The "Jewish Knight" of Slobodka honor culture and the image of the body in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish context

Bibliographic Data

ID4372875
AuthorsYakir Yacov Englander, Yakir Englander (Harvard University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume46
Issue2
Pages186-208
Publication date2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2015.1061064
OpenAlexW2258008542
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited30

Scholarship on Ultra-Orthodox Jewish thought has traditionally assumed that the views of these communities derive from a struggle against the Jewish Enlightenment and Zionism, as well as against any values they identify as “modern.” This article challenges that assumption. Beginning with an examination of Ultra-Orthodox sources that present an image of the religious leader as the “ideal Jew,” the author then focuses on sources concerning the founder of the Slobodka Yeshiva in Lithuania. This rabbi intended his students to internalize “modern” norms found in the European honor culture of his time, while translating them into the language of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy. The author chooses to present his argument by tracing the image of the body in the Slobodka method, since it is precisely through the nexus of the body that Ultra-Orthodox Judaism was segregated from general European society and culture

Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Haskalah · Honor · Ideal (ethics) · Islam · Jewish culture · Jewish studies · Judaism · Orthodoxy · Political science · Scholarship · Secularism · Sociology · Theology · Zionism · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social and Cultural Studies

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