Pawel Maciejko
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pawel Maciejko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pawel |
| FAMILY NAME | Maciejko |
| SIGNATURE | MACIEJKO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba‘al Shem of London, written by Michal Oron Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis
"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba‘al Shem of London, written by Michal OronMissionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century, written by David B. Ruderman" published on 21 May 2021 by Brill
Bastards and Believers
Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own and speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.
A Portrait of the Kabbalist as a Young Man
As a point of departure, this paper takes a portrait of Count Joseph Carl Immanuel Waldstein on which he is portrayed holding a copy of the Zohar. The portrait is a highly unusual (and possibly unique) representation of a Jewish book in Western art: it is possible to recognize a specific edition of the work and an exact passage taken from it. The paper addresses a question as to why this particular passage of the Zohar was selected. An interpreta…
Jewish Geography
The Mixed Multitude
Sabbatian Charlatans
This paper utilises the concept of the charlatan in order to analyse the fortunes of two Jewish ‘false messiahs’, Wolf Eibeschütz and Jacob Frank. As the Encycopédie put it, charlatanry is ‘the vice of him who strives to recommend himself, or things belonging to him, as being endowed with imaginary qualities’. While charlatans obviously existed in every age and ‘every class had its charlatans,’ in some periods charlatanry was particularly promine…
Gershom Scholem’s Dialectic of Jewish History
This paper aims to analyse the historiosophical assumptions of Gershom Scholem’s interpretation of Sabbatianism. Scholem’s work is based on the “dialectical” understanding of Jewish history. The concept of dialectic has three different aspects in his works. First, the notion refers to the historical relationship and mutual influences between Sabbatianism (and Judaism in a wider sense) and other religions, notably Christianity. Second, dialectic i…
Gershom Scholem’s Dialectic of Jewish History
This paper aims to analyse the historiosophical assumptions of Gershom Scholem’s interpretation of Sabbatianism. Scholem’s work is based on the “dialectical” understanding of Jewish history. The concept of dialectic has three different aspects in his works. First, the notion refers to the historical relationship and mutual influences between Sabbatianism (and Judaism in a wider sense) and other religions, notably Christianity. Second, dialectic i…
Gershom Scholem’s Dialectic of Jewish History
This paper aims to analyse the historiosophical assumptions of Gershom Scholem’s interpretation of Sabbatianism. Scholem’s work is based on the “dialectical” understanding of Jewish history. The concept of dialectic has three different aspects in his works. First, the notion refers to the historical relationship and mutual influences between Sabbatianism (and Judaism in a wider sense) and other religions, notably Christianity. Second, dialectic i…
Sabbatian Charlatans
This paper utilises the concept of the charlatan in order to analyse the fortunes of two Jewish ‘false messiahs’, Wolf Eibeschütz and Jacob Frank. As the Encycopédie put it, charlatanry is ‘the vice of him who strives to recommend himself, or things belonging to him, as being endowed with imaginary qualities’. While charlatans obviously existed in every age and ‘every class had its charlatans,’ in some periods charlatanry was particularly promine…
The Mixed Multitude
Jewish Geography
A Portrait of the Kabbalist as a Young Man
As a point of departure, this paper takes a portrait of Count Joseph Carl Immanuel Waldstein on which he is portrayed holding a copy of the Zohar. The portrait is a highly unusual (and possibly unique) representation of a Jewish book in Western art: it is possible to recognize a specific edition of the work and an exact passage taken from it. The paper addresses a question as to why this particular passage of the Zohar was selected. An interpreta…
Bastards and Believers
Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own and speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life.
Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba‘al Shem of London, written by Michal Oron Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis
"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba‘al Shem of London, written by Michal OronMissionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century, written by David B. Ruderman" published on 21 May 2021 by Brill
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works)