Alan T Levenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1650585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan T Levenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan T |
| FAMILY NAME | Levenson |
| SIGNATURE | LEVENSON A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Son of Mad Men Speaks
From Translation to Transmission
A reassessment of Maurice Samuel (1895–1972), author, translator, polemicist, and Zionist is long overdue. One of the most productive and durable of the group dubbed by historian Carole Kessner as The “Other” New York Jewish Intellectuals, Samuel may be characterized as a public intellectual who was content with making his marks in primarily Jewish contexts and without the anxieties of alienation characteristic of his more celebrated contemporari…
Invidious Distinctions
The distinctions between Hebrews and Hellenes, the Bible and Homer, Athens and Jerusalem are malleable, generalized, and often invidious. These dichotomies, rooted in classical antiquity, have been deployed by modern figures from Voltaire in the eighteenth century to Leo Strauss in the twentieth. This essay engages in a close reading of two paragraphs that did much to forward the antinomy of Hebraic and Hellenic: the first, from Heinrich Heine's …
Judaic Texts and Their History
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Robert C. Holub. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem
Friedrich Nietzsche spoke and wrote without fear of contradiction or criticism. Although Nietzsche never perceived himself as having a Jewish “problem,” his interpreters, from Nietzsche’s own lifetime until the present, certainly have thought he did. Nazi intellectuals, attracted to many elements of his philosophy, had to reckon with Nietzsche’s contempt for the antisemitic parties of his own era. Prominent figures such as Walter Kaufmann, who wi…
Reading the Bible
Reading the Bible Alan T. Levenson Anita Shapira, The Bible and Israeli Identity. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2005. Pp. 188. Mark Larrimore, The Book of Job: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 286. David Wolpe, David: The Divided Heart. Jewish Lives. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 153. Benjamin D. Sommer, ed., Jewish Con…
Blood Libel and Its Derivatives
"Blood Libel and Its Derivatives: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism." The European Legacy, 21(1), pp. 105–106
David Nirenberg. Anti-Judaism
In search of Ahad Ha'am's Bible
This article explores the dissonance between the radicalism of Ahad Ha'am's essays such as “Ancestor Worship” (1897) and “Moses” (1904), and his defense of the Masoretic Text as the starting point for teaching the Bible and rejection of source criticism as a pedagogic tool in the Herzliya Gymnasium debate. While Ahad Ha'am consistently deployed the Bible as a tool for promoting national revival, his polemics against Yosef Haim Brenner's attempt t…
The Mismeasure of the Jew
PETER ALAN STEINWEIS. Studying Jew: Scholarly Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 203.RICHARD T. GRAY. About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz. Kritik. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. Ivi + 453.MICHAEL MACK. German Idealism and Jew: Inner Anti-Semaism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 229.THOM…
Ruth Fidler. “Ḥalomot ha-shav' yedaberu”? Ḥalomot hitgalut ba-mikra' u-mekomam be-toldot ha-'emunah veha-masoret be-yisra'el ha-kedumah. Jerusalem
Ruth Fidler. “Ḥalomot ha-shav' yedaberu”? Ḥalomot hitgalut ba-mikra' u-mekomam be-toldot ha-'emunah veha-masoret be-yisra'el ha-kedumah. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005. viii, 456 pp. - Volume 31 Issue 2
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800–1914 Alan T. Levenson Helmut Walser Smith , ed. Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800–1914. Oxford: Berg, 2001. Pp. xiii + 336. As the title suggests, this collection of essays highlights the role that religious affiliation played in a supposedly secularizing Germany. In their very fine historiographical overview, Helmut Walser Smith and Chris Clark argue that the story of…
The Problematics of Philosemitic Fiction
The role of fiction in propagating and updating antisemitic stereotypes in modern Germany is widely acknowledged. Few would deny that popular image of was fixed in popular imagination more by novels of Gustav Freytag and Wilhelm Raabe than by antisemitic polemics such as Wilhelm Marr's Der Sieg des Judenthums fiber das Germanenthum or by Hitler's Mein Kampf Even racist, volkisch and paranoid trilogy of novels by Arthur Dinter probably exerted mor…
Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland
The Jewish Quarterly Review, XClI, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2002) 306-311 Christian Wiese. Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Ein Schrei ins Leere? Preface by Susannah Heschel. New York: Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1999. Pp. xxv + 507. Wolfgang E. Heinrichs. Das Judenbild im Protestantismus des Deutschen Kaiserreichs: Ein Beitrag zur Mentalitätsgeschichte des deutschen Bürger-tums in der Krise der…
Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland
Missionary Protestants as Defenders and Detractors of Judaism
Franz Delitzsch (1812-1890) and Hermann Strack (1848-1922) were two missionary Protestants who were also leaders in the fight against antisemitism. Well-known figures in their own day, Strack and Delitzsch have been marginalized in studies of Protestant missionary efforts to convert Jews and also in the histories of anti-antisemitism in Imperial Germany. This essay argues that Jews and Judaism presented a difficult crux for both men, who were dee…
