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Paperback. Judaism in Transition places American Judaism in its economic context and shows how the decisions of individual Jews, as they respond to economic incentives, have shaped a community that is characterized by innovative ways of observing ancient religious traditions. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776059
ISBN
9780804776059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. A new translation and literary interpretation of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774970
ISBN
9780804774970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768702
ISBN
9780804768702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759137
ISBN
9780804759137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Paperback. This text offers a new perspective on rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 344 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3D; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745536
ISBN
9780804745536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. This is a poineering study of the 19th centruy Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of its most controversial and influential leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life are echoed by the contradictory and highly critical opinions of his personal charachter and leadership. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; HBG; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804744683
ISBN
9780804744683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Hardback. This work examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804738309
ISBN
9780804738309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Hardback. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804736176
ISBN
9780804736176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

Hardback. This title systematically analyzes all sources referring to Elisha ben Abuya, and in so doing, confronts the difficulties of deriving reliable information from rabbinic materials and of writing the biography of a rabbinic hero. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 727.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733878
ISBN
9780804733878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Paperback. This work weaves its interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular rabbinic text "Lamentations Rabbah". The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature. Translator(s): Stein, Batya. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732277
ISBN
9780804732277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. This work weaves its interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular rabbinic text "Lamentations Rabbah". The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature. Translator(s): Stein, Batya. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732260
ISBN
9780804732260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.96

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691627700
ISBN
9780691627700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 634 pages, 12 halftones, 16 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRJX; HRQX2; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 857.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
634
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603124
ISBN
9780691603124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Hardback. The studies in this book examine a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, martyrological laments written over the 12th and 13th centuries for the victims of judicial violence in northern France. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; 3H; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691090535
ISBN
9780691090535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.44

Hardback. Argues that the impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century has affected the future shape of religious thought. This book shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HRJ; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780691059419
ISBN
9780691059419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Paperback. Provides a view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, this book testifies to the enormous variety of practices that characterized Judaism between 600 and 1800 CE. Editor(s): Fine, Lawrence. Series: Princeton Readings in Religions. Num Pages: 560 pages, 10 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HRJ; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 35. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691057873
ISBN
9780691057873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.45
€ 46.96

Paperback. Investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. This book reveals how, and why, medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture. Num Pages: 461 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; HRCM; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 884.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
461
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520218703
ISBN
9780520218703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.06

Paperback. Offers contributions to the history of antisemitism. Of interest to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies, this work summarizes the historical developments, indicating when and where antisemitism emerged. It criticizes theories about prejudice and racism and develops theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520061439
ISBN
9780520061439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

paperback. This groundbreaking new Norton Anthology enables the six major, living, international world religions to speak to students in their own words. Editor(s): Biale, David. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
800
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393912586
ISBN
9780393912586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG3; HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 213 x 28. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300026023
ISBN
9780300026023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Reviews Jewish culture and history. This book examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life - from childhood, adolescence, adulthood, to the advanced years, it traces the origin and development of specific rites. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984414
ISBN
9780295984414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Scholar Lee I. Levine examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander's conquest to the Byzantine era. 28 illustrations. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; HDD; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295976822
ISBN
9780295976822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. This colourful examination of "translated" television characters in Italy looks at the implications for transnational intersections of commerce and culture. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HRJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292737556
ISBN
9780292737556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. An anthology of international voices, exploring provocative images of Muslim women from around the globe in literature, visual arts, journalism, and other media Editor(s): Shirazi, Faegheh. Num Pages: 319 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; HRJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292728844
ISBN
9780292728844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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