Susannah Heschel
Biographic Data
| ID | 956874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susannah Heschel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Heschel |
| SIGNATURE | HESCHEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2859-6793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology: The Role of Jesus in National Socialism , by Mikael Nilsson
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies
A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field The field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing numbers of women entering the field. These scholars have brought new perspectives from studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Yet they have also faced institutional and individual obstacles. In t…
Meir Kahane and Race as Incarnational Theology
The widespread receptivity of Jewish communities around the world to Meir Kahane demands that we reconsider our narrative of modern Jewish history and religious thought. His racism, calls for violence, and protofascism are startling, given the standard presentation that liberalism and assimilation mark the modern Jewish era. Even more startling is that Kahane's name almost never appears in the major surveys of American Judaism, the history of Zio…
On Being a Jewish Feminist
A Different Kind of Theo-Politics: Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Prophets and the Civil Rights Movement”
This paper explores the sharp differences in the understanding of the Hebrew prophets by theologians, Jewish and Protestant, in Germany and the United States, with a particular focus on their invocation of prophetic teachings in relation to social and political movements. The sharp denigrations of the prophets – described as ecstatics (Gunkel) or rural naifs (Troeltsch) rendered the prophets useless as figures of inspiration in Germany in relatio…
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze
The Rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish Engagement in Islamic Studies
The Philological Uncanny: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Readings of the Qur'an
Is the Qur'an a Jewish book? When Jews first began studying and analysing Qur'anic texts as students at German universities in the 1830s, they experienced what this essay calls a ‘philological uncanny’—elements and aspects which are both recognisable and alien, giving a sense of being at home and in a different place simultaneously. The Qur'an, in that moment of first reading, may well have appeared uncanny to these young Jewish students, suddenl…
Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze
Orientalist triangulations
The phenomenon of Orientalist motifs in European architecture was not limited to synagogues, as some public buildings, such as the waterworks of Potsdam, were also constructed in Orientalist style; yet, Moorish architecture did not spread to churches. A generation before Goldziher, the identification of Judaism with Islam is defines by Abraham Geiger and Gustav Weil, two of the earliest and most influential German Jewish scholars of early Islam. …
A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr
The long tradition of prophetic rhetoric in the United States reached an extraordinary peak with Martin Luther King, Jr., who made the Hebrew prophets central figures of the civil rights movement. King's voice, imbued with the words of Amos and Isaiah, was enhanced by a radical innovation in the understanding of the Hebrew prophets introduced by the Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel. The friendship between King and Heschel and their shared…
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to GenocideAlon Confino
Alon Confino's extended essay tries to develop new ways of thinking about Nazi antisemitism. Why did the Nazis want to murder all the Jews in the world? His answer: “Jews represented time, symbolizing evil historical origins that had to be eradicated for Nazi civilization to arise” (p. 14). Confino drew this conclusion by asking, “Why did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible?” (p. 3). That dramatic question opened for Confino a new way of thinking: hi…
Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety by Joseph Harp Britton
Holocaust Scholarship
Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of i
Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations
Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam
This chapter shows that Jewish scholars tested the boundaries between religious, political, and cultural modes of public expression by immersing themselves in the study of Islam—some to the point of conversion. This engagement with Muslim literature and culture, which persisted until the Second World War, enabled some Jewish scholars to cast themselves as intermediaries between Eastern and Western aesthetics and theology. By forging a middle grou…
German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism
From the 1830s to the 1930s Jewish scholars came to dominate Islamic studies in Europe, particularly Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion. They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance but cultural and economic flo…
Historiography of Antisemitism versus Anti-Judaism: A Response to Robert Morgan
Responding to Robert Morgan’s plaidoyer for Christianity by claiming a distinction between theological anti-Judaism and modern, racial antisemitism, this article demonstrates that the texts of pro-Nazi German Protestant theologians integrate race and religion with a fluidity that obviates a sharp distinction between the two terms. Antisemitic propaganda produced by Christian theologians during World War II leaves the strictly theological realm in…
The Impact of Nazism on German Rabbinics Scholarship: A Response to Robert P. Ericksen
Jewish studies in the third Reich: A brief glance at Viktor Christian and Kurt Schubert
Introduction: Transnational Migrations of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and the Modernity Debate
From Jesus to Shylock: Christian Supersessionism and “The Merchant of Venice”
In 1943 the SS Gauleiter , “district administrator,” of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, commissioned a performance of The Merchant of Venice at the famed Burgtheater to celebrate the deportation of allthe Jews;Vienna had become Judenrein “cleansed of Jews.” When Werner Krauss, the Nazis'leading actor, first appeared on stage as Shylock, he made the audience shudder. According to the newspaper account:With a crash and a weird train of shadows, someth…
Gender and Agency in the Feminist Historiography of Jewish Identity
Genre et historiographie juive
Quel rôle les femmes jouèrent-elles dans l’histoire juive en général et dans la période de « l’émancipation » en particulier ? Quelle fut leur responsabilité dans la vague d’assimilation, c’est-à-dire l’abandon public des pratiques religieuses ? Leur rôle fut-il conservateur dans le maintien des pratiques domestiques ou, au contraire, cette pratique domestique a-t-elle encouragé les hommes à se défaire (publiquement) de leurs pratiques religieuse…
Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy
Susannah Heschel, Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy, New German Critique, No. 77, Special Issue on German-Jewish Religious Thought (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 61-85
Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy
Susannah Heschel, Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy, New German Critique, No. 77, Special Issue on German-Jewish Religious Thought (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 61-85
Historiography of Antisemitism versus Anti-Judaism: A Response to Robert Morgan
