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The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the... Læs mere
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Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi - poet, thinker, mystic - for many decades the ""lost genius"" of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into the currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s.
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The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the most tormenting problems of Russian literature in provocative engagements with its major authors, from Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky... Læs mere
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Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume of collected essays brings forth new paradigms in the exploration between the intersection of Judaism’s concern with eating, dignity, food ethics, and animal... Læs mere
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Landmarks Revisited: The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Landmarks... Læs mere
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Maimonides' Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel: Ideology and Rhetoric (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah reached Lunel, France, scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions. Maimonides'... Læs mere
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The Many Faces of Maimonides (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a new reading of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, this book explores how Maimonides' commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalm, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge.
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Miracle Child: The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably,... Læs mere
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The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the... Læs mere
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Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume I): Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land.
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Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume II): Into the International Arena, 1947-1948 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land.
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Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between... Læs mere
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