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Taylor & Francis The Papon Affair
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Zionism and Revolution in EuropeanJewish Literature Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deconstructing the Bible Abraham ibn Ezras Introduction to the Torah Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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Taylor & Francis Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
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Taylor & Francis Holocaust vs. Popular Culture
Book SynopsisHolocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.The binary is defined in terms of âœincompatibilityâ between the Holocaust and Popular Culture on the one hand and the âœuniversalizationâ of the Holocaust memory through Popular Culture on the other. The book does emphasize the anti-representation argument. Nevertheless, the authors make a case for a productive understanding of âœHolocaust Popular Cultureâ as contributing to the expansion of Holocaust studies as well as cultural studies in the transnational context. The book theorizes Popular Culture in broad terms and highlights the diversity of Holocaust Popular Culture mainly but not exclusively produced in the twenty-first century. This interdisciplinary collection covers a wide variety of Popular Culture genres including language, literature, films, television shows, soap operas, music, dance, sTable of ContentsHolocaust versus Popular Culture: A Critical Introduction Part One: Explicating Incompatibility 1. Popular Fiction, Literary Culture, and Artistic Truth: Thane Rosenbaum’s The Golems of Gotham and Twenty-First Century Holocaust Representation 2. Playing with the Unspeakable: The Holocaust and Videogames 3. Representation, Appropriation, and Popular Culture: Food and the Holocaust in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist 4. Nazi Linguistics and Mass Manipulation: An Analysis of Holocaust Primary Sources vis-à-vis Popular Culture Part Two: Rethinking Universalization 5. Hitler’s Popularity and the Trivialization of the Holocaust in India 6. Decoding Holocaust Narratives in Japanese Pop Culture: Through the Lens of Anne no Nikki (1995) and Persona Non Grata (2015) 7. Holocaust Representations through Popular Music: Ferramonti di Tarsia amidst Documentation, Commemoration and Mystification 8. Holocaust Museums: A Study of the Memory Policies of the USA and Poland 9. Trace and Trauma: Early Holocaust Remembrance in American and Canadian Popular Culture Part Three: In Defence of Popular Culture 10. Mothers, Daughters and the Holocaust: A Study of Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs 11. Superheroes and the Holocaust in American Comics 12. Unearthing the Real in the Magical: Holocaust Memory and Magic Realism in Select Post-Holocaust Fictions 13. "Once-upon-a-very-real-time": Fairy Tales and Holocaust in Jane Yolen’s Novels 14. Retelling the Holocaust with Children: A Pedagogic Study of Stephen King’s Apt Pupil and Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic 15. "Is it safe?": Marathon Man as Holocaust Drama 16. Child’s Play, Fantasy and the Holocaust in Jojo Rabbit and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 17. Incorrectamundo?: Holocaust, Humor, and Anti-Hate Satire in the Works of Brooks and Waititi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.The authors of this volume explore the cross-disciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, while seeking out the resonance of new meanings, to exemplify the uncanny similarities that exist between ancient Rabbinic methods of interpretation and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and methodology, particularly the centrality of the question and the deconstruction of narrative. In doing so, this collaboration addresses the bi-directional influence between, and the relevance of, the Jewish interpretive tradition and psychoanalysis to provide readers with renewed insight into key topics such as Biblical text and midrash, religious traditions, trauma, gender, history, clinical work and the legacies of the Holocaust on psy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Accounting for the Holocaust
Book SynopsisAccounting for the Holocaust: Enabling the Final Solution reveals how accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-like efficiency and devoid of any moral considerations.This largely hidden aspect of the Holocaust will allow a wide range of readers, both academic and across many sectors of the general population, to understand how the systematic murder of more than six million Jews was expedited by accounting practices and the information that these produced by allowing the humanity of those killed to be denied when they became mere numbers in a process. Readers will gain a new understanding of how the enactment of the scale of the Holocaust was made possible by the way in which accounting practices as technologies of death were used to reduce Jews to a life without value. The numerical calculations, techniques, and reports that constitute accounting practices allowed the s
