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The Early Enoch Literature (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
by Gabriele (edt) Boccaccini  Synopsis This book provides an overview of the current debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in ancient Judaism, especially in relation to the Torah of Moses and to the Dead Sea Scrolls....
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A History of the Jews in the Modern World
by Howard Morle Sachar Publisher Comments The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. <BR>Tracking their fate from Western Europe's age...
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The Jews in the Twentieth Century
by Martin Gilbert Review "Gilbert's goal for this book was to show the accomplisments of the Jews even as they confronted tragedy. Jewish participation in the two world wars, the quest for Israeli statehood, and the everyday life of the countries they came to call home...
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Jews and Power
by Ruth R. Wisse Publisher Comments It is Wisses bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted--not by power but by powerlessness. She argues that in displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, the Jews left too much to God thereby increasing their vulnerability to...
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The Emergence of Judaism (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World)
by Christine Elizabeth Hayes Publisher Comments Although the ethnic-religious tradition that became classical Judaism solidified around 100 CE, its roots are found in the ancient biblical tales of the Israelites. Stories of the descent into Egypt, the Exodus under Moses, and the eventual rise of the...
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Ancient Israel : From Abraham To the Roman Destruction of the Temple (Rev 99 Edition)
by Hershel (ed.) Shanks Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-344) and index....
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The Hebrew Republic
by Petrus Cunaeus Publisher Comments For your inspection, most illustrious Members of States, I offer a republic — the holiest ever to have existed in the world, and the richest in example for us to emulate. It is entirely in your interest to study closely this republic's origins and...
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The Cult of Saints Among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford Oriental Monographs)
by Josef W. Meri Publisher Comments This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of...
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Forgeries and Falsifications in the Anti-Semitic Literature and My Lawsuit Against Julius Streicher
by Shlomo Gliksman Publisher Comments Previously banned in Germany, this book takes on anti-Semitism in a number of texts, including rewritings of the Bible, and discusses the author's lawsuit addressing anti-Semitic. Selected contents: classical anti-Semitism, Jew hatred in the Middle Ages...
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A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Presentsecond, Expanded Edition
by Zvi Gitelman Publisher Comments A century ago the Russian Empire contained the largest Jewish community in the world, numbering about five million people. Today, the Jewish population of the former Soviet Union has dwindled to half a million, but remains probably the world's third...
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The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1
by Louis Ginzberg Synopsis When God resolved upon the creation of the world- He took counsel with the Torah. Her advice was this: O Lord- a king without an army and without courtiers and attendants hardly deserves the name of king- for none is nigh to express the homage due to him....
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Seven Jewish Cultures: A Reinterpretation of Jewish History and Thought
by Efraim Shmueli Publisher Comments Professor Shmueli has synthesized history, philosophy, biblical scholarship, sociology, literature and psychology into an original and profound new view of Jewish history. Jewish history is viewed as an unfolding of seven successive systems of cultures...
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Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas
by Isabel Vincent Publisher Comments In the second half of the 19th century several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South Africa, India and parts of the United States. These unwitting...
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The Jewish World in the Middle Ages
by Jon Bloomberg Book News Annotation Finding that general Jewish histories slight the era and the age group, Bloomberg offers high school students a textbook on the Jewish Middle Ages. His goal is to provide a readable narrative, to expose students to some of the classic texts of Jewish...
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Unknown History of the Jews
by E. E. Jessel Publisher Comments Discovered from the ancient records and monuments of Egypt and Babylon. This work reviews the Higher Criticism of the Old Testament and adds the evidence of the monuments of the ancient near east. Contents: Introduction; Gods of the Canaanites; New...
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Money (Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices)
by Elliot N. (edt) Dorff Publisher Comments This new JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time Each volume in this series presents traditional and contemporary sources on specific topics, followed by hypothetical cases and study questions to provoke discussion....
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A History of the Hebrew People from the Division of the Kingdom to the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC
by Charles Foster Kent Publisher Comments 1920. With maps and chart. In this volume Kent studies the division of the Hebrew kingdom at the death of Solomon. Contents: Part I. The Pre-Assyrian Period of Hebrew History: The Historical Sources for the Period; The Chronology of the Two Kingdoms; The...
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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
by J. H. Chajes Publisher Comments After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world...
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Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages Through the Early Modern Period (Princeton Readings in Religions)
by Lawrence Fine Publisher Comments "This is a rich collection. Fine has secured contributions, introductions, and a selection of materials from accomplished scholars in each area covered. There is no other volume like it. The book is well suited for an undergraduate readership in Jewish...
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Jewish Christians and Christian Jews
by Richard H. Popkin Publisher Comments The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews. These essays will demonstrate that the cross...
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