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European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
RRP: $64.14Booksplease Price: $61.62This survey history of Jewish life and culture in early modern Europe is the first to focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a radically new phase in Jewish history. The book lays... -
Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom Rachel Elior 9781906764043
RRP: $61.52Booksplease Price: $59.31Mysticism, which transcends the boundaries of time and space and refers to a reality not grasped by means of ordinary human cognition, is one of the central sources of inspiration of religious... -
Rashi Avraham Grossman 9781906764616
RRP: $69.38Booksplease Price: $66.19To this day, the commentaries on the Bible and Talmud written by the eleventh-century scholar known as Rashi remain unsurpassed. His influence on Jewish thinking was, and still is, significant. His... -
Time and Process in Ancient Judaism by Sacha Stern
RRP: $61.52Booksplease Price: $38.48This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the... -
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816 by Ada Rapoport-Albert
RRP: $69.38Booksplease Price: $52.22Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. Even if historically some Jewish women may have experienced mystical revelations and led richly productive spiritual lives, the... -
Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History Marc B. Shapiro (Professor Marc Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania) 9781904113607
Booksplease Price: $88.66Changing the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their... -
Judaism on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages by Hyam Maccoby 9781874774167
RRP: $61.52Booksplease Price: $59.31Hyam Maccoby's now classic study focuses on the major Jewish-Christian disputations of medieval Europe: those of Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14). It examines the content... -
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning Shaul Stampfer 9781906764609
RRP: $69.38Booksplease Price: $66.90One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was to change the system for educating young men so as... -
The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History by Antony Polonsky 9781906764395
RRP: $82.47Booksplease Price: $79.56For many centuries Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world: right up to the Second World War the area was home to over 40 per cent of the world's Jews. Nearly three and a half... -
The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism by Rachel Elior
RRP: $64.14Booksplease Price: $61.62In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and... -
Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook Marc B. Shapiro 9781802077339
Booksplease Price: $76.76Rav Kook (1865-1935), the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a revered thinker whose ideas were in the vanguard of religious Zionist ideology. His theological positions have continued to... -
Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History by Jane Gerber
Booksplease Price: $110.67Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous...