Judentum

New American Judaism

Jack Wertheimer

Alienated Wisdom

Giuseppe Veltri

<p>The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the r...

Zionismus und Authentizität

Manja Herrmann

<p>The series <em>European-Jewish Studies</em> reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the ...

Seder Eliyahu

Constanza Cordoni

The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the r...

The Soul of Judaism

Bruce D. Haynes

<p><b>A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States <br></b><br>What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in A...

Wise Men and Their Tales

Wiesel, Elie

In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, f...

Neo-orthodoxe jüdische Belletristik in Deutschland (1859-1888)

Anja Kreienbrink

<p>The series <em>European-Jewish Studies</em> reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the ...

Leviticus

<p>A critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch is one of the most urgent desiderata of Hebrew Bible research. The present volume on Leviticus is the first out of a series of five meant to...

Debating Authority

Human leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible. This holds true not only for the final form of the texts, but also for their literary history. A large range of distributions emerges ...

Jews of Conscience

Marc H. Ellis

Influenced by the Jewish ethical tradition and the dissonance of Jewish life after the Holocaust, Professor Marc H. Ellis has sought to revive the Jewish ethical tradition in the face of the deman...

Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Daniel Reiser

<p>This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in cont...

Jalkut Schimoni zu Samuel

<p></p>Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und o...

Goethe und die Juden - die Juden und Goethe

<p>The series <em>European-Jewish Studies</em> reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the ...

Gesammelte Dramen

<p>This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of s...

Historia judía, religión judía

Israel Shahak

Mantener la memoria

Gabriel Amengual

Portraying the Land

Rehav Rubin

<p>The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11^th to the 20^th c...

Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness

<p>This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians,...

Jewish Body

Konner, Melvin

Part of the Jewish Encounter series A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from "muscle Jews" to nose jobs. Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes th...

Etrog

David Z. Moster

<p>Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world purchase an etrog—a lemon-like fruit—to participate in the holiday ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the ...