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Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against MelancholyPortrays four charismatic leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe.Author: Elie WieselPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 08/31/1978Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.27w x 0.44dISBN: 9780268009472About the AuthorWiesel, Elie: - Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was a professor emeritus at...
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Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the WorldRecollections of the first bat mitzvah at the only synagogue in Indonesia, a poignant bat mitzvah memory of World War II Italy, and an American bat mitzvah shared with girls in a Ukrainian orphanage--these are a few of the resonant testimonies about the transition...
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Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925In the early 20th century, with Russia full of intense social strife and political struggle, Vladimir Yevgenyevich (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Jewish Public intellectual. Although previously glossed over, these years are crucial to Jabotinsky's development as a thinker, politician,...
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Jews and the MediterraneanWhat does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of Jewish history? Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi...
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The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural InvestmentThe Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of contemporary American congregations?...
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Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Enchantment of the Public SphereHermann Cohen (1842-1918) is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas,...
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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. KaplanMordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural...
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Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral PerspectivesNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the...
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Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of ZionismJudith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its...
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Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom ScholemWalter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First...
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Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of TraditionOne of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience. Author: Rebecca AlpertPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 09/01/1998Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.49dISBN: 9780231096614About the AuthorRebecca Alpert...
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The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian ControversyRabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate....
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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical GuideA classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary--even contradictory--statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings...
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Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish BooksThe early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin...
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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic TextsAccording to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbors worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely...
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Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the TalmudIn ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Hayes argues that different views of the possibility of conversion, based on varying ideas about Gentile impurity, were the key factor in the formation of Jewish...
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Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic CultureThe existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. This is in part because asceticism is commonly identified with celibacy, whereas the rabbis emphasized sexuality as a positive good. In addition, argues Eliezer Diamond, it serves the...
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Reading the Zohar: The Sacred Text of the KabbalahComprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth century. This massive work continues to provide the foundation of...
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Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical TalesA vast bounty of tales recounting mystical experiences among the rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore. Now, in Gabriel's Palace, scholar Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and secular, in a marvelously...
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The Literary Imagination in Jewish AntiquityWinner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Winner of the 2017 The George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from...
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