Athens in Jerusalem

Yaacov Shavit

• Paperback | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish cult... Lees meer

From Christianity to Judaism

Yosef Kaplan

• Paperback | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth cen... Lees meer

Collected Essays

Haym Soloveitchik

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Written at different times and for different audiences - some for scholars of rabbinic literature, some for laymen or for scholars not necessarily Jew... Lees meer

Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy

Marc B Shapiro

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The span of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's life (1884-1966) illuminates the religious and intellectual dilemmas that traditional Jewry has faced over t... Lees meer

Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles

Bracha Yaniv

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Finalist for Visual Arts. Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey of s... Lees meer

The Jews in Poland and Russia

Antony Polonsky

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period ... Lees meer

Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816

Ada Rapoport-Albert

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. Even if historically some Jewish women may have experienced mystical revelations an... Lees meer

Messianic Mysticism

Isaiah Tishby

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• Moses Hayim Luzzatto (1707-1746), rabbi, mystic, teacher, poet, playwright, and writer of ethical works, gathered around him in his 'house of study' i... Lees meer

The Three Temples

Rachel Elior

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Juda... Lees meer

Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity

Roni Weinstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Something crucial and quite unprecedented happened to kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though it had previously been considered a ... Lees meer

Hasidism Beyond Modernity

Naftali Loewenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering wom... Lees meer

Creating American Reform Judaism

Sefton D Temkin

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), founder of the major institutions of Reform Judaism in America, was a man of his time--a pioneer in a pioneer's world. W... Lees meer

Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?

Michal Oron

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba'al Shem of London, has piqued the curiosity of scholars for generations. Eighteenth-century Londo... Lees meer

The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

Ben-Shalom

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The Hebrew edition of The Jews of Provence and Languedoc, published in 2017, was awarded the Ben Zvi Institute Prize (2018) and the Am Olam Prize of t... Lees meer

Rethinking European Jewish History

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• National Jewish Book Awards Winner of the Anthologies and Collections Award, 2009. Europe has changed greatly in the last century. Political, social, ... Lees meer

The Wisdom of the Zohar

Isaiah Tishby

• Paperback | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The Zohar is the fundamental work of Jewish mysticism. Isaiah Tishby's classic and definitive Wisdom of the Zohar makes the world of the Zohar availab... Lees meer

Mystical Theology and Social Dissent

Byron L Sherwin

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• Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend tha... Lees meer

Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought

Menachem Kellner

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• Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought is an essay in the history of ideas which traces the development of creed formation in Judaism from its inception wit... Lees meer

Leadership and Conflict

Marc Saperstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This masterly collection of essays offers a multifaceted analysis of how Jewish leaders in medieval and early modern times responded to the challenges... Lees meer

Hasidic Prayer: With a New Introduction

Louis Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• From its very beginnings in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement was suffused with a joyous enthusiasm and optimism derived from the notion of... Lees meer

Rediscovering Traces of Memory

Jonathan Webber

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but ther... Lees meer

Ideology and Experience

Stephen Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• In this analysis of racism in late nineteenth-century France, anti-Semitism is studied in its social context as an indicator and symptom of social cha... Lees meer

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference

David Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It demonstrates how hasidim who... Lees meer

Conscious History

Natalia Aleksiun

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its ... Lees meer