Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Jewish Studies

"Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens is an invaluable resource
for teachers, scholars, and laypeople wishing to experience at close range a rich variety of
approaches to the study and teaching of the Talmud, Judaism's foundational text. Jane Kanarek
and Marjorie Lehman have gathered together an impressive group of distinguished scholars
and master pedagogues who invite readers inside their classrooms. Readers can peer over their
shoulders and observe their teaching methods fi rst hand. Each chapter is a delight to read...

Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly.

Some authorities portrayed the afterlife as an endless round of feasting and drinking of chazerie that would put the fanciest Las Vegas buffets to shame. There were visionaries who mapped out otherworldly climes populated by monstrous creatures. Others, decidedly more staid, saw the world to come as a location where...

Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions-gendered, ethnic, class-based, geographic marginalization. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a -concrete box, - which unlike the -glass ceiling- of the liberal feminist discourse, is...

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk. Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, appearing here for the first time, it offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munk's life and work. Munk, who emigrated from his native Glogau to Paris to pursue his studies, was to exert a major influence on the development of Islamic and Jewish studies in both France and Germany, giving a vital impetus to the debate over...

JUBILEE SUMMER, JUNE 1887. Britain is deep in lavish celebration of Empire. That same month, in the East End of London a quiet young man, recently arrived from Warsaw, is accused of murdering an Angel. Two writers at the start of their career - Israel Zangwill, a brilliant Anglo-Jewish novelist, and Margaret Harkness, a fiery social reformer - are brought together in a remarkable encounter as they investigate a crime that would change their lives and their vision of themselves, England and the world.

THE STRANGE CASE OF ISRAEL LIPSKI is a brilliant study of London's East End...