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24 produkter
Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
Häftad, 2017
452 kr
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Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism …
Traces of a Jewish Artist
The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Inbunden, 2024
522 kr
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Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have …
People of the Image
Jews and Art
Inbunden, 2025
1002 kr
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The Middle Ages provide us with one of the richest repositories of art in the West. Yet the rise in the production of art made for and by Jews—especially in the form of illuminated manuscripts—is often neglected in general surveys or viewed as a mere emulation of Christian art during this period.In …
Imagining the Kibbutz
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Häftad, 2018
609 kr
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In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds …
Once@9:53am
Terror in Buenos Aires
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2016
239 kr
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At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over …
Once@9:53am
Terror en Buenos Aires
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2016
239 kr
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At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over …
Hebrew Melodies
Inbunden, 2019
270 kr
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One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but when his conversion failed to yield the hoped-for job opportunities, he devoted himself to writing …
Jews in China
Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions
Av Irene Eber, Kathryn Hellerstein
Inbunden, 2019
601 kr
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Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber’s most salient articles and …
Judaism, Race, and Ethics
Conversations and Questions
Inbunden, 2020
257 kr
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Recent political and social developments in the United States reveal a deep misunderstanding of race and religion. From the highest echelons of power to the most obscure corners of society, color and conviction are continually twisted, often deliberately for nefarious reasons, or misconstrued to …
Prophetic Quest
The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Av David S. Herrstrom, Andrew D. Scrimgeour
Inbunden, 2021
178 kr
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Some of the most breathtaking art in America lies behind doors that few ever open. One such masterpiece is The Prophetic Quest, a series of ten monumental stained glass windows in the Keneseth Israel synagogue, just north of Philadelphia. This informative and exquisitely illustrated volume pulls …
Objects That Remain
Av Laura Levitt
Inbunden, 2020
333 kr
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On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police arrived too late to apprehend Laura’s attacker. When they left, investigators took items with them—a pair of sweatpants, the bedclothes—and a rape exam …
Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Inbunden, 2020
1485 kr
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Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country currently faces in the Middle East. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua is an insightful …
Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Häftad, 2024
466 kr
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Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country currently faces in the Middle East. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua is an insightful …
Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1098 kr
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The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it …
Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Av Lawrence Fine, Lawrence Fine
Häftad, 2023
404 kr
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The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history. It is only when we begin to inquire into the nature and significance of the concept in specific contexts that we discover how complex it …
Jews in China
Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions
Av Irene Eber, Kathryn Hellerstein
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber’s most salient articles and …
American Hebraist
Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature
Av Alan Mintz, Beverly Bailis m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
475 kr
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Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New …
American Hebraist
Essays on Agnon and Modern Jewish Literature
Av Alan Mintz, Beverly Bailis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1471 kr
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Alan Mintz (1947–2017) was a singular figure in the American Jewish literary landscape. In addition to publishing six authoritative books and numerous journal articles on modern and contemporary Jewish culture, Mintz contributed countless reviews and essays to literary journals, including the New …
Jews of Iran
A Photographic Chronicle
Av Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
358 kr
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This book reveals one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of our time. Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a captive and oppressed community, alienated within their home nation yet restricted from leaving it. The reality is much more complex. Jews of Iran is a photographic …
This Is Your Song Too
Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity
Av Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Ariella Werden-Greenfield
Inbunden, 2023
452 kr
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Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts—called Phishheads—who follow the band around the country, some fans attending every show. What may be surprising is that a significant percentage of Phishheads are Jewish.Two members of the band—bassist Mike Gordon and drummer …
Monk’s Haggadah
A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Av David Stern, Christoph Markschies m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
984 kr
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In 1489, a magnificent illustrated Passover Haggadah was sent as a bequest to the Monastery of Saint Quirinus at Tegernsee in southern Germany. Shortly afterwards, the monastery’s librarian sent the book to a Dominican friar named Erhard von Pappenheim, a Hebraist and expert on Jewish practice, and …
Imagining the Kibbutz
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Inbunden, 2015
1072 kr
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In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds …
Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Inbunden, 2015
1066 kr
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In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century …
Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי
Av J. H. Chajes
Inbunden, 2022
1143 kr
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Ilanot—parchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic “tree of life”—have been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred years. Written by leading ilanot expert J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree is a comprehensive and gorgeously illustrated history of these arboreal “maps …
