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De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews
by Raymond Aron  Publisher Comments For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh -- a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity...
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The Earth Is the Lord's: the Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe (Jewish Lights Classic Reprint)
by Abraham Joshua Heschel Publisher Comments Powerfully and beautifully portrays a bygone Jewish culture. An eloquent masterpiece, originally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Includes woodcut illustrations by Ilya Schor....
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Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Ideology, and the Crisis of Modernity (New Perspectives on Jewish Studies)
by Laurence J. Silberstein Publisher Comments In recent decades, religious fundamentalism has played an increasingly significant role in Western and Middle Eastern politics and culture. In this volume, an international group of scholars from fields such as religious studies, sociology, political...
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Durkheim and the Jews of France (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)
by Ivan Strenski Publisher Comments Acknowledgments 1: Essential Jewishness Or Real Jews? 2: Why Society? French Nationalism and the Body of Judaism 3: Reinach's Modernism, Durkheim's Symbolism, and the Birth of the Sacred4: How Durkheim Read the Talmud 5: Sylvain Levi: Mauss's "Second...
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View from a Distance
by Lore Lizbeth Waller Publisher Comments As we grow older and face our own mortality, we all have an inclination to tell "our story". Lore Lizbeth Waller's story is one not easily forgotten. Not only is it memorable, it is also valuable as a document of the past. A remarkable, charming, and...
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The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past
by Mikhail Beizer Synopsis Seven walking tours of the Jewish areas of this fabled city....
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Creativity and Tradition: Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies)
by Israel M. Ta-shma Publisher Comments This volume brings together sixteen of Professor Israel M. Ta-Shma's outstanding studies that were originally written in English, four of which are being published here for the first time. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, these...
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Silent Revolution
by Miriam Stark Zakon Publisher Comments Eliyahu Essas was the new Russia's first ordained Rabbi and leader of a baal teshuvah movement....
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A Jewish Girl Finds New Roots
by Stephanie Orfali Publisher Comments The poems include touchingly romantic and sad expressions of Steffi's youthful idealism and more recent humorous epistles. "My first Year in Eretz Israel" picks up the story where her previous book Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic ends, with Steffi's...
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On the Origins of Judaism (Bibleworld)
by Philip R. Davies Synopsis This book covers several basic issues in the formation of early Judaism. It explores the identity of those who produced and canonized the Hebrew Bible and subsequently shaped its interpretation, re-examines the significance and impact of Second Isaiah...
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I Will Be Sanctified
by Yehezkel Fogel Publisher Comments The fifteen essays in I Will Be Sanctified: Religious Responses to the Holocaust serve as an introduction to the manner in which religious Jews attempt to contend with the Holocaust, and how Jewish thought grapples with the issues raised. Translated from...
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Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past & Present
by Michael Riff Publisher Comments In the 1930s, almost five million Jews lived in central Eastern Europe. Ninety percent of these lives were lost in the Holocaust, and the most optimistic estimate puts the number of Jews in that region today at 150,000. Through words and pictures, The...
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Every City Shall Be Forsaken: Urbanism and Prophecy in Ancient Israel and the Near East (JSOT Supplement)
by Lester L. Grabbe Publisher Comments Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this volume...
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The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig (European Perspectives)
by Claudi Fabre Vassas Publisher Comments < P> -- < I> New Republic< /I> < /P>...
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A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism
by Jeffrey S. Gurock Publisher Comments Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the...
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The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals (Genders)
by Carole S. Kessner Publisher Comments Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more...
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Tradition and crisis :Jewish society at the end of the Middle Ages
by Jacob Katz Synopsis An acknowledged classic. Katz has transformed our conception of Jewish history from the 16th to the 18th century. Because of his work, we now understand that the ghetto was no longer sealed off at that time from outside opinions and that the movement...
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Spirit in First Century Judaism
by John R Levison Publisher Comments Conceptions of the divine spirit underwent complex metamorphoses in Jewish biblical interpretation during the Greco-Roman era. This monograph explores those permutations in the writings of Philo Judaeus, Josephus, and Pseudo-Philo (Liber Antiquitatum...
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Yale French Studies, 85: Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France
by Alan Astro Publisher Comments This volume presents voices from a paradoxical community: the Jews of France, long assimilated yet more expressive than ever of their particular concerns. It includes the first accounts of French survivors of death camps; effects of Jewish migration from...
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Early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism
by Peder Borgen Publisher Comments These studies break new ground in the exploration of early Christianity and Judaism towards the end of the Second Temple period.Professor Borgen introduces fresh perspectives on many central issues in the complexity of Judaism both within Palestine and...
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