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms Jewish and culture are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.Table of ContentsPart 1: Defining Terms: Disciplinary Perspectives 1. Anthropology, Misha Klein 2. Music, Judah M. Cohen 3. Literary Studies, Marc Caplan 4. Sociology, Ben Gidley 5. Religious Studies, Andrea Lieber 6. History, Klaus Hödl 7. Art History, Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver 8. Film, Television, and New Media Studies, Nathan Abrams Part 2: Theorizing Contemporary Jewish Cultures 9. Power, Michael Rothberg 10. Textuality, Devorah Baum 11. Religious/Secular, Naomi Seidman 12. Memory, Nils Roemer 13. Bodies, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 14. Spaces, Barbara E. Mann 15. Networks, Laurence Roth Part 3: Case Studies in Contemporary Jewish Cultures 16. "Jewface" and "Jewfaçade" in Poland, Spain, and Birobidzhan, S.I. Salamensky 17. Television Blackface: Jews, Race and Comedy in the UK and Australia, Jon Stratton 18. Mizrahi/Arab/Israeli/Queer: The Cultural Politics of Dana International, Ted Swedenburg 19. Jewish News Making: Imagining Audiences in the Turkish Public Sphere, Marcy Brink-Danan 20. The Idea of Yiddish: Re-globalizing North American Jewish Culture, Amelia Glaser 21. Yiddish and Multilingual Urban Space in Montreal, Sherry Simon 22. Pop, Piety, and Modernity: The Changing Spaces of Orthodox Culture, Abigail Wood 23. Seeing and Being in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Dress, Jonathan S. Marion 24. Life Drawing: Autobiography, Comics, Jewish Women, Sarah Lightman 25. Playing with History: Jewish Subjectivity in Contemporary Lens Based Art, Rachel Garfield 26. Scoreboard: Sports and American Jewish Identities, David J. Leonard 27. Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative, Yulia Egorova 28. Jewish Spirituality and Late Capitalism, Ayala Fader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Journey of Deacon Bodo from the Rhine to the
Book SynopsisThe story of Bodo begins in the ninth century around the time of the death of Charlemagne in 814. It centres on a young Aleman aristocrat and his conversion to Judaism in 838, followed by his flight to the Muslim world of Al-Andalus. His apostasy constitutes an arresting footnote in the history of the Carolingian period, his change of faith viewed as a shocking episode attributed by some to an overly lax policy towards Judaism and its powerful merchants. Another factor could be ascribed to the study of Judaism and its links with Christianity, which was a feature of the time.Bodo moved from a monastery on the Rhine, where he went as a small boy, to the imperial court, where he was now a gifted young scholar groomed for a top position. His unexpected abandonment of Christianity challenged his background and learning, and this was seen as a rebuke of the court network to which he belonged. Bodo left behind a growing conflict over succession between the emperor, Louis the PiTrade Review‘Scholars interested in the nature of conversion in the early Middle Ages will find this book stimulating’ - Ruth Mazo Karras, Reading Religion'This erudite and engaging reconstruction of the life of Bodo/Eleazar situates its elusive protagonist at the intersection of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worlds in flux, providing a sweeping account of the political and religious transformations of the ninth and tenth centuries and shedding new light on the meanings of inter-religious conversion' - Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey'This is a nuanced and well-written study of Bodo/Eleazar, a ninth-century Christian convert to Judaism. As the first book dedicated to him and his journey from the Carolingian empire to the caliphate of Cordoba, it will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religious history, literature, and Jewish-Christian relations. Riess draws on a wide array of evidence, including archival documents, poetry, letters, and contemporary polemics to paint a fine-grained portrait of Bodo/Eleazar’s life and times. The richness of the historical account and attentive reading of relevant sources make this a valuable new study of an extraordinary yet overlooked figure' - Ryan Szpiech, University of MichiganTable of ContentsList of maps and plates; Acknowledgements; Permissions; List of abbreviations; Chronology of events; Overture; 1 God’s gift; 2 Father and sons; 3 The Messiah who never was; 4 What the emir saw; 5 Córdoba relics and the archbishop’s letter; 6 The Talmud and the Academy; 7 The answer of Maimonides and Judah Halevi; 8 Afterlives; Coda; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethical Monotheism
