By Jeremy Stolow
ISBN-10: 0520264258
ISBN-13: 9780520264250
Orthodox through Design, a groundbreaking exploration of faith and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s greatest Orthodox Jewish publishing condominium, purveyor of handsomely designed versions of sacred texts and a big cultural strength in modern Jewish public lifestyles. within the first in-depth learn of the ArtScroll revolution, Jeremy Stolow strains the ubiquity of ArtScroll books in neighborhood retail markets, synagogues, libraries, and the lives of standard clients. Synthesizing box study performed in 3 neighborhood Jewish scenes the place ArtScroll books have had an impactToronto, London, and New Yorkalong with shut readings of key ArtScroll texts, promotional fabrics, and the Jewish blogosphere, he exhibits how using those books displays a broader cultural shift within the authority and public impression of Orthodox Judaism. twiddling with the idea that of layout, Stolow’s examine additionally outlines a clean theoretical method of print tradition and illuminates how evolving applied sciences, fabric kinds, and types of mediated conversation give a contribution to new styles of spiritual id, perform, and power.
Finalist for the nationwide Jewish booklet Award within the scholarship classification, Jewish ebook Council
Finalist for the nationwide Jewish booklet Award within the scholarship classification, Jewish ebook Council
By Jess Olson
ISBN-10: 0804778736
ISBN-13: 9780804778732
This booklet explores the lifestyles and considered probably the most very important yet least recognized figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum. Now remembered in most cases for his coinage of the be aware "Zionism," Birnbaum used to be a towering determine in early Jewish nationalism. as a result of his strange highbrow trajectory, notwithstanding, he has been written out of Jewish heritage. in the midst of his existence, within the intensity of worldwide battle I, Birnbaum left his venerable place as a mundane Jewish nationalist for spiritual Orthodoxy, an unparalleled choice in his time. To the dismay of his former colleagues, he followed a lifetime of strict religiosity and was once embraced as a pace-setter within the younger, transforming into global of Orthodox political activism within the interwar interval, essentially the most winning and robust events in interwar critical and japanese Europe. Jess Olson brings to gentle records from some of the most whole files of Jewish nationalism, the Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum kinfolk records, together with fabrics formerly unknown within the research of Zionism, Yiddish-based Jewish nationalism, and the heritage of Orthodoxy. This publication is a crucial meditation at the complexities of Jewish political and highbrow existence within the such a lot tumultuous interval of ecu Jewish historical past, in particular of the interaction of nationwide, political, and non secular identification within the lifetime of considered one of its such a lot attention-grabbing figures.
By Marcel Stoetzler
ISBN-10: 0803248644
ISBN-13: 9780803248649
ISBN-10: 0803266707
ISBN-13: 9780803266704
ISBN-10: 0803266715
ISBN-13: 9780803266711
ISBN-10: 0803266723
ISBN-13: 9780803266728
ISBN-10: 1306799759
ISBN-13: 9781306799751
Modern antisemitism and the trendy self-discipline of sociology not just emerged within the comparable interval, but—antagonism and hostility among the 2 discourses notwithstanding—also overlapped and complemented one another. Sociology emerged in a society the place modernization used to be usually perceived as destroying cohesion and “social cohesion.” Antisemitism was once likewise a reaction to the fashionable age, delivering in its vilifications of “the Jew” a proof of society’s deficiencies and crises.
Antisemitism and the structure of Sociology is a suite of essays delivering a comparative research of contemporary antisemitism and the increase of sociology. This quantity addresses 3 key parts: the robust impression of writers of Jewish historical past and the emerging tide of antisemitism at the formation of sociology; the position of antisemitism within the old improvement of sociology via its therapy by way of prime figures within the box, corresponding to Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Theodor W. Adorno; and the discipline’s improvement within the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. jointly the essays supply a clean viewpoint at the historical past of sociology and the function that antisemitism, Jews, fascism, and the Holocaust performed in shaping sleek social theory.
By Scott Boltwood
ISBN-10: 0511371187
ISBN-13: 9780511371189
ISBN-10: 052187386X
ISBN-13: 9780521873864
After approximately 5 a long time as one in all Ireland's so much celebrated playwrights, Brian Friel has been the topic of ten books and dozens of articles. This learn expands Friel feedback right into a big physique of fabric and right into a more energizing interpretative course. besides contemplating Friel's newer performs, the publication analyzes his interviews and essays to chart the author's ideological evolution all through a profession of greater than 40 years. additionally, a bankruptcy is dedicated to his frequently missed articles for The Irish Press (1962-1963), a chain that finds unsuspected insights into Friel's disposition in the direction of the Irish Republic. Refining our figuring out of Friel's courting to Republicanism is primary to the argument; instead of assuming that the writer embraces nationalist ideology, the booklet relocates the conceptual issues of his paintings clear of Dublin and to 'The North', this bridge among eire and the British province of Northern eire.
By Martin Przybilski
This learn undertakes a primary (new) review of the intercultural dating of Jews and Christians among 1150 and 1500. Fragments of the move of Jewish motifs and fabrics into the Christian literature of the German center a long time are proven, hence rounding out our photo of medieval German literature during this very important element. The examine makes another contribution to figuring out the connection of Jews and Christians in all the German-speaking components in the course of the German heart a long time.
By Deborah Bodin Cohen
Engineer Ari rushes to accomplish his ultimate teach journey to Jerusalem sooner than Passover starts off, yet will he run out of time ahead of getting the goods he wishes for his seder plate?
By Amelia M. Glaser
ISBN-10: 0804793824
ISBN-13: 9780804793827
In the center of the 17th century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was once the mythical Cossack common who prepared a uprising that liberated the japanese Ukraine from Polish rule. for that reason, he has been memorialized within the Ukraine as a God-given state builder, minimize within the version of George Washington. yet during this crusade, the bloodbath of hundreds of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries used to be the collateral harm, and for you to safe the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, finally ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, used to be he a liberator or a villain? This quantity examines greatly assorted narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and varnish literature, that experience sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, both as kingdom builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments all through historical past and, as we see in fresh conflicts, keeps to impact Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian nationwide identity.
By Yosef Kaplan
ISBN-10: 9004149961
ISBN-13: 9789004149960
This choice of ancient reports bargains with the connections among the historical past and tradition of the Jews of Holland from the start of the 17th century till the interval after the Holocaust, and phenomena and methods that distinguish all of Jewish background within the glossy interval. The Jews of Holland weren't purely nourished by way of the cultural creativity of the nice Jewish facilities within the sleek interval yet at quite a few levels they served as a resource of proposal for Jews in different places within the Diaspora. The articles of this quantity are unique not just by way of the exam of the impact of normal Jewish background on that of the Jews of Holland but in addition through concentrating on occasions and procedures in glossy Jewish historical past that convey the numerous impact of the historical past of Dutch Jewry.
By Elliot N. Dorff
ISBN-10: 0887064590
ISBN-13: 9780887064593
This ebook examines biblical and rabbinic legislations as a coherent, carrying on with felony culture. It explains the connection among faith and legislation and the interplay among legislation and morality. plentiful choices from fundamental Jewish assets, many newly translated, let the reader to handle the culture at once as a residing physique of legislation with emphasis at the issues which are basic for attorneys, legislators, and judges. via an in-depth exam of private harm legislations and marriage and divorce legislation, the e-book explores jurisprudential concerns vital for any felony method and monitors the first features of Jewish law.
A dwelling Tree can be of designated curiosity to scholars of legislation and to Jews excited by the felony dimensions in their culture. The authors supply enough motives of the assets and their importance to make it pointless for the reader to have a history in both Jewish stories or legislation.
"This ebook is brilliant. It offers the suitable criminal resources for comprehending Jewish legislation and extra info (historical, sociological, etc.) for knowing the evolution of Jewish legislations. The authors' reviews are always transparent and necessary and often insightful. The manuscript isn't just attention-grabbing however it is intriguing. the subject is necessary to Judaic stories and to old reports quite often. it's the most sensible selection of fabric on Jewish legislations to be had within the United States." -- Martin Edelman, nation collage of latest York at Albany
"What i admire so much approximately this booklet is the breadth of therapy with no sacrifice of intensity or sophistication. this can be a superb English language creation to Jewish law." -- David Goodblatt , collage of Maryland at school Park
"A residing Tree is, in our opinion, from either a pedagogical and a scholarly standpoint, the best ebook of its sort to be had at the present time. the original good points of this ebook make it a precious contribution to the scholarship of the sector. certainly, in lots of methods, we might anticipate that this publication becomes the normal English paintings on Jewish law." -- Rabbi David Saperstein and Sherman L. Cohn, Georgetown college legislations middle
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