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Bad Rabbi
And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who...
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance
Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated—culturally, socially, and politically—into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied...
by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining...
The Parable and Its Lesson
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these...
Beyond Expulsion
Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships...
Brides of Christ
Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Brides of Christ invites the modern reader to follow the histories of colonial Mexican nuns inside the cloisters where they pursued a religious vocation or sought shelter from the world. Lavrin provides a complete overview of conventual life, including the early signs of vocation, the decision to...
The Invisible War
Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples—a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native...
by Sari Nusseibeh
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of...
Inventing the Israelite
Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world....
by Warren Treadgold
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became Byzantium from the western Roman Empire, and ends...
by Steven B. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime periods. Individual...
by Thomas Nail
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes—from global...
The Orderly Entrepreneur
Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the same time, Rwanda's post-war government has begun to shrug off international aid as it pursues an...
The Fall of a Sparrow
The Life and Times of Abba Kovner
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918–1987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, "the Jerusalem of Lithuania." Long before the rest...