The Art of World–Making (2013)
Journal Article
Epstein, M. (2013). The Art of World–Making. Philosophy Now, 95, 22-24

“Numerous universes might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labor lost, many fruitless trials made, and a slow but continual improvement carried out during infinite ages in the art of world-mak... Read More about The Art of World–Making.

Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires (2013)
Journal Article
Epstein, M., & Perl, J. (2013). Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires. Common Knowledge, 19(2), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2073215

This essay, coauthored by the editor and a member of the editorial board of Common Knowledge, introduces the fifth installment of the journal's symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” which is about the “consequence of blur.” Beginning with a review of Enlightenm... Read More about Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires.

Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine (2013)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2013). Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(3), 522-537. https://doi.org/10.1068/d15711

This paper critically examines the notions of spatial emptiness and ruination through their unsettled appearance in the archive of colonization. Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine/Eretz Israel, it illustrates how the encount... Read More about Repopulating the emptiness: a spatial critique of ruination in Israel/Palestine.

Vita brevis, ars longa: ekphrasis, the art object, and the consumption of the subject in Henry James and Michel Houellebecq (2013)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2013). Vita brevis, ars longa: ekphrasis, the art object, and the consumption of the subject in Henry James and Michel Houellebecq. Word and Image, 29(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2013.774982

In Henry James's The Wings of the Dove and Michel Houellebecq's La Carte et le territoire, the art object serves a double function: it encapsulates the materiality of the object and the signification of art, referring to both its aesthetic existence... Read More about Vita brevis, ars longa: ekphrasis, the art object, and the consumption of the subject in Henry James and Michel Houellebecq.

Fateful Crossings [On Russian–Jewish Art] (2013)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (2013). Fateful Crossings [On Russian–Jewish Art]. In V. Kantor (Ed.), MAGMA: The Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery (309-330). (3rd). V. Kantor

Gone But Not Forgotten? The Occasional Lessons of the October 1973 War (2013)
Book Chapter
Jones, C. (2013). Gone But Not Forgotten? The Occasional Lessons of the October 1973 War. In A. Siniver (Ed.), The October 1973 War (249-264). Hurst

Vichy, Jews, Enfants cachés: French Women Writers Look Back (2013)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2013). Vichy, Jews, Enfants cachés: French Women Writers Look Back. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France (47-59). University of Wales Press

Engendering the future: Bloch's utopian philosophy in dialogue with gender theory (2013)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2013). Engendering the future: Bloch's utopian philosophy in dialogue with gender theory. In P. Thompson, & S. Zizek (Eds.), The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia (144-163). Duke University Press

Technology as a New Theology: From "Atheism" to Technotheism (2013)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (2013). Technology as a New Theology: From "Atheism" to Technotheism. In S. Lorenz Sorgner, & B. Jovanovic (Eds.), Evolution and the Future: Anthropology, Ethics, Religion (115-128). Peter Lang

Leading scholars from various disciplines analyze the relevance of evolutionary theory for future developments, whereby the fields of anthropology, ethics, and theology are considered in particular detail. The main parts of the collection are dedicat... Read More about Technology as a New Theology: From "Atheism" to Technotheism.

“Fear God and Keep his Commandments”: Could Qohelet Have Said This? (2013)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2013). “Fear God and Keep his Commandments”: Could Qohelet Have Said This?. In B. Schipper, & A. Teeter (Eds.), Wisdom and Torah : the reception of ‘Torah’ in the wisdom literature of the Second Temple period (101-118). Brill Academic Publishers

Israel’s Insurgent Citizens: Contesting the State – Demanding the Land (2013)
Book Chapter
Jones, C. (2013). Israel’s Insurgent Citizens: Contesting the State – Demanding the Land. In G. Joffé (Ed.), Islamist Radicalisation in Europe and the Middle East: Reassessing the Causes of Terrorism (200-213). I. B. Tauris

Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion (2013)
Book Chapter
Sandy, M. (2013). Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion. In M. O'Neill, & A. Howe (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (272-88). Oxford UP

Texts without Contexts: The Dating of Biblical Texts (2013)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2013). Texts without Contexts: The Dating of Biblical Texts. In G. Moers, K. Widmaier, A. Giewekemeyer, A. Lümers, & R. Ernst (Eds.), Dating Egyptian literary texts (599-616). Widmaier Verlag

We know little about the circumstances which gave rise to the composition of biblical texts, except what they themselves choose to tell us, and there is much debate about their dates and origins. They not only furnish a salutary example, however, of... Read More about Texts without Contexts: The Dating of Biblical Texts.

Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution (2013)
Book
Gunning, J., & Baron, I. Z. (2013). Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution. Hurst & Company

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of... Read More about Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution.

Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (2013)
Book
Sandy, M. (2013). Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning. Ashgate Publishing

Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes (2013)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2013). Notes on Some Hebrew Words in Ecclesiastes. In J. K. Aitken, J. M. Clines, & C. M. Maier (Eds.), Interested readers : essays on the Hebrew Bible in honor of David J. A. Clines (373-384). Society of Biblical Literature

Introduction (2013)
Journal Article
Cairns, L., & Reiter, A. (2013). Introduction. Jewish Culture and History, 14(2-3), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169x.2013.805901

Tackle antisemitism, not the ‘Yid Army’ chants (2013)
Other
Poulton, E. (2013). Tackle antisemitism, not the ‘Yid Army’ chants

The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia (2013)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 21(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.826627

Drawing on two ethnographic examples of the sociocultural aspects of populations genetic research in India, the article explores in what ways tests aimed at assessing ‘genetic differences’ between populations can be viewed as enabling or disempowerin... Read More about The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia.

Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home (2013)
Journal Article
Schiller, K., & Young, C. (2013). Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home. Sport in History, 33(3), 373-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2013.822411

After the terrorist attack on the Israeli team, the 1972 Munich Olympics could be considered a PR disaster for the Federal Republic of Germany. In the years before the Games, however, the organizers orchestrated a finely tuned campaign, which used li... Read More about Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home.