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Book Ktavim

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Ktavim written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prophecy and Politics

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  • Author : Jonathan Frankel
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1984-11-08
  • ISBN : 9780521269193
  • Pages : 716 pages

Download or read book Prophecy and Politics written by Jonathan Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-08 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period from 1881 to 1917 socialist movements flourished in every major centre of Russian Jewish life, but, despite common foundations, there was often profound and bitter disagreement between them. This book describes the formation and evolution of these movements, which were at once united by a powerful vision and sundered by the contradictions of practical politics.

Book Modern Jewish Literatures

Download or read book Modern Jewish Literatures written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included—and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries—between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The literary world described in Modern Jewish Literatures is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.

Book The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

Download or read book The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature written by Marina Zilbergerts and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence of Hebrew literature in modern times. Departing from the conventional interpretation of the origins of Hebrew literature in secular culture, Marina Zilbergerts points to the practices and metaphysics of Talmud study as its essential animating forces. Focusing on the early works and personal histories of founding figures of Hebrew literature, from Moshe Leib Lilienblum to Chaim Nachman Bialik, The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature reveals the lasting engagement of modern Jewish letters with the hallowed tradition of rabbinic learning.

Book Ktavim Chadashim   New Writings

Download or read book Ktavim Chadashim New Writings written by Chayim Vital and published by Euniversity.Pub. This book was released on 2018 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ktavim Chadashim contains many unpublished works by Chaim Vital, the foremost disciple of the Ari (Isaac Luria). Here, for the first time, we publish two main sections in English, which are the commentary on Brit Menucha (Covenant of Rest), and the secret fourth part of Shaarei Kedusha (Gates of Holiness). The commentary on Brit Menucha deals with Kabbalah Ma'asit (Practical Kabbalah). It is much more than a simple commentary, because it contains names of angels that are not found in the original Brit Menucha, along with precise instructions concerning their usage. The fourth part of Shaarei Kedusha deals with the practical ways to force the Ruach Ha-Kodesh (Hooy Spirit) to descend upon us, thus allowing us to reach prophecy and the world to come. Vital even explains the 72 Names of God, with their angels

Book Literary Passports

Download or read book Literary Passports written by Shachar Pinsker and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernist Hebrew prose-fiction, as it emerged from 1900 to 1930, was shaped by the highly charged encounter of traditionally educated Jews with the revolution of European literature and culture known as modernism. The book deals with modernist Hebrew fiction as an urban phenomenon, explores the ways in which the genre dealt with issues of sexuality and gender, and examines its depictions of the complex relations between tradition, modernity, and religion.

Book The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature

Download or read book The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature written by Neta Stahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers attributed to the divine, and examines their functions against the simplistic dichotomy between religious and secular literature. The volume follows both chronological and thematic paths, offering a panoramic and multilayered analysis of the various strategies in which modern Hebrew writers, from the turn of the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century pursued in their attempt to represent the divine in the face of metaphysical, theological, and representational challenges. Modern Hebrew literature emerged during the nineteenth century as part of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement, which attempted to break from the traditional modes of Jewish intellectual and social life. The Hebrew literature that arose in this period embraced the rebellious nature of the Haskalah and is commonly characterized as secular in nature, defying Orthodoxy and rejecting God. Nevertheless, this volume shows that modern Hebrew literature relied on traditional narratological and poetic norms in its attempt to represent God. Despite its self-declared secularity, it engaged deeply with traditional problems such as the nature of God, divine presence, and theodicy. Examining these radical changes, this volume is a key text for scholars and students of modern Hebrew literature, Jewish studies and the intersection of religion and literature.

Book The Israel Journal of Agricultural Research

Download or read book The Israel Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewish Radicalisms

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  • Author : Frank Jacob
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2019-12-16
  • ISBN : 3110543524
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Jewish Radicalisms written by Frank Jacob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon.

