Elliott Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 289750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elliott Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elliott |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform. Francesca Bregoli. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xvi + 340 pp. $65. - Volume 69 Issue 1
On Muses and Mystics: Some Essays on Some Essays by Solomon Schechter: Editor's Introduction
On Muses and Mystics: Some Essays on Some Essays by Solomon SchechterEditor’s Introduction Elliott Horowitz “at least it is kosher”: solomon schechter’s studies in judaism In early April 1896, after the first volume of his Studies in Judaism had already appeared in England, Solomon Schechter wrote to Mayer Sulzberger in Philadelphia, thanking him for his help in arranging to have the volume published in America by the newly established Jewish Pub…
The Use and Abuse of Anti-Judaism
Remembering the Fish and Making a Tsimmes: Jewish Food, Jewish Identity, and Jewish Memory
Remembering the Fish and Making a Tsimmes: Jewish Food, Jewish Identity, and Jewish Memory Elliott Horowitz One must try everything to recover memory. It has so many hiding places. Lawrence Durrell, Clea (1960) Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents. Claudia Roden, The Book of Je…
How Early Did We Become Modern
How Early Did We Become Modern? Elliott Horowitz ‘‘In recent decades a most impressive and steadily mounting corpus of scholarly monographs and articles has vastly enriched our understanding of the history and culture of European Jewry in early modern times . . . There is undoubtedly a crying need for new general interpretations of the role of Jewry within Europe in this period.’’ This quotation is not taken from David Ruderman’s Early Modern Jew…
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear, eds. The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. vi + 326 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4352–9. - Volume 65 Issue 3
Scholars of the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean of Scholars
Scholars of the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean of Scholars Elliott Horowitz He only who knows many seas, begins to know the ocean. In this case, as when we study mankind, it is solely by comparison that we can form a general picture. At first, one sea looks to us just like another, as do negroes, or the goats in a herd. Soon, however, we learn to know them apart . . . I So wrote Emil Ludwig in the first chapter of his On Mediterranean Shores…
The Bible and Us: Biblical Scholarship in the JQR , Then and Now
The Bible and Us:Biblical Scholarship in the JQR, Then and Now Elliott Horowitz Keywords Elliott Horowitz, Bible, Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Academia When Israel Abrahams and Claude Montefiore brought out the first volume of the Jewish Quarterly Review in 1888-1889, a particularly high proportion of the articles and reviews included therein were devoted to biblical subjects; though perspicacious readers probably noticed (some with relief) th…
A Jew of the Old Type: Neubauer as Cataloguer, Critic, and Necrologist
"A Jew of the Old Type":Neubauer as Cataloguer, Critic, and Necrologist Elliott Horowitz I One useful feature of the Jewish Quarterly Review during its early years, which we fear (and promise) will never be reintroduced, was the singlehanded review of all recent Judaic scholarship in a variety of languages—but mostly, of course, German. This was admirably accomplished in 1890, and then twice again in 1892 and 1893, by the Hungarian-born Orientali…
Remarkable Rather for Its Eloquence than Its Truth: Modern Travelers Encounter the Holy Land-and Each Other's Accounts Thereof
This article examines the responses of modern western travelers - Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant - to three major sites (and sights) of Palestine pilgrimage - the Jordan river, the approach to Jerusalem, and Jewish prayer at the Western Wall. Particular attention is paid to the tensions between prior expectations and sometimes harsh realities, as well as to the ways in which travel writers responded both explicitly and implictly to previous acc…
Fourth and Long: Presenting (and Resenting) the Sabbath
Fourth and Long: Presenting (and Resenting) the Sabbath Elliott Horowitz Harvey Cox. Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey through the Jewish Year. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Pp. x +305. Alan Dundes. The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Pp. xiii +199. Francine Klagsbrun. The Fourth Commandment: Rememb…
Introduction: A Splendid Outburst of Spirituality
Introduction:“A Splendid Outburst of Spirituality” Elliott Horowitz "At the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century," wrote Israel Abrahams at the end of the nineteenth, R. Judah he-Hasid "was responsible not only for a splendid outburst of spirituality, but also for a deplorable accretion of . . . superstitions."1 These same superstitions, of which Abrahams (then co-editor of this journal) was willing to name only the beli…
Tosaphists and Taboo: A Review of Haym Soloveitchik's “ Yeinam ”
