Judaism: Signs, Symbols, And Stories
This book has covers the origins of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, Prophets, Priests and Rabbis, the Synagogue and the Founding of Israel. Also available in this series on the different religions is Chris...
When A Jew Dies: The Ethnography Of A Bereaved Son
Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning a...
The Miracle Of Intervale Avenue: The Story Of A Jewish Congregation In The South Bronx
Located in the ravaged urban landscape of the South Bronx, the Intervale Jewish Center is the last synagogue still in regular use in a rapidly changing neighborhood. This unique congregation represent...
Pursuit Of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz And The Sabbatian Controversy
Rabbi Moses Hagiz was one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority which the au...
How The Bavli Is Constructed: Identifying The Forests Comprised By The Talmud's Trees: The Case Of Bavli Moed Qatan And Of Bavli Makkot
This book seeks to discern how the Talmud transforms isolated facts into cogent and coherent constructions: the forests formed by the Talmud_s trees. Trees serve as facts out of any larger context, wh...
Chapters On Jewish Literature
Publisher: The Jewish publication society of America Publication date: 1899 Subjects: Jewish literature History / Jewish Literary Criticism / Jewish Religion / Judaism / General Religion / Judaism / R...
Pious And Rebellious: Jewish Women In Medieval Europe
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). Avraham Grossman covers mul...
Bittersweet Legacy-- Volume XXIV: Creative Responses To The Holocaust (Studies In The Shoah Series)
Bittersweet Legacy is a collection of poetry, short stories and art inspired by the Holocaust. It is a book born of paradox, evoking remembrances of the darkest moments known to humankind by utilizing...
The Sultan's Jew: Morocco And The Sephardi World
"Schroeter's meticulously documented study is a model for research on intermediate minorities."--CHOICE "Until this book was written, all that was left in the collective memory about Meir Maclin was ...
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