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Thisvolume addresses the challenges that contemporary developments in morality and ethicspose to the idea of God as a “perfectly good being”: the ideological critiqueof God on moral grounds, and the classic argument that no perfectly good beingexists.
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In 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the... Læs mere
This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent ""Pop Sociologist"" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s.
All twenty-two articles in this volume are based on lectures given at the conference ""The Jews in Italy: Their... Læs mere
Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow's artistic underground... Læs mere
Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages – her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two... Læs mere
This book describes the life of the Jewishpeople in Hadiach, Ukraine, and their suffering under the Nazis, with a Kabbalistic spiritual touch:the Perpetual Flame of the Menorah at... Læs mere
A captivating memoir that bridges the past with the present, as we learn about the author’s grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist... Læs mere
Offers a critical engagement with the thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, one of the most thoughtful and earnest voices to emerge from... Læs mere
Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became... Læs mere