Two scripts were created in 2017 from the same source materials: preserved song lyrics from a performance created in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto called Prince Bettliegend (the Bedridden Prince), the popular 1930s jazz melodies to which those lyrics were set, and fragments of testimony by survivors who performed in or witnessed that production.
With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan-Africanism.
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.
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.
The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro's dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right.
Isaac's Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis.
Moses Maimonides-a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy-crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism.
Isaac's Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis.
The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God.
Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemie delves into Solomon Dubno's life (17381813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ties to Eastern European Jewish culture.
The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it.
Joseph ShatzmillersCollected Studies (Volume 3): Maimonidean Argument in Franceis a comprehensive compilation of his research on the intellectual and mental history of the Jews in Provence.
Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemie delves into Solomon Dubno's life (17381813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ties to Eastern European Jewish culture.
Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical Problem is a book about the encounter between Jewish and Christian thought and the fact-value divide that invites the unsettling recognition of the dramatic acosmism that shadows and undermines a considerable number of modern and contemporary Jewish and Christian thought systems.
This broad-ranging study, the first full-length investigation of conceptions of faith and trust in the Judeo-Arabic tradition, explores a family of related conceptsfaith (imn, emunah), conviction (itiqad), and trust/reliance (tawakkul/ittikl)in Saadya, Baya, Halevi, Maimonides, Abraham Maimonides, and the Egyptian pietist circle of Abraham he-asid.
The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro's dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right.