Insider/Outsider
Book Review| July 01 2000 Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, David Biale, Michael Galchinsky and Susannah Heschel. Alan Levenson Alan Levenson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (4): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502631 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Jüdisches Vereinsleben in Hamburg bis zum ertsen Weltkrieg. Jüdisches Selbstverständnis zwischen Antisemitismus und Assimilation
Die Arbeit behandelt am Beispiel des Hamburger judischen Vereinswesens Kontinuitat und Wandel judischen Selbstverstandnisses. Die Untersuchung erstreckt sich im wesentlichen auf den Zeitraum von ungefahr 1880 bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges, bezieht aber auch die vorherige Geschichte dieses wichtigen Bestandteils regionalen judischen Lebens ein. Judische Vereine - Zusammenschlusse also auf der Basis freiwilliger Mitgliedschaft - spiegeln in…
Christopher Clark, The Politics of Conversion
Christian Author, Jewish Book? Methods and Sources in Thomas Mann's Joseph
Thomas Mann's tetralogy Joseph und seine Briider has been evaluated from many perspectives: as a Bildungsroman,i as an historical novel,2 as a clever manipulation of tradition and myth,3 as an antifascist parable,4 even as an obsessive exercise in homoeroticism.5 But Joseph has been analyzed only episodically as an example of Bible commentary. 6 This fact owes more to the academic division of labor than to the contents of the work, which, while v…
Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner
(1994). Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner: Criticism, collaboration and utopianism. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 213-222
David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State
Journal Article David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State. By AUon Gal. Trans, by David S. Segal. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0.253-32534-X.) Get access Alan Levenson Alan Levenson Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Beachwood, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 326–327, https://…
"Hertzberg, "The Jews in America
Rating training and experience.
German-Jewish History in Modern TimesThis monumental effort by several leading scholars of German Judaica to capture the intricacies of an endlessly fascinating community succeeds brilliantly on all fronts. Any teacher of modern Jewish history, any teacher of modern German history interested in the role of German Jewry, and, in addition, any serious student of German Jewry, undergraduate, graduate, or adult, simply cannot afford to pass this work…
David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State
Journal Article David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State. By AUon Gal. Trans, by David S. Segal. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0.253-32534-X.) Get access Alan Levenson Alan Levenson Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Beachwood, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 326–327, https://…
David Nirenberg. Anti-Judaism
Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner
(1994). Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner: Criticism, collaboration and utopianism. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 213-222
Rating training and experience.
German-Jewish History in Modern TimesThis monumental effort by several leading scholars of German Judaica to capture the intricacies of an endlessly fascinating community succeeds brilliantly on all fronts. Any teacher of modern Jewish history, any teacher of modern German history interested in the role of German Jewry, and, in addition, any serious student of German Jewry, undergraduate, graduate, or adult, simply cannot afford to pass this work…
David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State
Journal Article David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State. By AUon Gal. Trans, by David S. Segal. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0.253-32534-X.) Get access Alan Levenson Alan Levenson Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Beachwood, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 326–327, https://…
"Hertzberg, "The Jews in America
Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner
(1994). Theodor Herzl and bertha von Suttner: Criticism, collaboration and utopianism. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 213-222
Christopher Clark, The Politics of Conversion
Christian Author, Jewish Book? Methods and Sources in Thomas Mann's Joseph
Thomas Mann's tetralogy Joseph und seine Briider has been evaluated from many perspectives: as a Bildungsroman,i as an historical novel,2 as a clever manipulation of tradition and myth,3 as an antifascist parable,4 even as an obsessive exercise in homoeroticism.5 But Joseph has been analyzed only episodically as an example of Bible commentary. 6 This fact owes more to the academic division of labor than to the contents of the work, which, while v…
Insider/Outsider
Book Review| July 01 2000 Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, David Biale, Michael Galchinsky and Susannah Heschel. Alan Levenson Alan Levenson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (4): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502631 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Jüdisches Vereinsleben in Hamburg bis zum ertsen Weltkrieg. Jüdisches Selbstverständnis zwischen Antisemitismus und Assimilation
