Examines the major figures, movements and manifestos of the modernist period in Russia. Scholarly attention is given to literature,... Læs mere
Examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.
A modern interpretation of the Bible as narrative and law that can reopen the dialogue of contemporary Jews... Læs mere
Helps us grasp the potential for seeing radically fresh messages in this oldest of books, the Bible. This book also helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensions.
This classic work by early-20th-century Jewish humanist and scholar Isaac Heinemann surveys the crucial phases of... Læs mere
Classical Judaism imagined the people Israel's situation in three aspects to be unique among the nations of the earth. This work shows that in its... Læs mere
Intends to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This book deals with love, not its repression.
Examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time. The essays present the... Læs mere
This is an edited collection of articles by journalist Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon. Between 1933-1950 Bar-Adon covered life in Jewish towns and kibbutzim, as... Læs mere
Brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century. It includes the prose of officially recognised... Læs mere
Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair.