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Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond - Challenges from the Past and in the Present

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together...

The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence over some 1,500 years of cultural floresce...

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36 - Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe

Studying the experiences of children can offer an important corrective to how we think of the Jewish past. This volume proves the potenti...

Omer Calendar of Biblical Women

An exploratory, mystical, and feminist companion for the traditional Jewish practice of counting the Omer. The Omer Calendar of Biblical ...

Jewish Law - New Perspectives

New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its bro...

In God's Presence - A Theological Reintroduction to Judaism

Alon Goshen-Gottstein offers a spiritual framework for understanding Judaism from its beginnings until today. Incorporating biblical, rab...

Philosophy and Jewish Thought - Theoretical Intersections

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and t...

The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry - Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities

The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of va...

To Be a Jewish State - Zionism as the New Judaism

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state,...

Tablets Shattered - The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

"From esteemed journalist and scholar Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and communit...

The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis - Transatlantic Jewish Anarchism in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Jews from Central and Eastern Europe arrived in New York City, where they did not onl...

Forbidden - A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

"From humble biblical origins to virulently antisemitic medieval images of the Judensau to modern debates about whether Impossible Pork i...

For Such a Time as This - On Being Jewish Today

A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue ...

Two Wheels to Freedom - The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundred of lives—all while retain...

Jüdische Lebenswelten im Osmanischen Reich

Als sephardische Jüdinnen und Juden im Zuge der Spanischen Inquisition von der Iberischen Halbinsel vertrieben wurden, gelangten sie dank...

Judaism in North America - An Introduction

"Beginning with an overview of the history of Judaism, this book covers key topics in the study of Judaism including the major texts of J...

Dybbuk Americana

Inventive poetry explores Jewish identity in America "How can I teach a prayer / I only know how to recite?" "America, whose death / didn...

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity - Counternarratives of Justice

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity is the first book to examine what early Jewish courtroom narratives can tell us about the capacity and ...

Land of Refuge - Immigration to Palestine, 1919-1927

After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily ...

Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism - The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi

"Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, this book examines the literary-historical development of rab...

If You Will It - Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century

Hundreds of thousands of young Jews have drifted away from the American Jewish community and many more may follow. This book explains to ...

The Rule of the Association and Related Texts

The series provides commentaries on the most important of the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume considers the Ser...

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, Books 18-20

An annotated translation of Josephus's account of 6 to 66 CE -- the main source for Jewish history in the decades that saw both the birth...

Jewish Languages and Book Culture

A fascinating collection examining the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters. From Cairo Genizah to Europe...

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: "Clear a Path in the Wilderness!" - Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Cosponsored by the University of Vienna, New York University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the Israel Museum

The Sixteenth Orion Symposium celebrated seventy years of Dead Sea Scrolls research. These papers address dimensions of religious experie...

A Key to Locked Doors - Festschrift for Gerrit Bos on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday

In July 2023, Gerrit Bos (Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of Cologne) celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, hi...

Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations - Or ʿammim / Lumen Gentium

Light of the Nations, a philosophical summa and defence of Jewish-Christian monotheism by the Italian-Jewish exegete Obadiah Sforno, is h...

Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: Mapping the Second Century

Sound an Alarm! Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets and Testing the Righteous - Two-volume set

Revealer of Secrets is a portrayal-both realistic and satirical-of Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nine...

Occupied Words - What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jew...

A Critical Edition of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Ben Sira - With Translation and Philological Notes

This is the first complete critical edition of the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira (both ancient and medieval discovered between the 19th ...

Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s - The Post-Holocaust Authors

This book analyzes Jewish themes, characters, and contributions in science fiction and fantasy of the post-Holocaust period, from the U.S...

Scripturalizing Jewishness Through Blackness - Black Jews in France

This book describes the multiple ways in which Black Jews in France practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and re...

God Spoke Once, I Heard Twice - The Torah's Lens on Fifty-Four Fields of Human Knowledge

Bible commentary, according to Rabbi Goldberg, should mirror the many ways God enters into the human experience. Offering philosophic inq...

From the Magdala Stone to the Syriac Bema - Mutual Influences Between the Liturgical Space in the Early Synagogue and Church

The book highlights the organization of the sacred space in the ancient synagogue. Tracking the ritual and liturgical furnishings it demo...

Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem's War Writings - Perceptions of Space in the Warsaw Ghetto

The book explores how history and politics were expressed in the war writings of Emanuel Ringelblum and Reuven Ben-Shem, inmates at the W...

The Torah of Leadership

Jewish leadership has always been vital to our existence. To form a people and a monotheistic faith, we needed upstanding spiritual leade...

Ghost People - Race, Religion, and the Affective Sources of Jewish Identity

What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? Ghost People traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural...

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