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Mir collection
Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork,
2006,
Soft,
280 p,
(In Russian)
ISBN 1-893552-40-3
Brodsky through the eyes of his contemporaries
(
Volume 1
)
Valentina Polukhina
The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright, Brodsky is widely…
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From theory to praxis
New perspectives in Jewish philosophy
Avi Sagi
Avi Sagi's book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: the turn from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing essentially based on practice. This stance tries to examine Jewish quin…
90 USD
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Jacob's ladder
Kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature
Marina Aptekman
This volume shows the evolution of kabbalistic symbolism in Russian intellectual culture as reflected in literary works from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Mainly focused on the close study of literary works pre…
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Jewish peoplehood
Change and challenge
Ezra Kopelowitz, Menachem Revivi (ed.)
This volume represents the first in-depth effort to address the concept of Jewish peoplehood since the initial attempts of early 20th century Jewish intellectuals Mordechai Kaplan and Salo Baron. Indeed, its substance goes far beyond the range of a …
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Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s commentary on the second book of psalms
Translated by H. Norman Strickman. Chapters 42-72
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, poet, philosopher, mathematician, was one of the outstanding personalities produced by medieval Jewry. His chief claim to fame, however, is his commentary on the Bible. The latter is printed in all major editions of the Hebre…
48 USD
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Sex rewarded, sex punished
A study of the status “female slave” in early Jewish law
Diane Kriger
The book is a masterful intersection of Bible Studies, Gender Studies, and Rabbinic law. Diane Kriger (Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2001) explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing Biblical strictures with later Rabbinic …
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The marsh of gold
Pasternak’s writings on inspiration and creation. Texts by Boris Pasternak. Selected, translated, edited, introduced, and provided with commentaries by Angela Livingstone
Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here…
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The mind behind the Gospels
A commentary to Matthew. Chapters 1–14
Herbert Basser
Basser (Ph.D. University of Toronto 1983) gives us a verse-by-verse commentary to the first half of the Gospel in his study of Matthew through the lens of Jewish texts. These texts, skillfully interpreted by Basser, illuminate the powerful poetry an…
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The Wisdom of love
Man, woman and God in Jewish Canonical literature
Naftali Rothenberg
Challenging the public's negative perception of the Jewish religion's views on love, Naftali Rothenberg, a senior research fellow and Jewish Culture and Identity chair at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, shows his readers the fundamental ways in wh…
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Theological and philosophical premises of Judaism
Jacob Neusner
Classical Judaism imagined the people Israel’s situation to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They were destined to die without hope of renewe…
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Three Jewish journeys through an anthropologist’s lens
From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to The Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah
Moshe Shokeid
This collection of ethnographical and anthropological essays by Moshe Shokeid (Ph.D. 1968, University of Manchester, UK) covers few important subjects related to Jewish life: social absorption and cultural transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish imm…
59 USD
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Time and life cycle in Talmud and Midrash
Socio-anthropological perspectives
Nissan Rubin
Focusing on the concept of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time. Nissan Rubin’s essays (one written in collaboration with Admiel Kosman…
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Translating a tradition: Studies in American Jewish history
Ira Robinson
Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture beginning in the late nineteenth century.
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Variations on the messianic theme
A case study of interfaith dialogue
Marion Wyse
Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have b…
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