#ParisCommunePART4

#JourneyThroughTime

with #historian #DavidOlusuga

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UO6txB2uQzQ&list=PLFhzRSsqZdQI82iIe2Mro4Rs7tIoZCPiO&index=27&pp=iAQB

"When is a #dog in a #medieval illustrated #Hebrew #manuscript more than a dog? When it’s a testament to the undying dedication of #Jews to God’s law.

As the #art #historian #MarcMichaelEpstein details in his latest engaging analysis of #Jewish #artistic expression, “People of the Image: Jews and Art,” dogs appear in numerous artistically rendered Jewish texts accompanying passages related to #Moses. After all, #canines’ renowned loyalty was a natural representation of the “loyal transmission of the divine mandate from generation to generation.” And the Book of Numbers tells us that God believed Moses to be “the most loyal in My household.”

“#Manuscripts were expensive,” #Epstein reminds his readers. Every brushstroke cost time and money. Examining examples of medieval Jewish art, then, offers a window into the mentality of Jews at the time..."

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/387524/for-the-dogs-the-delightful-surprises-of-jewish-medieval-art/

"[...] Democritus, who laughs at the world, and Heraclitus, who weeps over it.

The story of the #Jews tends to be told in the Heraclitan mode.

There is a name for this tendency: it is the ‘lachrymose conception of #Jewish #history’. This was the coinage of the #historian #SaloBaron, and intended in a pejorative way: #Baron spent his career criticising an earlier generation of #scholars for painting such a gloomy picture of #Jewishhistory. The #FrenchRevolution, #HeinrichGraetz had said, was a ‘judgement which in one day atoned for the sins of a thousand years’; the #emancipation of the Jews that followed in its wake marked the ‘dawn after their long slavery among the nations of #Europe’. Baron’s 1928 essay, ‘Ghetto and Emancipation’, called for a ‘break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth’. The historic truth, in his view, was that emancipation wasn’t all good, and the ghetto wasn’t all bad."

https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/venice-and-the-fate-of-the-jews/

What Happens When a Small #Town Is Synonymous with Tragedy?
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#15

#MAGA Rep Loses Endorsement Over Vile Post About #Muslims
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#9

#MargotRobbie, #JacobElordi can’t lift ‘Wuthering Heights’
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#Madison

NARA #Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore Proud Black #Buddhist
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/24-7-pr.html#990

#Portland approves tax breaks for proposed $150 million
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#47

#Boeing Moves #Defense HQ from #Virginia After Radical
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#22