Im Seminar behandeln wir religiöse und antireligiöse Traditionen im jüdischen Anarchismus und schälen verschiedene Religionsbegriffe aus der jeweiligen Lektüre heraus. Anhand jiddischer und hebräischer Texte werden die Facetten dieser Bewegung ans Licht gebracht und in ihrem historischen Zusammenhang betrachtet.
Lektüre:
I. A. Merison, Di teoriye un praktik fun anarkhizm, New York: Naye gezelshaft, 1927
Herman Frank, Af religyez-filozofishe temes. Geklibene shriftn, New York: Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1954
Eliezer Hirschauge, Troym un farvirklekhung. Zikhroynes-fartseykhnungen un bamerkungen vegn der anarkhistisher bavegung in Poyln, Tel Aviv: Dine Hirschauge, 1964.
Tsvi Kahan, Religye un religyozitet. An entfer tsu di vos fregn: viz iz eygntlekh di simkhe? Fraye Arbeter Shtime 4.11.1938.
Überblicksdarstellungen:
J. J. Cohen, Di yidish-anarkhistishe bavegung in Amerike: Historisher iberblik un perzenlekhe iberlebungen, Philadelphia: Workmen's Circle, 1945.
Herman Frank, Anarkho-sotsyalistishe ideyen un bavegungen bay yidn: Historishe un teoretishe aynfirung, Paris: Bibliotek Fraye tribune, 1951.
Moshe Goncharok, Ashes from our Fires. Historical Survey of the Yiddish Anarchist Movement, Jerusalem: Problemen, 2002 [Russisch].
Moshe Goncharok, Tsu der geshikhte fun der anarkhistisher prese af Yidish, Jerusalem: Problemen, 1997.
Yoysef Luden, Kurtse geshikhte fun anarkhistishn gedank, Tel Aviv: Problemen, 1964.
Hayyim Rothman, No Masters But God. Portraits of Anarcho-Judaism, Manchester: Manchester UP, 2021.
Barry Trachtenberg, The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903–1917. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
George Woodcock, Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Ontario: Broadview, 2004.
Harold Barclay. "Anarchist Confrontations with Religion." In New Perspectives on Anarchism. Hg. Nathan J. Jun, Shane Wahl. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, 169–185.
Everett Gendler. "Elements of a Philosophy for Diaspora Judaism: An Introduction to Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamaret's 'The Exile of the Presence and the Presence of the Exile.'" Tikkun 25, no. 6, 2010: 54–56.
Carolin Kosuch. "The Secular-Religious Ambiguity in Nineteenth Century German-Jewish Anarchism." Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire: Transnational Approaches 10, 2019: 147–170.
Ehud Luz. "Spiritualism and Religious Anarchism in the Teaching of Shmuel Alexandrov." Daat, no. 7, 1981: 121–138.
Rebecca E. Margolis. "A Tempest in Three Teapots: Yom Kippur Balls in London, New York and Montreal." In The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. Hg. Richard Menkis, Norman Ravvin. Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2004, 141–163.
Annie Polland. "May a Freethinker Help a Pious Man? The Shared World of the 'Religious' and the 'Secular' among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to America." American Jewish History 93, no. 4: 375–407.
Stephen L. Weinstein. "Galut (Exile): A Mission or a Curse? The Writings of Aharon Shmuel Tamares, 1869-1931." Jewish Quarterly 26 no. 2, 1978: 21–26.
Pelletier, Madeleine (1934). "Religion." In L'Encyclopedie Anarchiste. Hg. Sebastian Faure, Paris: International Library (online abrufbar).
