Modern Varieties Of Judaism
With the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and the emancipation of Western Europe's Jewish populations, Jews at last held a place within society and could integrate within the life of a modern Western na...
Crisis And Creativity In The Sephardic World 1391-1648
Leading scholars reflect on the 1492 expulsions of the Jews from Spain.
Jewish Polemics
Jewish Polemics offers essays by one of the most widely read and respected political commentators and scholars of the Jewish experience, Arthur Hertzberg. He begins with a personal statement concernin...
Metaphysics Of The Profane: The Political Theology Of Walter Benjamin And Gershom Scholem
Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact o...
Torn At The Roots: The Crisis Of Jewish Liberalism In Postwar America
In this fascinating history of the genesis of the backlash against Jewish liberalism, Staub recounts the history American Jews who advocated Palestinian statehood, showing how ideology has split the J...
Pollution In A Promised Land: An Environmental History Of Israel
"This book is likely to become "the future point of reference for scholarship on environmental issues in Israel. Tal combines his extensive inside knowledge with broad and thorough research to take th...
Canaanite Myth And Hebrew Epic: Essays In The History Of The Religion Of Israel
The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsol...
European Jewry And The First Crusade
One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these e...
Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives From Classical Hebrew Literature
This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewish imagination. Presenting the captivating world of rabbinic storytelling, it rev...
The Last Days Of The Jerusalem Of Lithuania: Chronicles From The Vilna Ghetto And The Camps, 1939-1944
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city sym...
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