Introduction: Liberating captivity: sacred translations of secular narratives -- A pious translation: the multiplicity of call it sleep and Henry Roth's single sin -- Converting books into bodies: unorthodox women and the vanity of art -- An inward eye: Modigliani and the burden…
Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated-culturally, socially, and politically-into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity…
Founded in Germany in 1912, Agudat Israel was the first comprehensive, international political movement among Orthodox Jews. This study examines the forces that led to its formation, setting its history into the context of both the millennial Jewish political tradition and the J…