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Jews and Their Foodways
Av Anat Helman
Inbunden, 2015
1371 kr
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Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, Volume XXVIII …
A Club of Their Own
Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World
Av Eli Lederhendler, Gabriel N. Finder
Inbunden, 2016
1426 kr
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Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." The line encapsulates one of the most important characteristics of Jewish humor: the desire to buffer oneself from potentially unsafe or …
Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society
Inbunden, 2018
1133 kr
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Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: III: Jews and other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-Ethnic World
Av Jonathan Frankel, Peter Y. Medding m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1023 kr
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry brings together for the first time scholars working in different countries and belonging to different disciplines. Regarding modern Jewish history as a part of the ethnic explosion which has had a momentous impact on 19th- and 20th-century history, the contributors to …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: IV: The Jews and the European Crisis, 1914-1921
Av Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Jonathan Frankel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
748 kr
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This is the fourth volume in the series published annually for the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Both the editors and the international review and advisory board include virtually all the major scholars of Jewish history in the world. The yearbook includes …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: V: Israel: State and Society, 1948-1988
Inbunden, 1989
2234 kr
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This is the fifth volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This volume is an up-to-date examination by noted specialists of the issues and developments that have shaped the state and the people of Israel over the past forty …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: VI: Art and Its Uses
The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society
Inbunden, 1991
2422 kr
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This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda.
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: VII: Jews and Messianism in the Modern Era: Metaphor and Meaning
Av Jonathan Frankel, Peter Y. Medding m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2306 kr
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This is the seventh volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. The editors are distinguished professors at the Hebrew University, and the international review and advisory boards for the annual include most of the major scholars of Jewish history in the world.Jews and …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: VIII: A New Jewry?
America Since the Second World War
Inbunden, 1993
2375 kr
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This eighth volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II.
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas
Inbunden, 1994
2800 kr
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This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in forging a new Jewish Israeli national identity, in maintaining a separate Sephardic identity, and in preserving a traditional Jewish life. Contributions …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: X: Reshaping the Past
Jewish History and the Historians
Inbunden, 1995
1865 kr
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This brilliant collection of essays examines the dialogue between Jewish history and historiography in terms of changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and historical consciousness of Jews in modern times. From essays dealing with the origins of Jewish historiography in the nineteenth …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XI: Values, Interests, and Identity
Jews and Politics in a Changing World
Inbunden, 1996
711 kr
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Drawing upon original essays by such notable historians and political scientists as Michael Walzer, this collection confronts the often conflicting role of values, interests, and identity in contemporary Jewish politics.
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts
Inbunden, 1997
1514 kr
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Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XIII: The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945
Continuity or Contingency?
Inbunden, 1998
1620 kr
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Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 1999
1316 kr
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How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XV: People of the City
Jews and the Urban Challenge
Inbunden, 2000
1170 kr
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The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry XVI: Jews and Gender
The Challenge to Hierarchy
Inbunden, 2001
2856 kr
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Volume XVI in this well-received annual series contains an up-to-date survey of gender issues in modern Judaism. It includes original essays on Orthodox Judaism and feminism, American Jewish women, female rabbis, the impact of feminism on rabbinic study, masculinity, Jewish women in the Third …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XVII: Who owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel
Av Makhon Le-Yahadut Zemanenu a Sh Avraham, Eli Lederhendler
Inbunden, 2002
1353 kr
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Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, Volume XVII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XVIII: Jews and Violence
Images, Ideologies, Realities
Inbunden, 2003
2281 kr
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This is the newest volume of the annual Studies In Contemporary Jewry series. It contains original essays on Jews and crime in fact, fantasy, and fiction; verbal and physical violence in Israeli politics; Jews as revolutionaires; armed resistance by Jews in Nazi Germany; ethical dilemmas within the …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIX: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege
Inbunden, 2004
2031 kr
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Bringing together contributions from established scholars from multiple disciplines and countries, Volume XIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state. Together, the volume's contents show the price Jews paid for allying with …
Dark Times, Dire Decisions
Jews and Communism
Inbunden, 2005
1830 kr
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Bringing together contributions from tweleve outstanding scholars, volume 20 of this distinguished annual demonstrates in what extremely varied - and often controversial - ways Communisim and Jewish history interacted during the so-called short twentieth century. Among the key issues examined in …
Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History
Inbunden, 2006
693 kr
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Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History …
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews
Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII
Inbunden, 2008
1390 kr
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Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews. and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are popularly believed to have originated in Spain or …
Jews and the Sporting Life
Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII
Inbunden, 2009
1060 kr
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Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history. The centrality of sports in modern life--in popular and even in high culture, in economic life, in the media, in international and national politics, and in forging ethnic …
Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures
Av Bar-Levav, Avriel Bar-Levav m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1848 kr
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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture …
No Small Matter
Features of Jewish Childhood
Inbunden, 2021
1469 kr
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For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology, and law. In other academic …
Becoming Post-Communist
Jews And The New Political Cultures Of Russia And Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2023
1388 kr
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The closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals across landscapes that had, until 1939, housed most of the world's Jewish population: the overturning of the East European Communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The …
Jerusalem Transformed
Politics, Culture, and Hidden Corners
Inbunden, 2024
1277 kr
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The symposium that kicks off the latest volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry focuses on the city that is at the very center of contemporary Jewish life, both geographically and culturally. Jerusalem is an extremely engaging and beautiful city as well as a source of continual controversy and …
The Jewish Migration Experience
Av Uzi Rebhun
Inbunden, 2027
1305 kr
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Immigration is a central feature of Jewish history, and perhaps even more so in modern times. From the late 19th century through today, nearly ten million Jews have moved between continents, shifting their spatial distribution from Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Africa to Western countries and to …
The Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Sources, Approaches, Debates
Av Uzi Rebhun
Inbunden, 2014
1426 kr
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Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium …
