This work, the fruit of intense research work spanning several years, examines the first serious attempt by the descendants of the Sephardim-the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492-to "e;return to Sepharad"e; more than three decades after the abolition of the Inquisition.
This compelling volume focuses on the story of AndrewPessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accusedby students and faculty of having directly condoned the extermination of apeople based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestiniancon?
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family.
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family.
Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "e;judaizing"e;: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.
Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "e;judaizing"e;: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.
After Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, Zionism and the eventual reality of the State of Israel were framed within his guiding principle, embraced by his Sulzberger family successor, that Judaism is a religion and not a national identity.
This compelling volume focuses on the story of AndrewPessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accusedby students and faculty of having directly condoned the extermination of apeople based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestiniancon?
This book captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the late twentieth century.
The Discorsi is a series of lessons on how a republic should be started and structured, including the concept of checks and balances, the strength of a tripartite structure, and the superiority of a republic over a principality.
The world today is filled with angry voices, voices that often call for isolation and even violence against those who differ from us by race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle.
Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works *; Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost ';psychic' and magical powers *; Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch.
Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity.
Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award A timely study that puts current issues-religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics-in historical context.
Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award A timely study that puts current issues-religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics-in historical context.
As Eckhart Tolle has written, poetry ';has been recognized since ancient times as a highly appropriate medium for the expression and transmission of spiritual truth.
Velikonja sees the former Ottoman borderland as a distinct cultural and religious entity where three major faithsIslam, Catholicism, and Orthodoxymanaged to coexist in relative peace.
Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity's holiest sites: the Vatican *; Shows how famous Renaissance philosophers and scientists called for a Hermetic reformation of Christianity by building a magical Temple of the Sun in Rome *; Explains how the Vatican architect Bernini designed St.
As Matthew Fox notes, when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets, he replied, "e;I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.
In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason.
Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry.
