Word: judaisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monotheisms. Yet the Khazars and their relationship to Judaism are not news to scholars and historians. There is general agreement that during the early 7th century these pagan tribesmen established a kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas. Their capital was Itil, near present-day Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga...
...such I feel the bonds between members of the same country. But between Jews there is something special. In order to survive, for generations, we had to hold on to each other. And I am worried because, philosophically, there is no renovating force in Judaism, such as Hassidism once...
...therefore, tribal conflicts. But, facing outward, it also encouraged exclusivity and intolerance-the line between the believer and the infidel, the chosen and the unchosen. Christianity and Islam have had the historical habit of descending with a sword on strangers. The world's other great monotheistic faith, Judaism, has traditionally been more defensive...
Ankori says his interest in Greek history revolved around the historical encounter there among three major religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam...
...subject's life, he will supply his own. So in Mahler the composer (Robert Powell) imagines himself in the midst of a pop fantasy involving Cosima Wagner, Nazis, Crosses, Jewish stars and a crimson seesaw; this is Russell's representation of Mahler's conversion from Judaism to Catholicism. The scene-like much of the movie-means to be shocking but succeeds only in being a little naughty. Mahler is overripe, hyperbolic, hysterical, without any of the wit of last year's Tommy or the full-tilt craziness of The Devils (1971). There are stunning flashes...