Among the stranger assertions made by Werner Sombart in The Jews and Modern Capitalism was that “it can be proved with great certainty that the Jew's freedom from the evil effects of alcohol (as also from syphilis) is due to his religion.” Yet, the Jewish religion, unlike Islam, never prohibited alcohol per se, and even when “kosher” wine—untouched by gentiles—was in short supply, beer or more potent beverages could be found by those so inclined.…
A Feather in the Wind: An Interview with Sir Keith Thomas
Sir Keith Thomas, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and former president of Corpus Christi College and The British Academy, discusses his academic background and influences, trends in early modern history, and changes in the history profession. This interview with Prof. Thomas was conducted by the Historical Society of Israel during his visit in late 2003 to deliver the Jerusalem Lectures in History in memory of Menahem Stern
Confessions of a Jewish Autobiography Reader
Beginning with the author's encounter with Gershom Scholem's "From Berlin to Jerusalem" as a graduate student, this essay compares the autobiographical writings of Scholem and Isaiah Berlin, particularly from the perspective of the portrayal of pivotal figures in the lives of each: S. Y. Agnon in the case of Scholem, and Lewis Namier in the case of Berlin. The essay also compares the errors of biographers with the lies of autobiographers, express…
Odd Couples: The Eagle and the Hare, the Lion and the Unicorn
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Le peuple de l'image: Les Juifs et l'art
À l'occasion de la publication récente, en langue anglaise, de cinq ouvrages traitant des divers aspects de la relation entre les Juifs et l'art, particulièrement dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne, cet article se propose d'examiner certains des fondements des discours, académique et populaire, à ce sujet. Dans son ouvrage The Artless Jew, Kalman Bland constate qu'au xixe et au début du xxe siècle l'opinion était répandue, aussi bien parmi les Ju…
The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 collection, fifteen scholars examine the development of confraternities in Italy, where they emerged first and had the greatest impact. Individual essays…
Speaking to the Dead: Cemetery Prayer in Medieval and Early Modern Jewry
Too Jewish* and Other Jewish Questions: A Review Essay
Journal Article TOO JEWISH* AND OTHER JEWISH QUESTIONS: A REVIEW ESSAY Get access Elliott Horowitz Elliott Horowitz BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 19, Issue 2, May 1999, Pages 195–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/19.2.195 Published: 01 May 1999
The Court Jews and the Jewish question
The Vengeance of the Jews Was Stronger Than Their Avarice: Modern Historians and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614
The New World and the Changing Face of Europe
The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence
This essay deals both with Purim's character over several centuries as a holiday combining ritual reversal, joy, and hostility and with the attempts in nineteenthand twentieth-century scholarship to come to grips with Purim's complex character. The first section, showing how scholars have often been confounded by the tensions between the evidence of past Purim practices they encountered and their own preferences concerning what shape it should ta…
Visages du judaïsme: De La Barbe en Monde Juif Et De l'Élaboration De Ses Significations
Au cours de l'été 1925, Schmuel Yosef Agnon, écrivain hébreu originaire de Galicie (et futur lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature) âgé alors de trentesept ans, revenait progressivement au mode de vie traditionnel dans lequel il avait été élevé. Écrivant de Jérusalem à sa femme, demeurée provisoirement en Allemagne, il lui fit part d'un incident survenu la veille et qui avait, par conséquent, conservé toute sa fraîcheur dans sa mémoire
The Vengeance of the Jews Was Stronger Than Their Avarice: Modern Historians and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614
Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry
Although religious history has traditionally concerned itself with the transcendent dimension in human life, and social history with the mundane, the latter approach can also be used to illuminate the ways in which religion works itself out on the social plane. In fact, it might be argued that inquiries of this sort should occupy a prominent place on the agenda of any social and religious history of the Jews. Among historians of the Annales schoo…
The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence
This essay deals both with Purim's character over several centuries as a holiday combining ritual reversal, joy, and hostility and with the attempts in nineteenthand twentieth-century scholarship to come to grips with Purim's complex character. The first section, showing how scholars have often been confounded by the tensions between the evidence of past Purim practices they encountered and their own preferences concerning what shape it should ta…
Towards a Social History of Jewish Popular Religion: Obadiah of Bertinoro on the Jews of Palermo
Visages du judaïsme: De La Barbe en Monde Juif Et De l'Élaboration De Ses Significations
Au cours de l'été 1925, Schmuel Yosef Agnon, écrivain hébreu originaire de Galicie (et futur lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature) âgé alors de trentesept ans, revenait progressivement au mode de vie traditionnel dans lequel il avait été élevé. Écrivant de Jérusalem à sa femme, demeurée provisoirement en Allemagne, il lui fit part d'un incident survenu la veille et qui avait, par conséquent, conservé toute sa fraîcheur dans sa mémoire
Remembering the Fish and Making a Tsimmes: Jewish Food, Jewish Identity, and Jewish Memory
Remembering the Fish and Making a Tsimmes: Jewish Food, Jewish Identity, and Jewish Memory Elliott Horowitz One must try everything to recover memory. It has so many hiding places. Lawrence Durrell, Clea (1960) Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents. Claudia Roden, The Book of Je…
A Different Mode of Civility’: Lancelot Addison on the Jews of Barbary
In 1675 there appeared in London a rather interesting, if somewhat neglected, work entitled The Present State of the Jews: ( More particularly relating to those in Barbary. ) Wherein is contained an exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious . One of its more enigmatic features (to which we shall return) was its frontispiece, which featured an illustration not of a Barbary Jew, but of a muscular American Indian holding a spear, to whic…
Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry
Although religious history has traditionally concerned itself with the transcendent dimension in human life, and social history with the mundane, the latter approach can also be used to illuminate the ways in which religion works itself out on the social plane. In fact, it might be argued that inquiries of this sort should occupy a prominent place on the agenda of any social and religious history of the Jews. Among historians of the Annales schoo…
The Eve of the Circumcision: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Nightlife
Journal Article The Eve of the Circumcision: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Nightlife Get access Elliott Horowitz Elliott Horowitz Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84-105, P.O.B. 653, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 23, Issue 1, Fall 1989, Pages 45–69, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/23.1.45 Published: 01 October 1989
"Cohen's "Autobiography of Leon Modena
A Different Mode of Civility’: Lancelot Addison on the Jews of Barbary
In 1675 there appeared in London a rather interesting, if somewhat neglected, work entitled The Present State of the Jews: ( More particularly relating to those in Barbary. ) Wherein is contained an exact Account of their Customs, Secular and Religious . One of its more enigmatic features (to which we shall return) was its frontispiece, which featured an illustration not of a Barbary Jew, but of a muscular American Indian holding a spear, to whic…
Towards a Social History of Jewish Popular Religion: Obadiah of Bertinoro on the Jews of Palermo
The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence
This essay deals both with Purim's character over several centuries as a holiday combining ritual reversal, joy, and hostility and with the attempts in nineteenthand twentieth-century scholarship to come to grips with Purim's complex character. The first section, showing how scholars have often been confounded by the tensions between the evidence of past Purim practices they encountered and their own preferences concerning what shape it should ta…
Visages du judaïsme: De La Barbe en Monde Juif Et De l'Élaboration De Ses Significations
Au cours de l'été 1925, Schmuel Yosef Agnon, écrivain hébreu originaire de Galicie (et futur lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature) âgé alors de trentesept ans, revenait progressivement au mode de vie traditionnel dans lequel il avait été élevé. Écrivant de Jérusalem à sa femme, demeurée provisoirement en Allemagne, il lui fit part d'un incident survenu la veille et qui avait, par conséquent, conservé toute sa fraîcheur dans sa mémoire
The New World and the Changing Face of Europe
The Court Jews and the Jewish question
The Vengeance of the Jews Was Stronger Than Their Avarice: Modern Historians and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614
The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 collection, fifteen scholars examine the development of confraternities in Italy, where they emerged first and had the greatest impact. Individual essays…
Speaking to the Dead: Cemetery Prayer in Medieval and Early Modern Jewry
Too Jewish* and Other Jewish Questions: A Review Essay
Journal Article TOO JEWISH* AND OTHER JEWISH QUESTIONS: A REVIEW ESSAY Get access Elliott Horowitz Elliott Horowitz BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 19, Issue 2, May 1999, Pages 195–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/19.2.195 Published: 01 May 1999
Le peuple de l'image: Les Juifs et l'art
À l'occasion de la publication récente, en langue anglaise, de cinq ouvrages traitant des divers aspects de la relation entre les Juifs et l'art, particulièrement dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne, cet article se propose d'examiner certains des fondements des discours, académique et populaire, à ce sujet. Dans son ouvrage The Artless Jew, Kalman Bland constate qu'au xixe et au début du xxe siècle l'opinion était répandue, aussi bien parmi les Ju…
