Download or read book A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language written by Joseph Emerson Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish encyclopedia a descriptive record of the history religion literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day written by Cyrus Adler and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia written by Isidore Singer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Million of Facts A new edition written by Sir Richard PHILLIPS and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The popular encyclopedia or Conversations lexicon being a general dictionary of arts sciences literature biography and history With illustrations written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Million of Facts of Correct Data and Elementary Constants in the Entire Circle of the Sciences and on All Subjects of Speculation and Practice written by Sir Richard Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultures of the Jews Volume 1 written by David Biale and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their history, are the Jews one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, some of the finest scholars of our day have contributed their insights to Cultures of the Jews, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award upon its hardcover publication in 2002. Constructing their essays around specific cultural artifacts that were created in the period and locale under study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews–from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women–as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. What they conclude is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived. Mediterranean Origins, the first volume in Cultures of the Jews, describes the concept of the “People” or “Nation” of Israel that emerges in the Hebrew Bible and the culture of the Israelites in relation to that of neighboring Canaanite groups. It also discusses Jewish cultures in Babylonia, in Palestine during the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods, and in Arabia during the formative years of Islam.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary written by Joseph Emerson Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultures of the Jews written by David Biale and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians , folklorists, and historians of relation, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the United States, Israel, and France—have contributed their insight to Cultures of the Jews. The premise of their endeavor is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable, the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived. Building their essays on specific cultural artifacts—a poem, a letter, a traveler’s account, a physical object of everyday or ritual use—that were made in the period and locale they study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews—from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women—as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. Part One, “Mediterranean Origins,” describes the concept of the “People” or “Nation” of Israel that emerges in the Hebrew Bible and the culture of the Israelites in relation to that of the Canaanite groups. It goes on to discuss Jewish cultures in the Greco-Roman world, Palestine during the Byzantine period, Babylonia, and Arabia during the formative years of Islam. Part Two, “Diversities of Diaspora,” illuminates Judeo-Arabic culture in the Golden Age of Islam, Sephardic culture as it bloomed first if the Iberian Peninsula and later in Amsterdam, the Jewish-Christian symbiosis in Ashkenazic Europe and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the culture of the Italian Jews of the Renaissance period, and the many strands of folklore, magic, and material culture that run through diaspora Jewish history. Part Three, “Modern Encounters,” examines communities, ways of life, and both high and fold culture in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Ladino Diaspora, North Africa and the Middle East, Ethiopia, Zionist Palestine and the State of Israel, and, finally, the United States. Cultures of the Jews is a landmark, representing the fruits of the present generation of scholars in Jewish studies and offering a new foundation upon which all future research into Jewish history will be based. Its unprecedented interdisciplinary approach will resonate widely among general readers and the scholarly community, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and it will change the terms of the never-ending debate over what constitutes Jewish identity.
Download or read book New General Biographical Dictionary written by Hugh James Rose and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cultural History of the English Language written by Gerry Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research to relate major historical events to change in the language, in particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis, stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles. The book does not attempt to chronicle changes in syntax or pronunciation and spelling, but is designed to complement a corpus-based study of formal changes. The story of English is brought up to the late 1990s to include, amongst other things, discussions of Estuary English and the implications of the information superhighway.
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