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In the Footsteps of Orpheus
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A powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet.

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Moses Hess, a fascinating 19th-century German Jewish intellectual figure, was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist. Ken Koltun-Fromm's radical reinterpretation of his writings shows Hess as a Jew struggling with...

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Talmudic culture is often viewed as bound by its traditions. Menachem Fisch maintains that a close reading of talmudic texts frequently reveals their authors as rabbis who, rather than...

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..". a significant and unique contribution to an understanding of contemporary Jewish theology... Goldy's command of modern Christian theologians and his ability to indicate how these thinkers have informed their Jewish students and peers make this an innately compelling work...