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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fine, Lawrence, editor.

Series:

Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)

Dimyonot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it truly is. Covering the vast expanse of Jewish tradition, from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century, this collection of essays traces the history of the beliefs, rituals, and social practices surrounding friendship in Jewish life.Employing diverse methodological approaches, this volume explores the particulars of the many varied forms that friendship has taken in the different regions where Jews have lived, including the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, Europe, and the United Sates. The four sections—friendship between men, friendship between women, challenges to friendship, and friendships that cross boundaries, especially between Jews and Christians, or men and women—represent and exemplify universal themes and questions about human interrelationships. This pathbreaking and timely study will inspire further research and provide the groundwork for future explorations of the topic.In addition to the editor, the contributors are Martha Ackelsberg, Michela Andreatta, Joseph Davis, Glenn Dynner, Eitan P. Fishbane, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Jütte, Eyal Levinson, Saul M. Olyan, George Savran, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.

Contents:

Chapter 12: A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr

Index

Chapter 6: "Got Yourself Some Friends ?Now Build a Movement!" Friendship in the Jewish Women's Movement in the United States

Chapter 7: Jacob and Esau Twinship, Identity, and Failed Friendship

Chapter 8: Hebraica AmicitiaLeon Modena and the Cultural Practices of Early Modern Intra-Jewish Friendship

Chapter 9: Friendship and Betrayal Hasidism and Secularism in Early Twentieth-Century Poland

Chapter 10: Interfaith Encounters Between Jews and Christians in the Early Modern Period and Beyond Toward a Framework

Chapter 11: Friendship, Jewish Female Philosophers, and Feminism

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: "Cherished in Life, for They Loved Each Other Exceedingly

Chapter 2: God in the Face of the Other Mystical Friendship in the Zohar

Chapter 3: Friendship and Gender The Limits and Possibilities of Jewish Philosophy

Chapter 4: "She and Her Friends"On Women's Friendship in Biblical Narrative

Chapter 5: Friends and Friendship in the Memoir of Glückel of Hameln Learning from Experience

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780271090085

0271090081

9780271090108

0271090103

OCLC:

1237379890