Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Biographic Data
| ID | 694134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte Elisheva |
| FAMILY NAME | Fonrobert |
| SIGNATURE | FONROBERT C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A View from Late Antiquity Onward
A View from Late Antiquity Onward Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert “The most uncanny and alluring thing is the fact that the most original products of Jewish thinking are, as it were, products of assimilation.”1 Thus admits, albeit reluctantly, Gershom Scholem, otherwise known perhaps as one of the most vociferous critics of Jewish cultural assimilation, in a letter written from Jerusalem to Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in June 1939. Scholem writes in …
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The New Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies
During the past decade or so, there has been a “veritable boom ... of projects that investigate questions of place and space” in Jewish studies. In this arena, scholars in various fields of Jewish studies have begun to engage with developments in the humanities at large. Since the 1980s, many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have become more attentive to the cultural challenges of globalization, prominent among them the effects o…
Neighborhood as Ritual Space: The Case of the Rabbinic Eruv
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume inc…
Regulating the Human Body: Rabbinic Legal Discourse and the Making of Jewish Gender
The study of the cultural constructions of gender in rabbinic literature is a relatively young field, certainly compared to other literatures. Although already in the seventies Jewish feminist critics joined their colleagues in different religious contexts to critique the encrusted patriarchal traditions of Judaism, serious analyses of the workings of gender in the literature produced by the Late Antique rabbis began only in the nineties of the p…
Purity Studies in Judaism: An Emerging Subfield
Studies of textual traditions about menstruation in Judaism are seldom without an agenda. Perhaps they cannot be. The polemical history of the literature is simply too entrenched by now. This is also the case with Evyatar Marienberg's series of studies, recently published in France, about the place of menstruation in Jewish culture
Plato in Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's Cave (B. Shabbat 33b–34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato's Politics of Philosophy
Thus we are told in one of the most famous narratives in talmudic literature, in its most elaborate and complex version in the Babylonian Talmud. The late ancient and early medieval rabbinic popularity of Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's (henceforth Rashbi) sojourn in the cave is demonstrated by the wide distribution of the motif in various rabbinic texts. It later gained additional prominence in the Jewish collective imagination to such a degree that n…
The Semiotics of the Sexed Body in Early Halakhic Discourse
How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?
On Carnal Israel and the Consequences: Talmudic Studies since Foucault
On Carnal Israel and the Consequences:Talmudic Studies since Foucault Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Assistant Professor Ten years ago, Naomi Seidman published a rather provocative review essay about a number of works that had appeared in the early nineties and that were all devoted to the Jewish body in one form or another, albeit in most cases the male Jewish body.1 The essay, "Carnal Knowledge: Sex and the Body in Jewish Studies,"2 opened by ob…
Introduction: Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space
Introduction:Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (bio) and Vered Shemtov (bio) This issue of Jewish Social Studies presents a collection of articles centering on the general theme of space in Jewish culture. In recent years, the connection between spatial practices and identity formations has come to play a prominent role in various fields in the humanities, such as in anthropology and its various subfields, whi…
The Political Symbolism of the Eruv
T he eruv is perhaps one of the most peculiar ritual systems that the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud instituted, one that has very little basis, if any, in biblical law. The term itself is a rabbinic neologism, and the first textual evidence that we have of anything resembling the practice of the eruv is the Mishnah itself.' Although the Babylonian Talmud attributes the institution of this ritual
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender
When Women Walk in the Way of Their Fathers: On Gendering the Rabbinic Claim for Authority
LATE ANTIQUE RABBINIC literature makes repeated references to decrees that were ordained by a "government" (variously designated but rarely specified historically) and that prohibit the observance of a list of Jewish practices. 1 In their emphasis on bodily rituals, such decrees seem intended to undermine the continuity of the Jews as a corporeal community, which is exactly the light in which rabbinic texts cast them. Traditional historicists hav…
The Political Symbolism of the Eruv
T he eruv is perhaps one of the most peculiar ritual systems that the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud instituted, one that has very little basis, if any, in biblical law. The term itself is a rabbinic neologism, and the first textual evidence that we have of anything resembling the practice of the eruv is the Mishnah itself.' Although the Babylonian Talmud attributes the institution of this ritual
Introduction: Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space
Introduction:Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (bio) and Vered Shemtov (bio) This issue of Jewish Social Studies presents a collection of articles centering on the general theme of space in Jewish culture. In recent years, the connection between spatial practices and identity formations has come to play a prominent role in various fields in the humanities, such as in anthropology and its various subfields, whi…
