"Occasionally, this approach can end up producing great lawyers...
But mostly what you get instead is a bunch of neurotic schmucks.
Because there is no content to it. It's a completely Aristotelean approach to knowledge."
- Harvey Schlanger
Oct. 2001 Harley Schlanger, Taking inspiration from Dante, & Cervantes, a few Jews , Mendele Mocher Sforim, I L Peretz, & Sholem Aleichem, decided to transform some kitchen jargon, Yiddish, into a literate form of language in order to transform the backwards and degraded culture of the Shtetl (ghetto).
Earlier developments around great intellects such as Maimonides and Moses Mendelsohnn are gone through. Articles on the subject are at the Schiller Institute website.
The statement from Mr. LaRouche that is read by Harley at the end of the presentation is the Fidelio article "Music, Judaism, and Hitler" http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_...
An article on Moses Mendelssohn is at http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_...
Since any discussion of Jews brings up the old prejudices by the usual nudzh that would make a good character in a Sholem Aleichem story, I would prefer that the comments get shut down, but for the chance at poking fun, I'll keep it open. Be warned nudnicks! :)
"Although A.D. Judaism is an outgrowth of the development of Christianity (e.g., the first such rabbi, Philo of Alexandria), there was a preceding Hebrew faith of sorts, elements of which were syncretically assimilated in the successive phases of manufacture of post-Philo Judaism.
The earlier Hebrew doctrine is itself a synthetic hodgepodge of chiefly Mesopotamian legends.
Rabbi Ezra, the author of the fictional personality of Moses, is exemplary of the circumstances and contents of Hebrew doctrine—a creation of Achaemenid [Persian] protection and edict. Ezra's Persian version of Hebrewism was, in turn, significantly influenced by an earlier, pre-Pentateuch version, created in conformity with Babylonian edicts. . . .
"...errrm.... IT WAS A TEST..! You passed with flying colours!"
From Ezra onwards, and even before, Hebrewism was an assimilationist doctrine developed to provide special juridical status (and ideological self-image) for a caste of merchant-usurers within a pre-capitalist society.
[Rabbinical] Judaism is not a true religion, but only a half-religion, a curious appendage and sub-species of Christianity . . . [Rabbinic] Judaism is the ideological abstraction of the secular life of Christianity's Jew, the Roman merchant-usurer who had not yet evolved to the state of Papal enlightenment, a half-Christian, who had not developed a Christian conscience, etc.
Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely modeled by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity.
In short, a self-subsisting Judaism never existed and never could exist. As for "Jewish culture," otherwise, it is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable had been marketed to the Goyim."
- Lyndon LaRouche
" After ten days, Andre's fencers finished their competitions... and he and Ankie traveled to Holland to spend time with their baby Anouk... whom they had left in the care of Ankie's parents.
The next morning at 10:00, he had to take the train to Munich.
"He woke up a little bit late. We got to the train station, and the train had left.
I was desperate because I thought he's going to get in trouble... when he gets back to Munich because they're waiting for him there.
He said, "Well, another day with you. "
I said, " No, let's try the other train station about 30 miles onwards."
So we raced to the next station... and in Eindhoven in Holland, that's where he jumped on the train. Without a ticket. The train was already in the station.
I still remember me running next to the train... and he left.
And that was the last time I saw him."
On the night of September 4, as Andre arrived back at the village...
the Israeli delegation was enjoying a night out at the theater...
watching Fiddler on the Roof.
They returned to the village at midnight.
The night of the operation.
Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | http://www.newschool.edu/lang/jewish-...
The modern tradition of Jewish humor emerged from the same ideological ferment that produced Zionism, Liberal Judaism, Modern Orthodoxy, and a wide variety of secular forms of Jewish identity. To this day, Jewish humor reinforces the bond between Jews even as globalization has brought it to millions of non-Jews. Is this lively tradition the result of a seed of humor planted deep in Jewish textual traditions, or is Jewish humor an exercise in self- loathing by an insecure minority? Having transcended its Yiddish forms in American comedy (from Lenny Bruce to Larry David), is Jewish humor a way for Jews to be Jews in a genre at once particular and universally accessible?
Jewish Cultural Studies | http://www.newschool.edu/jewishculture
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES | http://www.newschool.edu/generalstudies
Participants include:
Michael Wex, author of Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) and Born to Kvetch; Noah Isenberg, author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism and editor and translator of The Face of East European Jewry by Arnold Zweig; Jeffrey Israel, author of a dissertation on Jewish humor and politics; and Val Vinokur, author of The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Babel, Levinas.
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | http://www.newschool.edu/lang
Presented by Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and the Jewish Cultural Studies Program.
THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu
Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
04/27/2011 6:30 p.m.
The modern tradition of Jewish humor emerged from the same ideological ferment that produced Zionism, Liberal Judaism, Modern Orthodoxy, and a wide variety of secular forms of Jewish identity. To this day, Jewish humor reinforces the bond between Jews even as globalization has brought it to millions of non-Jews. Is this lively tradition the result of a seed of humor planted deep in Jewish textual traditions, or is Jewish humor an exercise in self- loathing by an insecure minority? Having transcended its Yiddish forms in American comedy (from Lenny Bruce to Larry David), is Jewish humor a way for Jews to be Jews in a genre at once particular and universally accessible?
Jewish Cultural Studies | http://www.newschool.edu/jewishculture
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES | http://www.newschool.edu/generalstudies
Participants include:
Michael Wex, author of Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) and Born to Kvetch; Noah Isenberg, author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism and editor and translator of The Face of East European Jewry by Arnold Zweig; Jeffrey Israel, author of a dissertation on Jewish humor and politics; and Val Vinokur, author of The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Babel, Levinas.
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | http://www.newschool.edu/lang
Presented by Jewish Studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and the Jewish Cultural Studies Program.
THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu
Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
04/27/2011 6:30 p.m.
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