Die Arbeit behandelt am Beispiel des Hamburger judischen Vereinswesens Kontinuitat und Wandel judischen Selbstverstandnisses. Die Untersuchung erstreckt sich im wesentlichen auf den Zeitraum von ungefahr 1880 bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges, bezieht aber auch die vorherige Geschichte dieses wichtigen Bestandteils regionalen judischen Lebens ein. Judische Vereine - Zusammenschlusse also auf der Basis freiwilliger Mitgliedschaft - spiegeln in…
The Problematics of Philosemitic Fiction
The role of fiction in propagating and updating antisemitic stereotypes in modern Germany is widely acknowledged. Few would deny that popular image of was fixed in popular imagination more by novels of Gustav Freytag and Wilhelm Raabe than by antisemitic polemics such as Wilhelm Marr's Der Sieg des Judenthums fiber das Germanenthum or by Hitler's Mein Kampf Even racist, volkisch and paranoid trilogy of novels by Arthur Dinter probably exerted mor…
Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland
The Jewish Quarterly Review, XClI, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2002) 306-311 Christian Wiese. Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Ein Schrei ins Leere? Preface by Susannah Heschel. New York: Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1999. Pp. xxv + 507. Wolfgang E. Heinrichs. Das Judenbild im Protestantismus des Deutschen Kaiserreichs: Ein Beitrag zur Mentalitätsgeschichte des deutschen Bürger-tums in der Krise der…
Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland
Missionary Protestants as Defenders and Detractors of Judaism
Franz Delitzsch (1812-1890) and Hermann Strack (1848-1922) were two missionary Protestants who were also leaders in the fight against antisemitism. Well-known figures in their own day, Strack and Delitzsch have been marginalized in studies of Protestant missionary efforts to convert Jews and also in the histories of anti-antisemitism in Imperial Germany. This essay argues that Jews and Judaism presented a difficult crux for both men, who were dee…
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800–1914 Alan T. Levenson Helmut Walser Smith , ed. Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1800–1914. Oxford: Berg, 2001. Pp. xiii + 336. As the title suggests, this collection of essays highlights the role that religious affiliation played in a supposedly secularizing Germany. In their very fine historiographical overview, Helmut Walser Smith and Chris Clark argue that the story of…
Ruth Fidler. “Ḥalomot ha-shav' yedaberu”? Ḥalomot hitgalut ba-mikra' u-mekomam be-toldot ha-'emunah veha-masoret be-yisra'el ha-kedumah. Jerusalem
Ruth Fidler. “Ḥalomot ha-shav' yedaberu”? Ḥalomot hitgalut ba-mikra' u-mekomam be-toldot ha-'emunah veha-masoret be-yisra'el ha-kedumah. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005. viii, 456 pp. - Volume 31 Issue 2
The Mismeasure of the Jew
PETER ALAN STEINWEIS. Studying Jew: Scholarly Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 203.RICHARD T. GRAY. About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz. Kritik. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. Ivi + 453.MICHAEL MACK. German Idealism and Jew: Inner Anti-Semaism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 229.THOM…
In search of Ahad Ha'am's Bible
This article explores the dissonance between the radicalism of Ahad Ha'am's essays such as “Ancestor Worship” (1897) and “Moses” (1904), and his defense of the Masoretic Text as the starting point for teaching the Bible and rejection of source criticism as a pedagogic tool in the Herzliya Gymnasium debate. While Ahad Ha'am consistently deployed the Bible as a tool for promoting national revival, his polemics against Yosef Haim Brenner's attempt t…
David Nirenberg. Anti-Judaism
Blood Libel and Its Derivatives
"Blood Libel and Its Derivatives: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism." The European Legacy, 21(1), pp. 105–106
Reading the Bible
Reading the Bible Alan T. Levenson Anita Shapira, The Bible and Israeli Identity. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2005. Pp. 188. Mark Larrimore, The Book of Job: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 286. David Wolpe, David: The Divided Heart. Jewish Lives. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 153. Benjamin D. Sommer, ed., Jewish Con…
Robert C. Holub. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem
Friedrich Nietzsche spoke and wrote without fear of contradiction or criticism. Although Nietzsche never perceived himself as having a Jewish “problem,” his interpreters, from Nietzsche’s own lifetime until the present, certainly have thought he did. Nazi intellectuals, attracted to many elements of his philosophy, had to reckon with Nietzsche’s contempt for the antisemitic parties of his own era. Prominent figures such as Walter Kaufmann, who wi…
Judaic Texts and Their History
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
From Translation to Transmission
A reassessment of Maurice Samuel (1895–1972), author, translator, polemicist, and Zionist is long overdue. One of the most productive and durable of the group dubbed by historian Carole Kessner as The “Other” New York Jewish Intellectuals, Samuel may be characterized as a public intellectual who was content with making his marks in primarily Jewish contexts and without the anxieties of alienation characteristic of his more celebrated contemporari…
Invidious Distinctions
The distinctions between Hebrews and Hellenes, the Bible and Homer, Athens and Jerusalem are malleable, generalized, and often invidious. These dichotomies, rooted in classical antiquity, have been deployed by modern figures from Voltaire in the eighteenth century to Leo Strauss in the twentieth. This essay engages in a close reading of two paragraphs that did much to forward the antinomy of Hebraic and Hellenic: the first, from Heinrich Heine's …
Son of Mad Men Speaks
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