Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies – serie
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
Av Naomi B. Sokoloff, Nancy E. Berg
Häftad, 2018
527 kr
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Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what …
Jewish Bible
A Material History
Av David Stern
Häftad, 2019
534 kr
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In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object—the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands—from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present moment. Drawing on the most recent scholarship …
School Photos in Liquid Time
Reframing Difference
Av Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer
Häftad, 2019
550 kr
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From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political …
Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Häftad, 2020
534 kr
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The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thoughtIn 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of …
Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research
Häftad, 1993
472 kr
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Archaeology and Bible--two simple terms, often used together, understood by everybody. But are they understood properly? If so, why are both subject to such controversy? And what can archaeology contribute to our understanding of the Bible? These are the problems addressed by Professor Dever in …
Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History
The Roles and Representation of Women
Häftad, 1995
395 kr
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Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted “the Jews” as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between …
Portrait of American Jews
The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1995
517 kr
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Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with these questions from a sociologist’s perspective. He argues that the same conditions that have allowed …
Zakhor
Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Häftad, 1996
395 kr
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“Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - …
Kiss of God
Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism
Häftad, 1996
383 kr
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The lines of Michael Fishbane’s book trace the spiritual face of Judaism in one of its many appearances. Fishbane explores the quest for spiritual perfection in early rabbinic sources and in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The “kiss of God,” a symbol for union with God, and the ritual …
Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity
Conflict or Confluence?
Häftad, 1998
517 kr
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Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of …
Imagining Russian Jewry
Memory, History, Identity
Häftad, 1999
590 kr
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This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on …
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Av Alan Mintz
Häftad, 2001
533 kr
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The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American …
Autobiographical Jews
Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning
Inbunden, 2004
2032 kr
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Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing …
Jewish Life Cycle
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
Häftad, 2004
458 kr
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In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the …
Make Yourself a Teacher
Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples
Häftad, 2011
458 kr
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Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of R. Eliezer serve as teaching texts and models for reflection on the teacher/student …
Writing in Tongues
Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Av Anita Norich
Inbunden, 2014
2146 kr
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Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have …
Writing in Tongues
Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century
Av Anita Norich
Häftad, 2014
575 kr
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Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have …
Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
Inbunden, 2014
850 kr
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The history of a single book sheds light on the beginnings of modern Jewish thoughtIn 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of …
I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Häftad, 2015
515 kr
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I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish …
Jewish Life Cycle
Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times
Inbunden, 2015
1700 kr
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In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the …
