Vixens Disturbing Vineyards

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Embarrassment and embracement are two moments in the reading, misreading and re-reading of scriptures, defined broadly to include both canonical and n... Lees meer

Being a Nation State in the Twenty-First Century

Shuki Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between "Church" and the state remains unresolved. This book ... Lees meer

Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition

Antonella Castelnuovo

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist ... Lees meer

Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in un... Lees meer

The Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals

Simcha Fishbane

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• This book discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when viewed from the vantage of anthr... Lees meer

Another Way, Another Time

Meir Persoff

• Paperback | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London - launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclu... Lees meer

Do Not Provoke Providence

Yosef Salmon

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah... Lees meer

The Wisdom of Love

Naftali Rothenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• The Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introduci... Lees meer

Marranos on the Moradas

Norman SIMMs

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who ... Lees meer

The Wisdom of Love

Naftali Rothenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• The Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introduci... Lees meer

Translating a Tradition

Ira Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture ... Lees meer

A World Apart. a Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia

Joseph Margoshes

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Gal... Lees meer

Controversy and Crisis

Geoffrey Alderman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years... Lees meer

The First to Be Destroyed

Witold Medykowski, Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska, Tomasz Kawski

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundre... Lees meer

The First to Be Destroyed

Witold Medykowski, Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska, Tomasz Kawski

• Paperback | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundre... Lees meer

Another Way, Another Time

Meir Persoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London - launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclu... Lees meer

Variations on the Messianic Theme

Marion Wyse

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate w... Lees meer

Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished

Diane Kriger

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• A masterful intersection of Bible Studies, Gender Studies, and Rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law.... Lees meer

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue

David Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity... Lees meer

Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash. Socio-Anthropological Perspectives

Nissan Rubin

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewis... Lees meer

Hats in the Ring

Meir Persoff

• Paperback | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post, although o... Lees meer

The Shtiebelization of Modern Jewry

Simcha Fishbane

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Jewish custom and ritual, or their Hebrew equivalent, minhag, has intrigued rabbis and scholars for generations. The majority of the rabbinical works ... Lees meer

Zohar Harakia

Shimon Duran

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colorful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the 613 ... Lees meer

Jewish Thought in Dialogue

David Shatz

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism and Jewish Life
• This carefully crafted collection of essays, Jewish Thought in Dialogue, offers creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and as well as original... Lees meer