Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
Edited by Rebecca Lynn Winer and Federica Francesconi
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9780814346310
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
156 Pages
This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.
In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurian, focusing on each leader's involvement with and image of America, as well as the impact of America on their lives and careers.
Scholars and students of Jewish-Christian relations and early modern Jewish historical and cultural studies will appreciate the availability of this previously inaccessible text.
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Edited by Michael A. Meyer and David Myers
Introduction by David Myers
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814338599
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2014
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
384 Pages
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.
Originally published in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850–1950 will be welcomed by English-speaking scholars interested in the literature and culture of this period.
Based on unpublished original Persian sources and interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam—"New Muslims."
Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe
by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Translated by Haim Watzman
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9780814339312
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2014
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
288 Pages
On the Margins of a Minority will appeal to scholars of Jewish medieval history as well as readers interested in the growing field of disability studies.
Jacob Ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
by Marjorie Lehman
Price: $52.99
ISBN: 9780814334805
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2011
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
336 Pages
This insightfully researched book will be informative to scholars of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, late-medieval intellectual history and culture, Sephardic history, and the history of the Jewish book as well as to readers interested in the still-popular En Yaaqov.
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, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.
The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Matt Goldish
Foreword by Erika Bourguignon
Introduction by Jospeh Dan
Price: $46.99
ISBN: 9780814330036
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
480 Pages
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.
Scholars and students of Jewish history and immigration studies, and readers interested in Gold Rush history, will enjoy this look at the development of California’s Jewish community.
The main purpose of this book is the description of the modalities of reception of the new sciences, complicated by the traditional reticence toward "alien sciencesfound in many medieval Jewish writers still influential in the early modern period.
Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
by Ephraim Kanarfogel
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9780814325315
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2000
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
280 Pages
"Peering through the Latticesprovides a greater appreciation for these texts and opens up new opportunities for scholarhship in Jewish history and thought.
Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American renewal in the 1970s.
Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian challenges Christians to make the Holocaust a turning point in their thinking and in their relations with Jews.
patai investigates the false messiahs who have appeared throughout Jewish history, the modern Messiah-influenced movements such as reform Judaism and Zionism, and the numerous reasons put forth by the various branches of Judaism as to why the Messiah has not yet appeared.
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