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The Lives of Jewish Things

Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth

Publication Date: December 2024

Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.

For Times Such as These

by Ariana Katz and Jessica Rosenberg

Publication Date: March 2024

This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

by Joel Hecker

Publication Date: September 2023

Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how Kabbalists use the oral cavity and stomach, and even the emotions associated with festive meals, to produce the soul of the mystical saint.

Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah

by Yuval Harari

Translated by Batya Stein

Publication Date: October 2021

Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.

Brothers from Afar

by Ephraim Kanarfogel

Publication Date: December 2020

Brothers from Afar belongs in the library of every scholar of Jewish and medieval studies.

Communings of the Spirit

Edited by Mel Scult

Publication Date: October 2020

Scholars of Judaica and rabbinical studies will value this honest look at the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times.

Prayer & Community

by Riv-Ellen Prell

Publication Date: February 2018

Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.

On Jewish Folklore

by Raphael Patai

Publication Date: February 2018

Patai investigated and recorded are the history and oral traditions of the now-vanished Marrano community of Meshhed, Iran; cultural change among the so-called Jewish Indians of Mexico; beliefs and customs in connection with birth, the rainbow, and the color blue; Jewish variants of the widespread custom of earth-eating; and the...

Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity

Edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers

Introduction by David Myers

Publication Date: October 2014

Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.

Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith

by Michael Walton

Publication Date: October 2012

Scholars of Jewish and Christian history as well as those interested in German history, Hebrew pedagogy, and religious conversion will appreciate this thorough study.

Stories of Joseph

by Marc S. Bernstein

Publication Date: February 2009

Bernstein's rich analysis focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript The Story of Our Master Joseph—a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype (itself largely based on midrashic, Hellenistic, and Near Eastern material) extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, separtism from loved ones,...

Maqam and Liturgy

by Mark L. Kligman

Publication Date: January 2009

Maqam and Liturgy brings the fascinating culture fusion of the Syrian Jews to the attention of a wider audience, including scholars and teachers of Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine

by Yaacov Shavit and Shoshana Sitton

Translated by Chaya Naor

Publication Date: August 2004

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.

Spirit Possession in Judaism

Edited by Matt Goldish

Foreword by Erika Bourguignon

Introduction by Jospeh Dan

Publication Date: January 2003

This juxtaposition of approaches among the essays in this volume, some of which analyze the same texts in different ways, creates a broad foundation on which to contemplate the meaning of spirit possession.