Yael Almog
Biographic Data
| ID | 241600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Almog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Almog |
| SIGNATURE | ALMOG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4290-9779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ages of Jewish Diaspora
Since the birth of political Zionism, accounts of Jewish diaspora have risked falling into a simple binary: either the endorsement of a sole, sovereign Jewish state or the rejection of this vision. This special issue assembles original perspectives on exilic Jewish life that complicate the common appropriations of “Jewish diaspora.” In so doing, the volume problematizes a binary juxtaposition of a specific kind of Jewish statehood – understood vi…
Herder, Arendt, and the Jews
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt describes Herder as “an outspoken friend of the Jews,” and ascribes to him the transformative view that the Jews could be incorporated into civil society pending their assimilation, which they could achieve through self-education. An examination of Herder’s works, reveals, however, that while he praises the ancient Hebrew nation and the Old Testament and their role in world history, he contends that the a…
Goethe in Context
The Legacy of Toleration
Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusalem’ borrows from a surprising source: Johann Gottfried Herder's world history, which is entrenched in Protestant theology. Herder's world history presents a non‐hierarchical consideration of peoples. …
Self‐identity and the Jewish Body
This article investigates portrayals of traditional Judaism and observant Jews in writings by assimilated German‐Jewish authors. It thus explores notions projected onto traditional Jews – and particularly the Jewish body – as elements immanent to Jewish cultural production. At the centre of the enquiry are Heinrich Heine's Hebräische Melodien (1851), Otto Weininger's Geschlecht und Charakter (1902) and Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft (1927).…
A University in Zion
In his “Science as Vocation,” Weber equates rational academic conduct with Jewish ethics. For Weber, the Jewish tradition, which separates moral conduct from messianism, is emblematic of scientists’ strenuous distinction of empiricism from metaphysics. The emergence of a Zionist university in Jerusalem, an institute that was positioned as a part of a Jewish nation-building project, complicated this parallel. This article examines Gershom Scholem'…
The German Awakening
In the past two decades, scholarship on the Enlightenment opted for a paradigm change in describing the movement: seminal works stressed the prosperity of theology in a period that had been previously characterized through its ostensible antagonism to religion. Specifically, against the view of late Enlightenment Germany as moving linearly from religious to secular society, scholars have pointed out the interdependence of Enlightenment constructs…
Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism
This article unpacks Margarete Susman's political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as political Zionism. However, Susman should not be viewed merely as a critic of Zionism. I argue that an analysis tuned to the historical circumstances of her writing should recognize her stance on the …
In Search of the Hebrew People
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in German Hebraism in the English-speaking world and in the foremost representatives of this trend, Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann David Michaelis. The focus of Ilany’s monograph is what he describes as Hebraism’s dual standing: in Enlightenment Germany it was both a field of study and a cultural ideal. Ilany opts to supply a detailed account of how, in the advent of modern nationalism, the sear…
Karin Lynn Schutjer. Goethe and Judaism
Why that instrument? A bibliographic study of the reasons instruments are chosen by music therapy clients
Music therapy clients’ musical instrument choices and their underlying reasoning can be very useful in understanding the client’s inner world. To shed light on this subject, we conducted a bibliographic study in which we surveyed four leading music therapy journals (British Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, and Nordic Journal of Music Therapy) and leading music therapy books that contain case studies …
Die Judenbuche and the “Judens‐buch”
The article presents Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche as a reaction to the disjunction between textual interpretation and confessional belonging in modernity. I argue that the epicenter of this critique is the insertion of a Hebrew sentence that embodies both in its language and in its content—talion law—the word of the Bible as a legal authority. Appearing in the midst of the novella, the biblical language creates a “hermeneutical hi…
Migration and its Discontents
The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay argues that this description perpetuates the grounding of Zionism in the experience of a subject of European origins. Considering a few references to the Israeli presence in Berlin in lit…
'Flowing Myrrh upon the Handles of the Bolt'
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Why that instrument? A bibliographic study of the reasons instruments are chosen by music therapy clients
