拉比犹太教探源

拉比犹太教是一个阶段性宗教,这一课题在国内鲜有人问津。由于资料缺乏等原因,它起源于何时,何时终结,至今在学术界争论不断。本文在总结国内外学者观点的基础上,意在对拉比犹太教的源头进行详细探讨,同时对拉比犹太教的内涵进行简单梳理。     

近代中国知识界对古代开封犹太人身份的理解

本文以近代历史文献为基础,分析了近代中国知识界对开封犹太人身份的理解.由于缺乏宗教知识特别是犹太教知识,许多近代知识分子将开封一赐乐业教徒误认为天主教徒或景教徒.随着西方宗教的传入和一些知识分子游历海外,19世纪末期中国知识界开始把开封一赐乐业教徒和西方犹太人联系起来,并认为古代开封犹太人已经完全失去其民族特性,同化于主流社会.     

犹太科学运动的政治和民族动因

19世纪上半叶,在犹太学领域兴起的科学运动是在欧洲民族主义普遍发展、现代反犹主义加剧的情况下进行的,它的背后潜藏着深厚政治和民族动因。德意志民族主义一方面强化了反犹主义,使得犹太知识精英在文化界特别是大学面临困境,犹太人从痛苦的经历中感受了一种前所未有的民族存在意识。作为一种正面力量,德意志民族浪漫主义思潮也激发并强化了犹太民族自信心,它与启蒙时代的理性主义汇合,为科学犹太学提供了动力。因此,犹太科学运动可以被看作是犹太民族史上的一场文化复兴运动。     

The Montreal Jewish Community and the Holocaust

In 1933 Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in Germany. At the same time, in Canada in general and in Montreal in particular, anti-Semitism was becoming more widespread. The Canadian Jewish Congress, as a result of the growing tension in Europe and the increase in anti-Semitism at home, was reborn in 1934 and became the authoritative voice of Canadian Jewry. During World War II the Nazis embarked on a campaign that resulted in the systematic extermination of millions of Jews. This article focuses on the Montreal Jewish community, its leadership, and their response to the fate of European Jewry. The study pays particular attention to the Canadian Jewish Congress which influenced the outlook of the community and its subsequent actions. As the war progressed, loyalty to Canada and support for the war effort became the overriding issues for the community and the leadership and concern for their European brethren faded into the background.     

The Jewish Cultural Complex

Although 70 years have passed since the Nazi Holocaust, the aftereffects resulting from it and centuries of Jewish oppression persist in Jewish tribal identity and in the mechanisms for its survival. In much the same way that PTSD affects individuals who have suffered life-threatening situations, a history of collective trauma has produced within Jewish psyches symptoms such as hypervigilance, reactivity, and a sense of profound danger in the world. The author proposes that such sedimented responses form a Jewish cultural complex with a hypermuscular defense system armed against further psychic attacks. Healing involves a restoration of the feeling function and a return to the rich body of Jewish ethical principles that balance personal security with compassion for self and other.     

论中世纪西欧犹太社团的司法自治--以10-12世纪的法国和德国为例

中世纪时期,西欧各国的犹太社团虽游离于主流社会之外,没有任何政治权利,却享有广泛的自我管理权,其中司法自治是犹太自我管理权最重要的体现,这使得欧洲犹太社团的存在和犹太人的自我管理有了法律基础.同时,欧洲的非犹太人社会一般不干涉犹太人内部事务,无疑对于欧洲犹太社团的存在、发展、巩固起到了决定性作用,也是犹太文化和传统得以保存至今的一个重要原因.本文着重分析犹太社团司法自治的权利来源、犹太社团的立法机构及重大法规的影响和社团司法自治的原则,同时对犹太社团司法自治产生的深远影响进行阐释.     

The Care of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Patient

The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community embraces a system of values and a rigorous behavioral code that are deeply rooted in religious tradition and history. Here we describe some of the unique challenges that stem from the encounter between modern medical practice and the Ultra-Orthodox world. Through examples of clinical and ethical scenarios ranging from prenatal care to end-of-life decisions, we illustrate problems related to observance of age-old practices in a modern hospital setting, balancing acceptance of Divine will with standard risk assessment, reconciliation of patient autonomy with deference to rabbinic authority and fear of stigma associated with mental illness in a traditional society. We also offer a generalizable model where inquiry precedes pre-formulated judgment to help clinicians provide enhanced care for this population.     

Jewish Identity and the Secular Achievements of American Jewish Men and Women

Three questions are addressed concerning the relationship of Jewish identity to secular achievements. Are the secular achievements of American Jews related at all to the strength of their Jewish identity? Which has a stronger relationship to secular achievement, a religious or an ethnic Jewish identity? Do communal aspects or private, personal aspects of Jewish identity have the stronger relationship to secular achievements? Using the 2000–2001 National Jewish Population Survey, we find that educational attainment, labor force participation, and occupational achievements are related to several expressions of Jewish identity, even after controlling for the traditional sources of variation (age, gender, education, family status). Jewish identity, as expressed in terms of religion, ethnicity, communal commitment, and private attitudes and practices, is related to contemporary Jewish secular achievement, albeit differently for men and women.     

Teaching Contempt: the Jew through Christian eyes

The early Fathers, the mediaeval theologians and the architects of the Protestant Reformation are all guilty of denigrating Judaism by teaching contempt. This article explores the legacy of Christian anti‐Judaism by concentrating on the work of theologians, artists and sculptors, all of whom played their part in propagating the negative stereotype of the Jew. Three biblical texts have been chosen for detailed investigation in order to demonstrate how Christian teaching, based on a fanciful and erroneous interpretation of Scripture, has been reflected in modem anti‐Jewish attitudes. The evidence corroborates the view that much of Hitler's antisemitic propaganda was rooted in Christian thought.