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There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In "Old Worlds, New Mirrors" Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European,...

This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week.
Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliyah was to have disturbing consequences in the Jewish world three centuries later, interweaving luminaries with the cultural, historical, religious, and philosophical concepts of their day, and demonstrating how cultural agents were inadvertently instrumental in the mid-17th-century...

Der immerwährende Krieg - und wie er enden könnte

Von Generation zu Generation wird der Krieg in Palästina weitergetragen. Nach der jüngsten und schlimmsten Eskalation durch den Terrorangriff der Hamas macht sich Hoffnungslosigkeit breit: Wird das immer so weitergehen? Nein, sagt Moshe Zimmermann, der große liberale Historiker. 

Schonungslos - und nicht ohne Bitterkeit - benennt er zunächst die Schuldigen an der Katastrophe: Da ist die Hamas, die Gewalt als einziges Mittel der Politik sieht und Israel auslöschen will. Da sind aber auch die jüdischen Siedler, die...

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition.

Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on...

Der immerwährende Krieg - und wie er enden könnte

Von Generation zu Generation wird der Krieg in Palästina weitergetragen. Nach der jüngsten und schlimmsten Eskalation durch den Terrorangriff der Hamas macht sich Hoffnungslosigkeit breit: Wird das immer so weitergehen? Nein, sagt Moshe Zimmermann, der große liberale Historiker. 

Schonungslos - und nicht ohne Bitterkeit - benennt er zunächst die Schuldigen an der Katastrophe: Da ist die Hamas, die Gewalt als einziges Mittel der Politik sieht und Israel auslöschen will. Da sind aber auch die jüdischen Siedler,...

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. His down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body...

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. Concealment and Revelation takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe...