Three handwritten lines found inside a 1925 first edition of Ivan Bunin's Mitya’s Love led to a cache of letters, published here for the first time,... Læs mere
A bilingual collection of essays that celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn's contribution to the study of modern and contemporary... Læs mere
An ambitious work that searches for a usable past to generate a contemporary theology of creation and philosophy of Jewish law. How we behave (law) must, meaningfully and coherently, map on to our understanding of God and the world (a theology of creation).
Yuri Lotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet... Læs mere
Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the 1980s. This volume is a... Læs mere
Explroes the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world,... Læs mere
This book analyzes the ways in which literaryworks and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body... Læs mere
Tiberian Hasidism provides a model of an intensive contemplative life that is particularly appealing to... Læs mere
Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Krawcowicz offers a novel interpretation of Jewish responses to the Holocaust that focuses on the role of metahistorical paradigms employed to employ historical events.
This study spans, in a single monograph, the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938). It offers essential keys to understanding his thought, while also tracing the historical itinerary and influence of his work both in Russia and in Europe.
The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians ""do"" history, and the diverse ways in which music... Læs mere
Written in 1933 by a Polish reporter travelling across Mandate Palestine, this book is an eye-witness account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of... Læs mere