A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Medi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479817542)
This book explores the emergence of novel moderate directions in Israeli religious life that have come to fruition in the twenty-first century, and the key role played by a cadre of American immigrants who arrived in Israel between 1965 and 1982--...Daugiau...
Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped together with a vaguely-defined group of Middle Eastern Mizrahi Jews). Noticeably few of us are even aware...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501781544)
This book investigates the social and political role of local Jewish museums in Polish lands and in independent Poland from the 1890s up to the Holocaust, as well as Jewish ethnographic initiatives-- Displays of Belonging...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2025, Other book format, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501781551)
Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. As Jews comfortabl...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Apr-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250193407)
Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life....Daugiau...
Serija: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501779671)
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of...Daugiau...
Serija: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501779688)
Unsettling Difference examines the discourse of German Jewish difference and identity as it is expressed in biblical-themed operas, their German-language literary sources, and the aesthetic and intellectual debates that surrounded their creation in...Daugiau...
Zionism and Jewish Culture offers a fresh cultural perspective on Zionism, highlighting the dominant role of pre-modern Jewish culture on the modern Jewish national movement. The book investigates the history, politics and Zionist vision of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2024, Other book format, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779695)
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of...Daugiau...
Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023,...Daugiau...
Only about 2.4 percent of Americans are Jewish. Although they are a small group, Jews came to America from all over the world and have diverse immigration stories. Life in America has not always been easy for Jews in America, especially for first-ge...Daugiau...
Hannah M Cottons collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512825343)
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Viennas cultural history across this period and a framework...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Mar-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512824940)
Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times. Offering a comprehensive view of early m...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2024, Other book format, Leidėjas: Referencepoint Press, ISBN-13: 9781678208394)
Only about 2.4 percent of Americans are Jewish. Although they are a small group, Jews came to America from all over the world and have diverse immigration stories. Life in America has not always been easy for Jews in America, especially for first-ge...Daugiau...
Serija: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jan-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300230215)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes c...Daugiau...
What did the world look like for Jews living in medieval Europe? How did they perceive and make use of the elements of their daily life, from items on the street to religious iconography within holy spaces - in particular synagogues and at the exteri...Daugiau...
Explore the social and material culture of ancient Palestine during the era of the biblical New Testament. Who was the messiah prophesied by the Jews? What were the rites of passage in pre-messianic Judiasm? How did the rituals, parables, holidays...Daugiau...
Martin Goodmans forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other. In this volume, Martins colleagues and students follow his example by investigating Jews contemplating Jews and o...Daugiau...
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays her...Daugiau...
WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE A nuanced examination of the Israels past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time Natio...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Aug-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683403845)
This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemispher...Daugiau...
This volume celebrates Jodi Magnesss long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and I...Daugiau...
Serija: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Išleidimo metai: 23-May-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300135510)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The fifth volume of the Posen Library demonstrates through a rich array of texts and images the extraordinary diversity of Jewish life during the early modern periodA rich and varied gateway into the primary source material of earl...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-May-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691243436)
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Medi...Daugiau...
In 1948, Israels founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a national home for the Jewish people, where Jewish life would be transformed. Did they succeed? The state they made, says Dan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Mar-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512823837)
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution of the book is the integration of...Daugiau...
The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere for Jewish outsiders to shape mainstream culture. The chapters collected in this volume deploy new...Daugiau...
Israel Bartal, Franēois Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, Scott Ury
Serija: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800859920)
An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israels cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a...Daugiau...
Israel Bartal, Franēois Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, Scott Ury
Serija: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800859937)
An in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israels cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a...Daugiau...
A succinct and compelling survey of everything Israel!J. Randall Price, author, professor, archaeologist Gods faithfulness to Israel is an incredible affirmation of His unconditional goodness, and as we discover H...Daugiau...
The fifteen papers collected in this volume all tackle the complex cultures of Jewish Hellenism. The book covers a wide range of topics, divided into four clusters: Moses and Exodus, Places and Ruins, Theatre and Myth, Antisemitism and Reception....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Carta - The Israel Map and Publishing Co. Ltd., ISBN-13: 9789652209399)
A new, enlightening introduction for all who seek to understand the impact of Assyria on the Israelite kingdoms during the late monarchic period. The Assyrian Empire, in its thrust for economic aggrandizement, reached the Land of Israel, first as rai...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110795073)
Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted...Daugiau...
Offering a fresh look on the legendary tradition of the Septuagint and on the exegetical practice of the Greek Torah (Philo) this book pleads for a consistent Jewish exegetical tradition in Alexandria that is based on both biblical idioms - the Gree...Daugiau...
As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Fo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Sep-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442608269)
Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada. Starting with the first steps on Canadian soil in the eighteenth century to the present day, Faces in the Crowd introduces...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683402565)
This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the cu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jun-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442604414)
The Jews were the first ethno-cultural minority to arrive in Canada, settling in Quebec in 1759. Their story is analogous to the experiences of subsequent immigrants as they arrived and settled into their new homes. Faces in the Crowd sheds light on...Daugiau...
The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperors court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the tu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Apr-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783110683776)
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays her...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Mar-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110191448)
Hannah M Cottons collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The question of why the cooperation of Jews with the Persian and Ptolemaic empires achieved some success and why it failed with regard to the Seleucids and the Romans, even turning into military hostility against them, has not been sufficiently answe...Daugiau...
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, d...Daugiau...
