Orientation in Jerusalem

Ḳaufman, Asher

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“…27, 49) and many of the Judaic Mitsvot (commandments), for example, Ḥanukkah lights and the building of a sukkah (Outdoor shelter used for the Jewish festival of Sukkot) on the holiday of Sukkot (Jewish festival held in Autumn) were practiced at home (Even Shmuel, 1959/1960, pp. 19, 22; Kaufman, 1958/1959, p. 265). More significantly, as a measure of the growing religiosity of the family, after Shmuel’s bar mitzvah (ceremony marking official adult status of boys at age 13) in 1940, he put on Tefilin (Judaic ritual implements used in daily prayers) 3 3 A set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. on a daily basis (Even Shmuel, 1959/1960, p. 45; Kaufman, 1958/1959, p. 56).…”

Section: What Can We Learn From Yehuda’s Labor Of Love?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…19, 22; Kaufman, 1958/1959, p. 265). More significantly, as a measure of the growing religiosity of the family, after Shmuel’s bar mitzvah (ceremony marking official adult status of boys at age 13) in 1940, he put on Tefilin (Judaic ritual implements used in daily prayers) 3 3 A set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. on a daily basis (Even Shmuel, 1959/1960, p. 45; Kaufman, 1958/1959, p. 56).…”

Section: What Can We Learn From Yehuda’s Labor Of Love?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 2 In the introduction to the second edition, Yehuda states that continued requests for the volume after the first edition was exhausted led to the second edition in which he included newly discovered material and reorganized the material topically, rather than chronologically, as in the first edition. The publication of the second edition was supported financially by the memorial fund for Zohara (Kaufman, 1958/1959, pp. v–vii). In 5720 (1959/1960) he published a second, expanded edition of Zikkaron le-Shmuel (443 pages).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, it was not in Judaic subjects alone that Yehuda found his son’s school curriculum deficient. Added to his significant extracurricular tutorial of his son in Judaic texts, Yehuda personally introduced Shmuel, in his high school years, to the study of ancient Greek philosophy and Latin language (Even Shmuel, 1959/1960, p. 44; Kaufman, 1958/1959, pp. 77, 427).…”

Section: What Can We Learn From Yehuda’s Labor Of Love?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The more a nation possesses a greater morality the more it honors its faith and its God. (Kaufman, 1958/1959, p. 319)…”

Section: What Can We Learn From Yehuda’s Labor Of Love?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Life to Remember: Yehuda Even Shmuel’s Memorialization of His Son, Shmuel Asher Kaufman and the Crisis of His Zionist Vision

Robinson

2019

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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Shmuel Asher Kaufman (1927–1947) died in a live ammunition training accident as a member of the Palmah in spring 1947. His father, Yehuda Kaufman Even-Shmuel (1886–1976), lovingly reconstructed his brief life and his story entered Israeli mythology, along with that of his fiancée Zohara Levyatov, as symbolic of the loss of the young Israeli men and women whose lives were lost in the struggle for Israel’s independence. This article examines the process by which Shmuel’s life was memorialized by his father in the decade after his death. It also begins to mine the wealth of documentation provided by this memorialization of Shmuel’s life in order to examine from a unique perspective the variety of social, religious, and educational choices available to members of the Yishuv’s elite during the Mandate period. In addition, it discusses the impact of Shmuel Kaufman’s tragic death on the crisis of Yehuda Even Shmuel’s Zionist vision, which led him to resign from the Mapai Party in 1947.

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Section: What Can We Learn From Yehuda’s Labor Of Love?mentioning

confidence: 99%