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Lament in Jewish Thought
Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives
Av Ilit Ferber, Paula Schwebel
Inbunden, 2014
1484 kr
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Book of Job
Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
Av Leora Batnitzky, Ilana Pardes
Inbunden, 2014
1623 kr
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The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job’s response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for …
Psalms In/On Jerusalem
Av Ilana Pardes, Ophir Münz-Manor
Inbunden, 2019
1569 kr
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This volume explores the ways in which Jerusalem is represented in Psalms – from its position in the context of liturgical and pilgrim songs to its role as metaphor. Jerusalem in the Book of Psalms is the site of scenes of redemption, joy, and celebration of the proximity to God and the house of …
Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde
Between Rebellion and Revelation
Av Mark H. Gelber, Sami Sjöberg
Inbunden, 2017
1962 kr
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This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings …
Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
The Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838)
Inbunden, 2025
1338 kr
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This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838), who immigrated to London where he spent the last forty years of his life. In focusing on Bennett’s learned life, it underscores the significance of this singular writer, artist, and public figure, …
Jewish Law
New Perspectives
Av Suzanne Last Stone, Yonatan Y. Brafman
Inbunden, 2024
1389 kr
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New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader academic and cultural significance. It shifts the study of Jewish law from its focus on legal doctrine and history to legal theory, achieving in the process …
German-Jewish Experience Revisited
Av Steven E. Aschheim, Vivian Liska
Inbunden, 2015
1791 kr
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In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment …
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?
A European Perspective
Av Emmanuel Nathan, Anya Topolski
Inbunden, 2016
1791 kr
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The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not coined in the United States in the middle of the 20th century but in 1831 in …
Passages of Belonging
Interpreting Jewish Literatures
Av Carola Hilfrich, Natasha Gordinsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a moving landscape of 20th and 20st century …
German-Hebrew Dialogue
Studies of Encounter and Exchange
Inbunden, 2018
1791 kr
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In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as the directions of their scripts. Yet when placed side by side on opposing pages, German and Hebrew …
Book of Job
Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
Av Leora Batnitzky, Ilana Pardes
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job’s response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for …
Lament in Jewish Thought
Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives
Av Ilit Ferber, Paula Schwebel
Häftad, 2017
272 kr
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No detailed description available for "Lament in Jewish Thought".
German-Jewish Experience Revisited
Av Steven E. Aschheim, Vivian Liska
Häftad, 2017
255 kr
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In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment …
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?
A European Perspective
Av Emmanuel Nathan, Anya Topolski
Häftad, 2017
286 kr
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The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not coined in the United States in the middle of the 20th century but in 1831 in …
Fragile Spaces
Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities
Inbunden, 2018
1962 kr
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No detailed description available for "Fragile Spaces".
Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah
Av Moshe Idel
Inbunden, 2018
1962 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah".
Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book
Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts
Inbunden, 2021
1640 kr
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This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabès and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize Jabès' enigmatic prose through the lens of the author’s manuscripts. Addressed are the main prisms through which Jabès’ oeuvre has been …
Levinas and Literature
New Directions
Av Michael Fagenblat, Arthur Cools
Inbunden, 2020
1640 kr
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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by …
Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
Inbunden, 2022
1463 kr
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Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and …
Spiritual Homelands
The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others
Av Asher D. Biemann, Richard I. Cohen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2060 kr
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Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and …
Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde
Between Rebellion and Revelation
Av Mark H. Gelber, Sami Sjöberg
Häftad, 2019
383 kr
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This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings …
Visitation of Hannah Arendt
Inbunden, 2020
1492 kr
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The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt’s notion of "natality". Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement with the public sphere and with political discourse, is invited here to pay intimate visitations to four different figures: an anonymous student, …
Canonization and Alterity
Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature
Av Gilad Sharvit, Willi Goetschel
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters …
German-Hebrew Dialogue
Studies of Encounter and Exchange
Häftad, 2019
350 kr
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In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as the directions of their scripts. Yet when placed side by side on opposing pages, German and Hebrew …
Tsimtsum and Modernity
Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology
Av Agata Bielik-Robson, Daniel H. Weiss
Inbunden, 2020
1480 kr
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This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the …
Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Inbunden, 2022
1623 kr
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Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of "birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the centrality of death in Western culture and existential philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discuss similarities between …
Formation of the Talmud
Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy’s Dorot Harishonim
Av Ari Bergmann
Inbunden, 2021
1196 kr
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This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was …
Fragile Spaces
Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities
Häftad, 2020
391 kr
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This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of …
Psalms In/On Jerusalem
Av Ilana Pardes, Ophir Münz-Manor
Häftad, 2020
327 kr
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This volume explores the ways in which Jerusalem is represented in Psalms – from its position in the context of liturgical and pilgrim songs to its role as metaphor. Jerusalem in the Book of Psalms is the site of scenes of redemption, joy, and celebration of the proximity to God and the house of …
Passages of Belonging
Interpreting Jewish Literatures
Av Carola Hilfrich, Natasha Gordinsky m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
359 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a moving landscape of 20th and 20st century …