Responding to Robert Morgan’s plaidoyer for Christianity by claiming a distinction between theological anti-Judaism and modern, racial antisemitism, this article demonstrates that the texts of pro-Nazi German Protestant theologians integrate race and religion with a fluidity that obviates a sharp distinction between the two terms. Antisemitic propaganda produced by Christian theologians during World War II leaves the strictly theological realm in…
German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism
From the 1830s to the 1930s Jewish scholars came to dominate Islamic studies in Europe, particularly Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion. They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance but cultural and economic flo…
Nazifying Christian Theology: Walter Grundmann and the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life
The Third Reich's Kirchenkampf (church struggle) is sometimes mistakenly understood as referring to the Protestant churches' resistance to National Socialism. In fact, the term refers to an internal dispute between members of the Bekennende Kirche [Confessing Church (hereafter BK )] and members of the Deutsche Christen [German Christians (hereafter DC )] over control of the Protestant church. While not all members of the BK opposed Hitler's polic…
Jewish Feminism and Women's Identity
No abstract available for this article
A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr
The long tradition of prophetic rhetoric in the United States reached an extraordinary peak with Martin Luther King, Jr., who made the Hebrew prophets central figures of the civil rights movement. King's voice, imbued with the words of Amos and Isaiah, was enhanced by a radical innovation in the understanding of the Hebrew prophets introduced by the Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel. The friendship between King and Heschel and their shared…
Introduction: Transnational Migrations of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and the Modernity Debate
Gender and Agency in the Feminist Historiography of Jewish Identity
The Repair of the World
Females, Feminists, and Feminism: A Review of Recent Literature on Jewish Feminism and the Creation of a Feminist Judaism
Women's Studies
Journal Article WOMEN'S STUDIES Get access Susannah Heschel Susannah Heschel SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 3, October 1990, Pages 243–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.243 Published: 01 October 1990
Jewish Feminism and Women's Identity
No abstract available for this article
Nazifying Christian Theology: Walter Grundmann and the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life
The Third Reich's Kirchenkampf (church struggle) is sometimes mistakenly understood as referring to the Protestant churches' resistance to National Socialism. In fact, the term refers to an internal dispute between members of the Bekennende Kirche [Confessing Church (hereafter BK )] and members of the Deutsche Christen [German Christians (hereafter DC )] over control of the Protestant church. While not all members of the BK opposed Hitler's polic…
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism
Jewish Studies as Counterhistory
Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy
Susannah Heschel, Revolt of the Colonized: Abraham Geiger's Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Challenge to Christian Hegemony in the Academy, New German Critique, No. 77, Special Issue on German-Jewish Religious Thought (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 61-85
Genre et historiographie juive
Quel rôle les femmes jouèrent-elles dans l’histoire juive en général et dans la période de « l’émancipation » en particulier ? Quelle fut leur responsabilité dans la vague d’assimilation, c’est-à-dire l’abandon public des pratiques religieuses ? Leur rôle fut-il conservateur dans le maintien des pratiques domestiques ou, au contraire, cette pratique domestique a-t-elle encouragé les hommes à se défaire (publiquement) de leurs pratiques religieuse…
Gender and Agency in the Feminist Historiography of Jewish Identity
From Jesus to Shylock: Christian Supersessionism and “The Merchant of Venice”
In 1943 the SS Gauleiter , “district administrator,” of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, commissioned a performance of The Merchant of Venice at the famed Burgtheater to celebrate the deportation of allthe Jews;Vienna had become Judenrein “cleansed of Jews.” When Werner Krauss, the Nazis'leading actor, first appeared on stage as Shylock, he made the audience shudder. According to the newspaper account:With a crash and a weird train of shadows, someth…
The Impact of Nazism on German Rabbinics Scholarship: A Response to Robert P. Ericksen
Jewish studies in the third Reich: A brief glance at Viktor Christian and Kurt Schubert
Introduction: Transnational Migrations of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and the Modernity Debate
Historiography of Antisemitism versus Anti-Judaism: A Response to Robert Morgan
Responding to Robert Morgan’s plaidoyer for Christianity by claiming a distinction between theological anti-Judaism and modern, racial antisemitism, this article demonstrates that the texts of pro-Nazi German Protestant theologians integrate race and religion with a fluidity that obviates a sharp distinction between the two terms. Antisemitic propaganda produced by Christian theologians during World War II leaves the strictly theological realm in…
German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism
From the 1830s to the 1930s Jewish scholars came to dominate Islamic studies in Europe, particularly Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion. They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance but cultural and economic flo…
Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam
This chapter shows that Jewish scholars tested the boundaries between religious, political, and cultural modes of public expression by immersing themselves in the study of Islam—some to the point of conversion. This engagement with Muslim literature and culture, which persisted until the Second World War, enabled some Jewish scholars to cast themselves as intermediaries between Eastern and Western aesthetics and theology. By forging a middle grou…
Holocaust Scholarship
Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of i
Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations
Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety by Joseph Harp Britton
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to GenocideAlon Confino
Alon Confino's extended essay tries to develop new ways of thinking about Nazi antisemitism. Why did the Nazis want to murder all the Jews in the world? His answer: “Jews represented time, symbolizing evil historical origins that had to be eradicated for Nazi civilization to arise” (p. 14). Confino drew this conclusion by asking, “Why did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible?” (p. 3). That dramatic question opened for Confino a new way of thinking: hi…
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze
The Rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish Engagement in Islamic Studies
The Philological Uncanny: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Readings of the Qur'an
Is the Qur'an a Jewish book? When Jews first began studying and analysing Qur'anic texts as students at German universities in the 1830s, they experienced what this essay calls a ‘philological uncanny’—elements and aspects which are both recognisable and alien, giving a sense of being at home and in a different place simultaneously. The Qur'an, in that moment of first reading, may well have appeared uncanny to these young Jewish students, suddenl…
Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze
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