Book SynopsisThe term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism's tumultuous transition into the modern era. The term emerged in the context of culture-wars concerning the question of whether or not Jews could or should become emancipated citizens of modern European states. It appeared in arguments whether or not Judaism could be considered a Religion of Reasona symbolic, motivational representation of a universal morality, and in debates about whether or not Judaism could or should reform itself into a Religion of Reason. This book is both a decisive departure from such discussions and an attempt to add a further, post-modern, statement to their ongoing development. As departure, it refuses to take for granted a philosophical conception of Religion of Reason as the standard for Ethical Monotheism according to which Judaism was to be evaluated or reformed. As continuation, the book undertakes a phenomenology of Jewish modes of ethical religiosity that allowTable of ContentsIntroduction: Holistic Study of Judaism 1. The Tree of Knowledge: Limits of God’s Power Over Chaos 2. Afflictions of Love: Rabbinic Moral Psychology 3. Cosmological Halakha: Maimonides’s Ethico-Theology 4. Theosphic Torah: A Kabbalist Theory of Justice 5. Before the Law: Buber and Levinas - Totality vs Transcendence 6. Concluding Reflections Postscript: Can Judaism Become Archaic? Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible
Book SynopsisPlato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin takes up his theory that the Pentateuch was written around 270 BCE using Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria, and applies this to an examination of the biblical law codes. A striking number of legal parallels are found between the Pentateuch and Athenian laws, and specifically with those found in Plato's Laws of ca. 350 BCE. Constitutional features in biblical law, Athenian law, and Plato's Laws also contain close correspondences. Several genres of biblical law, including the Decalogue, are shown to have striking parallels with Greek legal collections, and the synthesis of narrative and legal content is shown to be compatible with Greek literatTrade Review"In this book, Russell E. Gmirkin has produced a brilliant demonstration of the Hebrew Bible’s dependence on Plato’s Laws, with a focus on the Pentateuch. The demonstration is remarkably clear and convincing, and I am confidant that the theory proposed will be discussed favourably among biblical scholars, and also among classical and philosophical scholars."- Philippe Wajdenbaum, previously Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Belgium "I find this a provocative, stimulating study. This is a significant and exciting contribution to the growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the influence of Greek culture on the Hebrew Bible. It should be of interest to a number of audiences, those interested in the Hebrew Bible, classicists, comparatists, philosophers and political scientists." - Bruce Louden, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA"Gmirkin's book is a richly detailed (form and motif), historical comparison of Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Pentateuchal law collections that comes as a welcome addition to his 2006 work Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus." - Journal of Theological Studies"... [a] very interesting and well documented study" - Étienne Nodet, French Biblical and Archeological School of Jerusalem, Israel, Revue Biblique, 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Athenian and Pentateuchal Legal InstitutionsChapter 3: Biblical, Ancient Near Eastern, and Greek LawsChapter 4: Greek and Ancient Near Eastern Law CollectionsChapter 5: Greek and Biblical Legal NarrativesChapter 6: The Creation of the Hebrew BibleIndex of ReferencesIndex of Authors
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy Cambridge Companions to Religion
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Cambridge University Press Temple Qumran A Comparative Study in the Temple Symbolism of the Qumran Texts and the New Testament 1 Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Israel in the Books of Chronicles
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Inscriptions of GraecoRoman Egypt
Book SynopsisThis book collects all known Jewish inscriptions in Egypt between the third century BC and the sixth century AD.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Inscriptions; Appendix 1: inscriptions not considered to be Jewish; Appendix 2: inscriptions from outside Egypt; Appendix 3: Jewish names in Pagan inscriptions; Indexes to the inscriptions of Egypt; Indexes to the inscriptions of Cyrenaica; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Concordance with CIJ and CPJ; Plates.
