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As Messianism Turns to Heresy
The Regenstein Chair Lectures On Lurianic Kabbalah and Shabbatai Tzevi at Hebrew Union College - Cincinnati
Av Gershom Scholem, Avraham Oriah Kelman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
493 kr
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This volume presents the transcripts, based on a rare set of voice recordings, of a series of lectures delivered by Scholem in the Spring of 1966 while serving as Visiting Professor and Joseph and Helen Regenstein Chair at Hebrew Union College-Institute of Jewish Religion in Cincinnati. Scholem's …
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe
Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman
Av Richard I. Cohen, Natalie B. Dohrmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
785 kr
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David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early modern Europe, from 1500 to 1800. From his …
Exile as Home
The Cosmopolitan Poetics of Leyb Naydus
Inbunden, 2017
559 kr
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Leyb Naydus (1890-1918) expanded the possibilities of Yiddish poetry via his rich cosmopolitan works, introducing a wealth of themes and forms seldom seen in that language, including some of its first sonnets of literary merit. A devotee of European Symbolism, Nayduss poems shimmer with his love of …
Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
Inbunden, 2017
510 kr
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Both Werner Weinberg and Lisl, his wife, survived internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This collection of essays conveys Weinberg's ongoing struggle to put into words something that might offer understanding to post-Holocaust generations.
Levi's Vindication
The 1007 Anonymous 'as It Really Is'
Inbunden, 2017
569 kr
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The "1007 Anonymous," an imaginative, brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relations between Jews and their lay rulers and the pope.
Letter That Has Not Been Read
Dreams in the Hebrew Bible
Av Shaul Bar
Häftad, 2015
559 kr
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Shaul Bar explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorizes them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. He studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of …
Jews in Christian Europe
A Source Book, 315-1791
Av Jacob R. Marcus, Marc Saperstein
Häftad, 2016
554 kr
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Jacob Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World (1938) has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period using primary source documents in English translation. This new work based on Marcus's book …
Profane Scriptures
Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry
Häftad, 2011
370 kr
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Twentieth century Hebrew poetry engages the Bible in an ongoing battle. Modern iconoclastic Hebrew poets fight for their independence from biblical traditions, and they do so by practicing a form of subversive midrash. The ancient rabbis enjoyed developing innovative midrashic methods that would …
Shir Hama'alot l'David (Song of the Steps) and Ktav Hitnazzelut l'Darshanim (In Defense of Preachers)
Inbunden, 1984
559 kr
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David Darshan of Cracow was the first of the itinerant Jewish preachers whose works were published. He was a Renaissance man in a very real sense. Preacher, scholar, artist, healer, scribe, mystic, editor, commentator, and bibliophile (and father of five daughters), he tried in vain to establish an …
Nelson Glueck
Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Av Jonathan Brown, Laurence Kutler
Inbunden, 2006
526 kr
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Nelson Glueck was born in 1900 to a struggling immigrant Jewish family in Cincinnati. By 1950, he had excavated remains of the civilization of the ancient Nabataeans in Transjordan, described a biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea, and shown how the Negev could support a …
Engaging Torah
Modern Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible
Av Walter Homolka, Aaron Panken
Häftad, 2018
538 kr
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In this volume of essays, eminent Jewish scholars from around the world present introductions to the different parts of the Bible for the wider public. The essays encompass a general introduction to the Torah in Jewish life, and include specific essays on each of the Five Books of Moses, as well as …
Agony in the Pulpit
Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945
Inbunden, 2018
1568 kr
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Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of …
Defining Israel
The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law
Av Simon Rabinovitch, Simon Rabinovitch
Häftad, 2018
640 kr
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Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law is the first book in any language devoted to the controversial passage of Israel's nation-state law. Israel has no constitution, and though it calls itself the Jewish state there is no agreement among Israelis on how that fact should be …
Eliezer Eilburg
The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic
Av Joseph Davis
Inbunden, 2020
831 kr
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Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic sceptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable in view to Christopher Marlowe or Noël Journet, Eilburg …
Tradition, Interpretation, and Change
Developments in the Liturgy of Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz
Inbunden, 2019
902 kr
