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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran

The volume examines the Qumran manuscripts of the Aramaic Books of Enoch and the Book of Giants, focusing on their grammar, meaning, and ...

Letters from Home - The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity

Investigates rhetorical strategies Egyptian and Judean Jews used in their writings about life outside the Land of Israel, charting the de...

Post-Soviet Graffiti - Free Speech in Authoritarian States

Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circ...

How the West Became Antisemitic - Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500

An examination of how the Jewsâ ¿real and imaginedâ ¿so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society tha...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Sefer Brantshpigl - Edited and translated by Morris M. Faierstein

Sefer Brantshpigl is an important Yiddish religious/ethical work first published in Cracow, 1596. It was reprinted six more times into th...

Jüdische Lebenswelten im Osmanischen Reich

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

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...

Judaism Is About Love - Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramati...

From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond - Text - Re-Interpretations - Afterlives

This volume marks the state-of-the-art concerning research on Flavius Josephus, Sefer Yosippon, and reception history of both. The essays...

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...

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 ...

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