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Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork,
2006,
Soft,
280 p,
(In Russian)
ISBN 1-893552-40-3
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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A world apart. A memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Galicia
Translated by Rebecca Margolis, Ira Robinson
Joseph Margoshes
Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the many-faceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia. We read of the Orthodox and the Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbors, and much more. This book is an importa…
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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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Beyond political messianism
The poetry of the second generation of religious zionist settlers
David C. Jacobson
In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual sel…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra’s commentary on the first book of psalms
Translated by H. Norman Strickman. Chapters 1-41
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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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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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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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 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 Goalkeeper
The Nabokov almanac
Yuri Leving (ed.)
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other woks. In Browning’s study, the author …
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Stanford CA (USA),
2009,
Soft,
210 p,
(in Russian and English)
ISBN 978-1-57201-080-2
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 philosophy of the Bible as foundation of Jewish culture
Philosophy of Biblical narrative. Translated by Leonard Levin
(
Volume 1
)
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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