Roy Greenwald

Homophony in Multilingual Jewish Cultures

One of the distinctive features of multilingual Jewish cultures is the interpretation of a sacred Hebrew signifier by its phonic identity or proximity to a signifier in another language. This essay demonstrates the cultural creativity that might inhere in such “mistakes,” providi...

Made in the Pauper’s Image: Theology and Economy in Modern Jewish Literature

The article examines the relations between economic thought and Jewishtheological discourse in modern Jewish literature in Yiddish and Hebrew from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. Treating capitalism and Jewish theology as two parallel orders of representation, the...