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Another Way, Another Time
Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate
Av Meir Persoff
E-bok, 2010
2771 kr
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British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London – 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 …
Twentieth Century Jews
Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
E-bok, 2010
2853 kr
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This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry’s long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev …
Do Not Provoke Providence
Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism
Av Yosef Salmon
E-bok, 2013
3117 kr
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Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah, and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those …
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition
E-bok, 2015
2771 kr
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Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and the British sociologist Basil Bernstein by highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories revealing significant …
Hats in the Ring
Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks
Av Meir Persoff
Inbunden, 2013
1286 kr
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Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host …
Hats in the Ring
Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks
Av Meir Persoff
E-bok, 2013
2771 kr
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Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host …
Hats in the Ring
Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks
Av Meir Persoff
Häftad, 2013
331 kr
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Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host …
First to be Destroyed
The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution
Av Witold Medykowski, Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1366 kr
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The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September …
Development, Learning, and Community
Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools
Häftad, 2013
219 kr
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Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education.Throughout, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the balance …
First to be Destroyed
The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution
Av Witold Medykowski, Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
456 kr
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The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September …
Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals
Collected Essays
Inbunden, 2016
1108 kr
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This book discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when viewed from the vantage of anthropological studies. It can also function as a guide to practical halakhah. The author examines topics such as Torah Scrolls, ceremonial use of fire, …
Jewish Intellectual Tradition
A History of Learning and Achievement
Av Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1380 kr
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The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even …
Jewish Intellectual Tradition
A History of Learning and Achievement
Av Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
486 kr
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The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even …
Beyond a Code of Jewish Law
Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Ḥayei Adam
Inbunden, 2021
1040 kr
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The Ḥayei Adam, an abridged code of Jewish law, was written by Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) and was first published in 1810. This code spread quickly throughout Europe, and the demand for it required a second publishing which the author printed in 1818. Beyond a Code of Jewish Law attempts to …
Boldness of a Halakhist
An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein’s "The Arukh Hashulhan"
Inbunden, 2008
1286 kr
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The Boldness of a Halakhist analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (1829–1908), author of the Arukh Hashulkhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law. Based primarily on the original text of Rabbi Epstein's legal codes and homilies, this work covers topics such as women, …
Translating a Tradition
Studies in American Jewish History
Av Ira Robinson
Inbunden, 2008
829 kr
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Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture beginning in the late nineteenth century. Part I focuses on the ideas and activities of Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), one of the most prominent leaders of …
Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash
Socio-Anthropological Perspectives
Av Nissan Rubin
Inbunden, 2008
812 kr
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Focusing on the concepts 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. The essays are the work of Nissan Rubin (one of them written in collaboration with Admiel Kosman) and come together to …
World Apart
A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia
Inbunden, 2008
601 kr
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In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In this autobiography, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the …
Roadmap to the Heavens
An Anthropological Study of Hegemony among Priests, Sages, and Laymen
Inbunden, 2008
1286 kr
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A Roadmap to the Heavens challenges readers to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the Tannaitic period (70 C.E. – 220 C.E.). New insights were made possible by applying anthropological theories and conceptual tools. In addition, social phenomena were better …
Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism
Inbunden, 2008
1286 kr
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Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They …
Controversy and Crisis
Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain
Inbunden, 2008
895 kr
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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 up the dark corners of the Jewish existence in …
Wisdom of Love
Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonical Literature
Inbunden, 2009
601 kr
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The Wisdom of Love strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This is a book about love, not its repression; it is an …
Marranos on the Moradas
Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590 to 1890
Av Norman Simms
Inbunden, 2009
1742 kr
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Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody …
New Rituals—Old Societies
Invented Rituals in Contemporary Israel
Av Nissan Rubin
Inbunden, 2009
1400 kr
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Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises. There are crises which beset individuals in modern and post-modern society which are not easily addressed by traditional rituals. However, rites have not disappeared in contemporary society, but have merely changed their guise. New …
Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens
From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah
Inbunden, 2009
1466 kr
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Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career. It presents Moshe Shokeid’s explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life, which he …
Vixens Disturbing Vineyards
Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures—A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh)
Av Tzemah Yoreh, Aubrey Glazer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2265 kr
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Embarrassment and embracement are two moments in the reading, misreading and re-reading of scriptures, defined broadly to include both canonical and non-canonical texts. Despite what Harold Bloom calls our "belatedness" in this process, every reading community has its way of confronting that moment …
Jewish Thought in Dialogue
Essays on Thinkers, Theologies and Moral Theories
Av David Shatz
Inbunden, 2010
1581 kr
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This carefully crafted collection of essays, Jewish Thought in Dialogue, offers creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and as well as original treatments of significant issues in Jewish theology and ethics. The collection includes philosophical readings of biblical narratives, analyses of …
Variations on the Messianic Theme
A Case Study of Interfaith Dialogue
Av Marion Wyse
Inbunden, 2009
1400 kr
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Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have been addressed and Jews and Christians in dialogue …
Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished
A Study of the Status 'Female Slave' in Early Jewish Law
Av Diane Kriger
Inbunden, 2011
1581 kr
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A masterful intersection of Bible Studies, Gender Studies, and Rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing Biblical strictures with later Rabbinic interpretations as well as contemporary Greco-Roman and Babylonian codes of law, Kriger …
Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism
Häftad, 2008
483 kr
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Classical Judaism imagined the people Israel's situation in three aspects to be unique among the nations of the earth. The nations lived in unclean lands contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves are destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They were …
