Jewish Studies

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Yiddishlands
A Memoir

By David G. Roskies

A renowned scholar looks back on his life and the life of his mother, tracing the Yiddish experience through major historical events of the last century.

Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion

Jonathan M. Brown and Laurence Kutler

A fascinating biography of an extraordinarily charismatic man whose life straddled two distinct Jewish worlds.

After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity

David Ellenson

A well-respected scholar offers a deeply insightful examination of the many issues facing Judaism in the modern age.

“Remember Amalek!”: Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible according to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus

Louis H. Feldman

Looking at the divine annihilation of the Amalekites, as well as other Biblical commandments and instances of destruction.

Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Traces the Jewish discourse on “happiness” from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Sifra, Dibbura de Sinai: Rhetorical Formulae, Literary Structures, and Legal Traditions

Howard L. Apothaker

Presents a detailed study of the rhetorical structures and legal contents of approximately one-tenth of the Midrash Sifra.