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Minhag (custom) played a far greater and far more important role in medieval Ashkenazic society than in any other Jewish community. In upholding the authority of a custom, halakhic authorities frequently asserted that "custom prevails over halakhah." Furthermore, Ashkenazic authorities asserted …
Like a Dark Rabbi
Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi", from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch, and Michael Heller, this volume …
These Truths We Hold
Judaism in an Age of Truthiness
Av Joshua Garroway, Wendy Zierler
Häftad, 2022
423 kr
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Our nation's founding document, the Declaration of Independence, confidently declares, "These truths we hold to be self-evident" And yet, America today seems mired in a truth crisis. Postmodern relativism has cast doubt on the Enlightenment notion of shared, self-evident truths held by all; …
Modern Jewish Mythologies
Inbunden, 2000
636 kr
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Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life. Eli Yassif's introduction illustrates the …
Lobbying for Equality
Jacques Godard and the Struggle for Jewish Equality during the French Revolution
Av Gerard Leval
Inbunden, 2021
883 kr
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The French Revolution brought the promise of equality to many oppressed groups living in France. French Jews, long persecuted and considered to be a separate nation, sought to benefit from the new freedoms promised by the Revolution. The inspiring story of Jacques Godard, set during the dramatic …
Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought
Critical Essays
Av Jason Kalman
Inbunden, 2022
876 kr
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Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, …
Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 94 (2023)
Av Jason Kalman
Inbunden, 2024
1359 kr
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Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of …
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Israeli Poets: Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Inbunden, 2023
731 kr
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In Ars-Prophetica, Haim O. Rechnitzer uncovers and recovers the theological elements within the poetry of four renowned Hebrew-Israeli poets. First and foremost, Rechnitzer introduces major works of modern Hebrew poetry that are viewed as part of the "secular" heritage of the renewed Hebrew-Israeli …
Early Modern Yiddish Bible
From the Mirkevet ha-Mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen
Inbunden, 2024
1164 kr
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The translation of the Bible into the vernacular is a venerable Jewish tradition, more than two thousand years old. Ashkenazi Jewish culture was a latecomer to the vernacular Bible, and it was only in the sixteenth century that the Yiddish Bible made its appearance in print. Almost one hundred …
Faces of Israel
A Conversation
Inbunden, 2025
427 kr
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The Faces of Israel: a Conversation by Larry Roberts incorporates images taken between 1980 and 2015, from all of Israel's diverse communities, depicting people living their daily lives. These photographs of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and tourists, of the religious and the secular, …
This Longing City
Modern Hebrew Poems of Jerusalem
Inbunden, 2026
579 kr
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This anthology includes seventy-seven poems of modern Hebrew poetry, from the 1930s to 2023, spanning approximately ninety years. Forty-one poets are represented, some with a single poem and some with more. Of the forty-one poets, all but one are Jewish, with Hebrew as their primary language of …
New Tradition
Essays on Modern Hebrew Literature
Inbunden, 2006
747 kr
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The Jewish struggle for survival as a spiritual entity after the cohesiveness of Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the latter decades of the nineteenth century spawned a new tradition-a modern secular Hebraic cultural tradition. These seventeen essays by Israel's esteemed literary …
Remnant Stones
The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Essays
Av Aviva Ben-Ur, Rachel Frankel
Inbunden, 2012
565 kr
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In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a …
Window on Their World
The Court Diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim Frankfurt am Main, 1773-1794
Av Edward Fram
Inbunden, 2012
990 kr
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From a manuscript that was lost for more than half a century comes new information about one of the greatest Jewish communities of all time. The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, shed light on daily life in the …
Sisterhood
A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism
Av Balin/Herman, Carol B. Balin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
769 kr
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The work of a coterie of dynamic women - not the brainchild of Reform Judaism's male leaders, as is often thought - Women of Reform Judaism has been a force in the shaping of American Jewish life since its founding as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913. The synergy of Reform …
In the Illuminated Dark
Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner
Inbunden, 2014
517 kr
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Loss defines the crossbeams and chronicles of Tuvia Ruebner's life. Born in 1924 into a semi-secular Jewish family in Slovakia, Ruebner was also born into the catastrophe that would follow-the extermination of European Jewry and of his own family in the Holocaust. Hitler became chancellor of …
