Download or read book Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore written by Bennett Muraskin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore written by Bennett Muraskin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Provocative People written by Sherwin T. Wine and published by IISHJ-NA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Folklore Of The Jews written by Angelo S. Rappoport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007. This classic work draws together the whole rich field of Jewish Folklore- the popular beliefs, practices, superstitions and traditional wisdom relating to all aspects of life. Dr. Rappaport has organised the book around four main themes: nature, the heavenly bodies and mythological an cosmological motifs; fauna and flora; human life including birth, marriage, illness and death, omens and portents; and supernatural and natural powers including demons and spirits, witchcraft, charms and spells. There are chapters on folk medicine, demonology, customs and practices, as well as a selection of Jewish legends and folktales, and a collection of Hebrew and Yiddish proverbs and popular sayings.
Download or read book Humanistic Judaism written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Folklore written by Dov Noy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering customs, rituals, legends, words and images in Jewish traditions as they were kept and transmitted in different historical and cultural setting over centuries, this book presents a window into Jewish civilization as well as an original and important work of folklore scholarship. The 750 alphabetically organized entries cover Jewish folk traditions concerning the Bible, Kabbalah, astrology and mysticism; traditions from China to the Americas; folk appreciation of Jewish history; folk proverbs; folk music; traditions about sanctuary in the Holy land; the great scholars who worked to preserve traditions; folk arts; customs and practices; beliefs about afterlife, the Messiah, angles, ghosts and demons; folk medicine; and much more. Featuring illuminating sidebars and illustrations, this historical and multicultural resource on Jewish folklore should prove valuable to students and researchers, as well as general readers.
Download or read book Judaism Beyond God written by Sherwin Wine and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also describes a radical and creative way to be Jewish - new ways to celebrate Jewish holidays and life cycle events, a welcoming approach to intermarriage and joining the Jewish people, and meaningful paths to strengthen Jewish identity in a secular age.
Download or read book Jewish Currents written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treasury of American Jewish Folklore written by Steve Koppman and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-05-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.
Download or read book Jewish Folklore written by Eli Yassif and published by New York : Garland. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contentions With God written by Immanuel Olsvanger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contentions With God: A Study in Jewish Folklore My dear Professor, Since the occasion some two years ago, when I had the honour to deliver a lecture under the same title as this essay to the Basle Section of the Swiss Society for Folk-lore I have not ceased to prosecute my humble investigations further in this field. In the trust that the publication of the results of my own inquiries may stimulate others with wider knowledge and greater ability to carry the subject further, I have ventured to publish this essay, and in this I have been encouraged both by Israel Zangwill's and your own friendly criticism of my book "Rosinkess mit Mandlen." Moreover I feel sure that you will deal kindly with any errors which may appear to your scientific eye, more especially in some story or other which you may consider to be not altogether germane to the title. Yet are they undoubtedly cognate to the subject; and therefore they arc included,-to use a word of Ariosto, per raccontar pincevole a ricreazione delle persons il'nninto gentile. And oven though I am keenly aware that my tales are not nearly so piacevole told as those of Ariosto, yet I believe that the animo gentile of the reader will see beauty even in those stories which may be rejected by tho vulgus. In reading some grotesque anecdote you will with your deeper understanding not find it to accuse: "How impious is this people who, even when speaking of God, sees fit to jest." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Essays on Jewish Folklore and Comparative Literature written by Sándor Scheiber and published by Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó. This book was released on 1985 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Jewish and World Folklore written by Haim Schwarzbaum and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louis Ginzberg s Legends of the Jews written by Galit Hasan-Rokem and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark synthesis of aggadah from classical Rabbinic literature and ancient folk legends from a number of cultures. It remains a hugely influential work of scholarship from a man who shaped American Conservative Judaism. In Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered, editors Galit Hasan-Rokem and Ithamar Gruenwald present a range of reflections on the Legends, inspired by two plenary sessions devoted to its centennial at the Fifteenth Congress of the World Association of Jewish Studies in August 2009. In order to provide readers with the broadest possible view of Ginzberg’s colossal project and its repercussions in contemporary scholarship, the editors gathered leading scholars to address it from a variety of historical, philological, philosophical, and methodological perspectives. Contributors give special regard to the academic expertise and professional identity of the author of the Legends as a folklore scholar and include discussions on the folkloristic underpinnings of The Legends of the Jews. They also investigate, each according to her or his disciplinary framework, the uniqueness, strengths, and weakness of the project. An introduction by Rebecca Schorsch and a preface by Galit Hasan-Rokem further highlight the folk narrative aspects of the work in addition to the articles themselves. The present volume makes clear the historical and scholarly context of Ginzberg’s milestone work as well as the methodological and theoretical issues that emerge from studying it and other forms of aggadic literature. Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
Download or read book Jewish Folklore and Legend written by David Goldstein and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Justice and Jews written by Murray Polner and published by Bunim & Bannigan Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choice between extolling uncritically whatever Israel decides to do to others, and maintaining the Jewish commitment to justice, has created, for Jews, a profound moral crisis. Are Jews to adopt a form of Judaism that uncritically reveres Israel as the only safeguard against genocide? Or should Jews retain their ancient belief that only where human rights are respected for all can Jews find true security and equality?In this landmark collection of contemporary Jewish thought, Polner and Merken have drawn on the work of a wide variety of thinkers and activists in Israel and the USincluding charity workers, political demonstrators, conscientious objectors, prison workers, animal rights advocates, mothers and fathers, refuseniks, rabbis, soldiers, journalists, and professorsto answer this important question.These voices support the second choiceto pursue human rights as the key to securitya view nourished during two millennia of the Diaspora, and which has proudly seen Jews at the forefront of struggles for civil rights, labor rights, anti-militarism, and compassion for the most vulnerable among us: the poor, the hungry, the helpless, the oppressed.
Download or read book Contentions with God written by Immanuel Olsvanger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contentions With God: A Study in Jewish Folklore In reading some grotesque anecdote you will with your deeper understanding not find it to accuse How impious is this people who, even when speaking of God, sees fit to jest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
