Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

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• In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration ... Lees meer

Moses Maimonides

Oliver Leaman

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• Moses Maimonides (1135--1204) is recognized both as a leading Jewish thinker and as one of the most radical philosophers of the Islamic world. The stu... Lees meer

Violence and Messianism

Petar Bojanic

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• Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenz... Lees meer

The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

Abraham Melamed

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• The evolving image of the Black in the history of Jewish culture is being traced here in the conceptual framework of recent post-modern theories of th... Lees meer

From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews

Daniel Summerfield

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• In the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falas... Lees meer

Jews, Muslims and Mass Media

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• This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally... Lees meer

Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

David Aberbach

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• This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolutio... Lees meer

The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature

Neta Stahl

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• Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attrib... Lees meer

From Synagogue to Church

John Wilkinson

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• The designs of synagogues and churches are acknowledged to be very alike. But the designers' procedure was confidential, and so far standard explanati... Lees meer

Jewish Blood

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• This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood ... Lees meer

The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy

Yuval Jobani

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• Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led... Lees meer

The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism

David Aberbach

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• In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural national... Lees meer

The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt

Margaret Betz Hull

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• The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of ... Lees meer

Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity

Harvey Mitchell

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• Harvey Mitchell's book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire's treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and respon... Lees meer

Facing the Other

Sean Hand

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• Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and re... Lees meer

Political Theologies in the Holy Land

David Ohana

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• This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism ... Lees meer

A History of Czechs and Jews

Martin Wein

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• Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did p... Lees meer

Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy

Menachem Keren-Kratz

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• Beginning with the informal establishment of Jewish Orthodoxy by a Hungarian rabbi in the early nineteenth century, this book traces the history and l... Lees meer

The Jews as a Chosen People

S Leyla Gurkan

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• The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancie... Lees meer

Bearing Witness

Maria Jarosz

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• Bearing Witness offers personal insight into the collective experience of Poles over the last sixty years. One of Poland's leading social scientists c... Lees meer

The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

Abraham Melamed

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• This book traces the development of the image of the Black as 'other' in the history of Jewish cultures, from the first formulations in Biblical liter... Lees meer

Rabbinic Judaism

David Kraemer

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• In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world i... Lees meer

The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature

Neta Stahl

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• Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attrib... Lees meer

Antisemitism and Modernity

Hyam Maccoby

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• The subject of anti-Semitism, not long ago thought to be a dead issue, has been revised due to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Macco... Lees meer