Book The Israeli American Connection

Download or read book The Israeli American Connection written by Michael Brown and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israeli-American Connection examines the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the world wars. In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurian, focusing on each leader's involvement with and image of America, as well as the impact of America on their lives and careers.

Book Medical and Biological Research in Israel

Download or read book Medical and Biological Research in Israel written by Moshe Prywes and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel / Medizin / Biologie.

Book Essays in Modern Jewish History

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  • Author : Phyllis Cohen Albert
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780838630952
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Essays in Modern Jewish History written by Phyllis Cohen Albert and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of essays studying Jewish communities before, during, and after their emergence into a modern, emancipated status. A fitting tribute to an outstanding sociologist and scholar.

Book Israel at Sixty

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  • Author : Efraim Karsh
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-23
  • ISBN : 1317967763
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Israel at Sixty written by Efraim Karsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years after the birth of Israel, this fascinating and original book of essays brings together a number of the leading experts on Zionism and Israel to examine the domestic and international context of Israel's transition from community to state in 1948. With contributions on a wide range of historically important topics that are no less relevant now than they were six decades ago, the book examines how countries as diverse as France, the United States, Turkey, Britain and Ireland viewed the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the subsequent establishment of Israel in 1948. It also looks at the involvement of the UN, Zionist and Arab leaders in the events immediately preceding Israel's birth. While controversial issues such as the role of the Holocaust in the creation of Israel and the attitude of the Zionist movement to Palestinian Arabs, from its onset to the 1948 war, are examined in order to set the record straight after decades of mistaken and misleading research. This book was previously published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.

Book Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine

Download or read book Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine written by Alan Dowty and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian and expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations offers “a well-written, well-balanced” account of cultural conflicts in the region before WWI (Anita Shapira, author of Israel: A History). When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. Dowty demonstrates that, during the 19th century, there was an overwhelming hostility to European foreigners, and that Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European. He also shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.

Book Studies in Contemporary Jewry

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  • Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
  • Publisher : Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Release : 1987-08-20
  • ISBN : 0195364295
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Ezra Mendelsohn and published by Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This book was released on 1987-08-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. Volume III, the first to be published by Oxford, includes symposia, articles, book reviews, and lists of recent dissertations by major scholars of Jewish history from around the world. This year's symposium topic is "Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-ethnic World." Essays in Volume III cover such topics as Jews in the Austro-Hungarian armed forces; post-Holocaust Hungarian Jewry; the American Jew as journalist; and Jewish social history.

Book Arlosoroff

Download or read book Arlosoroff written by Shlomo Avineri and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaim Arlosoroff (1899-1933), socialist Zionist leader and theorist, was born in Russia and educated in Germany. He was one of the leaders of the Labour Zionist Party, Mapai and, following his emigration to Palestine in the 1920s, he became the head of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine – the 'Foreign Minister' of the Jewish state-in-the-making.His reputation grew rapidly and his many articles and speeches were soon treated as blueprints for the socialist ideals of a Jewish state. He was bitterly opposed to the Revisionist principles of Jabotinsky and his movement. At the age of thirty-four, Arlosoroff was assassinated while walking with his wife along the beach in Tel Aviv. His murder marked a turning point in modern Zionist history, polarizing attitudes between left and right-wing Zionists in Palestine and the Diaspora, and creating an ideological rift parallel only to the impact of the Dreyfus Affair on French Politics. After his death, Arlosoroff became a symbol of the socialist Zionist movement. He was an intellectual of the first order and an original social thinker. He had a number of books to his name in such fields as socialist and anarchist thought, economic history, Jewish social studies, financial theory and social analysis. His writings and ideas set the scene for the final struggle towards and independent Jewish state in Palestine and time has proved him to be extraordinarily prophetic.

Book A History of Zionism

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  • Author : Walter Laqueur
  • Publisher : Schocken
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 030753085X
  • Pages : 690 pages

Download or read book A History of Zionism written by Walter Laqueur and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.