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Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Inbunden, 2024
703 kr
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In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that relies on …
Rites and Passages
The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious …
Insight of Unbelievers
Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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In the year 1309, Nicholas of Lyra, an important Franciscan Bible commentator, put forth a question at the University of Paris, asking whether it was possible to prove the advent of Christ from scriptures received by the Jews. This question reflects the challenges he faced as a Christian exegete …
Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
E-bok, 2011
415 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its …
Jewish Enlightenment
E-bok, 2011
542 kr
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At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their …
Between Worlds
Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism
Av J. H. Chajes
E-bok, 2012
415 kr
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After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but …
Sanctifying the Name of God
Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
Av Jeremy Cohen
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first …
Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe
E-bok, 2011
1092 kr
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Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adherence to tradition, as national, ethnic, cultural, and other alternatives emerged and a long, …
Souls in Dispute
Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 158-17
E-bok, 2013
1007 kr
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Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home to a rich cultural mix of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. At the end of the fifteenth century, however, the last Islamic stronghold fell, and Jews were forced either to convert to Christianity or to face expulsion. Thousands left for other …
Kingdom of Priests
Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a minority, …
Sufi-Jewish Dialogue
Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya Ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart"
Av Diana Lobel
E-bok, 2013
1092 kr
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Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is a profound guidebook of Jewish spirituality that has enjoyed tremendous popularity and influence to the present day. Readers who know the book primarily in its …
Yigal Allon, Native Son
A Biography
E-bok, 2015
1038 kr
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Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah-an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the …
Unveiling Eve
Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Av Tova Rosen
E-bok, 2013
1218 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleUnveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was an …
Modern Jewish Literatures
Intersections and Boundaries
Av Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1229 kr
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Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language-though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are …
Mixed Multitude
Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose …
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History
Authority, Diaspora, Tradition
Av Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1157 kr
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Over the past several decades, the field of Jewish studies has expanded to encompass an unprecedented range of research topics, historical periods, geographic regions, and analytical approaches. Yet there have been few systematic efforts to trace these developments, to consider their implications, …
Becoming the People of the Talmud
Oral Torah As Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
E-bok, 2012
554 kr
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In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman …
Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
Av Joseph R. Hacker, Adam Shear
E-bok, 2011
1157 kr
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The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology-and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews-certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have …
Vernacular Voices
Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities
E-bok, 2011
1155 kr
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A thirteenth-century text purporting to represent a debate between a Jew and a Christian begins with the latter's exposition of the virgin birth, something the Jew finds incomprehensible at the most basic level, for reasons other than theological: "Speak to me in French and explain your words!" he …
This Noble House
Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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This Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had …
Beyond Religious Borders
Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World
Av David M. Freidenreich, Miriam Goldstein
E-bok, 2011
1125 kr
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The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths, boundaries between these groups were vague and in some cases nonexistent. Rather than simply borrowing or lending customs, goods, and …
Next Year in Marienbad
The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture
E-bok, 2012
913 kr
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"-to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas …
Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920
E-bok, 2012
1376 kr
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In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose …
Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire
The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity
Av Natalie B. Dohrmann, Annette Yoshiko Reed
E-bok, 2013
1192 kr
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In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical by scholars of Roman …
Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
Av Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jonathan Karp
E-bok, 2013
554 kr
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The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of …
Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange
Comparative Exegesis in Context
Av Natalie B. Dohrmann, David Stern
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the histories of scriptural interpretation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the ancient period to the early modern, and shows how deeply intertwined these religions have always been.
Difference of a Different Kind
Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century
E-bok, 2014
940 kr
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European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign and familiar, Jews adopted a complex …
Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Häftad, 2006
332 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its …
Sanctifying the Name of God
Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
Av Jeremy Cohen
Häftad, 2006
402 kr
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How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first …
Rites and Passages
The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860
Häftad, 2007
390 kr
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In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Passages, Jay R. Berkovitz argues that no serious …
