New Issue of “Conversations” Focusses on “Personalities, Principles, Proddings”
The newest issue of “Conversations”, published by the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, focusses on “Personalities, Principles, Proddings”. This 21st issue (Winter 2015/5775) “presents articles that reflect the creativity and diversity among personalities of the Orthodox world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” (v-vi). As to why this focus, Rabbi Marc Angel continues, “Orthodoxy is vastly strengthened and energized by drawing on its diversity of legitimate approaches” (vi).
What is somewhat peculiar is that many of its articles are actually from previous issues, although it seems it’s a sort of collected writings on personalities. The advantage, however, of this is that those without easy access to the earlier issues may be better able to access these articles all together.
Here is the listing of the articles, authors, page numbers, and – where relevant – notation of original appearance:
Mordechai Luria – “Rabbi Eliyahu Benamozegh: Israel and Humanity” – 1-10 (originally appeared in Issue 2, pp29-38)
Alan D. Corré – “Sabato Morais, Social Activist” – 11-26 (originally appeared in Issue 3, pp42-57)
Marc D. Angel – “Emma Lazarus, Maud Nathan, and Alice Menken: Notable American Jewish Women” – 27-32
Zvi Zohar – “What All Jews Can Learn from Great Sephardic Rabbis of Recent Centuries” – pp33-46
Marc B. Shapiro – “Rabbi Joseph Messas” – 47-54 (originally appeared in Issue 7, pp95-102)
Salomon L. Vaz Dias – “Reflections on the Western Sephardic Tradition of Amsterdam – 55-66
Ben Elton – “A Bridge Across the Tigris: Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz” – 67-81
Pinchas Polonsky – “Rav Kook and His View on the Modernization of Judaism” – 82-101 (revised version of article in Issue 9, pp113-130)
Marc D. Angel – “Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Judaism and Modernity” – 102-115 (originally appeared in Issue 12, pp)
Ronda Angel Arking – “‘A Spirit of Inquiry’: Grace Aguilar’s Private Spirituality and Progressive Orthodoxy” – 116-126 (originally appeared in Issue 3, pp31-41)
Hayyim Angel – “Nehama Leibowitz and the Paradox of Parshanut: Are Our Eyes on the Text or on the Commentators?” – 127-144 (originally appeared in Tradition 38:4 (Winter 2004))
Hayyim Angel – “Jewish Education in the Writings of Rabbi H.D. Halevy” – 145-155
Elliot Resnick – “A Peculiar Point in Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Essays on Education” – 156-160 (revised version of article in Issue 4, pp108-112)
Ariely Mayse – “The Role of Kabbalah in Revitalizing Modern Orthodoxy” – 161-176 (originally appeared in Issue 9, pp123-158)
Tovli Simiryan – “Melodies from Old Women” – 177-187 (originally appeared in Issue 9, pp101-111)
