Love, Work and Death

Ariel Toaff

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Umbria was an important geographical and political entity in Italy during the late Middle Ages and was always linked to the Papal State. This text con... Lees meer

War, Jews and the New Europe

Mark Levene

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The First World War was a major watershed in modern Jewish history. Out of it came the Balfour Declaration, a first critical step in the creation of t... Lees meer

Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy

Chaim I Waxman

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporaryOrthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. He shows that thedirection... Lees meer

Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction

Daniel J Lasker

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish source... Lees meer

Littman Hasidism Reappraised

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. Inde... Lees meer

Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish

Moshe Rosman

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Moshe Rosman's revolutionary approach has become a cornerstone of Polish Jewish historiography. Challenging conventions, he asserts that the 'marriage... Lees meer

Time and Process in Ancient Judaism

Sacha Stern

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Stern (Jewish studies, U. of London) searched all the ancient Jewish sources, looking for indications that time was linear or cyclical or both, was ab... Lees meer

Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

Elisha Russ-Fishbane

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and ... Lees meer

Insiders and Outsiders

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry examines problems of Jewish cultural and political orientations, associations, and self-identi... Lees meer

Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity

Roni Weinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This sociological reading of the kabbalistic ideas of the early modern period suggests that they gained acceptance because they responded to the needs... Lees meer

Rediscovering Traces of Memory

Jonathan Webber

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but ther... Lees meer

Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• The origins of Judaism’s regional ‘subcultures’ are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than ‘Ashkenaz’ and ‘Sepharad’. Th... Lees meer

Athens in Jerusalem

Yaacov Shavit

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish cult... Lees meer

Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

David Gillis

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. Thr... Lees meer

Mystical Theology and Social Dissent

Byron L Sherwin

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend tha... Lees meer

Collected Essays

Haym Soloveitchik

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Written at different times and for different audiences - some for scholars of rabbinic literature, some for laymen or for scholars not necessarily Jew... Lees meer

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference

David Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It demonstrates how hasidim who... Lees meer

Undercurrents of Jewish Prayer

Jeremy Schonfield

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Traditional Jews encounter the prayer-book--the Siddur--more often in their daily lives than any other text, yet it is mysteriously absent from their ... Lees meer

Perspectives on Maimonides

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Moses Maimonides - philosopher, legalist, communal leader and physician - was the greatest intellectual figure that the Jewish world has known since t... Lees meer

The Jews of Provence and Languedoc

Ben-Shalom

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence--cultural, religious, political, economic, and literary... Lees meer

The Kibbutz Movement: A History, Origins and Growth, 1909-1939 V. 1

Henry Near

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• 'An admirably coherent and clearly written account ... which has long been needed ... sure to serve as the standard text on the subject for years to c... Lees meer

Rethinking European Jewish History

• Paperback | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• National Jewish Book Awards Winner of the Anthologies and Collections Award, 2009. Europe has changed greatly in the last century. Political, social, ... Lees meer

Leadership and Conflict

Marc Saperstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• This masterly collection of essays offers a multifaceted analysis of how Jewish leaders in medieval and early modern times responded to the challenges... Lees meer

Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History

Jane S Gerber

• Hardcover | Engels | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in... Lees meer