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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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Brodsky through the eyes of his contemporaries
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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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The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler
Edmund Kessler
Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years, 1942-1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto,…
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Holy Russia, sacred Israel
Jewish-Christian encounters in Russian religious thought
Dominic Rubin
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament’ philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciou…
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Bieganski
The brute Polak stereotype in Polish-Jewish relations and American popular culture
Danusha V. Goska
Exposure of one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the “Bieganski” stereotype, Poles exhibit the qualities of animals (they are strong, violent, fertile, dirty and hateful). Their special hatefulness is epitomized by their Polish An…
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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…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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Encounters of Consequence
Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond
Michael Oppenheim
Analysis of key issues in Jewish philosophy: the nature of Judaism and Jewish identity, the quests for meaning and continuity, the value of remaining a Jew, the relevance of Jewish law, the challenges of secularism, modern history, feminism and rel…
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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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Another way, another time
Religious inclusivism and the sacks chief rabbinate
Meir Persoff
British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years – fulfilling his installation prediction that ‘I will have failures, but I will try again, another w…
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Zionist Arabesques
Modern landscapes, non-modern texts
Hadas Yaron
Zionist Arabesques is an ethno-historical account of the landscape of the Jezreel Valley, Israel and explores how the modern landscape of the valley has been created both physically and symbolically from the perspective of both local and large scale…
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Jewish religion after theology
Avi Sagi
Avi Sagi's book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its v…
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Controversy and crisis
Studies in the history of the Jews in modern Britain
Geoffrey Alderman
Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial studies in this field, lighting u…
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Religious Zionism
History and ideology
Dov Schwartz
Religious Zionism is a major component of contemporary Israeli society and politics. The author reviews the history of religious Zionism from both a historical and ideological-theological perspective. His basic assumption is that religious Zionism c…
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A roadmap to the heavens
Anthropological study of hegemony among priests, sages and laymen
Sigalit Ben-Zion
The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly e…
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The philosophy of the Bible as foundation of Jewish culture
Philosophy of Biblical narrative. Translated by Leonard Levin
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Volume 1
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Eliezer Schweid
The Hebrew Bible forms the central point from which all Jewish philosophers begin their task of coming to terms with our present day society. This is the bedrock upon which Israeli philosopher Eliezer Schweid bases his two-volume book, newly transla…
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The boldness of a Halakhist
An analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein’s “The Arukh Hashulhan “
Simcha Fishbane
This book analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (1829–1908), author of the Arukh Hashulhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law. Based primarily on the original text of Rabbi Epstein's legal codes and homilies, this work…
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The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler
Edmund Kessler
Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years, 1942-1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto,…
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