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Cultural Disjunctions Post-Traditional Jewish Identities
ISBN: HB: 9780226784861, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with a host of complementary an...
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Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City
ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...
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£50,00
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Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...
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£34,00
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California Jews
ISBN: PB: 9781611682199, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of t...
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£28,00
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Cultural Revolution in Berlin Jews in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9781851242917, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2011
104 pp., 24x16 cm, 84 colour illus.
The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions and ideology led to the movement known as the Enlight...
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Confronting Vulnerability The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
ISBN: HB: 9780226740096, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability", Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their c...
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Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781589662094, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiri...
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Chosen Will Become Herds Studies in Twentieth-century Kabbalah
ISBN: PB: 9780300123944, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad ov...
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Covenant of Circumcision New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite
ISBN: PB: 9781584653073, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2003
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
According to Jewish law, the ritual practice of circumcising male infants signals the male child's entry into the covenant his forefather Abraham made with God. Circumcision, now a common medical procedure for male infants in the United States, has c...
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Children with a Star Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780300054477, Yale University Press, August 1993
402 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Many books have been written about the experiences of Jews in Nazi Europe. None, however, has focused on the persecution of the most vulnerable members of the Jewish community – its children. This powerful and moving book by Deborah Dwork relates the...
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