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Cambridge University Press The Election of Israel
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Cambridge University Press Ethnicity Religion and Class in Israeli Society
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Cambridge University Press The Three Crowns
Book SynopsisThe Jewish national revival of our times has stimulated scholarly interest in the historical origins and manifestations of Jewry's distinctive traditions of constitutional thought and political action. This study is a contribution to that enquiry.Trade Review"A very illuminating historical account of the ways in which gender has played a central role in Iranian politics. The processes of veiling, unveiling and reveiling provide a rich background around which much more is analyzed –from the efforts to control women’s sexuality, to factors affecting women’s labor force participation, to the active and important role played by women’s agency at many levels. Sedghi has accumulated an enormous amount of information that documents Iran’s development path and the historical, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped women’s lives, gender dynamics and gender politics throughout the twentieth century and up to the present. The book is likely to become a key text for anyone interested not only in Iran and the Muslim world, but also in the wider issues of gender and development and of feminist politics." -Lourdes Benería, Cornell University"It is impossible to imagine more timely circumstances for the publication of Hamideh Sedghi’s groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Iranian women’s studies. Predicated on an illustrious and unparalleled record of solid scholarship, Hamideh Sedghi's Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling is a comprehensive study of the vicissitude of the status of women in modern Iran from the Qajar period in the nineteenth century to the Islamic Republic in the twenty-first century. At a time that a lucrative and obscene genre of women’s mémoire has hijacked and abused the legitimate cause of Iranian women’s struggles for an illegitimate justification of global warmongering, Hamideh Sedghi’s impeccable scholarship, judicious insights, and caring intellect sets the record straight and paves the way for a renewed commitment to the just and noble cause of women’s liberation movements across the globe. One reads page after page of Hamideh Sedghi’s learned book with a sigh of relief that against the grain of a treacherous time, the record and defense of women’s struggles for freedom, justice, and equality are still in very capable and caring hands." -Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University"Highlighting the centrality of gender as a crucial category for understanding politics in Iran deftly, Sedghi’s ground breaking book achieves multiple tasks: that in post-revolutionary Iran women are active agents of their own destiny and that they engage purposefully with the state, challenging its gender policies. She weaves in a theoretically and empirically sound framework for understanding the mutually constitutive relationship between the state’s desire to controlling women’s labor and sexuality in order to forge legitimacy and consolidate power, and women’s resistance to articulate their own drives and objectives. Sedghi sheds light on the changing structure and function of veiling for women by taking a historical and comparative perspective within Iran, and thus challenging the Orientalist myth of oppressed and victimized women in the Muslim world. This book is a must read for every interested person in women and politics in Iran, in the Middle East and in the Muslim world." -Shahla Haeri, Boston University"Hamideh Sedghi provides a detailed, thorough investigation of gender and politics dynamics in Iran throughout the last three political periods – Qajar, Pahlavi, and Islamic Republic. Sedghi persuasively demonstrates that for each regime, women and control over defining women and their sexuality were significant in consolidating and presenting political power and identity. Particularly during the Pahlavi period and the Islamic Republic of Iran, women, their dress, and their place in society became a main focus in the struggle over power between the clergy and secularizing powers. Sedghi points out, however that the ability of these two governments to use women to their own ends has been limited and compromised by women’s resistance and agency – which have also affected political developments and the evolving character of Iranian society." -Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University"A dynamic and provocative account about the ways in which the veil in Iran has been appropriated by the state to further its domestic and international goals. Rich in detail and using a historical approach, this persuasive book enhances our understanding about gender politics in modern day Iran." -Amaney Jamal, Princeton University"Animated by a deep love of country and family - including the strong women that were her grandmother, Mother, and sisters - Hamideh Sedghi enables us to understand the oppression and the stirring willingness to fight for justice of women in three stages of Iran’s political and economic development....Vivid portraits, sometimes in a few lines, sometimes in several pages, of courageous Iranian women who dared to confront authority, enliven and illuminate a narrative that has broad theoretical significance for understanding what happens to women everywhere....No study of Iran gives us a better picture of Iranian women in all of their complexity - whether pro-regime or anti-establishment, urban or rural, religious or secular - and in all of their dimensions of class, philosophy, and political alliances than does this landmark volume." -Irving Leonard Markovitz, Queens College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York"Through the lens of the veil Hamideh Sedghi produces a stunning account of the multiple positionings of women in a complex history. The veil functions as an instrument making legible a century long battle between women and the state in Iran. The depth of knowledge and the original research the author brings to the subject makes this study a window into a foundational process, one not confined to Iran or to the veil." -Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages"This book demonstrates that achieving a complex understanding of women’s social and political roles is integral to comprehending a country’s political and economic systems. It therefore provides both an essential lesson for political analysts in general and much needed insights into Iran’s specificities, not least the prominent place women have had in its modern history." -Anne Showstack Sassoon, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The concept of the three ketarim; Part 1. Versions of the Past: Visions of the Future: 2. Institutions and their instruments; 3. History as propaganda: the rabbinic version; 4. Other positions, other priorities; Part II. From Theory to Practice: the Struggle for Supremacy: 5. The first phase (c.135 BCE–c.100 CE); 6. Rabbis and priests (c.100 CE–c.300 CE); 7. Rabbis and appointed rulers (c.100 CE–c.400 CE); Part III. Ensuring Hegemony: 8. The institutionalisation of rabbinic authority; 9. Patterns of succession and pageants of installation; Afterword: a symbol and its resonance; Bibliography, Index.
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Cambridge University Press Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
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Cambridge University Press Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz
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Cambridge University Press Religion and the Individual
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Cambridge University Press Structure and Form in the Babylonian Talmud
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Cambridge University Press Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity
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Cambridge University Press Natural Law in Judaism
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Cambridge University Press Seven Jewish Cultures
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Cambridge University Press The Midrashic Process
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Cambridge University Press Revelation and the God of Israel
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Cambridge University Press Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis illustrated 2002 introduction to Hebrew manuscript culture encompasses all aspects of Hebrew manuscripts - textual, codicological and palaeographical - combining different disciplines to give an all-embracing view of the subject. A description of the history of texts in Hebrew reveals the range and variety of texts - many of which have never been printed.Trade Review'From the mundane to the sublime - there is something for everyone … in these well-illustrated pages … an elegantly produced and superb introduction to the study of Hebrew manuscripts, their scribes, and their contents that will enlighten students and scholars alike … a book written by a master of the material with a sensitive eye and a sharp reed … a tribute to the book making craft and Cambridge University Press should be praised for its aesthetic production.' The Jewish Studies Newsletter'Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages covers all aspects of the subject.' Geoffrey Khan, The Times Literary Supplement'Any medievalist will find it well worth reading … If widely read in medieval studies circles, this book will contribute to a lessening of the marginality of Jews to the study of medieval culture as a whole.' Ira Robinson, Bryn Mawr Review'Sirat's work is clear and direct, combining a fresh, approachable body-text with full scholarly footnotes … an elegant, eloquent key text in this as yet under-explored field.' Jewish Culture and History'Thanks to Sirat's profound erudition and rich experience in dealing with Hebrew manuscripts, her new book offers a treasury of information … this comprehensive introduction and useful manual is highly recommended.' European Association for Jewish Studies'… an authoritative introduction … we are constantly reminded throughout this book of the many common characteristics shared by Hebrew book production and those of the surrounding culture, be this Muslim or Christian European. This book therefore has an application wider than an introduction to only Hebrew manuscripts. The book is beautifully produced … We congratulate Cambridge University Press on this handsome book. CUP has justly acquired a fine reputation for Hebrew bibliographical studies, being the publisher of the prestige series University of Cambridge Oriental Publications …'. Novum Testamentum'C. Sirat's Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages is a long-awaited English introduction to the study of Medieval manuscripts in Hebrew script … a mature and thoroughly researched account of the unique cultural and intellectual enterprise of manuscript making, illustrated by highly relevant and striking examples of individual books and scribes from different periods and parts of the Medieval world … Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages is an important, full and fascinating introduction to the study of Hebrew book-making in the Middle Ages, and it can be recommended to students, scholars and all those interested in Hebrew manuscripts, as well as in Jewish literature and intellectual history in general.' Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Texts: 1. Before the Middle Ages; 2. The Middle Ages; Part II. Books: 3. Codicology; 4. Writing: calligraphic and personal subjects; 5. The scribe; Appendix. Abbreviations, acrostics and the meaning of the Hebrew letters; Part III. The History of Books and Texts: 6. The life and death of manuscripts; 7. Libraries; 8. Questions of method: codicology and palaeography; 9. Texts, copies and text-editions; 10. Judgement on readings and the edition of texts; Part IV. Some Manuscripts: 11. Ten manuscripts: pictures and detailed descriptions.
