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| 1. |  | Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identity Author: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Social and Political Thought | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora  Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The life of Judaism Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | Judaism Publisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Heritage and hellenism: the reinvention of Jewish tradition Author: Gruen, Erich S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Judaism | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Renaissance History | European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe Author: Cohen, Richard I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Jewish Studies | European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The maiden of Ludmir: a Jewish holy woman and her world Author: Deutsch, Nathaniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Women's Studies | European History | Judaism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | History | Politics | Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia Author: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophy Author: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Religion Publisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Languages of community: the Jewish experience in the Czech lands Author: Kieval, Hillel J Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European Studies | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Judaism Publisher's Description: With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Tales of the neighborhood: Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity Author: Hasan-Rokem, Galit Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | Literature | Judaism Publisher's Description: In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Speaking the unspeakable: religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth) 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortalit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic culture Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Tradition in a rootless world: women turn to Orthodox Judaism Author: Davidman, Lynn 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The past two decades in the United States have seen an immense liberalization and expansion of women's roles in society. Recently, however, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish orthodox tradition that sets strict and rigid . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Classical Religions | Classics | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more] Similar Items |