Odd Couples: The Eagle and the Hare, the Lion and the Unicorn
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Tosaphists and Taboo: A Review of Haym Soloveitchik's “ Yeinam ”
Among the stranger assertions made by Werner Sombart in The Jews and Modern Capitalism was that “it can be proved with great certainty that the Jew's freedom from the evil effects of alcohol (as also from syphilis) is due to his religion.” Yet, the Jewish religion, unlike Islam, never prohibited alcohol per se, and even when “kosher” wine—untouched by gentiles—was in short supply, beer or more potent beverages could be found by those so inclined.…
A Feather in the Wind: An Interview with Sir Keith Thomas
Sir Keith Thomas, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and former president of Corpus Christi College and The British Academy, discusses his academic background and influences, trends in early modern history, and changes in the history profession. This interview with Prof. Thomas was conducted by the Historical Society of Israel during his visit in late 2003 to deliver the Jerusalem Lectures in History in memory of Menahem Stern
Confessions of a Jewish Autobiography Reader
Beginning with the author's encounter with Gershom Scholem's "From Berlin to Jerusalem" as a graduate student, this essay compares the autobiographical writings of Scholem and Isaiah Berlin, particularly from the perspective of the portrayal of pivotal figures in the lives of each: S. Y. Agnon in the case of Scholem, and Lewis Namier in the case of Berlin. The essay also compares the errors of biographers with the lies of autobiographers, express…
Introduction: A Splendid Outburst of Spirituality
Introduction:“A Splendid Outburst of Spirituality” Elliott Horowitz "At the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century," wrote Israel Abrahams at the end of the nineteenth, R. Judah he-Hasid "was responsible not only for a splendid outburst of spirituality, but also for a deplorable accretion of . . . superstitions."1 These same superstitions, of which Abrahams (then co-editor of this journal) was willing to name only the beli…
Fourth and Long: Presenting (and Resenting) the Sabbath
Fourth and Long: Presenting (and Resenting) the Sabbath Elliott Horowitz Harvey Cox. Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey through the Jewish Year. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Pp. x +305. Alan Dundes. The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Pp. xiii +199. Francine Klagsbrun. The Fourth Commandment: Rememb…
Remarkable Rather for Its Eloquence than Its Truth: Modern Travelers Encounter the Holy Land-and Each Other's Accounts Thereof
This article examines the responses of modern western travelers - Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant - to three major sites (and sights) of Palestine pilgrimage - the Jordan river, the approach to Jerusalem, and Jewish prayer at the Western Wall. Particular attention is paid to the tensions between prior expectations and sometimes harsh realities, as well as to the ways in which travel writers responded both explicitly and implictly to previous acc…
The Bible and Us: Biblical Scholarship in the JQR , Then and Now
The Bible and Us:Biblical Scholarship in the JQR, Then and Now Elliott Horowitz Keywords Elliott Horowitz, Bible, Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Academia When Israel Abrahams and Claude Montefiore brought out the first volume of the Jewish Quarterly Review in 1888-1889, a particularly high proportion of the articles and reviews included therein were devoted to biblical subjects; though perspicacious readers probably noticed (some with relief) th…
A Jew of the Old Type: Neubauer as Cataloguer, Critic, and Necrologist
"A Jew of the Old Type":Neubauer as Cataloguer, Critic, and Necrologist Elliott Horowitz I One useful feature of the Jewish Quarterly Review during its early years, which we fear (and promise) will never be reintroduced, was the singlehanded review of all recent Judaic scholarship in a variety of languages—but mostly, of course, German. This was admirably accomplished in 1890, and then twice again in 1892 and 1893, by the Hungarian-born Orientali…
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
Joseph Hacker and Adam Shear, eds. The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. vi + 326 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4352–9. - Volume 65 Issue 3
Scholars of the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean of Scholars
Scholars of the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean of Scholars Elliott Horowitz He only who knows many seas, begins to know the ocean. In this case, as when we study mankind, it is solely by comparison that we can form a general picture. At first, one sea looks to us just like another, as do negroes, or the goats in a herd. Soon, however, we learn to know them apart . . . I So wrote Emil Ludwig in the first chapter of his On Mediterranean Shores…
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