"A myśli w mym sercu przesłane przez Boga" - ewolucja dominanty lirycznej w poezjach Jehudy ha-Lewiego

Author(s): Barbara Gryczan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2017

The author presented a number of Yehuda ha-Levi’s poems accompanied by their literary translation into Polish. Based on selected lyrical poems she presented ha-Levi’s artistic and philosophical attitude, and especially the changes it underwent during the author’s long life. The author paid special attention to the mystical themes in the works. The inimitable manner of portraying the intimate bond with the Absolute, the dreams, the recollections of Israel’s history, and the trip to Jerusalem as the climax, became a source of inspiration for generations of mystics. In order to encourage fuller and more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon which Yehuda ha-Levi’s poetry represented, the author also included numerous commentaries serving as references to the author’s biography and the historical, cultural and linguistic background of his times.

"Add nekem Javnét ... (esszé)

Author(s): György Tatár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/1989

"And She Took Her Veil, and Covered Herself" (Genesis 24:65). ‘Bridal Head Coverings’ from the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Author(s): Dana Veselská / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2004

During preparations for the exhibition of laces from the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague, which was held at the Robert Guttmann Gallery in the summer of 2004,1) a set of eighteen textiles of similar appearance and shape were catalogued in more detail. Traditionally referred to as ‘bridal head coverings’ or ‘wedding covers’ by Museum staff, these textiles had never before been published in their entirety. As most of these textiles are decorated with intricate and unusual bobbin lace, it has become an important task for the Museum’s textile collection staff to determine more closely the function of these items and to identify the circumstances in which they were made.

"Az indiánokat nem szokták lezsidózni", avagy hogyan kerül egy mesztic fiú a zsidó iskolába? (pszichológiai tanulmány)

Author(s): Júlia Vajda,Éva Kovács / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2001

1994 tavaszán felkerestük Emmát és Andrist, hogy interjút készítsünk velük. Emma egyike volt azoknak a szülőknek, aki felkérésünkre válaszolva hajlandónak mutatkozott arra, hogy a zsidó iskola kapcsán beszélgessen velünk. Levelünkben hangsúlyoztuk, hogy azok a családok érdekelnek bennünket, amelyek új, alternatív iskolába íratták át gyermeküket - nem utaltunk azonban az iskola zsidó voltára. Emma az előzetes telefonbeszélgetésben szokatlanul készségesnek és nyíltnak mutatkozott, és többször mentegetőzött, hogy nem tud túl sokat az iskoláról.

"Az Úr felépíti Dávid leomlott sátorát" (esszé)

Author(s): György Szegő / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/1992

"Chestiunea evreiască " şi raporturile româna-franceze (1866-1880). Câteva consideraţii

Author(s): Marius Alexandru lstina / Language(s): Romanian Issue: XXX/2001

Dans cette étude l'auteur présente quelques considerations de l'impact "de la question juive" sur des relations d'entre la Roumanie et la France.

"Dotknęła frędzli Jego płaszcza" (Łk 8,44) - Interpretacja zdania w świetle starożytnych świadectw biblijnych i pozabiblijnych

Author(s): Agnieszka Ziemińska / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 1/2019

Touching Jesus’ garment by a woman suffering from a twelve-year discharge of blood rendered an uncontrolled flow of power (δύναμις) from his body and cured her. Did the fact that the woman’s touch concerned this specific part of the robe of the Master of Nazareth have some meaning? Bearing in mind the law of wearing tassels upon the hem of the garment (Deut 22:12) as well as the prophecy from Zach 8:23, we follow the history and the meaning of this appendage to the garment. It is certain that tassels upon robes were not an idea that originated in Jewish culture. We find evidence of garments with this kind of adornment on two Minoan seal stones from around the 17th c. BC, Assyrian bas-reliefs (9th c. BC) and also on some Egyptian artefacts (starting from around 15th c. BC). They are visible as additions to the robes of both important people (king, priest) and deities. In many cultures, tassels upon the robe gave a special status to the person who wore them. They served as seals and as such they constituted an alter ego of a person. Touching or grasping the fringes of someone’s robe gave the owner an aff ection and gave him that person’s power. It seems that the Jews, to the preexisting custom of wearing this ornament, added, following God’s command, a specifi cally Jewish order to put in the tassels a blue thread (Num 15:38). Wearing the fringes widened with a new dimension – they were supposed to remind people of God’s commandments and his presence. In the case of the sick woman touching Jesus and also in the passage of Matt 14:34–36, where the sick people ask whether they could touch “the fringes of his cloak” both dimensions (ethnic – power, and specifi cally Jewish – memory of God commandments) are significant.

