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December 03, 1993 - Image 39

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1993-12-03

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logue quite clearly recognize
the centrality of the land to
Jewish self-understanding
and the right of the Jews to a
homeland in Israel," he says,
"but they clearly divorce the
State of Israel from this
recognition."

So, you're
eager to read
a new Jewish
book but you
want to take
a break from
the usual top-
ics. No Holo-
caust. No problems of inter-
marriage. No stories about
happy dreidels.
How about sex?
Carnal Israel (University
of California Press) offers a
juicy look at sex in Talmudic
literature.
Author Daniel Boyarin,
professor of Talmudic culture
at the University of Califor-
nia-Berkeley, endorses the
notion that Judaism is "a car-
nal religion, in contrast to the
spiritual vision of the
Church." Unlike Christiani-
ty, he suggests, rabbinic Ju-
daism sees the centrality of
both soul and body, with the
latter serving a holy purpose
of continuing the Jewish peo-
ple.
This is especially true in
the case of the female body —
a subject that continues to be
riddled with misinformation,
Professor Boyarin says. (An
entire chapter is devoted to
the topic, "Studying Women."
Also new from the Univer-
sity of California Press is
Language in Time of Rev-
olution by Benjamin Har-
shay.
Language
considers
changes in Jewish society
since 1882, together with the
revival of the Hebrew lan-
guage.
The "Modern Jewish Rev-
olution" of the past 100 years,
as Professor Harshav calls it,
comprises everything from a
move out of the shtetl to a
major culture, to an embrace
of much of the secular world.
One of the key aspects of
this revolution is the "mirac-
ulous revival" of Hebrew as a
living language. He discuss-
es Hebrew as a "unifying
force" and the specific nature
of Israeli Hebrew.
Benjamin Harshav is pro-
fessor of Hebrew and com-
parative literature at Yale
University and former direc-
tor of the Porter Institute for
Poetics and Semiotics at Tel
Aviv University. He also is
the author of The Meaning of
Yiddish and Marc Chagall
and the Jewish Theater.
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