Judaism

The essential guide to Jewish fun in the classroom!

A broad and ambitious overview of the significance of philosemitism in European and world history, from antiquity to the present.

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name).

Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

Die Monographie setzt mit einem Forschungsbericht zu neueren Tendenzen der Richterbuchforschung ein.

This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul.

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Mystical and practical wisdom-for daily life.

This is the first biography in English of Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), based upon the new critical edition of his correspondence.

Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century.

Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.

Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality.

';A wondrous tale of American Judaism' from the Colonial Era to the twentiethcentury, by the acclaimed author ofJews, God, and History(Kirkus Reviews).

We live in a world gone awry.

With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization.

In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach.

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.

The Jewish communities of East and Southeast Asia display an impressive diversity.

VorwortWährend rund 120 Jahren hat das Hebräische Schulbuch von W.

Nach einer langen Phase der Verdrängung ist Deutschland nun 'Weltmeister der Vergangenheitsbewältigung' und hat das 'dunkle Kapitel' seiner Geschichte erfolgreich in das Masternarrativ einer vereinigten bundesrepublikanischen Identität integriert.

Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book AwardsEarly in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development.

This book offers an original and unprecedented in-depth analysis of the demography and identity American Jewry.

How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah beganThe Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition.

The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice.

The humanities offer insights into the highest (and lowest) capabilities of our own natures and, at their best, they function as prophetic champions of human dignity and as inspired celebrants of beauty.

This book offers a new framework for reading the Bible as a work of reason.

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (19231987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin.

This book presents a series of authoritative discussions of the application of Jewish tradition to contemporary social and political issues.

The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain examines the grammatical, exegetical, philosophical and mystical interpretations of the Bible that took place in Spain during the medieval period.

"e;A manual for living with defeat"e; -TabletIt is no more possible to think about religion without sin than it is to think about a garden without dirt.

An "e;illuminating"e; and "e;richly descriptive"e; (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life.

This volume examines the development of the non-liturgical parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Haggadot.

With clarity and verve, Mark Allen Powell introduces the beginning student to the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes.

Pirkey Avoth_Chapters of the Sages_is one of the most well known texts in Jewish tradition.

Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature is a new series in English dealing with early Jewish literature between the third century BC and the middle of the second century AD; it is scheduled to encompass a total of 58 volumes.

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks:How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written - a book without a preface?