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Anti-Jewish sentiment in the Orthodox liturgy was and still is one of the main stumbling blocks for the Jewish–Orthodox Christian encounter. In the last five decades, this subject has often been men……続きを見る

This bookpresents ground-breaking research into the ‘Merker affair,’ a series of events that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s, which saw Paul Merker, a member of……続きを見る

"The old paths, or the Talmud tested by Scripture" by Alexander McCaul. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & lite……続きを見る

Menschen mit jüdischem Vater und nichtjüdischer Mutter sind nach geltender Überzeugung fast aller jüdischen Gemeinden – nach der Halacha – keine Jüdinnen und Juden. Sie haben eine doppelte Identität……続きを見る

This volume presents comprehensive research on how southern European Catholics and the Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious otherness in early modern times. ……続きを見る

None of the great men of Scripture pass through a course of so many changes; none of them touched human life at so many points; none of them were so tempered and polished by swift alternation of hea……続きを見る

In "The Old Paths, or the Talmud Tested by Scripture," Alexander McCaul presents a critical examination of the Talmud's teachings through the lens of biblical Scripture. This scholarly work is metic……続きを見る

Philo of Alexandria was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, who is now recognised as the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide a concise view of the development……続きを見る

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayerーto strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of menーdiverse in their ages, th……続きを見る

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent chang……続きを見る

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers. Gersonides is recognized by scholars as one of the most innovative Jewish philosophe……続きを見る

The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmi……続きを見る

Advancing the thesis that a contract between the political members of a community must lead to the highest form of social inclusion, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) has provided the groundwork for ……続きを見る

The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the State of Israel, where the religious-secular schism provoke……続きを見る

In "Gebete für Israeliten" entfaltet Abraham Alexander Wolff eine tiefgreifende und zeitgenössische Auseinandersetzung mit dem jüdischen Glauben und der spirituellen Praxis. Der Autor kombiniert in ……続きを見る

The incongruence if not antagonism between modern liberalism and the Jewish sense of the world has been most notably articulated by Lionel Trilling. Certainly the imaginative limitations and intelle……続きを見る

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In Sounding Jewi……続きを見る

Study of a fascinating medieval Jewish philosopher, focusing on his twin conceptions of history. The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinke……続きを見る

In questo libro, uno dei più importanti del Marchese Alexandre Sant-Yves D’Alveydre, sono descritti alcuni fondamentali capitoli della Storia Sacra. In questo secondo volume D'Alveydre trae le concl……続きを見る

The State of Israel; Its Friends and Enemies. Prophetic Future This is an indispensable work telling us all we need to know on several matters. Discusses various issues succinctly summarizing differ……続きを見る

Reform Judaism has been tested by the spiritual torments and ideological upheavals of the last two centuries. Now, Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us brings into discussion key tenets and opinions th……続きを見る

Alexander Zephyr is the author of The State of Israel: Its Friends and Enemies. Prophetic Future. Like his previous work, Rabbi Akiva, the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the Ten Tribes of Israel focuses on t……続きを見る

The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided……続きを見る

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938–1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documen……続きを見る

The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of an……続きを見る