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Memoirs Hans Jonas
ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...
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£32,00
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Maine's Lithographic Landscapes Town and City Views, 1830-1870
ISBN: HB: 9781684580255, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butl...
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£40,00
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Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...
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£20,00
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Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958
ISBN: PB: 9781584658856, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticol...
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£24,00
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Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...
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£68,00
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Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...
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Moses Mendelssohn Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781584656852, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much...
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Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781584651789, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansio...
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