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Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

In this arresting memoir about growing up inNand ultimately escaping fromNa strict Hasidic community, Feldman reveals what life is like t...

An Illustrated History of the Jews in Hungary

Már angol nyelven is elérhető a Vince Kiadó egyedülálló vállalkozása, ez a fotókkal, dokumentumokkal gazdagon illusztrált kötet, mely a m...

Selbstermächtigung - Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart 01

Das erste Heft der Zeitschrift Jalta setzt sich zunächst mit dem Titel auseinander. Jalta wird als Talmudfigur analysiert, ein Bezug zur ...

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Theodor Herzl's Zionist Journey - Exodus and Return

This book provides in-depth investigation into the secret of Theodor Herzl's success in changing the fate of the Jewish People. More than...

Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions - Proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne/ Ecole Normale Superieur (ENS), Paris

The present volume brings together a group of scholars from diverse fields in Jewish studies who deal with Jewish medical knowledge from ...

The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism - Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature...

Tractates ¿abbat and ¿Eruvin - Tractates sabbat and 'Eruvin

The original text of the Jerusalem Talmud is here established on the basis of the editio princeps and the existing manuscripts. The text ...

The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends

This book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient synagogue studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in ...

Medieval Ashkenaz - Papers in Honour of Alfred Haverkamp Presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2017

Professor Alfred Haverkamp, founder of the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Trier University, has been a leading scholar and s...

Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist - Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the Univers...

The Many Faces of Job - The Premodern Period

This handbook analyses in a comparative method and on an interdisciplinary level how the biblical figure of Job and his texts were interp...

Investigating Franz Kafka's "Der Bau" - Towards an Understanding of His Late Narrative in a Jewish Context

In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka's manuscripts be transfer...

The Hasmoneans - Ideology, Archaeology, Identity

The first two chapters discuss the religious practices of the Hasmoneans. Chapter 1 explores why the Maccabees regarded Hanukkah as a fes...

Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes - Creation, Chaos and Monotheism

Arguments over the relationship between Canaanite and Israelite religion often derive from fundamental differences in presupposition, met...

Distinctive Representation of Jewishness - in Work of Bellow, Potok and Malamud

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It is supposed to be the first ethnic l...

Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity

Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western socie...

Political Theologies in the Hebrew Bible

In the broadest sense, political theology refers to "God talk" in the context of multiple and often competing perspectives on social life...

Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities - Challenges of Integration, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity

Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemit...

Iber der grenets / Über die Grenze / Crossing the Border - Anthologie moderner jiddischer Kurzgeschichten / An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Short Stories

This comprehensive and multifaceted collection of modern Yiddish short stories marks the fourth volume in the series "Yiddish Editions & ...

Birkat haMinim - Jews and Christians in Conflict in the Ancient World

One of the intriguing questions in the study of the period of the re-formation of Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple is t...

Vom Umgang mit Verlust und Trauer im Judentum - Loss and mourning in the Jewish tradition

Für keine andere Krisensituation, in die ein Mensch geraten kann, gibt es im Judentum eine so reiche Tradition von Ritualen und Vorschrif...

The Jews - The History and Culture of the Jewish Peoples in Europe

Hilaire Belloc describes the European Jewish diaspora, its contributions to the life and intellectual culture of the continent, and the u...

Diaspora and Law - Culture, Religion, and Jurisprudence beyond Sovereignty

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an...

Three Cities of Yiddish - St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch port...

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...

United in Diversity - Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective

What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews an...

Jews and Blacks Early Modern World

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement...

Der Sammler Curt Glaser / The Collector Curt Glaser - Vom Verfechter der Moderne zum Verfolgten / From Champion of Modernism to Refugee

Deutsch-englische Ausgabe Der bedeutende, fast vergessene deutsch-jüdische Museumsmann und Kunstsammler Curt Glaser (1879-1943) wurde von...

Desintegration - Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart 02

Die zweite Ausgabe von Jalta hat den Themenschwerpunkt Desintegration. Unter dem Begriff Desintegration können unterschiedliche künstleri...

Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951-1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956-1958)

The Qumran coins (hoard and single finds) are worthy of a novel. They were perfectly examined by H. Seyrig and A. Spijkerman, then the po...

Jüdische Jugend im Übergang - Jewish Youth in Transit - Selbstverständnis und Ideen in Zeiten des Wandels

Der Band "Jüdische Jugend im Übergang - Jewish Youth in Transit" ist das Ergebnis der gleichnamigen, international ausgerichteten Konfere...

In Eve's Attire - Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body

Women, modesty and Judaism reexamined by France's leading female rabbi.

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...

The Jews of Islam - Updated Edition

This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in pre...

Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

This collection of articles is tightly focused on metaphors in the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible and their later afterlife in ...

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...

Biblisches, nachbiblisches und masoretisches Hebräisch / Biblical, Postbiblical, and Masoretic Hebrew - Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Aufsätze, die aus Vorträgen auf der ,47. Internationalen Ökumenischen Konferenz der Hebräischlehrenden' (...

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This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Söah) with the ordeal of th...

Tractates Kilaim and Seviit

First Order: Zeraïm / Tractates Kilaim and ¿eviït ist der dritte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein grundlegendes Werk d...

Tractate Berakhot - Edition, Translation, and Commentary

The original text of the Jerusalem Talmud is here established on the basis of the edition princeps and the existing manuscripts. The text...

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 ...

Initial Comments on Select Cairo Genizah Fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Talmud Bavli

"This book thoroughly examines Genizah fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud from Cambridge University Library's Taylor S...

Naming God - Avinu Malkeinu-Our Father, Our King

An in-depth exploration of the complexities-and perhaps audacity-of naming the unnameable. Almost forty contributors from all Jewish deno...

Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot

Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering proce...

Tractates ¿eqalim, Sukkah, Ro¿ Ha¿¿anah, and Yom Tov (Besah)

This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes four tractates of the Second Order, ¿eqalim, Sukkah, Ro¿ Hä¿anah, and Yom Tov. These tracta...

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...

Buddha Turns the Kabbalah Wheel - Jewish Buddhist Resonance from a Christian Gnostic Perspective

Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path overlays perfectly onto Judaism's kabbalah mysticism. Kabbalah terms are explored for their usage in the He...

The Knowledge of HaShem

This book is an excellent introduction to the entire system of Kabbalah, in a way of comprehension and understanding. Part one explains t...

Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christi...

HaShem Is One - Volume 4 - The Vowels of Creation

In the English language for the first time, HaShem is One Volume 4, The Vowels of Creation, is a translation and adaptation of the conclu...

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...

Holy Rebellion - Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel

"An in-depth study of Jewish religion and law in Israel from a gendered perspective. In Holy Rebellion, Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldo...

Naming God in Early Judaism - Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek

During the Second Temple period (516 BCE-70 CE), Jews became reticent to speak and write the divine name, YHWH, also known by its four le...

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...

American Jews - Continuity and Identity

A portrait of Jews in America using data from the National Jewish Population Survey.

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 American Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenu...

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...

Kissing Girls on Shabbat - A Memoir

Perfect for fans of Unorthodox or Brazen, Kissing Girls on Shabbat tells the story of a young woman's desperate attempt to protect hersel...