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Brodsky through the eyes of his contemporaries
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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…
Academic Studies Press
Brighton MA (USA),
2008,
Hardcover,
360 p., 15 il,
(In English)
ISBN 978-1-934843-15-4
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Academic Studies Press
Brighton MA (USA),
2008,
Hardcover,
360 p., 15 il,
(In English)
ISBN 978-1-934843-15-4
USA0029
Akko Festival: between celebration and confrontation
Naphtaly Shem-Tov
This research follows the history of Akko Festival for Other Israeli Theatre in the years 1980-2012 as a site of a celebration as well as a confrontation. Thus Akko Festival is a borderland bringing together established directors and producers from …
$121,00
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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 …
$48,00
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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 …
$70,00
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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…
$70,00
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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…
$50,00
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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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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…
$48,00
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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…
$32,00
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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…
$39,00
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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…
$75,00
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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…
$45,00
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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…
$80,00
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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…
$55,00
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The Saint's Impresarios
Dreamers, healers, and Holy men in Israel's urban periphery
Yoram Bilu
Revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s. The Saint's Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, established by Moroccan-born me…
$57,00
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The communal gadfly
Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: asking the subversive questions
Geoffrey Alderman
Since 2002 Geoffrey Alderman, the leading authority on the Jews of modern Britain, has written the chief "Comment" column for the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest continuously circulating Jewish newspaper. This anthology brings together over a …
$35,00
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A ration of fashion
Dress culture in the young state of Israel
Anat Helman
A Ration of Fashion investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions,…
$42,00
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In quest of Tolstoy
Hugh McLean
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and…
$75,00
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The idea of modern Jewish culture
Translated by Leonard Levin
Eliezer Schweid
This is a large, complex story in which the author describes the contributions of Mendelssohn, Wessely, Krochmal, Zunz, the mainstream Zionist thinkers (especially Ahad Ha-Am, Bialik, and A.D. Gordon), Kook, Kaplan, and Dubnow to the formulation of …
$29,95
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Anti-Semitism on the campus
Past and present
Eunice G. Pollack (ed.)
In the book eighteen leading scholars explore the roots and manifestations of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at American, British, and Canadian colleges and universities over the course of the 20th century and the responses to them. Topics range fro…
$65,00
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Belomor: criminality and creativity in Stalin’s Gulag
Julie S. Draskoczy
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative …
$103,00
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Canadian Jewry in the 21st century
Identity and demography
Jack Jedwab
The book is to be published in June 2011. How many Jews are there in Canada? The answer depends on how being Jewish is defined, and by whom. Canada’s national statistical agency collects data on religion and on ethnic origin and thus offers the poss…
$55,00
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Lessons from the Israeli case
Noam Yuran
Within a relatively short span of time, the first commercial TV channel in Israel has rendered the well established state control of television obsolete. However, this triumph of commercial television does not represent a renouncement of the familia…
$39,00
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