Judaism

This volume introduces the Old Testament and traces the legacy of monotheism first found in the pages of Israel''s Scriptures.

A study of psalms echoed in Paul''s letters, offering a reinterpretation of the New Testament''s reception of the Old Testament.

An international team of scholars help the reader confront the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.

An historical and contemporary overview of the state of Jews and Judaism in the US.

Sixteen original essays by internationally prominent scholars on the central figures of modern Jewish philosophy from Spinoza to Levinas.

The Cambridge Companion to Philo presents an accessible account of Philo of Alexandria and his works.

The Cambridge Companion to Philo presents an accessible account of Philo of Alexandria and his works.

An international team of scholars help the reader confront the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.

Sixteen original essays by internationally prominent scholars on the central figures of modern Jewish philosophy from Spinoza to Levinas.

A study of psalms echoed in Paul''s letters, offering a reinterpretation of the New Testament''s reception of the Old Testament.

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

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

This book analyzes the role and function of an Italian deportation camp during and immediately after World War Two within the context of Italian, European, and Holocaust history.

In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac.

In this book, Gavin Rae analyses the foundationsof political life by undertaking a critical comparative analysis of thepolitical theologies of Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse.

This book explores the variety of social and political phenomena that combined to the make the First World War a key turning point in the Jewish experience of the twentieth century.

This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel.

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context.

This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.

Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field.

This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish minority from the unification of the country to the end of the First World War.

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.

Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades.

Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods.

The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites.

This book examines the emotional aspects of revolutionary experience during a critical turning point in both Russian and Jewish history - the 1905 revolution.

A critical examination of Zionism and its internal resistance by Israeli Jews, this book employs a unique perspective on Israel/Palestine by eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examining their creation through discourse.

Holocaust education is a rapidly evolving and controversial field.

In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "e;the second Babi Yar.

This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism.

From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime.

In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement.

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory.

Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.

This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point.

Part of Palgrave's Modernism and .

In an accessible style and format, Jewish Philosophy A-Z covers everything from Philo to Levinas and explores non-Jewish thinkers, such as Plotinus and Heidegger, who have had an important influence on Jewish philosophy.

This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders.

Martin Buber was professor of the history of religions and Jewish religion & ethics from 1923 to 1933 at the University of Frankfurt.

British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism.

Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East.

The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the work.

Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.

This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin.

Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths.

In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime.

The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left.