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Wisdom of the Zohar
An Anthology of Texts
Häftad, 1991
1330 kr
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The Zohar is the fundamental work of Jewish mysticism. Isaiah Tishby’s classic and definitive Wisdom of the Zohar makes the world of the Zohar available to the English-speaking reader in all its complexity and poetry.The extended extracts are arranged by topic, each section being prefaced by …
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816
Häftad, 2015
340 kr
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Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. Even if historically some Jewish women may have experienced mystical revelations and led richly productive spiritual lives, the tradition does not preserve any record of their experiences or insights. Only the chance survival of …
Torah from Heaven
The Reconstruction of Faith
Häftad, 2018
415 kr
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Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life: in the light of historical criticism, advances in knowledge, and changing moral attitudes, is the …
Rediscovering Traces of Memory
The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [Second edition]
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but there are also widespread traces that bear witness to the elaborate Jewish culture that once flourished there, even in villages and small towns. One also …
Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy
Häftad, 2019
460 kr
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Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In illustration of how Orthodoxy is adapting to modernity, he presents a detailed discussion of halakhic developments, particularly regarding women’s greater participation in …
Collected Essays
Volume I
Häftad, 2019
510 kr
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The essays in this volume reflect the author’s lifelong interest in the history of halakhah. What stimulated change, and why? What happened when strong forces impinged on halakhic observance and communities had to adapt to new circumstances? The volume opens with a brief description of the dramatis …
Collected Essays
Volume II
Häftad, 2019
525 kr
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In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history and takes issue with a number of reigning views. His insistence that proper understanding requires substantive, in-depth analysis of the sources leads him …
Challenge and Conformity
The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women
Inbunden, 2021
664 kr
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Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys and interviews across different Orthodox …
Reappraising the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Av Hans Blom, David J. Wertheim m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1273 kr
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The two decades since the last authoritative general history of Dutch Jews was published have seen such substantial developments in historical understanding that new assessment has become an imperative. This volume offers an indispensable survey from a contemporary viewpoint that reflects the new …
Jews of Provence and Languedoc
Inbunden, 2024
2168 kr
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The Hebrew edition of The Jews of Provence and Languedoc, published in 2017, was awarded the Ben Zvi Institute Prize (2018) and the Am Olam Prize of the Historical Society of Israel (2019)This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence—cultural, …
Religious Truth
Towards a Jewish Theology of Religions
Inbunden, 2020
568 kr
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Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers. Accordingly, understanding what we mean by ‘truth’ is a key challenge to interreligious collaboration. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars, consider what is meant by truth in classical and contemporary Jewish …
Jews in Poland and Russia
Volume I: 1350 to 1881
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context.Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-ranging overview …
Jews in Poland and Russia
Volume II: 1881 to 1914
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-ranging overview …
Jews in Poland and Russia
Volume III: 1914 to 2008
Häftad, 2019
1006 kr
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Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-ranging overview …
At Eden’s Door
The Habsburg Jewish Life of Leon Kellner (1859-1928)
Inbunden, 2023
649 kr
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Leon Kellner was part of the intellectual and cultural elite of imperial Austria. Engaged in politics, a member of his regional parliament, and an essayist of repute, he was also a Zionist leader and confidant of Theodor Herzl. He created an institution for Jews’ cultural, educational, and social …
Beyond Zion
The Jewish Territorialist Movement
Inbunden, 2022
568 kr
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Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material 2022.Jewish political and cultural behaviour during the first half of the twentieth century comes to the fore in this portrayal of a forgotten movement with contemporary relevance. Commencing with the Zionist rejection …
Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865–1908
A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil
Av Richard I. Cohen, Mirjam Rajner
Inbunden, 2022
1371 kr
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Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be more widely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewish themes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin.Born into a traditional Jewish family in Łódź in 1865, Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish culture and language as he …
Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam
Inbunden, 2023
871 kr
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Finalist for Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought 2023.This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former member Baruch …
Covenant and World Religions
Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism
Inbunden, 2023
959 kr
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Finalist for The Rabbi Sacks Book Prize 2023.A new paradigm for relations between religions, one of acceptance and collaboration, requires not only a willingness to move beyond a tradition of hostility and competition but also significant theological rethinking. Within Jewish Orthodoxy there have …
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture
Inbunden, 2022
979 kr
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This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader public. While the focus is on Jewish society …
Karaism
An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism
Inbunden, 2022
664 kr
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Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022.Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish practice is to be …
Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age
Häftad, 2022
460 kr
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In the postmodern, relativist world-view with its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, it has become difficult if not impossible to argue in favour of one’s own beliefs as preferable to those of others. Miriam Feldmann Kaye’s pioneering study is one of the first English-language …
Medieval Jews and the Christian Past
Jewish Historical Consciousness in Spain and Southern France
Häftad, 2023
474 kr
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The historical consciousness of medieval Jewry has engendered lively debate in the scholarly world. The focus in this book is on the historical consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian history …
Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
Av David Gillis
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides’ code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. Through this symbolic form, Maimonides presents the law as designed to perfect the individual and society by shaping them in the image of the divinely …
Challenge and Conformity
The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women
Häftad, 2023
415 kr
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Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys and interviews across different Orthodox …
Religious Truth
Towards a Jewish Theology of Religions
Häftad, 2024
431 kr
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Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers. Accordingly, understanding what we mean by ‘truth’ is a key challenge to interreligious collaboration. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars, consider what is meant by truth in classical and contemporary Jewish …
Covenant and World Religions
Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism
Häftad, 2025
582 kr
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Finalist for The Rabbi Sacks Book Prize 2023.A new paradigm for relations between religions, one of acceptance and collaboration, requires not only a willingness to move beyond a tradition of hostility and competition but also significant theological rethinking. Within Jewish Orthodoxy there have …
Final Judgement and the Dead in Medieval Jewish Thought
Häftad, 2025
582 kr
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Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a huge …
Conscious History
Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust
Häftad, 2025
536 kr
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Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars …
Frog Under the Tongue
Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe
Häftad, 2024
521 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk PrizeShortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the ideas of traditional Ashkenazi culture with the …