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Cambridge University Press The Targums and Rabbinic Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Bible
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Cambridge University Press After Tragedy and Triumph
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Cambridge University Press Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism
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Cambridge University Press The Legend of the Septuagint
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Cambridge University Press Yiddish
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Cambridge University Press Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
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Cambridge University Press A Genealogy of Evil
Book SynopsisBased on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the Nazis to the Muslim Brotherhood to the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Sudan, the Iranian Islamic Republic, and other groups with an anti-Semitic worldview. Based on his close reading of numerous Jihadist texts, Patterson critiques their antisemitic teachings and affirms the importance of Jewish teaching, concluding that humanity needs the very Jewish teaching and testimony that the Jihadists advocate destroying.Trade Review'In A Genealogy of Evil, David Patterson examines the texts of key contributors to the twentieth-century Islamist tradition, including Abdul Al'a Maududi, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hassan al-Banna, and Sayyid Qutb, as well their successors in recent decades, and probes the influence, confluence, and parallels between their views and National Socialism. He offers readers an effective synthesis of the growing historical and social science writing about Islamism while adding a distinctive interpretation rooted in his understanding of theology. His discussions of martyrdom and attitudes toward death provide important conceptual clarification about similarities as well as differences between Nazism and Islamic Jihadism. Much research remains to be done on these issues. Patterson's work should serve as an important source in present and future debates and discussions.' Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park'Patterson's extensive inquiry into the origins and spread of Islamic jihad ought to be wide[ly] read … [He] ought to be congratulated for his thorough research and well-written narrative.' The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsIntroduction: the essence of the Jihadist evil; 1. Nazi ideology and Jihadist echoes; 2. Modern Jihadist ideological foundations; 3. The Nazi seed in Islamic soil; 4. The evil spreads: the Muslim Brotherhood; 5. Jihadist brothers: the Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas; 6. 'Religious' offshoots: the Islamic revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda; 7. 'Secular' offshoots: the Baath Party and the PLO; 8. Concluding thoughts: humanity's need for Israel.
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Cambridge University Press The Jew in the Medieval Book English Antisemitisms 1350 1500 60 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 60
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the Jewish image in the period following the Jews' expulsion from England in 1290. The texts are analysed in their manuscript and print contexts in order to show local responses and changing meanings. This important work opens up fresh texts, sources and approaches for understanding medieval anti-semitism and shows how anti-semitic stereotypes came to be such potent images which would endure far beyond the Middle Ages.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… a tremendous book … meticulously researched and lucidly composed …' Studies in the Age of ChaucerReview of the hardback: '… outstanding … nuanced and historically grounded … [offering] a contextualized and scholarly approach to the subject.' The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: '… an important contribution …' Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryReview of the hardback: '… wide-ranging … subtle … valuable.' The Year's Work in English StudiesReview of the hardback: 'Bale ably combines capacious palaeographical study, insightful multidisciplinary readings, and fully documented and beautifully written prose. … This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read.' Medium AevumReview of the hardback: 'The Jew in the Medieval Book is an outstanding contribution … Bale is fluent in the latest theoretical innovations and very much engaged with confronting the ugly role that antisemitism continues to play on the world stage. What is so impressive about this volume is the way that Bale manages to weave this theoretical sophistication together with his smart and learned understandings of these medieval objects … This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval representations of Jews, but its deep engagement with history and with manuscript culture should make this book important to many other scholars as well … I strongly recommend it to anyone with interests in medieval spirituality, manuscript studies, and questions of gender and sexuality.' SpeculumReview of the hardback: 'Bale's research, detailing the representation of the Jew in the words and images of medieval manuscripts, simultaneously marks a particularly necessary intervention into, and departure from the established conversation about the Jew in medieval England. … This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read …' Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of DaytonReview of the hardback: '… offers new and insightful analyses of the Jew in the medieval book …' Anglia Newspaper for English PhilologyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgement; Conventions; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. History: time, nationhood and the Jew of Tewkesbury; 3. Miracle: shifting definitions in 'The miracle of the boy singer'; 4. Cult: the resurrections of Robert of Bury; 5. Passion: the Arma Christi in medieval culture; Appendix 1: Versions of 'The miracle of the boy singer'; Appendix 2: John Lydgate, 'Praier to St Robert'; Appendix 3: Vernacular English Arma Christi image-text rolls and codices; Appendix 4: Verses on the Arma Christi; Notes; Bibliographies; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Genizah Collections Their Contents and Significance 1 Cambridge University Library Genizah Series Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 2645
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Cambridge University Press The Visual Culture of Chabad
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Cambridge University Press Plato and the Talmud
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Cambridge University Press Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Cambridge University Press American Jewry
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Judaism
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