Maria Diemling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Diemling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Diemling |
| SIGNATURE | DIEMLING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4717-4748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Privacy in Jewish Sources
The article introduces key concepts related to research into the historical notions of privacy, provides a brief historiographical overview, and discusses methodological tools that allow the researcher to examine privacy in primary sources. The second part discusses examples of the Jewish lived experience in the early modern period that were not only shaped by Jewish legal discourses but by the specific living conditions of an ethno-religious min…
Privacy, Literacy, and Gender in Early Modern Jewish Letters from Prague (1619)
How private were Jewish letters in the early modern period? This article discusses Jewish epistolary culture and notions of privacy by examining an extraordinary cache of Jewish letters that were mostly written on a single day— 22 November 1619—in a single city, Prague, and sent to a single destination, Vienna. The letters never arrived and ended up in the archives where they were preserved for posterity. These letters allow us a glimpse into the…
Arendt's 'conscious pariah' and the ambiguous figure of the subaltern
Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings were central to her thinking about the human condition and engaged with the dialectics of modernity, universalism and identity. Her concept of the 'conscious pariah' attempted both to define a role for the public intellectual and understand the relationship between Jews and modernity. Controversially she accused Jewish victims of lack of resistance to the Nazis and argued that their victimization resulted from apol…
The politics of food: Kashrut , food choices and social justice ( tikkun olam )
Engagement in social justice (tikkun olam) has in recent decades become an important focus across all major Jewish denominations. This article explores how notions of tikkun olam inform the food choices of an increasing number of contemporary Jews and how these can be understood as innovative forms of consumptive practices that shape Jewish identity beyond the traditional dietary laws (kashrut). Examining halakhic responses to animal cruelty in t…
Where Do You Draw the Line?”: Negotiating Kashrut and Jewish Identity in a Small British Reform Community
This study explores the importance of food and the negotiation of kosher laws in the context of strategies to maintain an individual and collective Jewish identity among a British Reform Jewish community in a non-metropolitan area. Based on interviews with active members of the local synagogue, it explores the challenges to maintaining Jewish life in a small, disparate community remote from any major Jewish settlement. In the interview data, food…
A Goy who speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany
In this compelling study, Aya Elyada explores the phenomenon of ‘Christian Yiddishism’, the study of Yiddish and its literature, in the early modern period. This was a particular interest of mostly
Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian relations
This volume is a thought-provoking collection of research published by the eminent historian David Berger on historical and contemporary aspects of Jewish-Christian encounters, spanning a long and
Navigating Christian space: Jews and Christian images in early modern German lands
This article explores some of the strategies used by late mediaeval and early modern Jews living in German lands to counter powerful and ubiquitous Christian images, symbols and holidays. Drawing on a variety of sources, including accounts written by converts from Judaism, Jewish attitudes to the cross, churches, church bells and Christmas are examined. While Jews were very much aware of the dangers of any open expression of their antagonism to C…
The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
CONTENTS Introduction PART 1 THE BODY IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT The Rise of the Body in Early Modern Jewish Society: The Italian Case Study Roni Weinstein Jewish Bodies and Renaissance Melancholy: Culture and the City in Italy and the Ottoman Empire Eleazar Gutwirth Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn: Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts Maria Diemling Who Knows What the Cause Is?: Natural and Unnatural Causes for I…
The Ethnographer and the Jewish Body: Johann Jacob Schudt on the Civilisation Process of the Jews of Frankfurt
Johann Jacob Schudt's ethnographic work Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten has been described as a turning point in anti-Jewish polemical discourse because of its use of secular arguments. This article examines how Schudt writes about the body of Jews by focusing on notions of cleanliness and pollution. I argue that Schudt, struggling to reconcile his scholarly ambitions with his devout Lutheranism, rejects traditional polemical arguments about the Jewis…
Mit Leib und Seele?« Überlegungen zum Körperbild jüdischer Konvertiten in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Frage, ob eine Konversion vom Judentum zum Christentum in der Frühen Neuzeit auch eine Änderung des Körperbildes mit einschließt, läßt keine eindeutige Antwort zu, obwohl der Körper im Diskurs über jüdische Konversion eine zentralere Rolle spielt, als bisher angenommen wurde. In den deutschen Landen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert konkurrieren zwei Modelle. Einerseits ist das auf mittelalterlichen Diskursen basierende theologische Modell, das Jude…
Roni Weinstein, Marriage Rituals Italian Style. A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Miriam Gebhardt, Das Familiengedächtnis. Erinnerung im deutsch-jüdischen Bürgertum 1890 bis 1932
Where Do You Draw the Line?”: Negotiating Kashrut and Jewish Identity in a Small British Reform Community
This study explores the importance of food and the negotiation of kosher laws in the context of strategies to maintain an individual and collective Jewish identity among a British Reform Jewish community in a non-metropolitan area. Based on interviews with active members of the local synagogue, it explores the challenges to maintaining Jewish life in a small, disparate community remote from any major Jewish settlement. In the interview data, food…
The politics of food: Kashrut , food choices and social justice ( tikkun olam )
Engagement in social justice (tikkun olam) has in recent decades become an important focus across all major Jewish denominations. This article explores how notions of tikkun olam inform the food choices of an increasing number of contemporary Jews and how these can be understood as innovative forms of consumptive practices that shape Jewish identity beyond the traditional dietary laws (kashrut). Examining halakhic responses to animal cruelty in t…
Miriam Gebhardt, Das Familiengedächtnis. Erinnerung im deutsch-jüdischen Bürgertum 1890 bis 1932
Mit Leib und Seele?« Überlegungen zum Körperbild jüdischer Konvertiten in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Frage, ob eine Konversion vom Judentum zum Christentum in der Frühen Neuzeit auch eine Änderung des Körperbildes mit einschließt, läßt keine eindeutige Antwort zu, obwohl der Körper im Diskurs über jüdische Konversion eine zentralere Rolle spielt, als bisher angenommen wurde. In den deutschen Landen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert konkurrieren zwei Modelle. Einerseits ist das auf mittelalterlichen Diskursen basierende theologische Modell, das Jude…
Roni Weinstein, Marriage Rituals Italian Style. A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
The Ethnographer and the Jewish Body: Johann Jacob Schudt on the Civilisation Process of the Jews of Frankfurt
Johann Jacob Schudt's ethnographic work Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten has been described as a turning point in anti-Jewish polemical discourse because of its use of secular arguments. This article examines how Schudt writes about the body of Jews by focusing on notions of cleanliness and pollution. I argue that Schudt, struggling to reconcile his scholarly ambitions with his devout Lutheranism, rejects traditional polemical arguments about the Jewis…
The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
CONTENTS Introduction PART 1 THE BODY IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT The Rise of the Body in Early Modern Jewish Society: The Italian Case Study Roni Weinstein Jewish Bodies and Renaissance Melancholy: Culture and the City in Italy and the Ottoman Empire Eleazar Gutwirth Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn: Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts Maria Diemling Who Knows What the Cause Is?: Natural and Unnatural Causes for I…
Navigating Christian space: Jews and Christian images in early modern German lands
This article explores some of the strategies used by late mediaeval and early modern Jews living in German lands to counter powerful and ubiquitous Christian images, symbols and holidays. Drawing on a variety of sources, including accounts written by converts from Judaism, Jewish attitudes to the cross, churches, church bells and Christmas are examined. While Jews were very much aware of the dangers of any open expression of their antagonism to C…
Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian relations
This volume is a thought-provoking collection of research published by the eminent historian David Berger on historical and contemporary aspects of Jewish-Christian encounters, spanning a long and
Where Do You Draw the Line?”: Negotiating Kashrut and Jewish Identity in a Small British Reform Community
This study explores the importance of food and the negotiation of kosher laws in the context of strategies to maintain an individual and collective Jewish identity among a British Reform Jewish community in a non-metropolitan area. Based on interviews with active members of the local synagogue, it explores the challenges to maintaining Jewish life in a small, disparate community remote from any major Jewish settlement. In the interview data, food…
A Goy who speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany
In this compelling study, Aya Elyada explores the phenomenon of ‘Christian Yiddishism’, the study of Yiddish and its literature, in the early modern period. This was a particular interest of mostly
The politics of food: Kashrut , food choices and social justice ( tikkun olam )
Engagement in social justice (tikkun olam) has in recent decades become an important focus across all major Jewish denominations. This article explores how notions of tikkun olam inform the food choices of an increasing number of contemporary Jews and how these can be understood as innovative forms of consumptive practices that shape Jewish identity beyond the traditional dietary laws (kashrut). Examining halakhic responses to animal cruelty in t…
Arendt's 'conscious pariah' and the ambiguous figure of the subaltern
Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings were central to her thinking about the human condition and engaged with the dialectics of modernity, universalism and identity. Her concept of the 'conscious pariah' attempted both to define a role for the public intellectual and understand the relationship between Jews and modernity. Controversially she accused Jewish victims of lack of resistance to the Nazis and argued that their victimization resulted from apol…
Privacy in Jewish Sources
The article introduces key concepts related to research into the historical notions of privacy, provides a brief historiographical overview, and discusses methodological tools that allow the researcher to examine privacy in primary sources. The second part discusses examples of the Jewish lived experience in the early modern period that were not only shaped by Jewish legal discourses but by the specific living conditions of an ethno-religious min…
Privacy, Literacy, and Gender in Early Modern Jewish Letters from Prague (1619)
How private were Jewish letters in the early modern period? This article discusses Jewish epistolary culture and notions of privacy by examining an extraordinary cache of Jewish letters that were mostly written on a single day— 22 November 1619—in a single city, Prague, and sent to a single destination, Vienna. The letters never arrived and ended up in the archives where they were preserved for posterity. These letters allow us a glimpse into the…
Judaism (11 works) · Art (10 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)