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Special Section: Forum on No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging

This section was inspired by the 2021 book No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging, edited by David S. Koffman.

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Vardit Lightstone
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This section was inspired by the 2021 book No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging, edited by David S. Koffman. The book is a collection of eighteen schol-arly essays that explore topics relating to home, diaspora, and belonging within the context of Canadian Jewry. Wanting to further unpack some of the themes the book raised, we asked two groups of select scholars to read and reflect on ways these topics are manifested in their own research and fields of expertise. The first group is made of six scholars who specialize in the study of other minority groups in Canada, the other group  consists  of  five scholars  of  Jewish  diaspora  communities  in  other  countries. 

 

Vardit Lightstone, Post-Doc fellow for Jewish Studies

Canadian Jewish Studies/ Etudes juives canadiennes vo. 36: Fall 2023

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No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging

This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada?

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Vardit Lightstone
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This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home."

Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience has to teach about Jewish modernity.

Co-edited by Vardit Lightstone, Post-Doc fellow for Jewish Studies

University of Toronto Press

 

Generals in the classroom: Joint professional national security education in Israel and the United States

The national security realm poses great challenges to senior military officers and civilian officials.

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Ilai Saltzman
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The national security realm poses great challenges to senior military officers and civilian officials. These leaders oftentimes attend designated Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) institutions as a prerequisite for their future appointments. The article examines how these colleges and universities instill in their graduates the intellectual capacity to effectively engage and solve macro-level and acute strategic challenges as well as employ critical thinking skills to ensure intellectual agility and flexibility. 

Taylor & Francis Online Comparative Strategy

"Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription": A Photographic Study

The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Matthew J. Suriano
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The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology, but its original context and setting is less-known due to the circumstances following Charles Clermont-Ganneau’s discovery in 1870. 

Near Eastern Archaeology, 85.3 (2022)

Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications

Languages are inherently fluid and ever-changing, and by necessity, they transform to meet the needs and sociocultural demands of the moment

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Avital Karpman
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Hebrew is a strictly gender-binary language, with people and objects receiving a gender label.
Pronouns, nouns, verbs, and adjectives must agree in gender and number.
 

NAPH, HHE 24 (2022)

From Joseph II to Joseph Perl: Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment. in In From Joseph Perl to Shmuel Yosef Agnon: The Haskalah Movement in Galicia. Jerusalem: Magnes Press.

Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Rachel Manekin
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Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment

Tilling the Soil of National Ideology: Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination. in Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Amos Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Author/Lead: Eric Zakim
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Amos Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination

"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States". in Legacies of thee Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States: Ruptures and Continuities. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.

"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
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"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"

The Dead Sea Sectarians: Breaking the Boundaries of an Essene-Shaped Space.

Dead Sea Sectarians

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
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Dead Sea Sectarians

Misogyny. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.

Misogyny in Biblical Reception

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
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Misogyny in Biblical Reception