Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought
How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel, imagine a world that...
EAN: 9781618115690
Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness
The book examines the Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister's (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) vision...
EAN: 9781618115300
Russian-Jewish Tradition
Argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In...
EAN: 9781618115560
Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community
EAN: 9783161551475
Reflections on Identity
The book deals with identity in general and with Jewish identity in particular. The book rejects...
EAN: 9781618115348
Old Testament Miracle-Workers in Early Judaism
EAN: 9783161486043
Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism
Presents the issues of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America, from the twenties to the sixties, by...
EAN: 9781618115218
Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine
EAN: 9783161467974
Learning to Read Talmud
Presents the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud....
EAN: 9781618115133
Three Powers in Heaven
A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of...
EAN: 9780300263329
Hybrid Judaism
American Jewish identity has changed significantly over the course of the past half century....
EAN: 9781618115454
Unique Judicial Vision of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
Analyses the exceptional normative impact of R. Meir Simcha Hacohen’s Biblical commentary,...
EAN: 9781618114891
This Was from God
Publicly or secretly, traditional Jews increasingly doubt the historical reliability of the...
EAN: 9781618115195
Philo of Alexandria's Views of the Physical World
EAN: 9783161506406
Answering a Question with a Question
The themes taken up in this book are universal: trauma, traumatic reenactment, intergenerational...
EAN: 9781618115157
Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals
Discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish...
EAN: 9781618114914
Attuned Learning
Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts lead the reader through an exploration...
EAN: 9781618114808
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval...
EAN: 9781618114686
Contention, Controversy, and Change
Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical...
EAN: 9781618114648
Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism
Presents the issues and challenges of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America from the 1920s to the...
EAN: 9781618114372
Judaism as Philosophy
In this volume, Howard Kreisel revisits some of his most important essays, many of them appearing...
EAN: 9781618111791
Isaac's Fear
Isaac’s Fear is a study of a Hebrew encyclopedia ofJudaism from eighteenth-century Ferrara. The...
EAN: 9781644697351
