Search Results: Judaism and Holocaust Studies from GlobalAcademics

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006. Scholarly text presents the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), the Tosefta (ca. 300 C.E.), and the commentaries that joined them-the Yerushalmi, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400) and the Bavli, and the Talmud of Babylonia (ca. 600)-the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however, is shaped in part by a generic analytical program. In this project, author Jacob Neusner identifies the occurrences of the four intellectual templates and shows, in complete detail, where and how the same problems recur time and again. 297 pgs. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1986. Comprehensive, 9000-item bibliography of English-language materials on the Holocaust. Its scope is much wider than all previous similar publications. It includes an author index, introductory essays, scholarly studies, contemporary newspaper reports, eyewitness testimonies, memoirs, documentaries, and annotations important books. The Edelheits' bibliography is a product of ten years of intensive research and is considered the standard work in the field. 842 pgs. Includes the authors' Supplement Volume I (ISBN 0813308968, Published in 1990) which contains 6,500 new entries, including new sections on significant Holocaust-related novels and short stories; reviews of Holocaust literature, drama, poetry and the arts; and material on the Bitburg controversy. 684 pgs. Supplement Volume II (ISBN 0813314127, Published in 1993) which contains 3,870 new entries, including a new section on Soviet antisemitism and an expanded section on neo-nazism and neo-fascism. 564… Read More

Binghampton, New York: Global Publications, Binghampton University, 2001. Scholarly study examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly. After skillfully revealing these value concepts, Kadushin proceeds to elucidate them in light of the midrashic context under consideration, and then discusses their meanings and significance within the entire rabbinic value complex. These explications, based upon Kadushin’s conceptual approach, clarify the frequently obscure nexus between the biblical citations which initially served as verbal stimuli and the rabbinic comments which appear to be so far removed from them. Furthermore, particularly when analyzing rabbinic texts in which conceptual terms are employed, Kadushin adroitly demonstrates the similarities and differences in meaning and nuance between the distinctive levels of usage. In addition, Kadushin’s notes underscore the organismic… Read More

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. In this scholarly, comprehensive, and highly acclaimed text, Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of works by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies at the heart of modern English literature and society: not as a stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy. 301 pgs. Prior owner's name on upper outer edge. Dustjacket in mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1998. Scholarly interdisciplinary text focuses on the social and geographical marginalization of groups such as Palestinian and Bedouin Arabs, Oriental Jews, and Ethiopian migrants; examining the persistent challenges from local and regional ethnic entities, and presenting new perspectives on the restructuring of contemporary states. 337 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1997. Yehuda Amichai is Israel’s foremost poet, as well as a significant novelist and dramatist. He has received every major Israeli prize for literature, and his poetry has been translated into over twenty languages. He has served as poet-in-residence at major universities across the United States and has been a frequent visitor to the University of Oxford.In this volume, the world’s leading authorities on Amichai explore all the major genres and themes of his work. The result is an important book, a unique and comprehensive scholarly overview of an major twentieth-century literary figure. 171 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a collection and classification of facts meant to provide documentation for the study of how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages, and documented in their canon from the Mishnah, ca. 200 C.E., through the Talmud of Babylonia, a.k.a. the Bavli, ca. 600 C.E. Includes an index of Scripture. 384 pgs. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text presents a detailed one-volume introduction to both Jewish history and religion from its earliest times to the present, and cover many major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible through modern Judaism. Topics include: the Hebrew Bible; the history of Medieval and Soviet Jewery; Jewish history and culture in the Hellenistic period; literature of the Rabbis; Judaism under Roman domination; modern Jewish history and literature; etc. 274 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982. In this scholarly, highly acclaimed text, Dr. Chany defines the awesome normality of man's destructive tendancies and shows how evil is a natural potential at every level of human experience- individual, family, and group. Nevertheless, he argues forcefully that actual destructiveness is not inevitable, that a better understanding of its sources can open the door to effective strategies against violence and genocide. This extraordinary book chronicles the evil we have been and are capable of, yet also justifies a hope for a better future. Contains a major proposal by Dr. Chany for a Genocide Early Warning System which has been commended, among others, by the1985 Whitaker Commission Report to the U.N. Includes a forward by Elie Wiesel. 430 pp. Brand-new in shrinkwrap. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006. Facing a vast corpus of facts, the heirs of the Mishnah adopted analytical templates that transcended details and transformed the Mishnah's collection of topical expositions into a system of law. This was accomplished in the Bavli, the Talmud of Babylonia, which systematized and imposed an orderly program on the numerous subjects treated by the Mishnah. In this book, Neusner systematically defines and classifies four analytical initiatives of the Bavli. 521 pgs.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly two-volume text presents a collection and classification of facts meant to provide documentation for the study of how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages, and documented in their canon from the Mishnah, ca. 200 C.E., through the Talmud of Babylonia, a.k.a. the Bavli, ca. 600 C.E. Part A contains: Mishnah, Tosefta, Tannaite, Midrash-compilations, Yerushalmi and associated Midrash-compilations. Part B contains: the later Midrash-compilations and the Bavli. Includes an index of Scripture. 752 pgs. Very slight horizontal crease on the lower rear cover of Part B. (Part B ISBN: 0761836969). First Edition. Soft Cover. As New/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Jerusalem: Macmillan, 1998. Comprehensive lavishly illustrated text takes you on a dramatic pictorial journey through a century of nation-building, showing how the country has grown and developed since the idea of a modern Jewish State was first conceived. Israel Yesterday and Today shows hundreds of scenes of Israel-in-the-making, with full-color photographs by leading photographers placed next to historic pictures of the same sites. The effect is riveting and magical. You can follow the growth of Tel Aviv from a dusty beachside suburb of ancient Jaffa to a cosmopolitan metropolis; you can trace the development of Jerusalems ancient alleys into modern boulevards; and you can see how rocky pastures became the lush fields and orchards of the countrys kibbutzim. Complementary text offers insightful explanation of the photographs. Israel Yesterday and Today is an eyewitness account of one of the most remarkable transformations ever created by humankind. Full colour photographs by leading photographers.… Read More

