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Description:: In the nineteenth century, Jews across Europe entered a period of emancipation, at best a vaguely defined term that indicated the granting of equal civil and political rights, though sometimes conditionally and often incrementally. Concurrent to this, art music was dominated by deep divisions of stylistic and aesthetic approaches to...
Keyword:: musicology, Jewish music, Judaism, Germany, Jews, and 19th century music
Subject:: Judaic studies and Music history
Creator:: Stein, Amanda Ruppenthal
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_796496 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15472

Description:: Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to escape rising antisemitism in Europe and Russia. By focusing on Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires, this...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Buenos Aires, Yiddish theatre, Avant-garde, and Modernism
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Markenson, Casey Tova
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756700 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15198

Description:: Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...
Keyword:: Assimilation, Jewishness, Gender, Comedy, Stand-up, and Performance
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and American studies
Creator:: Overbeke, Grace Kessler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648

Description:: The problem of evil, the difficulty of reconciling the reality of evil with an omnipotent and good God, is one of the central problems in Abrahamic theology. The central liturgical practice of traditional Judaism is the recitation of the Amidah, a prayer that (on weekdays) consists in a series of...
Keyword:: Jewish ethics, theodicy, Jewish philosophy, prayer, anti-theodicy, and problem of evil
Subject:: Judaic studies, Philosophy of Religion, and Theology
Creator:: Ricciardi, Benjamin Cleveland
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_661202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14601

Description:: Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption ranks as one of the most original and innovative works of the modern period. Thinkers as diverse as Buber, Benjamin, Levinas, Strauss and Derrida have all acknowledged its influence. Yet, there has not been any consensus on the book’s main objective or agenda. Some...
Keyword:: The Star of Redemption and Franz Rosenzweig
Subject:: Judaic studies and Philosophy of Religion
Creator:: Brenzel, Stephanie Faith
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_660990 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14595

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