Presenting Christians and Christianity in Israeli State Education
This book scrutinizes the presentations of Christians and Christianity in Israeli state education system. It reveals that despite the changes in Jewish-Christian relations in the last century and the power relations between Jews and Christians in Israel, Christianity has a crucial role in the construction of modern Jewish identity in Israel.
A Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions. Eloquently framed with a foreword by the dynamic Palestinian legal scholar and activist, Noura Erakat.
A Phenomenological Reading of Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2: Commune with Us explores two passages from the Hebrew Bible's prophetic book containing puzzling plurals in the original language, pieces so enigmatic they are usually changed entirely in translation. Andrew Oberg, however, considers them delightfully confusing, and through in-depth ......
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture. Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council.
Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on cliches: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive ......
One of the world's experts on classical Jewish history and literature offers an authoritative interpretation of the three major periods of Jewish history from the time of the Bible up to the present. What emerges is a captivating account of the life-forming nature of a dynamic religion in vastly differing historical contexts. Glossary, maps, ......
American Rabbi provides a comprehensive and insightful assessment of Rabbi Jacob Agus' standing as a notable Jewish thinker. The volume brings together original writings by a range of distinguished contributors to consider the main aspects of Agus' life and work in detail and to flesh out the broad and repercussive themes of his corpus. Taken as a ......
Explores the tension between the hegemony of central scientific traditions and local scientific enterprises, showing the relevance of ancient data to contemporary postcolonial historiography of science
George Nickelsburg provides a picture of the results of the past fifty years of scholarship on early Judaism and Christianity. He organizes his discussion around: scripture and tradition, Torah and the righteous life, God's activity on humanity's behalf, agents of God's activity, eschatology, historical circumstances, and social settings.
This collection of extraordinary true stories--including nine stories new to this expanded edition-- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the ......
Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities.
Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities.
Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur is the first major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Known as the Avodah piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was composed by the synagogue poets of fifth- to ninth-century Palestine and sung in the synagogues on Yom Kippur, the Day ......
"The Bahir" is one of the oldest and most important of the "Kabbalah" texts. Until the publication of the "Zohar", the "Bahir" was the most influential and widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic teachings.
Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets
Weems' pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion and covenantal commitment became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women.
Zoomorphic Slurs and the Delegitimation of Deborah and Huldah in the Bab
In this book, Blazenka Scheuer demonstrates the multiple ways in which zoomorphic images were used as interpretative keys both in the formation of Deborah and Huldah stories in the Hebrew Bible and in their subsequent versions.
Leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies place the Nazi era in full historical perspective. This book is a broad overview of the Protestant and Catholic responses, including institutional churches, the theological faculties, and theologians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Joseph Lortz. Included are assessments of the German Christian ......
From expulsions, exiles, and even genocide, for the past two millennia the Jewish people have become expert survivors. Author Terry Bookman discusses the challenges today's postmodern Jewish community faces and the ways in which it must develop a new agenda to change from merely surviving to thriving.
The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. This work sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential it has been in determining important aspects of Jewish thinking.
A study of the Jewish proscription against using images in worship demonstrating how this "image-ban" influences seminal aspects of Jewish thinking. Kochan (Jewish politics, Oxford U.) argues that idol worship is a form of disobedience because what distinguishes God from "other gods" is his invisib
Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue ......
Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints ......
Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, no. 10.
Scholars from various American religious denominations, who are currently involved in producing new translations of the Bible directed to their constituencies, discuss their methodology and ......
Investigates what Jewish thinking on African Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the United States, and argues that the commitment of Jews to liberalism led them to act in ways that were contrary to their own interests.
Distinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C.,on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av--Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of ......
There is no “Book of Sarah” in the Bible, so artist Sarah Lightman sets out to make her own. In this quietly subversive graphic autobiography, Lightman follows the urge to find herself in the midst of training to become an artist, observing her faith, navigating family and romantic relationships, and learning to be a ......
This volume examines the unique historical and religious forces that led to the Balfour Declaration and argues that Britain, for more than two centuries, already possessed the ingredients for a theopolitical vision of a Jewish home state.
What does it mean to be Jewish? Are there different ways of being Jewish? Can you be Jewish but not religious? In this friendly guide, 12-year-old Ruth explains the different ways a person can experience being Jewish, by introducing us to her family and friends.
Documenting the lived experience of being Jewish, the ......
The premise of Catastrophe and Hope is that every person connects the "dots" of his/her life with subjective significance. Similarly, connecting the "dots" of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, and Ruth, in this sequence, forges a pattern of "seeing" that moves gradually from catastrophe to resilience and hope.
The Economic Consequences of Judeo-Christian Values
Examines the economic roots of poverty, the actions that can be taken to eradicate it, and the ethical case for integrating the poor into the mainstream of society. This title considers both the economic feasibility of religious views regarding the eradication of poverty and the ethical aspects of economic programs.
Using correspondence and other materials, Herczl recreates the Hungarian Christian church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. He provides a scathing indictment of the Church's lack of compassion toward - and even active persecution of - Hungary's Jews during World War II.
