Explores how members of the ever beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identity during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience.
Deals with the relationship between secularism and religious tradition. Katz demonstrates that the secular option is inherent in... Læs mere
Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this... Læs mere
This groundbreaking book was among the most important of those that analyzed the teachings of Maimonides, represented by his many published works, as a unified whole, thus bringing about a renaissance in the study of this seminal scholar.
Throughout history, Judaism has been under attack by other religions, attacks which strengthened the identification of the group as a... Læs mere
Explores the social and cultural forces at play in Israeli society and their effects on the changing status of women. While delving into... Læs mere
This diverse collection of empirical and conceptual studies illuminates particular aspects of the teaching of... Læs mere
This volume of original essays, by some of Israel’s most remarkable public and academic voices, offers a series of state-of-the... Læs mere
Offers a series of state-of-the art, accessible analyses of Israel’s ever-evolving theatre of statecraft, public debates, and legal and cultural dramas, its deep divisions and – more surprisingly, perhaps – its internal affinities and common denominators.
Soviet/Russian drama of the 1980s and 1990s has been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The playwright Nina Sadur occupies a prominent place in the... Læs mere