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Book SynopsisPart I.- Chapter 1. "Jewish Museums. Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett.- Chapter 2. Sephardic Jews in the US. Henry Green and Ira M. Sheskin.- Chapter 3. Denominational Affiliations of US Jews: What It Means in 2023. Leonard Saxe, Janet Krasner Aronson, and Matthew Brookner.- Chapter 4. American Jews and the Domestic Arena (December 2022 November 2023). Sylvia Barack Fishman.- Chapter 5. American Jews and the International Arena (December 2022 November 2023. Mitchell Bard.- Chapter 6. United States Jewish Population, 2023. Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky.- Chapter 7. Canadian Jewish Population, 2023. Robert Brym.- Chapter 8. World Jewish Population, 2023. Sergio DellaPergola.- Part II.- Chapter 1. Local Jewish Organizations. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 2. Jewish Museums and Holocaust Museums, Memorials, and Monuments. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 3. Jewish Overnight Camps. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 4. National Jewish Organizations. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 5. Jewish Press. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, and Sarah Markowitz.- Chapter 6. Academic Resources. Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, Sarah Markowitz, and Kimberly Soby.- Chapter 7. Transitions: Major Events, Honorees, and Obituaries. Ira M. Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky, Sarah Markowitz, Arno Rosenfeld, and Kimberly Soby.

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Book SynopsisAfter World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "body" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.The Body and being a created being stands in the focus of all the thre major monotheistic faiths. It is not just by the christian idea of man's likeness to God that indicates that the human body is a central object of religious thinking, both culturally and theologically charged. Here, the body stands in the crossfire of terms like "pure" and "unpure", "sacred" and "profane", "male" and "femal". And besides the theological controversies, everyday experiences like sexuality, gender equality and how to dispose of the own body (and that of others) are undoubtly recent and highly contentious discussion points in the debate of a peaceful living together of different religions and cultures.The volume presents the concept of "body" in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the body in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "soul" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.The human soul fascinates not only believers in the three monotheistic faiths. Believing in an immortal entitiy, surpassing body, materia and their temporality and thus seeming to be closer to the creator that the mere body was and remains to be a vividly discussed theme in theological and practical debates. Even our secular, postreligious environment is unable to disengage from the key concept of the soul. Numerous proverbs, undefined concepts and hopes prove this fact. Asking for the soul means asking fundamental questions like life after death and therefor asking for one of the most fundamental and uniting hopes of human beings, be they secular or religious.The volume presents the concept of "soul" in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the soul in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

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Book SynopsisThis work offers a fresh reading of Paul’s appropriation of Abraham in Gal 3:6–29 against the background of Jewish data, especially drawn from the writings of Philo of Alexandria. Philo’s negotiation on Abraham as the model proselyte and the founder of the Jewish nation based on his trust in God's promise relative to the Law of Moses provides a Jewish context for a corresponding debate reflected in Galatians, and suggests that there were Jewish antecedents that came close to Paul’s reasoning in his own time. This volume incorporates a number of new arguments in the context of scholarly discussion of both Galatian 3 and some of the Philonic texts, and demonstrates how the works of Philo can be applied responsibly in New Testament scholarship.

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period.

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