Download or read book Tehilla written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of Jewish Femininity written by Tehilla Abramov and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures written by Avriel Bar-Levav and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture has been influenced by secularization, the return to Hebrew and the emergence of modern Yiddish, and the new centers of Jewish life in the United States and in Israel, as well as by advancements in print technology and the invention of the Internet. Volume XXXI of Studies in Contemporary Jewry deals with various aspects of textual transmission in Jewish culture in the last two centuries. Essays in this volume examine old and new kinds of media and their meanings; new modes of transmission in fields such as Jewish music; and the struggle to continue transmitting texts under difficult political circumstances. Two essays analyze textual transmission in the works of giants of modern Jewish literature: S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Yiddish. Other essays discuss paratexts in the East, print cultures in the West, and the organization of knowledge in libraries and encyclopedias.
Download or read book From Christian Science to Jewish Science written by Ellen M. Umansky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of American Jews were drawn to the teachings of Christian Science. Viewing such attraction with alarm, American Reform Rabbis sought to counter Christian Science's appeal by formulating a Jewish vision of happiness and health. Unlike Christian Science, it acknowledged the benefits of modern medicine yet, sharing the belief in God as the true source of healing, similarly emphasized the power of visualization and affirmative prayer. Though the numbers of those formally affiliated with Jewish would remain small, its emphasis on the connection between mind and body influenced scores of rabbis and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of American Jews, predating contemporary Jewish interest in spiritual healing by more than seventy years. Examining an important and previously unwritten chapter in the story of American Judaism, this book sheds light on religious and social concerns of twentieth-century American Jewry, including ways in which adherence to Jewish Science helped thousands bridge the perceived gap between Judaism and modernity.
Download or read book Jewish Women s Torah Study written by Ilan Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection. The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the second half of the 19th century. As women’s status in general society changed, offering increased legal rights and opportunities for education, a debate on the need to change women’s participation in Torah study emerged. Orthodoxy was faced with the question: which parts, if any, of modernity should be integrated into Halacha? Exemplifying the entire array of Orthodox responses to modernity, this book is a valuable addition to the scholarship of Judaism in the modern era and will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion, Gender Studies and Jewish Studies.
Download or read book Agnon s Tales of the Land of Israel written by Jeffrey Saks and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile,” S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. “But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.” Agnon’s act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon’s Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted. These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon’s Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism’s aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon’s Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide. Contributing authors: Shulamith Z. Berger, Shalom Carmy, Zafrira Cohen Lidovsky, Steven Gine, Hillel Halkin, Avraham Holtz, Alan Mintz, Jeffrey Saks, Moshe Simkovich, Laura Wiseman, and Wendy Zierler
Download or read book The Rebellion of the Daughters written by Rachel Manekin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. Relying on a wealth of archival documents, including court testimonies, letters, diaries, and press reports, Rachel Manekin reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions. Unlike Orthodox Jewish boys, who attended "cheders," traditional schools where only Jewish subjects were taught, Orthodox Jewish girls were sent to Polish primary schools. When the time came for them to marry, many young women rebelled against the marriages arranged by their parents, with some wishing to pursue secondary and university education. After World War I, the crisis of the rebellious daughters in Kraków spurred the introduction of formal religious education for young Orthodox Jewish women in Poland, which later developed into a worldwide educational movement. Manekin chronicles the belated Orthodox response and argues that these educational innovations not only kept Orthodox Jewish women within the fold but also foreclosed their opportunities for higher education. Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Rebellion of the Daughters brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history.
Download or read book The Rabbi s Wife written by Shuly Rubin Schwartz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American Jewish life in this country, but not much about the role that their wives played. The Rabbi’s Wife redresses that imbalance by highlighting the unique contributions of rebbetzins to the development of American Jewry. Tracing the careers of rebbetzins from the beginning of the twentieth century until the present, Shuly Rubin Schwartz chronicles the evolution of the role from a few individual rabbis' wives who emerged as leaders to a cohort who worked together on behalf of American Judaism. The Rabbi’s Wife reveals the ways these women succeeded in both building crucial leadership roles for themselves and becoming an important force in shaping Jewish life in America.
Download or read book Savta Simcha Uncle Nechemya and the Very Strange Stone in the Garden written by Yaffa Ganz and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savta Simcha and her friends in Jerusalem find a mysterious stone with magical powers.
Download or read book Israel and the Post Zionists written by Shlomo Sharan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the dimensions and implications of the anti-Zionists' struggle against Israel as a Jewish nation. In a rebuttal of post-Zionist claims, Zionism's vitality is shown to be pivotal in debates about Jewry's national and cultural existence and the future direction of the Israeli state.
Download or read book Jewish Women in Historical Perspective written by Judith Reesa Baskin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Lexicon of Geological Terms for the Sudan written by J.R. Vail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of lithostratigraphic terms used by geologists in the Sudan. Including 315 rock unit names with location, age, and description. Useful for correlation with adjacent areas of North Africa.
Download or read book Straight from the Heart written by Tehilla Abramov and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of 'The Secret of Jewish Femininity,' a wealth of Torah insights on motherhood. Also contains nutritional and medical information, and practical advice for nursing mothers.
Download or read book Gazetteer of Sudan written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passionate Praying of the Effectual Fervent Prayer written by Owen Johnson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Passionate Praying of the Effectual Fervent Prayer" seeks to discuss the fundamentals but practical and personal aspects of a complete and comprehensive prayer that is the effectual fervent praying of the righteous passionately done, and which ultimately creates the pathway to that personal communion with the Lord God and by which mankind is able to receive all the blessings such as favor, healing, forgiveness of sins, health, wealth, richness of God, wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Lord God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This book is the results of over thirty years of bible study, prayer meetings, prayer breakfasts, prayer convocations, fasting and praying, all night prayer sessions, and among other experiences. This book profoundly studies and identifies the types and formats of a complete and comprehensive prayer, the different challenges of prayer and overcoming these challenges, the importance of the different types of media through which prayers are successfully made, and how to overcome the difficult challenges that we as believers individually and collectively confront on a daily basis through prayer. In essence, "The Passionate Praying of the Effectual Fervent Prayer" reveals the secrets about prayers and their ultimate destination and effects, and the secrets of getting the answers to those prayers all believers have individually and collectively prayed. Owen Johnson, J. D. is also the author of "The Voice of Spiritual Chronicles".
Download or read book Mixing It Up written by Ishmael Reed and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest collection of essays, culled from the pages of the New York Times, Playboy, Counter Punch, and elsewhere, MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed is at his most probing and fearless. Reed tackles subjects ranging from Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence to the way gentrification is causing us to lose Black Harlem; and from the media portrayals of Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant to a profile of legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. The collection also includes his landmark essay in the Baltimore Sun, in which he was the first writer to label Bill Clinton a ''black'' president. In this important and stunning collection, one of America's most forceful and ever-surprising commentators paints a complex portrait of the media and its place in American culture. Publisher: DaCapo Press/Perseus.
Download or read book On Bus Drivers Dreidels and Orange Juice written by Tzvia Ehrlich-Klein and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poignant, funny, and miraculous stories imparts to the reader the flavor of everyday life in Israel, which strike a chord, both happy and sad, in the hearts of all who read it. Available in a handy, Pocketsize format, this book is an ideal companion wherever you may go.
