Rites and Passages

Jay R Berkovitz

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this ... Lees meer

Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious ex... Lees meer

Cultural Intermediaries

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the ... Lees meer

Between Worlds

J H Chajes

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred t... Lees meer

Zimzum

Christoph Schulte

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "contraction," "withdrawal," "retreat," "limitation," and "concentration." In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for G... Lees meer

Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920

Oleg Budnitskii

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the... Lees meer

Unveiling Eve

Tova Rosen

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultiv... Lees meer

Prague and Beyond

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find phys... Lees meer

Next Year in Marienbad

Mirjam Zadoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashi... Lees meer

Reorienting the East

Martin Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the earl... Lees meer

Sanctifying the Name of God

Jeremy Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles ... Lees meer

Becoming the People of the Talmud

Talya Fishman

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In Becoming the People of the Talmud , Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish t... Lees meer

A Kingdom of Priests

Martha Himmelfarb

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to m... Lees meer

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

Israel Bartal

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the... Lees meer

The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament

Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim... Lees meer

Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature

Jonathan Dauber

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in the... Lees meer

The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times

• Hardcover | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish i... Lees meer

Connecting Histories

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe ... Lees meer

Bastards and Believers

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term ... Lees meer

Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz

Elisheva Baumgarten

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In the urban communities of medieval Germany and northern France, the beliefs, observances, and practices of Jews allowed them to create and define th... Lees meer

From Europe's East to the Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish la... Lees meer

Dominion Built of Praise

Jonathan Decter

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• A constant feature of Jewish culture in the medieval Mediterranean was the dedication of panegyric texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages ... Lees meer

The Mixed Multitude

Pawel Maciejko

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect reli... Lees meer

Yigal Allon, Native Son

Anita Shapira

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the stat... Lees meer