Danièle Reiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danièle Reiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danièle |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiser |
| SIGNATURE | REISER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Herzog College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6914-4960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Redefining Hasidism
This study examines Elie Wiesel’s overlooked poem “The Tale of a Niggun,” originally published in 1978 but forgotten until its republication in 2020. Through literary and historical analysis, the paper demonstrates how Wiesel artfully reconstructs the essence of Hasidism and the Hasidic Niggun, offering an innovative post-Holocaust perspective. The poem depicts a ghetto rabbi facing an impossible Nazi demand—to select ten Jews for hanging on Puri…
Sacred Speech and Written Word
This article examines the complex linguistic phenomenon of Hebrew-Yiddish diglossia within Hasidic homiletic literature, particularly focussing on sermons from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While previous scholarship has emphasised Hebrew's dominance in Hasidic written works, this study demonstrates how Yiddish has played a crucial role in preserving and transmitting Hasidic teachings. Through analysis of primary sources, three distinct…
The Holocaust as an (UN)Exceptional Phenomenon
This article examines the evolution and transformation in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s perspective concerning the Holocaust. It traces the Rebbe’s viewpoint on the Holocaust by analyzing his various insights and observations in his sermons and writings over the years, and highlights a significant shift in his stance whereby he reached the conclusion that the Holocaust is exceptional and does not fall into the terms of sin, punishment, or even Tikkun (…
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism
The traditional academic approach to the study of the Hasidic movement in Judaism has tended to be based primarily on texts. Although book learning is important to Hasidim, the heart of the movement is living experience, in particular oral teaching of the Hasidic understanding and application of Torah by the Rebbe, most often in the Yiddish vernacular. Failure adequately to take account of this “oral Torah” (borrowing the term commonly applied to…
Hasidic Performance as a Reconstruction of Biblical Life
Territories and Textures
The present study offers a focused analysis of the complicated interface of Yiddish and Hebrew in Hasidic preaching and writing, exploring the unique crevasse between written and oral cultures that Hasidism has occupied since the eighteenth century. We argue that scholarship on Hasidism has not fully appreciated the linguistic element of the remarkable success of this socioreligious movement that has shaped the course of Jewish modernity. This la…
Second Thoughts
This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant because they were transcribed by one of his disciples, in many cases capturing them in the original Yiddish. Comparing this alternative witness to Alter’s …
The Encounter in Vienna
How wild, anarchic, and unreal were those years, years in which, with the dwindling value of money all other values in Austria and Germany began to slip! [...] Every extravagant idea that was not subject to regulation reaped a golden harvest: theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, somnambulism, anthroposophy, palm-reading, graphology, yoga, and Paracelsism. 1 Stefan Zweig In 1921, a short Hebrew book was published in Vienna entitled Tena'ei HaNefesh…
Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism
Journal Article Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism: Imagery Techniques in the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira as a Case Study Get access Daniel Reiser Daniel Reiser Zefat Academic College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 67–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjv037 Publi…
To Rend the Entire Veil
This is our desire: to rend the entire veil that covers all of life in one fell swoop. In a flash you will see yourself standing before His blessed glory amidst the great camp of fiery angels; you are one of them. (The Piazecner Rebbe, Benei Mahashavah Tovah, p. 25)
"L'année du crabe ou le "corps errant
Reiser Danièle. L’année du crabe ou le “corps errant”. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°158, 1999. Hétéros. pp. 32-34
The Holocaust as an (UN)Exceptional Phenomenon
This article examines the evolution and transformation in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s perspective concerning the Holocaust. It traces the Rebbe’s viewpoint on the Holocaust by analyzing his various insights and observations in his sermons and writings over the years, and highlights a significant shift in his stance whereby he reached the conclusion that the Holocaust is exceptional and does not fall into the terms of sin, punishment, or even Tikkun (…
Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism
Journal Article Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism: Imagery Techniques in the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira as a Case Study Get access Daniel Reiser Daniel Reiser Zefat Academic College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 67–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjv037 Publi…
"L'année du crabe ou le "corps errant
Reiser Danièle. L’année du crabe ou le “corps errant”. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°158, 1999. Hétéros. pp. 32-34
To Rend the Entire Veil
This is our desire: to rend the entire veil that covers all of life in one fell swoop. In a flash you will see yourself standing before His blessed glory amidst the great camp of fiery angels; you are one of them. (The Piazecner Rebbe, Benei Mahashavah Tovah, p. 25)
The Encounter in Vienna
How wild, anarchic, and unreal were those years, years in which, with the dwindling value of money all other values in Austria and Germany began to slip! [...] Every extravagant idea that was not subject to regulation reaped a golden harvest: theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, somnambulism, anthroposophy, palm-reading, graphology, yoga, and Paracelsism. 1 Stefan Zweig In 1921, a short Hebrew book was published in Vienna entitled Tena'ei HaNefesh…
Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism
Journal Article Historicism and/or Phenomenology in the Study of Jewish Mysticism: Imagery Techniques in the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira as a Case Study Get access Daniel Reiser Daniel Reiser Zefat Academic College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 67–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjv037 Publi…
Second Thoughts
This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant because they were transcribed by one of his disciples, in many cases capturing them in the original Yiddish. Comparing this alternative witness to Alter’s …
Territories and Textures
The present study offers a focused analysis of the complicated interface of Yiddish and Hebrew in Hasidic preaching and writing, exploring the unique crevasse between written and oral cultures that Hasidism has occupied since the eighteenth century. We argue that scholarship on Hasidism has not fully appreciated the linguistic element of the remarkable success of this socioreligious movement that has shaped the course of Jewish modernity. This la…
Hasidic Performance as a Reconstruction of Biblical Life
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism
The traditional academic approach to the study of the Hasidic movement in Judaism has tended to be based primarily on texts. Although book learning is important to Hasidim, the heart of the movement is living experience, in particular oral teaching of the Hasidic understanding and application of Torah by the Rebbe, most often in the Yiddish vernacular. Failure adequately to take account of this “oral Torah” (borrowing the term commonly applied to…
The Holocaust as an (UN)Exceptional Phenomenon
This article examines the evolution and transformation in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s perspective concerning the Holocaust. It traces the Rebbe’s viewpoint on the Holocaust by analyzing his various insights and observations in his sermons and writings over the years, and highlights a significant shift in his stance whereby he reached the conclusion that the Holocaust is exceptional and does not fall into the terms of sin, punishment, or even Tikkun (…
Redefining Hasidism
This study examines Elie Wiesel’s overlooked poem “The Tale of a Niggun,” originally published in 1978 but forgotten until its republication in 2020. Through literary and historical analysis, the paper demonstrates how Wiesel artfully reconstructs the essence of Hasidism and the Hasidic Niggun, offering an innovative post-Holocaust perspective. The poem depicts a ghetto rabbi facing an impossible Nazi demand—to select ten Jews for hanging on Puri…
Sacred Speech and Written Word
This article examines the complex linguistic phenomenon of Hebrew-Yiddish diglossia within Hasidic homiletic literature, particularly focussing on sermons from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While previous scholarship has emphasised Hebrew's dominance in Hasidic written works, this study demonstrates how Yiddish has played a crucial role in preserving and transmitting Hasidic teachings. Through analysis of primary sources, three distinct…
Art (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works) · Hebrew (4 works)