Papers by Harvey Goldberg
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2012
Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation, 2018
Interaction between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities... more Interaction between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities between “simpler” societies and the practices and ideas seen in the Bible. After some disengagement in the first half of the twentieth century, new cross-disciplinary possibilities were envisioned as the structuralist approach emerged in anthropology. Ritual and mythology were major topics that received attention and structuralist methods were partially adopted by some biblical scholars. Anthropological research itself extended to complex societies and also affected historical studies, yielding models of inquiry that engaged a range of disciplines. Among the issues explored in this essay are ritual and notions of purity in the Bible, and the place of literacy in Israelite society and culture. These discussions are followed by three examples of structuralist-inspired analysis that partially take into account historical and literacy-based facets of the Bible.
SEPHARDIC HORIZONS, 2021
Interpreting the complex relationship between Jews and Muslims in Muslim
and has been discussed ... more Interpreting the complex relationship between Jews and Muslims in Muslim
and has been discussed elsewhere with reference to basic religious and cultural orientations, law and policy, local interests, and even the impact of interpersonal relationships.2 Together these factors yield a dynamic picture that varies over time and space. An important source of input to this picture has been ethno-historical research on Jewish communities recently uprooted from their original settings that has focused upon everyday practice in concrete contexts, and on the cultural conceptions arising from them.3 From the distance spanning a single life, and the shift to an entirely different
quotidian existence, ethnographic enquiry turns back to former praxis and seeks, together with the people who experienced that reality directly, to approach the underlying conceptions that informed it. This enterprise has revealed nodes of interaction and expression laden with significance that illuminate aspects of the simultaneous closeness and distancing that linked and separated members of both religions who once shared the same lifespace…
International Migration Review, 1973
Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take... more Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this immigration and social change agricultural settlement of new immigrants in israel, how can you bargain with the thing that has many benefits for you? Sometimes, reading is very boring and it will take long time starting from getting the book and start reading. However, in modern era, you can take the developing technology by utilizing the internet. By internet, you can visit this page and start to search for the book that is needed. Wondering this immigration and social change agricultural settlement of new immigrants in israel is the one that you need, you can go for downloading. Have you understood how to get it? After downloading the soft file of this immigration and social change agricultural settlement of new immigrants in israel, you can begin to read it. Yeah, this is so enjoyable while somebody should read by taking their big books; you are in your new way by only handle your gadget. Or even you are working in the office; you can still utilize the computer to read it fully. Of course, it will not obligate you to take many pages. Just page by page depending on the time that you have to read. After knowing this very easy way to read and get this immigration and social change agricultural settlement of new immigrants in israel, why don't you tell to others about this way? You can tell others to visit this website and go for searching them favourite books. As known, here are lots of lists that offer many kinds of books to collect. Just prepare few time and internet connections to get the books. You can really enjoy the life by reading in a very simple manner.
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1982
Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 243 pages, tables, appendix, notes, refer... more Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 243 pages, tables, appendix, notes, references, index. $22.00 Over 45,000 American Jews have migrated to Israel since the establishment of the state; over eighty percent of them have made Aliya since 1967. Earlier immigrants seem to have been motivated by classsic Zionist considerations dealing with "Jewish question," or "the problem of Judaism," but the more recent American emigres have a more personalized approach. Their decision to migrate involves each individual coming to grips with "my" problem as a Jew. Avruch depicts in great detail this process of self-construction, in which social and personal identities are foils for one another. He finds it useful to place this process within the conceptual framework of tradition and modernity. These complementary concepts guided much of the understanding of immigration to Israel by Israeli sociologists in the 1950s. Over half of these immigrants originated from countries in the Middle East, and the key to their "absorption," according to this perspective, lay in their modernization. How can this social theory, Avruch asks, illuminate the absorption of immigrants from an ultramodern society? American Jews moving to Israel, the author claims, are involved in a process of "traditionalization." This has many facets. They are people who are critical of some of the features of modern society-widespread crime and the breakdown of community, for example. Their valuation of a more traditional way of life is intimately linked to their self-image as Jews. These are people whose "Jewishness goes a long way in answering their question, 'Who am r." Israel is perceived as a gemeinschaft society where their valorization of Jewishness will not be problematical and they can feel "at home." Arrival and settling in Israel bring into play another aspect of traditionalization: the instrumental side. All immigrants to Israel are heavily involved in bureaucratic dealings. American immigrants come with a view that bureaucracies are impersonal and relatively efficient. To "succeed" in the Israeli framework, however, they quickly come to believe that they must personalize contacts in order to get things done. This is even recognized in a semi-official guide to absorption, which gives advice with regard to bureaucracy: "Another vital ingredient is 'Vitamin P'-protectzia. To an American this term smacks of the Mafia and secret payoffs, but in Israel it most often means simply knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone who can help get the right person to help you with your problem" (p. 145). Being forced to undergo this instrumental traditionalization, the American immigrant begins to value some features of American life. He finds himself more American than he (or she) believed. "I may sound like a right-wing fanatic, but the truth is I was a Leftie in the States, marched against the Vietnam War and all that-but living in Israel has made me appreciate the capitalistic system and free enterprise" (p. 151-2). The move to Israel, which was to close the gap between reality and a person's ideal "primordialized" identity, pushes the immigrant back toward what was once his feared identity of assimilation-that of being American. Avruch discusses with sensitivity some of the modes of interpretation used by Americans to deal with this dilemma. "This is the Middle East," many say. Often, the author asserts, these immigrants come to View their migration "in the basic... sense of traditionalizing-as a move backward in time" (p. 169). In addition to an analysis of individuals who have taken a major decision in changing themselves and their situation, the study commendably places the identity questions involved in the historical context of the emancipation of European Jewry, the growth of Zionism, and the
American Anthropologist, 1970
Jewish Social Studies History Culture and Society, 2008
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2005
Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, 1994
Ethnic Groups an International Periodical of Ethnic Studies Bronx N Y, 1977
American Ethnologist the Journal of the American Ethnological Society, 2001
Review of Middle East Studies
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Papers by Harvey Goldberg
and has been discussed elsewhere with reference to basic religious and cultural orientations, law and policy, local interests, and even the impact of interpersonal relationships.2 Together these factors yield a dynamic picture that varies over time and space. An important source of input to this picture has been ethno-historical research on Jewish communities recently uprooted from their original settings that has focused upon everyday practice in concrete contexts, and on the cultural conceptions arising from them.3 From the distance spanning a single life, and the shift to an entirely different
quotidian existence, ethnographic enquiry turns back to former praxis and seeks, together with the people who experienced that reality directly, to approach the underlying conceptions that informed it. This enterprise has revealed nodes of interaction and expression laden with significance that illuminate aspects of the simultaneous closeness and distancing that linked and separated members of both religions who once shared the same lifespace…
and has been discussed elsewhere with reference to basic religious and cultural orientations, law and policy, local interests, and even the impact of interpersonal relationships.2 Together these factors yield a dynamic picture that varies over time and space. An important source of input to this picture has been ethno-historical research on Jewish communities recently uprooted from their original settings that has focused upon everyday practice in concrete contexts, and on the cultural conceptions arising from them.3 From the distance spanning a single life, and the shift to an entirely different
quotidian existence, ethnographic enquiry turns back to former praxis and seeks, together with the people who experienced that reality directly, to approach the underlying conceptions that informed it. This enterprise has revealed nodes of interaction and expression laden with significance that illuminate aspects of the simultaneous closeness and distancing that linked and separated members of both religions who once shared the same lifespace…