David N Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 504530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David N Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | David N |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0710-0106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society
Reflections on the State of Eastern European Jewish Studies: Editor’s Introduction
Reflections on the State of Eastern European Jewish Studies: Editor’s Introduction David N. Myers One of the distinctive features of the Jewish Quarterly Review over the past seventeen years—from the time that the brilliant and dearly departed Elliott Horowitz and I became coeditors—has been our reliance on the mode of the forum to debate, revisit, and probe. Our first forum in volume 94 in 2004 brought together a diverse trio of scholars, Robert…
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites
Antisemitism, which has been called the “longest hatred,” appeared to be on a sharp decline in the United States in the early years of the new century. Over the past five years, antisemitism has surged to life, registering a 100% increase in reports of antisemitic incidents in the United States between 20016—18. That period coincides, and not by accident, with the presidency of Donald Trump, who declared himself to be a friend of Jews and a stron…
The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation…
Revisiting the History of Modern Jewish Scholarship: A Bicentennial Perspective
Revisiting the History of Modern Jewish Scholarship:A Bicentennial Perspective David N. Myers The two hundredth anniversary of the founding programmatic statement of modern Jewish studies, Leopold Zunz's "Etwas uber die rabbinische Literatur" from 1818, is an invitation to reflect on the extraordinary growth and evolution of the field. It is hard not to be impressed by the scope of Zunz's manifesto or by his boldness in envisaging a new scholarly…
The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, reveali…
Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction
"How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. This book charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely factors to explain the survival of the Jews: antisemitism and assimilation"...
The Rise of a Sovereign Shtetl: Communitarianism from the Bottom up in Kiryas Joel, N. Y.
»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
On Gerson Cohen's "Blessing of Assimilation" a Half Century Later: Editor's Introduction
On Gerson Cohen’s “Blessing of Assimilation” a Half Century LaterEditor’s Introduction David N. Myers Keywords Gerson Cohen, Assimilation The editors of JQR relish the prospect of adding forums such as this one to the regular mix of articles and review essays. The forum is often an opportunity to identify important new trends in Jewish studies or call attention to paradigm-shifting books in the field. Sometimes the forum serves a different functi…
Enlightening and Enlighteners: German Jews and Education in the Maskilic Age and Beyond: Editor's Introduction
Coming to America: The Reception of Sepharad and Ashkenaz in America
Coming to America:The Reception of Sepharad and Ashkenaz in America David N. Myers Keywords Sephardic, Sepharad, Ashkenaz, Jacob Rader Marcus, American Jew Whether exceptional or not, American Jewish history is full of extraordinary moments, personalities, and motifs. The relatively late arrival of European Jewish historians to this realization, Salo Baron excepting, cannot and should not obscure the richness of the Jewish experience in the Unite…
A Haredi Attack on Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: A Battle over the Brisker Legacy from 1984
The Soloveitchik family is one of the most distinguished rabbinic families in modern Jewish history. Despite the fact that the Soloveitchik family includes diverse varieties of Orthodoxy among its members, tensions between the different branches rarely surface publicly. However, in 1984, on the occasion of a publication in honor of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's 80th birthday, this unwritten rule was broken. Unnamed followers of the hard-line Brisk …
Six Theses on the Sustainability of a Minority Culture in a Majority Society: The J ewish and M uslim Cases
The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History
Midrash, Testimony, and the Angel of Interpretation: Geoffrey Hartman in Jewish Studies
The field of Jewish studies has witnessed many types of growth over the past three or four decades. The sheer number of scholars, the range of methodological approaches, the crowded map of institutions with well-developed programs - all attest to the movement of Jewish studies from the periphery to the center of academic life in North America. What was so desperately desired in Europe before the Holocaust - the integration of Jewish studies into …
New Last Words of Yiddish
New Last Words of Yiddish David N. Myers On the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer delivered a rich encomium to the Yiddish language, casting it as a way of life more than as a mere linguistic vessel. Yiddish, he noted, was a language of exile that lacked a vocabulary for matters martial—"weapons, ammunition, military exercises, war tactics." And yet, Singer was far more taken by what the language c…
