural vocation for medieval Jews; most Jewish historiography was inspired by calamities that generated the impulse to record and, if possible, to explain. Therefore, most medieval Jewish chronicles are little more than accounts of the mas…
Children with a Star
Ephraim Kanarfogel. Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages. Detroit
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Biblical Poetry through Medieval Eyes
Barcelona and beyond
Esther in Medieval Garb
Jewish Preachers and Their Literary Remains
Communities of Violence
Your Voice like a Ram's Horn
"A "Ritual Dance of Destruction
Arab Chains” and “The Good Things of Sepharad”
The following article has emerged from an experimental, interdisciplinary course, co-taught by the authors in the fall of 1996, entitled “Exile: Jews, Literature, and History.” From the dozens of primary texts used in the course, we have selected six to illustrate the literary-conceptual analysis employed. Beyond the intrinsic aesthetic appeal of the passages, they have been chosen to exemplify the diversity of relevant material: in genre (poetry…
Exile in Amsterdam
British Jewish Preachers in Time of War (1800–1918)
Beginning in the eighteenth century, occasions related to war became a significant new venue for Jewish preaching. The declaration of war or its conclusion, a government‐proclaimed Day of National Fasting and Prayer or of Thanksgiving, a major victory or defeat of the nation’s armed forces – all generated sermons by Jewish preachers, who not infrequently publicized what they said beyond the synagogue walls. These sermons reflect the patriotic ide…
Preparing Rabbis for the Future
The thesis I would submit to you this morning may be somewhat surprising: it is that the task of the rabbinic programme at Leo Baeck College is impossible. We have a five-year programme of study. What do we want to accomplish with our students by the end of this period? What kind of training do we believe that our rabbis will require for meeting the needs of the progressive Jewish community, and the general Jewish community in the next generation…
A Response to Michael Meyer's Paper
I hope it will be clear that in the point I am about to raise, I am not quarrelling with Michael's paper, and – while I do not in principle repudiate Joachim Prinz's effort to 'deflate what we might call the myth of Leo Baeck's sainthood' – that is certainly not my purpose at present. I would rather explore briefly the aspect that Michael identified in the first part of his presentation as central to Leo Baeck's legacy for us as progressive Jews:…
Jewish Preaching on Leviticus
This paper is divided into three sections illustrating uses of the Book of Leviticus in three different contexts: Internal Jewish Issues, Jewish-Christian Relations and Social Justice
Is the Sermon on Its Deathbed
This address and subsequent responses were delivered on 30 June 2008 at a gathering of LBC rabbinic graduates who had been serving as rabbis for 25 years or more
Attempts to Control the Pulpit
This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public fig…
Western Jewish Perceptions of Russian Jews at the Beginning of the First World War
As illuminated by the contemporary Jewish press and the texts of Jewish sermons, many British Jews were initially deeply ambivalent about going to war on the side of Czarist Russia, with its legacy of recent pogroms, against Germany and Austria, both with emancipated Jewish communities. Jews in the west were reassured by reports that the Russian Jews had been uplifted by a wave of patriotic enthusiasm, expressed in massive numbers of volunteers f…
Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001
Wartime sermons reveal how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also illustrate how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here were delivered by American and British rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum from the Napoleonic Wars to the attacks of 9/11. Each sermon is prefaced…
Jewish Preaching Times of War, 1800-2001
El carácter del liderazgo rabínico en la generación de la expulsión
Algunos historiadores judíos han criticado duramente los líderes espirituales e intelectuales de los sefardíes en los años previos a la expulsión de 1492, como pone de manifiesto Norman Roth en una publicación de 1995: “Una característica importante de los sefardíes del siglo XV fue la falta casi total de liderazgo”. Con el fi n de cuestionar algunos de los presupuestos subyacentes, este artículo pone en tela de juicio algunas de las asunciones f…
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