"Eliezernek van igaza"

Author(s): Márton Koppány / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/1993

parabole-teaching

"Ez ama szövetségnek jele"

Author(s): Júlia Vajda / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2001

Es látá az Úr, hogy megsokasult az ember gonoszsága a földön, és hogy szíve gondolatának minden alkotása szüntelen csak gonosz. Megbáná azért az Úr, hogy teremtette az embert a földön, és bánkódék az ő szívében. És monda az Úr: Eltörlöm az embert, a kit teremtettem, a földnek színéről; az embert, a barmot, a csúszó-mászó állatokat, és az ég madarait; mert bánom, hogy azokat teremtettem. De Noé kegyelmet talála az Úr előtt." (Móz. I. 6. 5-8.)

"Food for Peace": The Vegan Religion of the Hebrews of Jerusalem

Author(s): Shelley Elkayam / Language(s): English Issue: XXVI/2014

A debate over the morality of Kosher slaughter [Shechita (Hebrew: שחיטה)] has raged in Poland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark, where the Jewish ritual slaughter was outlawed. The more the debate goes on, the more awareness arises to Shechita as a basic Jewish religious practice. Yet veganism is a Hebrew religious operation too. This article discusses Hebrew vegan belief in terms meaningful to Jews, yet considering its utopian nature, in terms applicable to others as well. Both Shechita and veganism have universal Hebrew claims. Yet both claims are to be studied. Within this vast theme, I will analyze here veganism only, with respect to its utopian role and as a theological structure of one, yet global, community: the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. They believe themselves to be the descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob Israel. They are Jewish by their cultural nature: they observe Shabbat, Torah and a weekly fast. In 70 A.D. after the Romans destroyed the second temple they escaped and fled southward and westward to various nations in Africa two millennia ago where they were sold as slaves and were enslaved in America. They left America in 1967 led by their spiritual leader Ben Ammi, defined their departure as an exodus from America. Via Liberia – where they became vegans – they arrived in Israel in 1969, established an urban kibbutz, a collective communal living which is located in a desert region. Like most Jews, their diet has tremendous importance, but unlike most Jews they are vegan. The African Hebrews have very specific vegan dietary practices. Their tradition includes teaching and studying a special diet, which is vegetarian, organic and self-produced. They observe Shabbat strictly. On Shabbat, they fast and cleanse. This mirrors their spiritual outlook that eating is a hard labor of which they are obliged to rest from by the Ten Commandments. This article presents a breakthrough idea that fasting on Shabbat indeed reflects an ancient Israelite religious tradition. “Food for Peace” s a metaphor for the theology of the Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem unfolding their messianic utopia through which they believe people may achieve inner peace and even world peace, encompassing decades of powerful hopes, realities and nutritious lifestyle.

"Gaza Strip" - a Unique political area

Author(s): Gideon Biger / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

Gaza Strip, a small area located in the South East shore of the Mediterranean sea in a unique political territorial entity which fro time to time catch the headline as rockets are sent from it to Israel and Israel retaliating by army force. It is part of the non - independence Palestinian Authority, not recognized as a separated area by no-one, behave independently toward the world. It was created by a series of political agreements, military activities, citizen wars, United Nation resolutions and agreements, more the 10 times during the last 100 years, and its future is still to be seen.

