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Viitteet 1-10 / 19
Facing the problem of evil: Visual, verbal, and mental images of (in)humanity
(the Donner Institute, 2018-05-29)
This article explores imagination as a means of ethical re-orientation in the aftermath of atrocity. The discussion of the problem of evil is based on Hannah Arendt’s critique of Kant and her notion of ‘rootless’ rather ...
When the earth moves under your feet: Images of overcoming persecution in the Book of Psalms
(the Donner Institute, 2018-05-29)
This article explores the overcoming of evil in the biblical Book of Psalms, taking as its point of departure the so-called ‘sudden change of mood’ in the individual psalms of lamentation, where a psalmist proceeds from ...
Picturing vision: The interconnectedness of mental and visual images
(the Donner Institute, 2018-05-29)
Kant taught us to think of the faculty of imagination as an ingredient of perception. Vision, thus, is not only opened to the present but also to the absent, for instance through expectations or memories. Our ways of seeing ...
Local history of Jewish-Gentile relations
(the Donner Institute, 2018-11-03)
Review of Omer Bartov's Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).
'Saints without God': Camus's poetics of secular faith
(the Donner Institute, 2018-05-29)
This article addresses Camus’s response to Christianity and the problem of suffering in the context of the early twentieth century. Owing to his association with the existentialist movement, it is often assumed that Camus, ...
Verbal images of evil and (in)humanity during and after the Holocaust
(the Donner Institute, 2018-05-29)
In this paper, I explore images of evil and (in)humanity in the works of Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo – verbal images that they encountered within Auschwitz and those that they created afterwards to try to bear witness ...
Two Jewish studies related postdoctoral projects in Scandinavia
(the Donner Institute, 2018-11-03)
Wally V. Cirafesi of University of Oslo and Katharina E. Keim of Lund University briefly present their postdoctoral projects within the area of Jewish Studies. Cirafesi has just completed his dissertation on the Gospel of ...
The Jewish Tradition – Does it Matter?
(the Donner Institute, 2018-11-03)
Introduction to the three conference presentations from the seminar at the University of Oslo in March, 2018.
Jewish theology and Jewish studies in Germany: Reflections in relation to the development of the research field in Norway
(the Donner Institute, 2018-11-03)
This article presents some insights into the German developments of studying Judaism and the Jewish tradition and relates them to the ongoing development of the subject at universities in the Nordic countries in general ...
Editorial
(the Donner Institute, 2018-11-03)
Editorial for issue 29(1) of Scandinavian Jewish Studies