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Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era (Lectures from the "Broadcast University" of Israel Army Radio) (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Japan was a party to the Axis Alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. However, it ignored repeated German demands to... Læs mere
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This Was from God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Gellman provides an "old-fashioned" Jewish theology for accepting the contemporary critique of Torah and history. The thesis of the book is that for centuries Divine Providence has been guiding toward a non-literal understanding of the Torah. This was from God.
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Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by... Læs mere
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The Art of Identity and Memory: Toward a Cultural History of the Two World Wars in Lithuania (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving... Læs mere
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Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The book describes the author’s eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.
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Prayer After the Death of God: A Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The book offers a new theory of prayer, based on an analysis of the actual experience of praying individuals rather than on the relationship with God. The thesis is that prayer is a primary phenomenon conveying that humans are praying beings.
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Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of... Læs mere
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Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this study the numerous literary and autobiographical allusions in Nabokov’s novel are annotated and analyzed, which reveals an altogether different love affair the main character had than the narrator wishes the reader to believe.
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Thoughts of a Polish Jew: To Kasieka from Grandpa (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A family story of Polish Jews—lease-holders, bankers, industrialists, politicians, communal leaders, army officers, scholars, and artists—integrated into the national life of the Old Commonwealth, the Habsburg Empire, and the Second Polish Republic.
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A Red Rose in the Dark: Self-Constitution through the Poetic Language of Zelda, Amichai, Kosman, and Adaf (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Following Wittgenstein, this book investigates the dialogic, aesthetic and mystical language-games... Læs mere
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The Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals: Collected Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when viewed... Læs mere
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The Unique Judicial Vision of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk: Selected Discourses in Meshekh Hokhmah and Or Sameah (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Analyzes the exceptional normative impact of R. Meir Simcha Hacohen’s Biblical commentary, Meshekh Hokhmah, and his halakhic commentary, Or Sameah.
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