Friendship in Jewish history, religion, and culture / edited by Lawrence Fine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fine, Lawrence, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)

Dimyonot: Jews and the cultural imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Friendship.

Jewish ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : studying friendship in Jewish culture, history, and religion / Lawrence Fine

"Cherished in life, for they loved each other exceedingly" : friendship in medieval Ashkenaz / Eyal Levinson

God in the face of the other : mystical friendship in the Zohar / Eitan P. Fishbane

Friendship and gender : the limits and possibilities of Jewish philosophy / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

"She and her friends" : on women's friendship in Biblical narrative / Saul M. Olyan

Friends and friendship in the memoir of Glückel of Hameln : learning from experience / Joseph Davis

"Got yourself some friends? Now build a movement!" : friendship in the Jewish women's movement in the United States / Martha Ackelsberg

Jacob and Esau : twinship, identity, and failed friendship / George Savran

Hebraica amicitia : Leon Modena and the cultural practices of early modern intra-Jewish friendship / Michela Andreatta

Friendship and betrayal : Hasidism and secularism in early twentieth-century Poland / Glenn Dynner

Interfaith encounters between Jews and Christians in the early modern period and beyond : toward a framework / Daneil Jütte

Friendship, Jewish female philosophers, and feminism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

A friendship in the prophetic tradition : Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr. / Susannah Heschel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271090108

0271090103

Publisher Number:

99986647921

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.