»Jewish Soul-Writing: Emotion, Translation, Performance« is the result of a collaboration between scholars of Jewish studies and multidisciplinary artists in the framework of the Mus|ar|t program. The Hebrew term musar is a label for Jewish moralistic literature, that is, an informal corpus of writings, in Hebrew and other Jewish languages such as Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish, produced by Jewish communities between the Middle Ages and the modern era as a means for cultivating practical and spiritual conduct in compliance with the tenets of Judaism. In this sense, musar literature can be seen as a Jewish form of soul writing. Although apparently remote in time and sensibility, the performance-oriented and emotion-driven nature of the musar corpus allows for experimentation in the field of research-based arts. The first part of the book comprises a series of essays on musar and its potential contamination with the arts. The second is devoted to the six artworks developed during the Mus|ar|t program.
Mus|ar|t—Art Meets Scholarship
Musar: Modes of Morality in Judaism
Embedding Knowledge While Voicing Shapes: Concentric Circles, Square Tables, and Nequdot
On Creation and Creating: Science and the Artist
Marginalia
When Margins Take Center Stage: Thoughts on Leor Grady’s Marginalia
A Soft Tongue Breaks the Bone
Mesillat Yesharim: A Study in Comics
What Do You Really Think?
The Tish: Poems
Tkhines
Weitere Autorinnen:
Ilaria Briata, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Estee Ellis, Leor Grady, Boris Jöns, Patrick Benjamin Koch, Yonatan Kunda, Tamar Nissim, Amalia Stulin, Dalia Wolfson
