Download or read book Hasidism in Israel written by Tzvi Rabinowicz and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book talks of the Hasidic movement, what it stands for, and what it includes.

Download or read book Jewish Philosophy Past and Present written by Daniel Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative volume contemporary philosophers respond to classic works of Jewish philosophy. For each of twelve central topics in Jewish philosophy, Jewish philosophical readings, drawn from the medieval period through the twentieth century, appear alongside an invited contribution that engages both the readings and the contemporary philosophical literature in a constructive dialogue. The twelve topics are organized into four sections, and each section commences with an overview of the ensuing dialogue and concludes with a list of further readings. The introduction to the volume assesses the current state of Jewish philosophy and argues for a deeper engagement with analytic philosophy, exemplified by the new contributions. Jewish Philosophy Past and Present: Contemporary Responses to Classical Sources is a cutting edge work of Jewish philosophy, and, at the same time, an engaging introduction to the issues that animated Jewish philosophers for centuries and to the texts that they have produced. It is designed to set the agenda in Jewish philosophy for years to come.

Download or read book The Routledge Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict written by Martin Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Israeli struggle from the early twentieth century to the escalating troubles of the present day and the continuing search for peace.

Download or read book Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine 70 400 CE written by Ben Tsiyon Rozenfeld and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains pioneering research on aspects of society, culture and geography of rabbinic Torah centers in Palestine 70 400 CE. It surveys the history of the centers in their geographic and social context in chronological order.

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry V Israel State and Society 1948 1988 written by Peter Y. Medding and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically examines the State of Israel forty years after its establishment. It includes symposia, articles, and book reviews by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world.

Download or read book Religious Responses to Modernity written by Yohanan Friedmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world’s religions – and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. As co-editor Christoph Markschies remarks in his Foreword, it may seem almost trivial to say that different religions, and the various currents within them, have reacted in very different ways to the “multiple modernities” described by S.N. Eisenstadt. However, things become more interesting when the comparative perspective leads us to discover surprising similarities. Disparate encounters are connected by their transnational or national perspectives, with the one side criticizing in the interest of rationality as a model of authorization, and the other presenting revelation as a critique of a depraved form of rationality. The thoughtful essays presented herein, by Simon Gerber, Johannes Zachhuber, Jonathan Garb, Rivka Feldhay, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israel Gershoni and Christoph Schmidt, provide a counterweight to the popularity of some all-too-simplified models of modernization.

Download or read book The Archaeology of Ancient Israel written by Amnon Ben-Tor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated book, some of Israel's foremost archaeologists present a survey of early life in the land of the Bible, from the Neolithic era (eighth millenium BC) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC. Each chapter covers a particular era and includes a bibliography.

Download or read book The Zohar written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Sephardic Frontier written by Jonathan Ray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a broad frontier zone that for two centuries remained a region of warfare and peril. Drawing on a large fund of unpublished material in royal, ecclesiastical, and municipal archives as well as rabbinic literature, Jonathan Ray reveals a fluid, often volatile society that transcended religious boundaries and attracted Jewish colonists from throughout the peninsula and beyond. The result was a wave of Jewish settlements marked by a high degree of openness, mobility, and interaction with both Christians and Muslims. Ray's view challenges the traditional historiography, which holds that Sephardic communities, already fully developed, were simply reestablished on the frontier. In the early years of settlement, Iberia's crusader kings actively supported Jewish economic and political activity, and Jewish interaction with their Christian neighbors was extensive. Only as the frontier was firmly incorporated into the political life of the peninsular states did these frontier Sephardic populations begin to forge the communal structures that resembled the older Jewish communities of the North and the interior. By the end of the thirteenth century, royal intervention had begun to restrict the amount of contact between Jewish and Christian communities, signaling the end of the open society that had marked the frontier for most of the century.

Download or read book Survival on the Margins written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in 1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on behalf of new generations.

Download or read book The Politics of Nihilism written by Nitzan Lebovic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy. Interestingly, both institutional and anti-institutional sides of this antagonism tend to accuse each other of "nihilism", namely, of mere oppositional destructiveness and failure to offer a constructive, positive alternative to the status quo. Nihilism seems, then, all engulfing. In order to better understand this political situation and ourselves within it,The Politics of Nihilism proposes a thorough theoretical examination of the concept of nihilism and its historical development followed by critical studies of Israeli politics and culture. The authors show that, rather than a mark of mutual opposition and despair, nihilism is a fruitful category for tracing and exploring the limits of political critique, rendering them less rigid and opening up a space of potentiality for thought, action, and creation.

Download or read book Critical Essays on Israeli Society Religion and Government written by Kevin Avruch and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original review essays that provide critical commentary on recently published books and films on Israeli society, culture, politics, and religion.

Download or read book The Tribes of Israel written by Otinel C, Iancu and published by Josue Gerardo Roquet Rivera. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author takes a unique approach in presenting the information of the history of each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. He begins from the time of their first forefathers, continues with their incipience as tribes, moves on to their full development as ‘semi-nations’ within the people of Israel, and then ends by stating the final destiny of each of them. In order to do this, the author goes throughout the Bible and collects all the possible information about each tribe, and then puts that information together in chapters, one for each tribe. From each tribe, the author draws a spiritual lesson that he states in the conclusion of each chapter. Each chapter follows the following format: A. Name of the tribe B. Map of the tribe containing: a. Tribe’s specific location in the Promised Land b. Tribe’s flag c. Tribe’s logo (taken from the blessing of Jacob) C. Welcome and Presentation D. A common history (with the rest of the tribes of Israel) E. A unique history (of the described tribe) a. Tribe’s territory b. Tribe’s famous places c. Tribe’s famous persons d. Tribe’s famous story(s) F. Conclusion The Twelve Tribes are addressed in alphabetical order, and not in the order of their significance, or the order of the birth of their forefathers, the twelve sons of Jacob.

Download or read book Complete Jewish Bible PR Cjb NIV written by Hendrickson Publishers and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 2175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing an exciting volume featuring the Messianic Complete Jewish Bible and the newly-revised New International Version, side-by-side. For the first time, readers who seek to compare the Evangelical Christian and Messianic Jewish Bibles need not buy them separately. The CJB and the 2011 NIV version may both be read in this one-of-a-kind parallel Bible. Bible study and small group study participants will enjoy the particular characteristics of both translations. Special Features - The books of the CJB will appear in the same canonical order as the NIV - Features the new NIV 2011 - Presentation page - CJB Preface - NIV Preface

Download or read book Hidden in Thunder written by Esther Farbstein and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on documentation from various archives, discusses religious and halakhic issues which affected the lives of observant Jews during the Holocaust. Includes chapters on the reactions of rabbis in various towns to reports on the extermination of Jews; the persecution and suffering of rabbis and the rescue of some hasidic rabbis; halakhic rulings in ghettos and camps, e.g. concerning the desire of individual Jews to sacrifice themselves for others; rulings on problems involved in posing as a non-Jew; marriage, prayers, and the sanctification of God's name during the Holocaust; responsa of Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aronzon, a rabbi in Sanniki, Poland, who survived Nazi camps; sermons delivered by Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapira in the Warsaw ghetto; diaries, memoirs, and letters of survivors.

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