Judaism

In ›Die Erfindung der Bibel‹ tauchen Leser in die faszinierende und komplexe Welt der biblischen Entstehungsgeschichte ein.

Der Protagonist, Georg, als neunzehnjähriger von der Wehrmacht eingezogen.

This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.

Moïse (Moussâ) est un personnage majeur dans l’Islam.

This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.

« L’année prochaine à Jérusalem »… Les poèmes de ce recueil partent à l’exploration d’une culture comme un champ en friche, un champ de possibles entre tradition et réinvention, questionnements incessants, avant-garde et errances, à l’image du pays qui les habite.

The student workbooks are available in print and the teacher guides as downloadable PDFs, in Hebrew and English.

Finally, after 2,000 years, there's a historical explanation for the birth of Christianity.

This book offers a historical-materialist reading of the opening chapters of the book of Genesis in an attempt to revive their potential to engage people in truthful discussions about power and pleasure.

"La Révélation Finale" présente une sélection de 134 récits de rêves authentiques relatifs à l'enlèvement, le retour du Messie Jésus-Christ, la tribulation, le livre de l'Apocalypse de Jean de la Bible, l'apocalypsie et les temps de la fin.

This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of the Jews of Egypt, who constituted an important ethnic minority ever since they first appeared in the country.

There is more folklore, mythology and magic associated with our trees and forests than with any other living things.

'Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller'JONATHAN COE'Magnificent, indelible .

Fanny Kajsman hat genug.

A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication AwardThis book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa,alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.

5784 Jahre Denkgeschichte für die ZukunftShitstorms, Sex, Selbstbestimmung – ein ungewöhnlicher Blick auf aktuelle Themen:Wenn es heute um jüdisches Leben geht, dreht sich die Diskussion – insbesondere in Deutschland – meist um den Holocaust, den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt oder Antisemitismus.

With exacting scholarship and fecund analysis, Manuel Oliveira probes through the lens of Martin Buber (1878-1965) the theological and political ambiguities of Israel's divine election.

2024 WINNER Autobiography/Memoir Best Book Awards2025 Nautilus Award Winner | Silver | Death & Dying / Grief & Loss2025 Foreword INDIES Award Winner | Bronze | Grief/Grieving (Adult Nonfiction)A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read.

This book discusses psychological aspects of dehumanization and of the human tendency to dominate, control and potentially murder those considered less than or other by the dominant group.

In twenty-first century America, antisemitism is on the rise, especially on the extreme left, the radical right, and within political Islamism.

« Je suis juif… si je n’avais pas été un Juif du ghetto, l’idée de l’unification de l’humanité ne me serait jamais venue à l’esprit ».

As many as one in three long-term marriages in America are sexless, and most people accept this as the inevitable course of a romantic relationship.

A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart--author Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the Bible.

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement.

In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka's manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation of a cultural heritage policy during the foundational years of the State of Israel.

The tale of a collective evil force known as Gog and Magog has occupied the imagination of Jews, Christians, and Muslims for millennia, finding expression in literary and scholarly works and other cultural artifacts.

This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day.

Can Christianity experience a twenty-first-century renaissance?

This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture.

The tale of a collective evil force known as Gog and Magog has occupied the imagination of Jews, Christians, and Muslims for millennia, finding expression in literary and scholarly works and other cultural artifacts.

In einem Wort steckt so viel mehr: Bedeutung in vielen Schichten, kulturelle Zusammenhänge, das Denken der Menschen .

In einem Wort steckt so viel mehr: Bedeutung in vielen Schichten, kulturelle Zusammenhänge, das Denken der Menschen .

During the Holocaust's long nights there were gentiles in every corner of Europe who saved Jews.

In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Itzhak Benyamini uses discourse analysis to lay out the way Lacan constructed his own intellectual discourse informed by Judeo-Christianity.

The Fourth Gospel has been known as the "e;spiritual gospel"e; since the second century, but only recently have biblical scholars attempted to express the unique spirituality found in that sacred text.

During the Holocaust's long nights there were gentiles in every corner of Europe who saved Jews.

A survey of the historical, political, and sociological contexts of antisemitism in more than 50 countries.

This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture.

Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.

Seth Whitaker argues that the Psalm texts function as the structural and theological backbone of Hebrews from start to finish, and that few scholars have examined the use of Psalms outside of quotations or connected the author of Hebrews' use of Psalms with his broader eschatological outlook.

Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "e;the land of the future.

American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life-however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage.