Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in...

What the Rabbis Said examines a relatively unexplored facet of the rich social history of nineteenth-century American Jews. Based on sources that have heretofore been largely neglected, it traces the sermons and other public statements of rabbis, both Traditionalists and Reformers, on a host of matters that engaged the Jewish community before 1900.

Reminding the reader of the complexities and diversity that characterized the religious congregations in nineteenth-century America, Cohen offers insight into the primary concerns of both the religious leaders and the...

In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme -Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.- Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century.

The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals who came...

In dieser Dissertationsschrift wird das Textproblem des deuterokanonischen Buches Tobit neu aufgerollt. Vollstandig liegt die Tobiterzahlung nur in der griechischen Uberlieferung der Septuaginta und in von dieser abhangigen Ubersetzungen wie der Vetus Latina vor, allerdings in teilweise erheblich divergierenden Textformen. Daneben wurden in Qumran die Textfragmente von funf aramaischen und hebraischen Tobit-Schriftrollen gefunden. Ausgehend von diesen Textfragmenten als den altesten Textzeugen des Buches Tobit wird uber einen Vergleich der Textformen versucht, die Frage nach dem Text des...