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Flight from Commitment
by Chaim Z. Rozwaski  Publisher Comments Discusses paradoxes inherent in human behavior, particularly those in the area of Jewish religious life....
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Jewish History in Modern Times
by Joseph Goldstein Publisher Comments The author's latest book is an enquiry into the central process and events that changed the course of Jewish history in the modern era. Five central historical processes in modern Jewish history are described -- emigration, emancipation, secularization...
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Haim Nahum: A Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics, 1892-1923 (Judaic Studies)
by Esther Benbassa Book News Annotation The rabbi's letters relate the history of Turkish Jewry during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. First published in French by the Presses du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in 1990. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews....
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Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman Report (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)
by Charles S Liebman Publisher Comments Analyzes a recent report on a survey of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews, and the intense public debate that it produced.<P>In December 1993, the Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research released the results of...
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The Zealots: Investigations Into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod 1 Until 70 A.D.
by Martin Hengel Publisher Comments Hengel's classic work refers not only to all of Josephus' works, but also to every relevant Rabbinic tractate, Qumran text, contemporary Latin or Greek author and biblical, apocryphal or pseudepigraphical and early Christian text....
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In the Service of God
by Shalom Freedman Publisher Comments This book is a collection of interviews with twenty distinguished teachers of Judaism, with a special focus on the concept of Avodat Hashem (the service of God) and its meaning for the modern Jew today. These twenty teachers include rabbis, educators...
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Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava #17: Where We Stand, 3. Volume Three: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism
by A. J. Avery-peck Publisher Comments What, in Judaism - a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy - can we possibly mean by "law"? That is the thoroughly fresh perspective with which this work commences. It proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on...
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Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education
by Moshe Davis Publisher Comments Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the study of Jewish civilization throughout the world. Globally, over 1,300 universities and colleges offer courses on some aspect of Jewish civilization. Some universities in areas which had little...
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The Jews of Egypt, 1920-1970: In the Midst of Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Middle East Conflict
by Michael M. Laskier Publisher Comments "The Jews of Egypt, 1920-1970 constitutes a major contribution to what we know about a now vanishing community that was highly respected and prominent in the economic and cultural life of Egypt. . . . [Laskier] has drawn our attention to one of the most...
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Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)
by Meir Sternberg Publisher Comments The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg's last book, established a new level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, the author shifts his focus from individual identity to the group, in this case the Hebrews. His...
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Studies in the Cult of Yahweh, Set
by Morton Smith Publisher Comments These two volumes collect some of the most influential and important scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991), for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. Smith was admired and feared for his...
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Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate
by William Nicholls Publisher Comments In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that...
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Jew Vs Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
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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Critical Documents of Jewish H
by Kerry M. Olitzky Publisher Comments This volume includes documents that chronicle the history of the jewish people....
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Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760?1945: Studies Dedicated to Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger on His Eightieth Birthday
by Michael K. Silber Publisher Comments In the sixteen essays in this volume, scholars from three continents explore dispassionately various facets of the Jewish presence in the Hungarian economy over a span of two centuries. (Two of the articles deal with Vienna which had quite a sizeable...
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Aleppo Tales
by Haim Sabato Publisher Comments The Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria, the biblical Aram Soba, is one of the world's most ancient, guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasting a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple. This collection of three stories interlaces the...
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Judaism : History, Belief and Practice (03 Edition)
by Dan Cohn-sherbok Publisher Comments This all-encompassing textbook is an unrivalled guide to the history, belief and practice of Judaism, written by a scholar and rabbi who is also an experienced university teacher. Beginning with the ancient Near Eastern background, it covers early...
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Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments This comprehensive book provides a lucid introduction to Rabbinic Judaism, defined as the Judaism built on the story of God's revelation to Moses of the Torah at Sinai. <BR> Jacob Neusner outlines and examines the four stages in which the initial...
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Qumran Cave 4 #9: Qumran Cave 4
by Frank Moore, Jr. Cross Publisher Comments This definitive scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains twenty-four manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millennium....
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Thinkers and Teachers of Modern Judaism
by Raphael Patai Publisher Comments This unique collection of essays focuses on the recent developments in Jewish religious thinking with penetrating analyses of the teachings of the most important modern Jewish religious thinkers - Buber, Baeck, Heschel, Rosenzweig, Kook, Kaplan...
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