Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512825343
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824407
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha’aramah,...
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other...
The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done...
Edited by Anne C. Dailey, Martin Kavka and Lital Levy
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512824308
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding the...
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary...
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as...
