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Between Foreigners and Shi'is
Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority
Inbunden, 2007
852 kr
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Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896), is the …
Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos
Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
467 kr
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Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Given his importance, it is remarkable that this is the first scholarly work on him in …
Laws of the Spirit
Ritual, Mysticism, Andthe Commandmentsin Early Hasidism
Inbunden, 2024
844 kr
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The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. In this book, Ariel Evan Mayse grapples with one of Hasidism's most vexing questions: how did a religious movement known for …
Jews in Nineteenth-Century France
From the French Revolution to the Alliance Israélite Universelle
Inbunden, 1996
935 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Between 'Race' and Culture
Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
Inbunden, 1996
1433 kr
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This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, …
Jewish Emancipation in a German City
Cologne, 1798-1871
Inbunden, 1997
877 kr
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This work seeks to understand how, in nineteenth-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Unlike most other works on German Jewish emancipation, …
Between 'Race' and Culture
Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
Häftad, 1996
345 kr
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This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, …
Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity
Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare
Inbunden, 1998
785 kr
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This book grapples with a wide range of contemporary ethical and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Péguy on his friend and mentor Bernard-Lazare. Both Péguy, a leading French Catholic poet and philosopher, and Bernard-Lazare, an iconoclastic Jewish intellectual, were …
Love + Marriage = Death
And Other Essays on Representing Difference
Inbunden, 1998
1822 kr
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The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts—in high literature, in medical literature, in art—from the last fin-de-siècle to our own. …
Love + Marriage = Death
And Other Essays on Representing Difference
Häftad, 1998
441 kr
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The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts—in high literature, in medical literature, in art—from the last fin-de-siècle to our own. …
Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914
Inbunden, 2002
980 kr
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This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of the First World War. Within Jewish society, and particularly Eastern European Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of incursions and threats to …
Land and Power
The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948
Häftad, 1999
510 kr
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This book traces the history of attitudes toward power and the use of armed force within the Zionist movement—from an early period in which most leaders espoused an ideal of peaceful settlement in Palestine, to the acceptance of force as a legitimate tool for achieving a sovereign Jewish …
Sultan's Jew
Morocco and the Sephardi World
Inbunden, 2002
869 kr
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This pathbreaking study uses the extraordinary life of Meir Macnin, a prosperous Jewish merchant, as a lens for examining the Jewish community of Morocco and its relationship to the Sephardi world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Macnin, a member of one of the most prominent …
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
Inbunden, 2000
956 kr
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Why did the social sciences become an integral part of Jewish scholarship beginning in the late nineteenth century? What part did this new scholarship play in the ongoing debate over emancipation and assimilation, Zionism and diasporism, the nature of Jewish identity, and the problem of Jewish …
Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos
Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship
Inbunden, 2003
1921 kr
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Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Given his importance, it is remarkable that this is the first scholarly work on him in …
Israel, the Impossible Land
Av Jean-Christophe Attias, Esther Benbassa
Inbunden, 2002
1516 kr
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What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, to trace their origins and history, and to resituate …
Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941
Av Azriel Shohet, Mark Jay Mirsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
994 kr
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The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish …
Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880
Av Mordechai Nadav, Mark Mirsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1042 kr
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The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were a majority of the population from the end of the eighteenth century. Pinsk boasted both traditional rabbinic scholars and famous Hasidic figures, and over time became an …
Israel, the Impossible Land
Av Jean-Christophe Attias, Esther Benbassa
Häftad, 2002
352 kr
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What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images of Israel, to grasp their meaning and function, to trace their origins and history, and to resituate …
Uneasy Asylum
France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942
Av Vicki Caron
Häftad, 2002
558 kr
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This book, which draws on a rich array of primary sources and archival materials, offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes toward Jewish refugees from three interrelated …
Regal Way
The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin
Av David Assaf
Inbunden, 2002
1133 kr
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This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life—including his involvement in the murder of Jewish …
Harnessing the Holocaust
The Politics of Memory in France
Av Joan B. Wolf
Inbunden, 2003
877 kr
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Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a …
Antonio's Devils
Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
Inbunden, 2004
1035 kr
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Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The …
Place in History
Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space
Inbunden, 2006
1516 kr
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A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. …
Place in History
Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space
Häftad, 2006
352 kr
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A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. …
Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community
Inbunden, 2005
1042 kr
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The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence is a work about Italian Jews, Christians, and the institutions and policies that organized their relationship. It sets the 1570 decision of the Medici government to ghettoize the Jews of Tuscany in the context of early modern statecraft and in the climate …
Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon
Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy
Inbunden, 2006
852 kr
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With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late-eighteenth century Jewish …
Being for Myself Alone
Origins of Jewish Autobiography
Inbunden, 2005
1174 kr
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This is a work of unprecedented scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a multitude of Hebrew and Yiddish texts, very few of which have been translated into English, and on contemporary autobiographical …
Sacred Bonds of Solidarity
The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2006
927 kr
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Starting around 1840, French Jews began to reach out in new ways to Jews elsewhere, especially in North Africa and the Middle East. In describing these activities, they spoke of feelings of solidarité and a mission to bring civilisation to Jews everywhere, a language more meaningful in the French …
Jewish Dogs
An Image and Its Interpreters
Av Kenneth Stow
Inbunden, 2006
852 kr
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Jewish Dogs is not a study of "anti-Semitism" or "anti-Judaism." Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so metaphoric—dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of …
