Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007)

A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of Antisemitis

From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism, 1967-1973

Flyer for Fall 1998 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Michael Staub.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ics_fellow_lectures/1031/thumbnail.jp

Jewish-American Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century: A Case Study of Anarchist Radicalisation in New York City

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Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Literature with Jewish Content: A Bibliographic Overview

The topic of gay, lesbian, and bisexual literature with Jewish content has been taboo for a very long time. Because of Judaism's deep-rooted commitment to the family, alternative forms of sexual relationships have rarely been mentioned in Jewish literature. Only in the past twenty-five years, with the rise of AIDS, but starting in the radical 1960s with its innovative sexual and cultural critique and revolutionary approach to politics and power arrangements, have we seen the rise of Jewish literature on gay, lesbian, and bisexual lifestyles. Since homosexuality is still asur (forbidden) in Halacha, this is still a controversial topic and care must be taken to handle it with sensitivity. Still, librarians and teachers should introduce these issues at age-appropriate and text appropriate levels. This bibliographic essay demonstrates the wide range of material that exists on this topic from research guides and anthologies to novels and sociological works. The literature is growing by leaps and bounds; much of the material is useful for Jewish libraries but must be updated regularly since this field is undergoing great change. However, since gay history is still history, the encyclopedias and research guides will always be useful. The paper includes a special section on homosexuality and sexual politics in Nazi Germany, a special interest of the author, a son of Holocaust survivors

Justice and identity : the 'non-Jewish Jew', cosmopolitanism and anti-apartheid activism in twentieth century South Africa

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Accommodating Resistance: Unionization, Gender, and Ethnicity in Winnipeg’s Garment Industry, 1929–1945

This article examines the culturally particular and gendered ways in which Jewish immigrant women in the garment industry negotiated their new Canadian urban environments by participating in labour protest, indicating how the site of the strike was one structured by gender and ethnicity as well as by class. Canada’s urban space both facilitated immigrant women’s integration into society by enabling their interaction with Canadian political and economic structures and encouraged their retention of culturally particular ways of life by providing sites and spaces for politically charged gatherings that not only reinforced these workers’ ethnic traditions but also put their status as militant women on public display. These women strikers’ accommodation and resistance to Canadian society was also affected by Anglo Canadians’ representations of them, by shifting unionization tactics—from radical to conservative—and by social constructions of gender, ethnicity, and class.Cet article examine les moyens culturellement particuliers et genrés par lesquels les femmes immigrantes juives dans l’industrie du vêtement au Canada ont négocié leur nouvel environnement urbain à travers diverses formes de manifestations ouvrières, en démontrant comment le lieu de la manifestation a été structuré par le genre, l’ethnicité et la classe. L’espace urbain canadien a servi à la fois à faciliter l’intégration sociale des femmes immigrées en permettant leur interaction avec les structures politiques et économiques canadiennes et à favoriser leur rétention de modes de vie culturellement particuliers en leur offrant un espace et des sites pour des rassemblements à caractère politique qui non seulement ont renforcé les traditions ethniques de ces ouvrières mais ont aussi mis leur statut de femmes militantes au grand jour. La façon dont ces femmes grévistes se sont accommodées et ont résisté à la société canadienne a également été affectée par leurs représentations anglo-canadiennes, l’évolution des tactiques syndicales—de radicales à conservatrices—et par des constructions sociales de genre, d’ethnicité et de classe

Radical Israeli settlers: ultimate concerns, political goals and violence

The focus of this article is the radical and activist parts of the wider Israeli settler community on the West Bank. This Radical Israeli Settler Movement should not be confused with the general settler community in the West Bank, even if the more radical groups often recruit their members from the general settler community. The Radical Israeli Settler Movement today includes groups such as Kach, The Committee for Safety on the Roads and The Jewish Legion. The purpose of this article is to analyse some instances of violence in the radical Israeli settler movement and to identify recurring features and processes in this violence. It will be argued that these features and processes are important factors in understanding why certain movements use violence. It will also be argued that future comparative studies are needed, which include other contexts where similar radical movements have become violent, in order to develop a general theory of ethno-religious movements using political violence

A study of the influence of the Bible on the two contemporary science fiction films, The Matrix and Avatar, with a focus on the link between religion, myth and plot.

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