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Jew VS Jew : the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (07 Edition)
by Samuel G. Freedman  Publisher Comments At a time when American Jews should feel more secure and cohesive than ever, civil war is tearing apart their community. Congregations, neighborhoods, even families are taking sides in battles about Jewish identity and Jewish authenticity. The conflict...
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Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Area - The Age of the Tannaim - Volume I
by George Foot Moore Publisher Comments JUDAISM IN THE FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA THE AGE OF THE TANNAIM BY GEORGE FOOT MOORE PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOLUME I CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1927 COPYRIGHT, 1927 BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF...
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Neither Jews Nor Christians
by Juan Marcos Gutierrez Publisher Comments In recent years the Jewishness of Jesus has become a predominant theme of interest within Jewish and Christian communities seeking to better understand the origins of early Christianity. This book masterfully explains the history of Jewish followers of...
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Zion Before Zionism 1838-1880
by Arnold Blumberg Publisher Comments This book studies the interaction of the European, Turkish, and Palestinian natives for a forty-two year period, just prior to when the great Jewish immigration to Palestine began. It examines the interplay between the native Palestinian population, the...
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The Jewish Religion in the Time of Jesus
by G. Hollman Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Judaism Within Modernity: Essays on Jewish Historiography and Religion
by Michael A. Meyer Publisher Comments Over the last three centuries, the Jewish experience has been profoundly affected by modernity, which Meyer defines as not only technological advance, cultural innovation, and reliance upon human reason but also as the adaptation of Jews to a modern...
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Judas Maccabaeus and the Jewish War of Independence
by Claude Reignier Conder Synopsis 1879. This is the author's account of the story of the life of Judas Maccabaeus, which he considers one of the most important episodes in Jewish history, as it explains how the nation first developed and that peculiar phase of character that marked it at...
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From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture)
by Matthew Hoffman Publisher Comments From Rebel to Rabbi establishes how the changes that occurred in Jewish culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stimulated a widespread fascination with the figure of Jesus and with Christian motifs among numerous Jewish theologians...
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Anti-Semitism Its History and Causes
by Bernard Lazare Publisher Comments A balanced and thorough consideration of the causes and development of anti-Semitism. Contents: General causes of anti-Semitism; Anti-Judaism: in antiquity - in Christian antiquity from the foundation of the Church of Constantine - from Constantine to...
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Jewish Responses To Early Christians : History an Dpolemics, 30-150 C.e (94 Edition)
by Claudia J. Setzer Publisher Comments What were Jews saying and doing about the followers of Jesus in the first two centuries? In this provocative and comprehensive study, Claudia J. Setzer argues persuasively that Jews saw the early followers of Jesus as Jews for some time after the...
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A Letter in the Scrolls
by Jonathan Sacks Publisher Comments For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews...
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There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
by Yaffa Elaich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 753-772) and index....
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Across the Great Divide: The Selected Essays of Abraham Coralnik
by Abraham Coralnik Publisher Comments The publication of translated essays by Dr. Abraham Coralnik is an important step in enlarging our understanding of the cultural milieu of the early twentieth century in which Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe become Americanized.--Professor Eli Katz,...
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A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe 1789-1939
by David Vital Publisher Comments The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history (the birth of the nation of Israel) and its greatest tragedy (the state sponsored genocide of the Holocaust). A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the...
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Jerusalem and Tiberias, Sora and Cordova
by John Etheridge Synopsis Jerusalem And Tiberias, Sora And Cordova: A Survey Of The Religious And Scholastic Learning Of The Jews....
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Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire & Its Heritage
by Arthur Koestler Publisher Comments This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the...
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Greece: A Jewish History
by Catherine Fleming Publisher Comments ""Greece--a Jewish History" is a superb book, one in whose company I would include very few that I've read over the past five, maybe even ten, years. The story Fleming tells is an incredible--and moving--reading experience. The best comprehensive account...
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The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
by Deeana Copeland Klepper Publisher Comments In the year 1309, Nicholas of Lyra, an important Franciscan Bible commentator, put forth a question at the University of Paris, asking whether it was possible to prove the advent of Christ from scriptures received by the Jews. This question reflects the...
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A History of the Jewish People During the Babylonian, Persian and Greek Periods
by Charles Foster Kent Publisher Comments 1917. With maps and chart. Contents Part I The Babylonian Period of Jewish History: The Historical Sources and Literature of the Period; The Dispersion of the Jews; The Character and Condition of the Jews in Palestine and Egypt; The Jewish Exiles in...
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Encyclopedia Judaica
by Fred (edt) Skolnik Publisher Comments This landmark work on Judaism has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Included in this new work are more than 22,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion written by by Israeli, American and...
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