Music therapy clients’ musical instrument choices and their underlying reasoning can be very useful in understanding the client’s inner world. To shed light on this subject, we conducted a bibliographic study in which we surveyed four leading music therapy journals (British Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, and Nordic Journal of Music Therapy) and leading music therapy books that contain case studies …
'Flowing Myrrh upon the Handles of the Bolt'
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Migration and its Discontents
The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay argues that this description perpetuates the grounding of Zionism in the experience of a subject of European origins. Considering a few references to the Israeli presence in Berlin in lit…
Die Judenbuche and the “Judens‐buch”
The article presents Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche as a reaction to the disjunction between textual interpretation and confessional belonging in modernity. I argue that the epicenter of this critique is the insertion of a Hebrew sentence that embodies both in its language and in its content—talion law—the word of the Bible as a legal authority. Appearing in the midst of the novella, the biblical language creates a “hermeneutical hi…
Why that instrument? A bibliographic study of the reasons instruments are chosen by music therapy clients
Music therapy clients’ musical instrument choices and their underlying reasoning can be very useful in understanding the client’s inner world. To shed light on this subject, we conducted a bibliographic study in which we surveyed four leading music therapy journals (British Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, and Nordic Journal of Music Therapy) and leading music therapy books that contain case studies …
In Search of the Hebrew People
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in German Hebraism in the English-speaking world and in the foremost representatives of this trend, Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann David Michaelis. The focus of Ilany’s monograph is what he describes as Hebraism’s dual standing: in Enlightenment Germany it was both a field of study and a cultural ideal. Ilany opts to supply a detailed account of how, in the advent of modern nationalism, the sear…
Karin Lynn Schutjer. Goethe and Judaism
Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism
This article unpacks Margarete Susman's political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as political Zionism. However, Susman should not be viewed merely as a critic of Zionism. I argue that an analysis tuned to the historical circumstances of her writing should recognize her stance on the …
A University in Zion
In his “Science as Vocation,” Weber equates rational academic conduct with Jewish ethics. For Weber, the Jewish tradition, which separates moral conduct from messianism, is emblematic of scientists’ strenuous distinction of empiricism from metaphysics. The emergence of a Zionist university in Jerusalem, an institute that was positioned as a part of a Jewish nation-building project, complicated this parallel. This article examines Gershom Scholem'…
The German Awakening
In the past two decades, scholarship on the Enlightenment opted for a paradigm change in describing the movement: seminal works stressed the prosperity of theology in a period that had been previously characterized through its ostensible antagonism to religion. Specifically, against the view of late Enlightenment Germany as moving linearly from religious to secular society, scholars have pointed out the interdependence of Enlightenment constructs…
Self‐identity and the Jewish Body
This article investigates portrayals of traditional Judaism and observant Jews in writings by assimilated German‐Jewish authors. It thus explores notions projected onto traditional Jews – and particularly the Jewish body – as elements immanent to Jewish cultural production. At the centre of the enquiry are Heinrich Heine's Hebräische Melodien (1851), Otto Weininger's Geschlecht und Charakter (1902) and Joseph Roth's Juden auf Wanderschaft (1927).…
Goethe in Context
The Legacy of Toleration
Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusalem’ borrows from a surprising source: Johann Gottfried Herder's world history, which is entrenched in Protestant theology. Herder's world history presents a non‐hierarchical consideration of peoples. …
Ages of Jewish Diaspora
Since the birth of political Zionism, accounts of Jewish diaspora have risked falling into a simple binary: either the endorsement of a sole, sovereign Jewish state or the rejection of this vision. This special issue assembles original perspectives on exilic Jewish life that complicate the common appropriations of “Jewish diaspora.” In so doing, the volume problematizes a binary juxtaposition of a specific kind of Jewish statehood – understood vi…
Herder, Arendt, and the Jews
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt describes Herder as “an outspoken friend of the Jews,” and ascribes to him the transformative view that the Jews could be incorporated into civil society pending their assimilation, which they could achieve through self-education. An examination of Herder’s works, reveals, however, that while he praises the ancient Hebrew nation and the Old Testament and their role in world history, he contends that the a…
Philosophy (11 works) · Theology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Literature (6 works)