The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 118th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.
Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "e;National Affairs"e; and "e;Jewish Communal Affairs"e; and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population.
The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides.
This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.
This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust.
This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005.
This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK.
This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God.
In Germany at the turn of the century, Buddhism transformed from an obscure topic, of interest to only a few misfit scholars, into a cultural phenomenon.
Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category.
The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 118th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.
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.
Alors qu’en 1945, il y avait 20 000 hassidim survivants de la Shoah dans le monde, ils seraient aujourd’hui 350 à 400 000, dont la moitié en Israël, explosion qui ne tient pas seulement à des causes démographiques.
A travers la vie et l’oeuvre de ces prix Nobel d’économie, l’auteur livre une histoire passionnante de ces hommes, bien souvent exilés et de condition modeste, dont la science fut la vocation et le partage du savoir le crédo.
A partir d'archives rares, de témoignages Xavier Riaud analyse l'idéologie nazie dans la société allemande à partir d'une étude sur les dentistes allemands.
L'originalité de cet ouvrage, c'est de tenter d'éclairer le « retour » de Franz Rosenzweig au judaïsme, - et le concept de « révélation » qui s'y rattache -, à partir de l'itinéraire intellectuel et de la philosophie de celui-ci, et en s'appuyant sur les philosophies d'Hermann Cohen et d'Eugen Rosenstock, et cela en plaçant le premier dans le contexte historique de la « symbiose judéo-allemande », le second dans le cadre du dialogue interreligieux entre le christianisme et le judaïsme.
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.
Accounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations.
This new and revised edition of Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis and Christian-Jewish polemics, along with an updated Further Reading section.