"Gránit a siratófalban, ütem magyar ajkú dalban"

Author(s): Petra Török / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2001

Lesznai Anna varázsos személyiségét képekbe festette, párnákba hímezte és versekbe öntötte, ami pedig még ezek után is megmaradt kincseiből, azt emberekre költötte. Mindenkinek és mindenhová jutott egy kis Lesznai Anna, vagy ahogy barátai nevezték: Máli. Legendásan szeretetteljes lénye, magával ragadó egyénisége mindenkit megbabonázott, talán az egyetlen volt, aki akár a Nyugat társaságával, a Nyolcak körével, a Vasárnapi Társaság tagjaival vagy éppen Kassák - vele ellentétben legendásan nem könnyű természetével - egyaránt közös hangot talált, így korántsem találhat juk túlzónak Balázs Béla szavait, hiszen a visszaemlékező kortársak mindegyike e hangon szól róla, így emlékezett rá: ,,( ... ) Máli igazán tuzijátékát rendezte a szeretetnek. Ez a nő olyan brutálisan gazdag, hoqy muszáj szeretni."

"Hogyagyülölet és a türelmetlenség soha többé ne üzhessen el senkit a szülőföldjéről"

Author(s): Juan Carlos I / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/1992

"Ich bin einer der 500 von 150.000...". Ein Interview-Screening in memoriam Simon Wiesenthal

Author(s): Béla Rásky,Philipp Rohrbach / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2020

In November 1997, Simon Wiesenthal gave an interview to the historian Albert Lichtblau. For five days, he talked tirelessly about his life, his work, his fate. The 11-hour interview became part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s testimonies collection on the Holocaust. In January/February 2020, the VWI presented this unique contemporary source document in the Austrian Film Museum on six consecutive Sunday afternoons – each time to a full house. After each screening, experts and contemporaries of Wiesenthal were invited by the VWI to comment on what they had seen, deepening the narrative in a moderated discussion and contributing their own experiences and memories, both academic and anecdotal.

"Idén Jeruzsálemben"

Author(s): Erzsébet Schiller,Péter Varga / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/1991

"Itt borzalmas bűntett történt" - Kőbányai János interjúja

Author(s): Gábor Fodor,János Kőbányai / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/1994

"Izraelben a nevem Cvi volt ...''

Author(s): György Kardos G. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/1997

the text of the documentary film by Mária Soós

"Jews, Christians and Muslims: Cohabitation And Confrontation Along The Centuries" - International Seminar Bucharest May 18–19, 2006

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2006

"KISEMBEREK/LITTLE PEOPLE..."

Author(s): Dan Horaţiu Popescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The book “Modern Times. The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family” is a family memoir written by Stephen Pogany, Professor Emeritus. The major challenge for Stephen Pogany was finding the proper voice “unencumbered by either academic jargon or sentimentality”.One of the narrative strategy employed by the author consists in placing the histories of his family members in parallel with those of (in)famous people who either had roots in the same community or lived in the same period. Another strategy is combining humor and self-irony with deceptive accounts from unreliable narrators, accounts enhanced by the author’s guesses. Readers come experience emotional proximity when hearing about the tragical destinies of the deported Jews in the family and the hidden emotional marks of the survivors.

"Megérteni logikus lényét!" (Adalékok Füst Milán és Osvát Ernő kapcsolatához)

Author(s): Judit Szilágyi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2000

Osvat Ernonek a Nyugatnál betöltött "ecepét gyakran jelölik a .,kertész" vagy a .. főpap" metaforával. Az első nemzedék tagjai közül többen hasonlították az apa-fiú kapcsolatához a tisztelet, szeretet és elutasítás, lázadás ellentmondásaival terhelt viszonyukat. Kosztolányi úgy emlékezik, hogy első találkozásukkor rnint "fiút az apa", úgy kérdezgette őt Osvát. Arnikor Móricz a Hét lcraj'cárral jelentkezik nála, egy apa gyöngédségét érzi, "aki fogadja a megjött fiút". Karinthy álmában saját apjaként ismeri fel Osvátot. Balázs Béla azt jegyzi naplójába: "Egészen gyerekes arnbíciórn, hogy végre valarnivel meghódítsam." A szerkesztővel kapcsolatban hasonló apakomplexusa alakul ki Pap Károlynak és Déry Tibornak is. Fenyő Miksa azzal a legfőbb igénnyel készíti írásait, hogy azok nyerjék el Osvát tetszését. De még az induló Kassák számára is ő volt a mérce.