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1981. Scholarly text presents a detailed interdisciplinary study of both the general phenomena of assimilation and the particular case of the assimilation experience of the Jewish people. Topics covered include Zionism and assimilation; the radical left and assimilation; Communist pragmatism towards the assimilation of Jews in Eastern Europe; the dilemma of Soviet Jewry; quantitative aspects of Jewish assimilation; etc. 220 pp. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press / Allen & Unwin, 1987. Scholarly text presents a collection of essays dealing with the Jewish communities of Latin America, both as a fragment of the Jewish diaspora and as an element in the economic and social life of the continent. Includes topics covering historical issues; comparative dimensions; adaptation and evolution; culture, identity, and community; Latin American-Jewish writers; the evolution of Latin American-Jewish communities; etc. 338 pgs. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 1999. Comprehensive scholarly text contains a collection of 169 papers presented at the Sixth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies on 9 July 1998 in Toledo, Ohio. Includes a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic studies at the turn of the 20th century by European and other Intercontinental scholars. 701 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar. Heavy Item.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Scholarly text examines the Ottoman background of the Jewish community in Egypt, including the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes as well as in the eyes of Egyptian and Palestinian Jews. Includes appenixes containing two Iberian chronicles, the Nationality Law of 1929, the correspondence of Sanua, and Seder al-Tawhid and Megillat Purim Mitzrayim. 304 pgs. Illustrated with tables and figures. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, England: Oxford University Press, 1969. Classic scholarly text originally published in 1927, deals with the contribution of human thought from Judaism and from the Jewish view of the world. Contains detailed sections covering hellenistic Judaism, Jewish factor in medieval thought, Hebrew scholarship in the Middle Ages among Latin Christians, influence of the Hebrew bible on European languages, the legacy in modern literature, etc. 551 pgs. Frontispiece photo of the Palimpsest of Aquila's Greek Translation of the Old Testament. Illustrated. Stamped on outer edges and copyright pg., pocket remnant on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. Gilt spine.. Corrected Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed study of the problem of the Song of Songs' structure by beginning at the bottom, the microstructure of the Song, rather than at the top. Professor Roberts employs a new type of rhetorical method which defines each of the minimal structural units of the Song by identifying the formal poetic features that mark its opening and closing, coupled with the poetic features that forms within it. 429 pgs. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: KTAV Publishing House/Yeshiva University Press, 1977. Classic scholarly text covers diseases, specific organs in the body, the Jewish physician, the mitzvah of visiting the sick, the relationship of the physician and patient according to Jewish law, the Physician's Prayer attributed to Moses Maimonides, artificial respiration, suicide, sex determination, the therapeutic efficacy of prayer, etc. Includes a glossary of rabbinic authorities. 247 pgs. Small stamp on endpaper and lower title pg. Label removed from spine. Dustjacket in mylar. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Waltham, MA.: Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies/Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, 2004. Detailed text contains a collection of contributed scholarly essays dealing with women and gender issues in Judaism, including Glikl's memoir as historical source; Jewish women's autobiography; memoirs of a partisan from Salonika; a Life in Art; discovering Puah Rakovsky; piety and female aspiration in the memoirs of Pauline Wengeroff and Bella Chagall; etc. 289 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear.. Pictorial Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.