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Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic HistoryA significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim...
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The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American DiasporaBetween 1800 and 1880 approximately 6500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Although they numbered less than one-tenth of all Dutch immigrants and were a mere fraction of all Jews in America,...
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On Jewish FolkloreOn Jewish Folklore spans a half-century of scholarly inquiry by the noted anthropologist and biblical scholar Raphael Patai. He essays collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first time in English translation, provide a rich harvest of Jewish customs and...
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The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval AshkenazIn The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that...
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The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, PsychologyThe Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary,...
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Jerusalem of Lithuania: A Reader in Yiddish Cultural HistoryYerusholayim d'lite: di yidishe kultur in der lite (Jerusalem of Lithuania: A Reader in Yiddish Cultural History) by Jerold C. Frakes contains cultural, literary, and historical readings in Yiddish that vividly chronicle the central role Vilnius (Lithuania) played in Jewish culture throughout the past...
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Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern NotionJudaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of 'Judaism' is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of "Judaism"--an essential key word in Jewish Studies--as...
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Haskalah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism Volume 3Commonly translated as the "Jewish Enlightenment," the Haskalah propelled Jews into modern life. Olga Litvak argues that the idea of a Jewish modernity, championed by adherents of this movement, did not originate in Western Europe's age of reason. Litvak contends that the Haskalah spearheaded...
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Lesbian Rabbis: The First GenerationThe office of rabbi is the most visible symbol of power and prestige in Jewish communities. Rabbis both interpret to their congregations the requirements of Jewish life and instruct congregants in how best to live this life. Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation documents a...
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Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic WorldThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the...
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Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late AntiquityIn histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical...
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Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late AntiquityIn Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the...
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Pope Benedict XVI in the Holy LandAddresses given by Pope Benedict XVI on his visit to the Holy Land from May 8-15, 2009. Includes an interview with the Holy Father; welcoming ceremony, visit to Regina Pacis center; visit to the ancient basilica of the memorial of Moses; blessing of the...
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Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and SelectionsClassics in a classic collection...clearly a must for all libraries, from the university to the small town, and for all readers interested in spirituality. Religious Studies Review Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and Selections translation and introduction by David Winston preface by...
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Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, the Beginning of Wisdom...an undertaking of signal importance. Jacob Needleman Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom translated and introduced by Lawrence Fine preface by Louis Jacobs Prepare the meal of the King. This is the meal...
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Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American JewsWhile no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past - and in so doing to better understand the present....
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Did Moses Really Have Horns? and Other Myths about Jews and JudaismWhy did generations of people grow up thinking that Jews really had horns? Did Eve really eat an apple and if not why does everyone think she did? Did NoahÔ Ωs ark really exist? Did Moses really write the Torah?Author: Behrman HousePublisher: Behrman House...
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HasidismFamous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism...
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One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide ThemFor Jews and non-Jews: An honest, intelligent, no-holds-barred discussion of virtually every "hot button" issue on which Reform and Orthodox Jews differ. After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Reinman embarked...
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The Zohar, Pritzker Edition, Volume EightSefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of mystical literature,...
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