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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294296Author Esther HertzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 696g

This ambitious and engaging book sets itself the task of combining a wide range of approaches to cast new light on the form and function of several ancient Jewish letters in a variety of languages. The focus of The Performance of Ancient Jewish Lettersis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161506895Author Tamara OrFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161495243Author Tal IlanFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 656g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161495229Author Tal IlanFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 637g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161524967Author Rabbi Dalia MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161524332Author Izaak J HulsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161501876Author Associate Professor of Late Antique Judaism Carol BakhosFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161501210Author Shulamit VallerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161487132Author Judith HauptmanFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791471760Author Nathan RotenstreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Calling for a fundamental rethinking of modern Judaism, the author of this study focuses on the transformation of Jewish practice in response to the civil rights, economic possibilities, and social challenges which came with Emancipation. The text...

Originally published in 1930, this book was intended to be an effective inspiration to faith and duty and emphasizes the importance of Judaism as a living creed. Although inevitably a product of the time in which it was originally published, the author's...

From the 1880s, when systematic pogroms in Russia led to massive emigration, there have been two themes in Jewish history - persecution, culminating in the holocaust, and the corresponding search for a place in the world, which led to emigration to...

Following Levita's statement, the Masorah transmitted by medieval illuminated manuscripts was generally considered as less significant for the study of the biblical and masoretical knowledge in the Jewish world. The biblical codices produced in Ashkenaz...

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine. Admired for the incredible diversity of his talents and interests--talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, mystic, theologian, moralist, poet, and communal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652293350Author Severin GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 194g

How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an...

In this text, the author challenges traditional views that trace the source of Christian anti-Semitism to the presentation of Jews in the first four books of the New Testament. She argues that the unflattering depiction of Jews in the gospels is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615414287Author Zalman Schachter-ShalomiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint One World LightsPublisher One World LightsWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295439Author Peter GoldenFormat HardbackPage Count 571Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 1164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652293886Author Dov FreibergFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802882479Author David FlusserFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing...

Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish...

Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very...

In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge and a manual of moral...

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978809949Author Sean MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura, analyses the jurisprudential methodology of Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan of Radin, the author of the Mishna Berura. It also provides an introduction to the...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Originally published in its sixth edition in 1929, this volume was one of the first to have appeared in England which was written from a liberal standpoint. It gives a comprehensive account of Jewish belief and practice as conceived by those of moderate...

Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays is a major contribution toward developing a realistic picture of the Latin American Jewish communities in the late 20th Century. The book will be of interest to students of comparative studies,...

Originally published in 1964, this volume aims to convey global perspectives on the Jewish situation in the late 20th Century by discussing research in Jewish social structure and social problems. Historians and social scientists from around the world...

Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid...

In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan friar and preaching false Christianity. He was...

Contained herein are 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that, like the academic oeuvre of volume's honoree, span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. The specific categories represented and the contributions...

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe's Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had...

European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein, occupied a particular place in the development of modern racial discourse during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Simultaneously inhabitants and outsiders in Europe, considered both foreign...

The political status of Jews in medieval society as revealed in both source and contemporary documents.Book InformationISBN 9780874413021Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036104Author Derek TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...