Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Judaism - History

'The State of Israel; Its Friends and Enemies. Prophetic Future'

This is an indispensable work telling us all we need to know on several matters. Discusses various issues succinctly summarizing different schools of thought with their pros and cons.

What are the Wars of Gog and Magog? What will cause them? Which forces will be involved? Who and what is the Messiah and the Messianic Age? Will there be a physical Resurrection of the Dead? How old is the earth? Were there humanoid-type beings before us?

Jewish and non-Jewish scholarship on all issues is quoted and compared. The author...

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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity of major rabbinic figures in these countries. The contents of the writings of these Sephardic rabbis challenge many commonly held views regarding Judaism's...

Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism?

The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are being questioned and deconstructed, allowing for different versions of Jewish history to emerge. For example, a postmodern exploration of the place of women in Talmudic culture can upset portraits of women as powerless and rabbis as closed off to female experience thereby helping to secure a place for women today. Similarly, an analysis...

The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah illuminates the great changes and continuities in Jewish culture, from biblical times to modern Israel.

Though the golden seven-branched menorahs of Moses and of the Jerusalem Temple are artifacts...

Die von Georg Fohrer angeregte Fortsetzung seiner "Geschichte der israelitischen Religion" (1969) durch eine Geschichte der judischen Religion stellte Autor und Verlag vor nicht geringe Probleme. Es handelt sich um den ersten Versuch einer Darstellung der judischen Religionsgeschichte in Gestalt eines solchen Lehrbuches. Die Bewaltigung des umfangreichen Stoffes erwies sich nicht zuletzt darum als schwierig, weil die Auswahl der anzufuhrenden Literaturhinweise nicht zu eng getroffen werden durfte, da ja nicht vorausgesetzt werden konnte, dass jeder Leser Zugang zu den entsprechenden...

First Order: Zeraim / Terumot and Ma'serot ist der vierte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein wichtiges Werk der Judischen Patristik.

Der Band enthalt die grundlegenden Texte uber die Hebe der Priester und den Zehnten der Leviten und Armen. Zusatzlich enthalt er die wichtigsten Gesundheitsregeln des judischen Zeremonialgesetzes, die Regeln judischer Solidaritat und eine Diskussion der (im babylonischen Talmud diskussionslos akzeptierten) Bedingungen, unter denen ein kleiner Anteil unabsichtlich zugefugter nicht koscherer Lebensmittel vernachlassigt werden kann.

In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilation was their best defense, Jews sought to Americanize by shedding distinctive dress, occupations, and religious rituals.

American Jews recognized the benefit and urgency of bridging the divide between Reform and Orthodox Judaism to create a stronger alliance to face the challenges ahead. With...

This is a story of history, tragedy, and heroism that will captivate and move readers of all ages. The author, born in Puitusk (some fifty kilometres from Warsaw), skilfully and honestly tells of the painful dramas in which he was involved in his youth in Poland during World War II. The true story unfolds of two young Jewish men who took Aryan identities, at the time of the Polish uprising and when Warsaw had been abandoned. Severin Gabriel, who was in hiding in Warsaw, and who survived with the aid of his brother and of Lady Wanda and other Polish friends, casts a personal light on his...