Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - General

The lighthearted title symbolizes the subject of the book, the disparity between economic breakthrough and stagnation, a crucial choice for developing countries. As we near the close of the twentieth century, the so-called New World Order remains undefined and its parameters hazy. Amidst all the uncertainty, one thing appears clear--a great many of the advantages that propelled countries forward during the Cold War decades no longer apply. In a world in which economic power is driven by the harnessing of new technological breakthroughs, cheap labor and abundant raw materials will not...

Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthalt mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der Spatantike bis zur Gegenwart: Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Theologen, Kunstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten, Vertreter des Wirtschaftslebens, die ihre Judenfeindschaft offentlich gemacht haben und damit Antijudaismus oder Antisemitismus forderten. Ebenso werden prominente Opfer wie Alfred Dreyfus, Habib Elghanian, Walther Rathenau, Emil Julius Gumbel vorgestellt und Vorkampfer der Aufklarung und Toleranz wie Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing oder Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, die in der Abwehr von...

Common discourse on Jewish identity in Israel is dominated by the view that Jewish Israelis can, and should, be either religious or secular. Moving away from this conventional framework, this book examines the role of secularism and religion in Jewish society and politics.

With a focus on the 'traditionists' (masortim) who comprise over a third of the Jewish-Israeli population, the author examines issues of religion, tradition and secularism in Israel, giving a fresh approach to the widening theoretical discussion regarding the thesis of secularisation and modernity and...

Volume 18 of The Jewish Law Annual contains six articles, three of which deal with family law. One article tackles the plight of the wife whose husband withholds conjugal relations, and later, the granting of a divorce. The author explores the halakhic feasibility of allowing such a wife to claim damages for infliction of mental distress. Such claims may encourage recalcitrant husbands to consent to divorce. The second article examines the evolution of halakhic thinking on the parent–child relationship, tracing the stages by which its initial patriarchal orientation was...

This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U. Chiswick on the Economics of American Judaism. Filling a major gap in the social-scientific literature, Chiswick's economic perspective complements that of other social scientists and historians. She demonstrates clearly that economic analysis can deepen our understanding of the historical experience of American Jewry and provide insights into its current situation.

The author applies the methodology of modern labor economics to examine how America's unique economic environment in the twentieth...

Mogel's sage advice on parenting young children has struck a chord with thousands of readers and made her one of today's most trusted parenting authorities. Now, in a long-awaited follow-up, Mogel addresses the question she hears most frequently: what to do when those children become teenagers, when their sense of independence and entitlement grows, the pressure to compete and succeed skyrockets, and communication...