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Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of her contribution is long overdue. In part a result of Arendt's own insistence on calling herself a 'political thinker' throughout her career, this is …
Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy
The God-intoxicated heretic
Av Yuval Jobani
Häftad, 2019
503 kr
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Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself.As opposed to the prevailing …
Making of Modern Jewish Identity
Ideological Change and Religious Conversion
Av Motti Inbari
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders – rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals – to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, …
Holocaust in Thessaloniki
Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943
Av Leon Saltiel
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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The book narrates the last days of the once prominent Jewish community of Thessaloniki, the overwhelming majority of which was transported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1943.Focusing on the Holocaust of the Jews of Thessaloniki, this book maps the reactions of the authorities, the Church …
Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland
The Concept of Moledet
Av David Ohana
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland: from …
Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology
Av David Ohana
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology is the first book to explore the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on the formation of Jewish political theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish thinkers grappled with Nietzsche’s powerful ideas …
Nationalism, War and Jewish Education
From the Roman Empire to Modern Times
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish nationalism grew in the 19th and early 20th …
Let My People Go
The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration During the Cold War
Häftad, 2020
693 kr
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American Jews' mobilization on behalf of Soviet Jews is typically portrayed as compensation for the community's inability to assist European Jews during World War II. Yet, as Pauline Peretz shows, the role Israel played in setting the agenda for a segment of the American Jewish community was …
Jews of Turkey
Migration, Culture and Memory
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory explores the culture of Jews who immigrated from East Turkey to Israel. The study reveals the cultural values of their communities, way of life, beliefs and traditions in the multicultural and multi-religious environment that was the East of Turkey. The …
Religious Zionism and the Six Day War
From Realism to Messianism
Av Avi Sagi, Dov Schwartz
Häftad, 2020
743 kr
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This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of specific religious interests, with its …
Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the …
Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the …
Early Israel
Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis
Inbunden, 2022
2137 kr
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Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines—from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies; …
Early Israel
Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis
Häftad, 2024
746 kr
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Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines—from anthropology, biblical studies, Egyptology and semiotics, to linguistics, cognitive poetics and consciousness studies; …
Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness
Häftad, 2020
693 kr
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Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, varied, and even conflicting ideas, as the multiplicity must be recognized and allowed expression. Topics include the significance of the rabbis’ use of …
Making of Modern Jewish Identity
Ideological Change and Religious Conversion
Av Motti Inbari
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders – rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals – to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, …
Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg
Politics and Zionism
Inbunden, 2024
2894 kr
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This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937.Making use of letters found in the Uri Zvi Grinberg Archive at the National Library of Israel (NLI), the author reconstructs the characteristics …
Poetry and Essays of Uri Zvi Grinberg
Politics and Zionism
Häftad, 2025
813 kr
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This book focuses on the complex network of relationships between the poet Uri Zvi Grinberg and the Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine from 1923 to 1937.Making use of letters found in the Uri Zvi Grinberg Archive at the National Library of Israel (NLI), the author reconstructs the characteristics …
Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas
From Adam to Michael K
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of …
Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas
From Adam to Michael K
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of …
Deconstructing the Talmud
The Absolute Book
Häftad, 2021
722 kr
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This monograph uses deconstruction—a philosophical movement originated by Jacques Derrida—to read the most authoritative book in Judaism: the Talmud. Examining deconstruction in comparison with Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies, the volume argues that the movement opens an innovative debate on Jewish …
War and Peace in Jewish Tradition
From the Biblical World to the Present
Häftad, 2019
713 kr
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The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than …
Rabbis of our Time
Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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The term ‘rabbi’ predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish world. While in Israel they control legally …
History of Czechs and Jews
A Slavic Jerusalem
Av Martin Wein
Häftad, 2019
713 kr
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Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. …
Name of God in Jewish Thought
A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name. Indeed, the Jewish mystical tradition would seem a two millennia long meditation on the nature of name in relation to object, and how name mediates between subject and object. Even within the tide of …
Rabbinic Judaism
Space and Place
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling …
Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust
Making Ethics "First Philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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For many, the Holocaust made thinking about ethics in traditional ways impossible. It called into question the predominance of speculative ontology in Western thought, and left many arguing that Western political, cultural and philosophical inattention to universal ethics were both a cause and an …
Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Scientific Philosophy
The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar
Av Moshe Pavlov
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Abū’l-Barakāt is often considered one of the most comprehensive philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu in the medieval age. His extensive and unique philosophical theories, especially his theories in the particular sciences, were seen as a major challenge for the traditional conceptions of the …
Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy
The Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar
Av Moshe Pavlov
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Abū’l-Barakāt is a renowned philosopher of the Arabic-Jewish milieu who composed in his magnum opus the Kitāb al-Mu‘tabar, a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the accepted notions of the traditional metaphysical philosophy. ‘Abū’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Metaphysical Philosophy’ examines the …
Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature
A Diaspora
Häftad, 2019
797 kr
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In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned …
