Dr Yael Almog's Outputs (61)

The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2025). The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism. German Life and Letters, 78(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12433

Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusal... Read More about The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism.

Soft Paternity: The Binding of Isaac in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (in press). Soft Paternity: The Binding of Isaac in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry. In Aqedah: Genesis 22 as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. De Gruyter

Arendt against Scholem: Jewish History, Reconsidered (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (in press). Arendt against Scholem: Jewish History, Reconsidered. In A. Bielik-Robson (Ed.), Spiritual Investment in the World: Jewish Theologies of Worldliness. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt’s Variations on St. Augustine (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt’s Variations on St. Augustine. In D. Herskowitz, & E. Lapidot (Eds.), Hans Jonas: The Early Years. Routledge

Jews and Exile and the Jews: Literature, History and Identity edited by Nancy E. Berg and Marc Saperstein (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (in press). Jews and Exile and the Jews: Literature, History and Identity edited by Nancy E. Berg and Marc Saperstein. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies,

Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2024). Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts. In A. Rowlands, & E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook for Religion and Contemporary Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190076511.013.4

This chapter offers a cultural history of Jewish migration and Diaspora since the beginning of the twentieth century. The examination focuses on literary and artistic alternate histories that pertain to the demography of the global Jewish population.... Read More about Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts.

Religion (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2024). Religion. In C. Lee (Ed.), Goethe in Context (66-74). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036436

A conflicted attraction to religion characterises Goethe’s oeuvre as much as it informed his intellectual dilemmas and public polemics. His works demonstrate a long-standing fascination with religion as a social power and, correspondingly, with the... Read More about Religion.

Beyond the Land Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century by Melissa Weininger (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (in press). Beyond the Land Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century by Melissa Weininger. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,

The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire (2023)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2023). The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire. In A. Schellenberg (Ed.), The Song of Songs Through the Ages (347-362). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750799

Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit (2023)
Book
Herder, J. G. (in press). Y. Almog (Ed.), Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit. The Open University of Israel

Self‐Identity and the Jewish Body: Assimilated German‐Speaking Jewish Authors on Traditional Judaism (2023)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2023). Self‐Identity and the Jewish Body: Assimilated German‐Speaking Jewish Authors on Traditional Judaism. German Life and Letters, 76(3), 358-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12381

This article investigates portrayals of traditional Judaism and observant Jews in writings by assimilated German-Jewish authors. It thus explores notions projected onto traditional Jews – and particularly the Jewish body – as elements immanent to Jew... Read More about Self‐Identity and the Jewish Body: Assimilated German‐Speaking Jewish Authors on Traditional Judaism.

The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire (2023)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2023). The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire. In A. Schellenberg (Ed.), The Song of Songs Through the Ages: Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres (347-362). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750799-019

Literary Theory as a Site of Religious Reflection (2022)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2022). Literary Theory as a Site of Religious Reflection. In K. Tugrul, F. M. Machka, & C. Rogers (Eds.), Grenzgänge wissenschaftlicher Reflexivität in Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew (2022)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2022). Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew. In D. Kokin (Ed.), Hebrew between Jews and Christians (275-296). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339826

Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew (2022)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2023). Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew. In D. Stein Kokin (Ed.), Hebrew between Jews and Christians (275-296). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339826-013

Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi's Broken German (2022)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2022). Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi's Broken German. German Studies Review, 45(3), 557-576

The article investigates the solidarity between minority groups as a catalyst of literary capital. Tomer Gardi’s novel Broken German (2016) was viewed enthusiastically by literary critics as a bold political statement, since it entertains that immigr... Read More about Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi's Broken German.

Generation, Gender and Identity in German-Jewish Literature after 1989 by Daphne Maria Seemann (2022)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2022). Generation, Gender and Identity in German-Jewish Literature after 1989 by Daphne Maria Seemann. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21(4), 511-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2022.2058370

Biblische Raummodelle als Matrix moderner und postmoderner Topografien (2022)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (in press). Biblische Raummodelle als Matrix moderner und postmoderner Topografien. In Handbuch zur deutschsprachig-jüdischen Literatur

A University in Zion: Max Weber and Gershom Scholem on Jewish Eschatology and Academic Labor (2021)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2022). A University in Zion: Max Weber and Gershom Scholem on Jewish Eschatology and Academic Labor. Modern Intellectual History, 19(4), 1286-1303. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479244321000329

In his “Science as Vocation,” Weber equates rational academic conduct with Jewish ethics. For Weber, the Jewish tradition, which separates moral conduct from messianism, is emblematic of scientists’ strenuous distinction of empiricism from metaphysic... Read More about A University in Zion: Max Weber and Gershom Scholem on Jewish Eschatology and Academic Labor.

Hannah Arendt's Political Theology (2021)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2021). Hannah Arendt's Political Theology. Political Theology Network, Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0,

Notwithstanding her vast engagement with theology, Hannah Arendt is considered an outsider to the intellectual milieu most readily associated with political theology. Arendt thus refrains from the Schmittian all-encompassing characterization of moder... Read More about Hannah Arendt's Political Theology.