The New Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies
During the past decade or so, there has been a “veritable boom ... of projects that investigate questions of place and space” in Jewish studies. In this arena, scholars in various fields of Jewish studies have begun to engage with developments in the humanities at large. Since the 1980s, many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have become more attentive to the cultural challenges of globalization, prominent among them the effects o…
Plato in Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's Cave (B. Shabbat 33b–34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato's Politics of Philosophy
Thus we are told in one of the most famous narratives in talmudic literature, in its most elaborate and complex version in the Babylonian Talmud. The late ancient and early medieval rabbinic popularity of Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's (henceforth Rashbi) sojourn in the cave is demonstrated by the wide distribution of the motif in various rabbinic texts. It later gained additional prominence in the Jewish collective imagination to such a degree that n…
When Women Walk in the Way of Their Fathers: On Gendering the Rabbinic Claim for Authority
LATE ANTIQUE RABBINIC literature makes repeated references to decrees that were ordained by a "government" (variously designated but rarely specified historically) and that prohibit the observance of a list of Jewish practices. 1 In their emphasis on bodily rituals, such decrees seem intended to undermine the continuity of the Jews as a corporeal community, which is exactly the light in which rabbinic texts cast them. Traditional historicists hav…
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender
On Carnal Israel and the Consequences: Talmudic Studies since Foucault
On Carnal Israel and the Consequences:Talmudic Studies since Foucault Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Assistant Professor Ten years ago, Naomi Seidman published a rather provocative review essay about a number of works that had appeared in the early nineties and that were all devoted to the Jewish body in one form or another, albeit in most cases the male Jewish body.1 The essay, "Carnal Knowledge: Sex and the Body in Jewish Studies,"2 opened by ob…
Introduction: Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space
Introduction:Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (bio) and Vered Shemtov (bio) This issue of Jewish Social Studies presents a collection of articles centering on the general theme of space in Jewish culture. In recent years, the connection between spatial practices and identity formations has come to play a prominent role in various fields in the humanities, such as in anthropology and its various subfields, whi…
The Political Symbolism of the Eruv
T he eruv is perhaps one of the most peculiar ritual systems that the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud instituted, one that has very little basis, if any, in biblical law. The term itself is a rabbinic neologism, and the first textual evidence that we have of anything resembling the practice of the eruv is the Mishnah itself.' Although the Babylonian Talmud attributes the institution of this ritual
The Semiotics of the Sexed Body in Early Halakhic Discourse
How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume inc…
Regulating the Human Body: Rabbinic Legal Discourse and the Making of Jewish Gender
The study of the cultural constructions of gender in rabbinic literature is a relatively young field, certainly compared to other literatures. Although already in the seventies Jewish feminist critics joined their colleagues in different religious contexts to critique the encrusted patriarchal traditions of Judaism, serious analyses of the workings of gender in the literature produced by the Late Antique rabbis began only in the nineties of the p…
Purity Studies in Judaism: An Emerging Subfield
Studies of textual traditions about menstruation in Judaism are seldom without an agenda. Perhaps they cannot be. The polemical history of the literature is simply too entrenched by now. This is also the case with Evyatar Marienberg's series of studies, recently published in France, about the place of menstruation in Jewish culture
Plato in Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's Cave (B. Shabbat 33b–34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato's Politics of Philosophy
Thus we are told in one of the most famous narratives in talmudic literature, in its most elaborate and complex version in the Babylonian Talmud. The late ancient and early medieval rabbinic popularity of Rabbi Shimeon bar Yohai's (henceforth Rashbi) sojourn in the cave is demonstrated by the wide distribution of the motif in various rabbinic texts. It later gained additional prominence in the Jewish collective imagination to such a degree that n…
Neighborhood as Ritual Space: The Case of the Rabbinic Eruv
The New Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies
During the past decade or so, there has been a “veritable boom ... of projects that investigate questions of place and space” in Jewish studies. In this arena, scholars in various fields of Jewish studies have begun to engage with developments in the humanities at large. Since the 1980s, many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have become more attentive to the cultural challenges of globalization, prominent among them the effects o…
A Statement from the Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Statement from the Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
A View from Late Antiquity Onward
A View from Late Antiquity Onward Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert “The most uncanny and alluring thing is the fact that the most original products of Jewish thinking are, as it were, products of assimilation.”1 Thus admits, albeit reluctantly, Gershom Scholem, otherwise known perhaps as one of the most vociferous critics of Jewish cultural assimilation, in a letter written from Jerusalem to Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in June 1939. Scholem writes in …
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