This paper presents an unusual Hasidic figure and sketches her compelling biography in broad outlines. Ḥannah Golda Hopstein (1886–1939), was a unique Hasidic woman, a Zionist pioneer and had a fascinating life story which ended in tragedy. She left Poland in 1924 for Mandatory Palestine, where she...
"El presente trabajo tiene por objeto delinear aquellos conceptos centrales de la narración en Walter Benjamin que se despliegan en las lecturas de los cuentos y relatos que forman parte del corpus central del movimiento jasídico. Para ello se analiza la concepción de la experiencia, el uso de las p...
Resumen El trabajo analiza el atravesamiento entre el rock, el jasidismo y la cábala en las prácticas espiritual-musicales de la banda de rock Atzmus. Examina cómo ésta se posiciona en el espacio social del rock, diferenciándose del circuito de música religiosa, y muestra la forma en que amalgama un...
"This paper analyzes the crossing among rock, Hasidism and Cabbala in the spiritual-musical prac - tices of a tzmus rock band. i t examines how the band is positioned in the social space of rock, unlike the circuit of religious music, and shows the way in which it combines a wide spreading form and...
Tadeusz Kantor and the Jewish Theatre. The paper discusses the sources of Tadeusz Kantor's "Theatre of Death". One of the main influences seems to have been the Jewish theatre - both Hebraic, and Yiddish. First The Dybbuk that T. Kantor saw in 1938 in the interpretation of Habima Hebraic theatre, di...
"Históricamente se han atribuido al Islam una serie de características que lo hacían incompatible con la democracia. Sin embargo estas dificultades no son tanto propias del Islam sino de la herencia árabe que en ocasiones arrastra. Es el caso de algunos lugares que no son Oriente Medio, el Islam tie...
This paper springs from reflections triggered off by a television serial which had been produced for Austian television. It was en titled Hiob (Job) and was based on the accomplished 1930 novel of the same title by Joseph Roth.
Traditional psychotherapy and hasidism. The dual character of the Enlightenment (as represented by rationalists and convulsionaries) is reflected in the Jewish community. Just as there is an institutionalised, environmental Jewish system of therapy, there is also a parallel therapy. Hasidism as a sy...