A Novel Look at Moshe Idel's East-West Problem
A Novel Look at Moshe Idel’s East-West Problem David N. Myers Moshe Idel.Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 336. For many of us in the field of Jewish studies, but not in the field of Kabbalah studies, our first encounter with Moshe Idel came in 1988 with the publication of his major work in English, Kabbalah: New Perspe…
Jenseits des Einflusses. Hin zu einer neuen Kulturgeschichte
Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David N. Myers
Amira Hass, Haaretz 's fearless journalist, recently told the following joke, an allegory of sorts, set during the Turco-Russian war. Moishele is about to depart for the front, and so his mother offers some sensible advice. “Please take care of yourself, my son. Pace yourself. Kill a Turk all right, but then make sure you rest afterwards. Eat something. Sleep a little. Then go back if you must, kill another Turk, and take another break. Drink lot…
The Return of the Repressed: Modern Jewish Studies in JQR
The Return of the Repressed:Modern Jewish Studies in JQR David N. Myers As one reads the editorial announcement with which Cyrus Adler and Solomon Schechter opened the new series of JQR in July 1910, one gets the distinct sense that they felt themselves at the dawn of a new era. "America," they wrote, "is fast becoming the center of Jewry, and in all likelihood, will become also the center of Jewish learning in the English world." The transatlant…
Is there still a “Jerusalem School?” Reflections on the state of Jewish historical scholarship in Israel
This essay examines the study of Jewish history in Israel at the juncture of two currents: the ongoing expansion of an international community of Jewish studies scholars and the waning interest in the field in Israel itself. Mindful of the latter trend, it is easy to adopt a declensionist narrative, according to which the “Jerusalem School,” with its monolithic and Palestinocentric view of the past, has run its course. And yet, that framing occlu…
Kitaj's Napkin Map
THE JEWISH PAINTER R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most interesting of Jewish travelers m recent times. Not only did he live a life full of adventurous journeys. He also delighted in traversing, and transgressing, boundaries, particularly those between well-established genres and media. For example, while best known for his explosively colorful canvasses, Kitaj also developed a large audience of admirers - and critics - owing to the wild a…
Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz
This book brings new attention to Simon Rawidowicz (1897–1957), the wide-ranging Jewish thinker and scholar who taught at Brandeis University in the 1950s. At the heart of Myers’ book is a chapter that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome Babylon and Jerusalem (1957) but never published. In it, Rawidowicz shifted his decades-long preoccupation with the “Jewish Question” to what he called the “Arab Question.” Asserting that the “Arab Ques…
Recalling Zakhor: A Quarter-Century's Perspective
Recalling Zakhor:A Quarter-Century's Perspective David N. Myers, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History This forum marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. Based on the Stroum Lectures at the University of Washington, Yerushalmi's compact volume of 100 pages has had as significant an impact on the field of Jewish studies as any book over the past quarter-centur…
Anonymity is part of the magic: Individual manipulation of computer-mediated communication contexts
History as Ideology: The Case of Ben Zion Dinur, Zionist Historian “Par Excellence”
Journal Article HISTORY AS IDEOLOGY: THE CASE OF BEN ZION DINUR, ZIONIST HISTORIAN "PAR EXCELLENCE" Get access David Myers David Myers COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 8, Issue 2, May 1988, Pages 167–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/8.2.167 Published: 01 May 1988
The Scholem-Kurzweil Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography
Journal Article THE SCHOLEM-KURZWEIL DEBATE AND MODERN JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY Get access David Myers David Myers COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 1986, Pages 261–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.3.261 Published: 01 October 1986
The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites
Antisemitism, which has been called the “longest hatred,” appeared to be on a sharp decline in the United States in the early years of the new century. Over the past five years, antisemitism has surged to life, registering a 100% increase in reports of antisemitic incidents in the United States between 20016—18. That period coincides, and not by accident, with the presidency of Donald Trump, who declared himself to be a friend of Jews and a stron…
Signs, Symbols, Games, and Play
This article justifies the study of video games with reference to the importance of the study of representations and the study of play
Hazono Shel Hazony ,? or ?Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream
