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Before his rather sudden passing in 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was one of the most eloquent and influential religious leaders of the generation. As Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for over two decades, he offered a universal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-13
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In a pioneering monograph-length study of the theological journey of Moses ben Shemtov de León of Guadalajara--self-proclaimed "Light of the West" and presumed writer of the Zohar, the kabbalah's crowning literary achievement--Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-11-17
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In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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The relationship between Jews and non-Jews is one of humankind’s most complex encounters and oldest conflicts. André E. Mozes builds his ground-breaking concept, the New Philosemitism Paradigm, for solving – or at least easing – this conflict, and does this with...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2023-10-31
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Harmattan Hongrie
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'The essence of Jewish life is not the bland performance of the Torah's commandments, but rather love of Torah and the way of life to which it is the guide.'Tap into the wisdom of one the world's ancient religions by meditating on Rabbi Wittenberg's engaging,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2023-09-28
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How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-06
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How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-23
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This book uses transnational history to explain the formation of modern schools in a territory that lacks modern education. The emergence of modern Jewish education in Ottoman Palestine resulted from European actors and networks' infiltration of educational concepts due...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-19
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This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States. It reveals a community in an unparalleled state of flux grappling with...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-19
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A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Frank’s journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-04-11
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Die vorliegende Studie verfolgt das Anliegen, die komplexen und schwierigen Fragen jüdischer Identität und Selbstbeschreibung in der deutsch-jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur einer fundierten Analyse zu unterziehen. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Maxim Billers...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-02-09
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This book provides a rigorous social historical study of Eastern and East Central European Jewry with a specific focus on women. It demonstrates that only through the experiences of women can one fully understand key phenomena such as the momentous changes occurring in...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-21
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This book argues that the way to ensure that American Jewish life flourishes is to create vibrant local communities and that the ability to thrive will be won or lost in the trenches of each locality. For every generalization about the Jews of America, one can say,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Wie kommen Menschen zur Gerechtigkeit, wenn sie in einer Minderheiten- oder Bedrängungssituation sind? Im Kontext der Diasporasituation des jüdischen Volkes nimmt die Gerechtigkeit einen wichtigen Stellenwert ein, denn sie ist geradezu die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-07-04
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Environmental issues are an ever-increasing focus of public discourse and have proved concerning to religious groups as well as society more widely. Among biblical scholars, criticism of the Judeo-Christian tradition for its part in the worsening crisis has led to a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-15
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Fasziniert auch Sie die Welt des Judentums? Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen einen Einblick in das Selbstverständnis des jüdischen Volks, seine Religion und Lebenspraxis sowie die jüdische Mystik, die Kabbala. Gerhard Langer führt Sie durch drei Jahrtausende spannender...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2022-03-21
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Für Dummies
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Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in English, six of her important essays along with an introduction about her life and work. Carefully...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Steve D. Fraade offers a new translation, with notes, and detailed commentary to the Dead Sea Scroll most commonly called the Damascus Document, based on both ancient manuscripts from caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea, and medieval manuscripts from the Cairo...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-19
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Steve D. Fraade offers a new translation, with notes, and detailed commentary to the Dead Sea Scroll most commonly called the Damascus Document, based on both ancient manuscripts from caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea, and medieval manuscripts from the Cairo...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-19
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Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the Book of Samuel derives from instances of God's violence in the story. The beginnings of Israel's monarchy are interwoven with God's violent rejection of the houses of Eli and of Saul, deaths...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-19
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