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Guidance, Not Governance
Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa
Häftad, 2013
396 kr
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Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1915, he was of the generation of rabbis from east European immigrant backgrounds who moved Reform Judaism away from its classical form toward a renewed …
Exile in Amsterdam
Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of New Jews
Häftad, 2005
667 kr
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Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). Morteira, the leading rabbi of Amsterdam and a master of Jewish homiletical …
In the Service of the King
Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah
Häftad, 2016
501 kr
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Titles have always been conferred on persons both to identify their functions in society and to assign honorary status. In Egypt even more than in Mesopotamia, function-related and honorary titles were so valued that officials and functionaries of varying stations collected the titles accrued in …
Happiness in Premodern Judaism
Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being
Häftad, 2016
541 kr
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It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for …
Were Our Mouths Filled With Song
Studies in Liberal Jewish Liturgy
Häftad, 2016
495 kr
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Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern …
Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony
Studies in the Book of Giants Traditions
Häftad, 2016
559 kr
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A work entitled the "Book of Giants" figures in every list of the Manichaean "canon" preserved from antiquity. Both the nature of this work and the intellectual baggage of the third-century Persian prophet to whom it is ascribed remained unknown to scholars until 1943, when fragments of several …
My Dear Daughter
Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland
Av Edward Fram
Häftad, 2017
503 kr
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How did Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland learn all the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the context of marriage? As in other areas of ritual life that concerned the household, it would seem that the primary source for the education of Jewish women …
Between Snow and Desert Heat
Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature, 1870-1970
Häftad, 2017
569 kr
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Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by Russian prose and poetry. These influences have been readily acknowledged but have been studied only in an episodic and fragmented way. Rina Lapidus …
Modernism and Cultural Transfer
Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism
Inbunden, 1986
986 kr
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It was twentieth-century Modernism that introduced bilingualism into the literary arena. Used as a means for the contradictory aims of universalizing or individualizing the literary idiom, this practice was clearly part of the revolt against nineteenth-century Romanticism and nationalism. In …
Karaite Separatism in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Joseph Solomon Lutski's Epistle of Israel's Deliverance
Inbunden, 1993
785 kr
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When the Karaites successfully dissociated themselves from the Rabbanite Russian Jews with the creation of the Karaite Religious Consistory in 1837, the result was a schism within Judaism unprecedented since the rise of Christianity. Philip E. Miller sets this event in the context of the history of …
Were Our Mouths Filled With Song
Studies in Liberal Jewish Liturgy
Inbunden, 1997
495 kr
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Since the period in which the Jewish liturgy was standardized, there has hardly been a time when it was not somehow in a state of flux. Eric L. Friedland explores the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern …
Ideals Face Reality
Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550-1655
Av Edward Fram
Häftad, 1997
454 kr
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Jewish life in early modern Poland was characterized by an adherence to Jewish law (halakhah) that Polish Jewry had inherited from medieval Franco-German Jewry, and almost all aspects of Jewish activity, even the most personal of matters, fell within its purview. Jewish law remained constant …
Sifra, Dibbura de Sinai
Rhetorical Formulae, Literary Structures, and Legal Traditions
Inbunden, 2003
785 kr
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Sifra is the earliest extant rabbinic commentary on the book of Leviticus. On a basic level, Sifra presents and validates rabbinic law, but this was done by creating a link between a proposition, halakhic or not, and a scriptural passage. Scholars in the last few decades-including Neusner and …
My Dear Daughter
Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland
Av Edward Fram
Inbunden, 2007
649 kr
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How did Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland learn all the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the context of marriage? As in other areas of ritual life that concerned the household, it would seem that the primary source for the education of Jewish women …
Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth
Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist
Inbunden, 2007
689 kr
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In 1953, Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Elizabeth Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the …
Remember Amalek!
Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible according to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus
Häftad, 2004
480 kr
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The divine command to exterminate Amalek--men, women, children, and even animals who have no free will--is what in contemporary terms has been called genocide. Louis Feldman explores how the earliest systematic commentators on the Bible--the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in his many essays …
Yannai on Genesis
An Invitation to Piyyut
Inbunden, 2010
1312 kr
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Piyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the piyyutim of a single poet, Yannai (ca. sixth century C.E.), to introduce readers to this important but largely unfamiliar body of writings. Yannai, the …
Guidance, Not Governance
Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa
Inbunden, 2013
559 kr
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Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished, influential, and beloved rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1915, he was of the generation of rabbis from east European immigrant backgrounds who moved Reform Judaism away from its classical form toward a renewed …
Canonization of a Myth
Portugal's 'Jewish Problem' and the Assembly of Tomar, 1629
Inbunden, 2003
342 kr
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One hundred and fifteen kilometers northeast of Lisbon an assembly convened at the Convent of Christ in the city of Tomar in the Spring of 1629. This assembly of ecclesiastical dignitaries and professors of theology and canon law met at the Assembly of Tomar with the mission to formulate a solution …
From Ideology to Liturgy
Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism
Av Eric Caplan
Häftad, 2023
559 kr
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Reprint with new Preface. In the 2002 edition of From Ideology to Liturgy, Eric Caplan examined Reconstructionism's interpretation and adaptation of the traditional Jewish liturgy and its creation of new prayer texts to convey and express the movement's changing ideology. Further insight into …
To Write the Lips of Sleepers
The Poetry of Amir Gilboa
Häftad, 2015
491 kr
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In 1937, the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman bade farewell to his family in Radzivil and emigrated to the land of Israel, where he became the Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa. In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa's works at the various stages of his career and defines …
No Way Out
The Politics of Polish Jewry 1935-1939
Häftad, 2016
513 kr
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This scholarly study sheds important new light on the politics of Polish Jewry on the eve of its destruction. Drawing from sources in the Polish Jewish and non-Jewish press and from archives in Europe, Israel, and the United States, Emanuel Melzer examines the efforts of Jews in this major center …
Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn
Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching
Häftad, 2014
611 kr
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The eighteen studies in this book continue the exploration of the Jewish sermon Saperstein began in his groundbreaking Jewish Preaching 1200-1800. His new research further illustrates the importance of this genre, largely ignored by modern scholarship, as an indispensible resource for understanding …
Traditional Jewish Law of Sale
Shulhan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat, Chapters 189-240
Inbunden, 1982
723 kr
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Within traditional Jewish commercial law, the laws of sale and fraud are surprisingly intelligible and fascinating for modern students of Jewish tradition. This translation of the relevant sections of the Shulhan Arukh, sometimes known as the ‘Code of Jewish Law’, has been prepared with the utmost …
Torah and Sophia
The life and thought of Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera
Inbunden, 1988
921 kr
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The century following the death of Maimonides (1204) witnessed widespread upheaval and turmoil as anti-rationalist Jews attempted to ban the study of philosophy. For such rationalist philosophers as Shem Tov ibn Falaquera (c. 1225-1291), however, Judaism could not be restricted to the confines of …
Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America
The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia
Inbunden, 1991
640 kr
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The Jewish Encyclopedia was the first comprehensive collection of all the available material pertaining to the Jews, their history, literature, philosophy, ritual, sociology and biography. Published by Funk & Wagnalls from 1901 to 1906, its successful completion was due to the pluck and …
To Write the Lips of Sleepers
The Poetry of Amir Gilboa
Inbunden, 1994
590 kr
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In 1937, the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman bade farewell to his family in Radzivil and emigrated to the land of Israel, where he became the Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa. In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa's works at the various stages of his career and defines …
In the Service of the King
Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah
Inbunden, 2000
501 kr
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Titles have always been conferred on persons both to identify their functions in society and to assign honorary status. In Egypt even more than in Mesopotamia, function-related and honorary titles were so valued that officials and functionaries of varying stations collected the titles accrued in …