IN ONE OF THE BEST book reviews ever published, the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff performed a diabolically clever trompe l'eil on Allan Bloom's 7he Closing of the American Mind.1 Rather than present the book as the sober meditations of a learned scholar of the classics, Wolff imagined 7he Closing of the American Mind as a work of fiction, written by Saul Bellow and featuring a cranky University of Chicago professor named Allan Bloom as its protag…
A pox on all compromises: Reply to Craig (1999)
A Pox on All Compromises: Reply to Craig (1999) David Myers David Myers 1Department of Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 May 2001, Pages 218–230, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2001.tb00240.x Published: 10 January 2006
Safe Cities: Guidelines for Planning, Design, and Management . Gerda R. Wekerle and Carolyn Whitzman; Political Geography of the United States . Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer, Fiona M. Davidson, an…
Chris Crawford and Computer Game Aesthetics
Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame: Aesthetic Play and Ethical Seriousness
The Scholem-Kurzweil Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography
Journal Article THE SCHOLEM-KURZWEIL DEBATE AND MODERN JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY Get access David Myers David Myers COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 1986, Pages 261–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.3.261 Published: 01 October 1986
Anonymity is part of the magic: Individual manipulation of computer-mediated communication contexts
History as Ideology: The Case of Ben Zion Dinur, Zionist Historian “Par Excellence”
Journal Article HISTORY AS IDEOLOGY: THE CASE OF BEN ZION DINUR, ZIONIST HISTORIAN "PAR EXCELLENCE" Get access David Myers David Myers COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 8, Issue 2, May 1988, Pages 167–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/8.2.167 Published: 01 May 1988
Chris Crawford and Computer Game Aesthetics
Re-inventing the Jewish past: European Jewish intellectuals and the Zionist return to history
In Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History, David N. Myers explores a fascinating and untold chapter in modern Jewish intellectual history: the role of the first generation of Jewish scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in establishing Jewish studies within the framework of a Jewish national university. Re-Inventing the Jewish Past will be of interest to students of Jewish, European,…
Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History
Journal Article Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History. By Robert Liberies. (New York: New York University Press, 1995. xiv, 425 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-5088-5.) Get access David N. Myers David N. Myers University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 266–267, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945591 Publis…
Safe Cities: Guidelines for Planning, Design, and Management . Gerda R. Wekerle and Carolyn Whitzman; Political Geography of the United States . Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer, Fiona M. Davidson, an…
Play and paradox: How to build a semiotic machine
L'A. examine les relations existant entre le jeu et le paradoxe et tente de degager leurs points communs. Dans cette perspective, il analyse la capacite des modeles logiques a modeliser le paradoxe et conclut que les modeles linguistiques symboliques remplissent cette fonction aussi bien que les modeles bases sur la theorie des ensembles. En outre, il developpe deux hypotheses importantes qui representent des extensions naturelles de la descripti…
Hazono Shel Hazony ,? or ?Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream
IN ONE OF THE BEST book reviews ever published, the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff performed a diabolically clever trompe l'eil on Allan Bloom's 7he Closing of the American Mind.1 Rather than present the book as the sober meditations of a learned scholar of the classics, Wolff imagined 7he Closing of the American Mind as a work of fiction, written by Saul Bellow and featuring a cranky University of Chicago professor named Allan Bloom as its protag…
A pox on all compromises: Reply to Craig (1999)
A Pox on All Compromises: Reply to Craig (1999) David Myers David Myers 1Department of Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 May 2001, Pages 218–230, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2001.tb00240.x Published: 10 January 2006
The Jewish past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians
America
T H E JE W I S H Q UA R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 2004) v–viii E D I T O R ’S I N T R O D U C T I O N America? THIS ISSUE OF JQR marks a new chapter in the long life of our journal. When we assumed the editorial mantle in 2003, we envisaged a forum that would be faithful to JQR’s tradition of scholarly excellence, while at the same time open to important new themes, trends, and innovations in the various fields of Jewish studies.…
Can There Be a Principled Anti-Zionism? On the Nexus between Anti-Historicism and Anti-Zionism in Modern Jewish Thought
The task of this article is to pose the question: Can there be a principled anti-Zionism? That is, can there be an anti-Zionism that escapes the scourge of anti-Semitism? After suggesting criteria by which this may be possible, the article excavates a tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism (or Zionist agnosticism) in the past that can hardly be branded anti-Semitic. The first current of this tradition flows out of early-twentieth-century Germany, where…
Language and the Jews
Language and the Jews David N. Myers A wide gulf lies between the rabbinic claim that dibra Torah kilshon bene adam—the Torah spoke in the language of man—and the mystical belief that the Torah is written in a perfect Divine language that humans can never fully comprehend. How are we to make sense of it? George Steiner, a language-intoxicated Jew if ever there was one, observes that "language is, within itself, infinite . . . incommensurable in i…
Signs, Symbols, Games, and Play
This article justifies the study of video games with reference to the importance of the study of representations and the study of play
Recalling Zakhor: A Quarter-Century's Perspective
Recalling Zakhor:A Quarter-Century's Perspective David N. Myers, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History This forum marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. Based on the Stroum Lectures at the University of Washington, Yerushalmi's compact volume of 100 pages has had as significant an impact on the field of Jewish studies as any book over the past quarter-centur…
Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz
This book brings new attention to Simon Rawidowicz (1897–1957), the wide-ranging Jewish thinker and scholar who taught at Brandeis University in the 1950s. At the heart of Myers’ book is a chapter that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome Babylon and Jerusalem (1957) but never published. In it, Rawidowicz shifted his decades-long preoccupation with the “Jewish Question” to what he called the “Arab Question.” Asserting that the “Arab Ques…
Is there still a “Jerusalem School?” Reflections on the state of Jewish historical scholarship in Israel
This essay examines the study of Jewish history in Israel at the juncture of two currents: the ongoing expansion of an international community of Jewish studies scholars and the waning interest in the field in Israel itself. Mindful of the latter trend, it is easy to adopt a declensionist narrative, according to which the “Jerusalem School,” with its monolithic and Palestinocentric view of the past, has run its course. And yet, that framing occlu…
Kitaj's Napkin Map
THE JEWISH PAINTER R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most interesting of Jewish travelers m recent times. Not only did he live a life full of adventurous journeys. He also delighted in traversing, and transgressing, boundaries, particularly those between well-established genres and media. For example, while best known for his explosively colorful canvasses, Kitaj also developed a large audience of admirers - and critics - owing to the wild a…
Jenseits des Einflusses. Hin zu einer neuen Kulturgeschichte
Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David N. Myers
Amira Hass, Haaretz 's fearless journalist, recently told the following joke, an allegory of sorts, set during the Turco-Russian war. Moishele is about to depart for the front, and so his mother offers some sensible advice. “Please take care of yourself, my son. Pace yourself. Kill a Turk all right, but then make sure you rest afterwards. Eat something. Sleep a little. Then go back if you must, kill another Turk, and take another break. Drink lot…
The Return of the Repressed: Modern Jewish Studies in JQR
The Return of the Repressed:Modern Jewish Studies in JQR David N. Myers As one reads the editorial announcement with which Cyrus Adler and Solomon Schechter opened the new series of JQR in July 1910, one gets the distinct sense that they felt themselves at the dawn of a new era. "America," they wrote, "is fast becoming the center of Jewry, and in all likelihood, will become also the center of Jewish learning in the English world." The transatlant…
New Last Words of Yiddish
New Last Words of Yiddish David N. Myers On the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer delivered a rich encomium to the Yiddish language, casting it as a way of life more than as a mere linguistic vessel. Yiddish, he noted, was a language of exile that lacked a vocabulary for matters martial—"weapons, ammunition, military exercises, war tactics." And yet, Singer was far more taken by what the language c…
A Novel Look at Moshe Idel's East-West Problem
A Novel Look at Moshe Idel’s East-West Problem David N. Myers Moshe Idel.Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 336. For many of us in the field of Jewish studies, but not in the field of Kabbalah studies, our first encounter with Moshe Idel came in 1988 with the publication of his major work in English, Kabbalah: New Perspe…
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