Judaism And Holocaust Studies from

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982. In this scholarly, highly acclaimed text, Dr. Chany defines the awesome normality of man's destructive tendancies and shows how evil is a natural potential at every level of human experience- individual, family, and group. Nevertheless, he argues forcefully that actual destructiveness is not inevitable, that a better understanding of its sources can open the door… Read more about this item

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. In this scholarly, comprehensive, and highly acclaimed text, Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of works by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies at the heart of modern… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1997. Yehuda Amichai is Israel’s foremost poet, as well as a significant novelist and dramatist. He has received every major Israeli prize for literature, and his poetry has been translated into over twenty languages. He has served as poet-in-residence at major universities across the United States and has been a frequent visitor to the University of… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1995. This perceptive work had its origins in a 1991 international conference on the Holocaust honoring Raul Hilberg, the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust. The book contains all seven of the presentations delivered at the conference by Yehuda Bauere, Christopher Browning, Claude Lanzmann, Alvin Rosenfeld, Richard Rubenstein, George Steiner, and Herman Wouk, and four other essays… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006. Facing a vast corpus of facts, the heirs of the Mishnah adopted analytical templates that transcended details and transformed the Mishnah's collection of topical expositions into a system of law. This was accomplished in the Bavli, the Talmud of Babylonia, which systematized and imposed an orderly program on the numerous subjects treated by… Read more about this item

Binghampton, New York: Global Publications, Binghampton University, 2001. Scholarly study presents a detailed analysis of coherent unity in rabbinic theology, characterizing rabbinic theology as "organic thinking" or "harmonious thinking". In light of the organic coherence of rabbinic theorlogy, the individual concepts reveal a structure otherwise not to be discerned. Careful analysis yielded the conviction that this Midrash does possess coherence,… Read more about this item

Binghampton, New York: Global Publications, 2000. Scholarly text presents one of the most vivd narratives in the Gospels- Jesus' stilling of the storm on the Sea of Galilee in Mark 4:35-41par. Chapter One contains concrete proposals as to the major influences on it of Palestinian Judaic traditions concerning the prophet Jonah; Chapter Two describes the influences of Palestinian Judaic traditions… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006. Scholarly text presents the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), the Tosefta (ca. 300 C.E.), and the commentaries that joined them-the Yerushalmi, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400) and the Bavli, and the Talmud of Babylonia (ca. 600)-the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however,… Read more about this item

Binghampton, New York: Global Publications, Binghampton University, 2001. Scholarly study examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly. After skillfully revealing these value concepts, Kadushin proceeds to elucidate them in light of the midrashic context under consideration, and then discusses their meanings and significance… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1981. Scholarly text presents a detailed interdisciplinary study of both the general phenomena of assimilation and the particular case of the assimilation experience of the Jewish people. Topics covered include Zionism and assimilation; the radical left and assimilation; Communist pragmatism towards the assimilation of Jews in Eastern Europe; the dilemma of Soviet Jewry; quantitative aspects of… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press / Allen & Unwin, 1987. Scholarly text presents a collection of essays dealing with the Jewish communities of Latin America, both as a fragment of the Jewish diaspora and as an element in the economic and social life of the continent. Includes topics covering historical issues; comparative dimensions; adaptation and evolution; culture, identity, and community; Latin… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Scholarly text examines the Ottoman background of the Jewish community in Egypt, including the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes as well as in the eyes of Egyptian and Palestinian Jews.… Read more about this item

New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1984. Scholarly text presents a collection of important essays authored by distinguished multidisciplinary psychoanalysts, which reflects the broader psychological, moral, cultural, and societal implications of the Holocaust. Topics covered include ideological and cultural perspectives; differing views of survivorship; a generation after; and psychoanalysis and the holocaust: roundtable discussion. 239 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1986. Comprehensive, 9000-item bibliography of English-language materials on the Holocaust. Its scope is much wider than all previous similar publications. It includes an author index, introductory essays, scholarly studies, contemporary newspaper reports, eyewitness testimonies, memoirs, documentaries, and annotations important books. The Edelheits' bibliography is a product of ten years of intensive research and is considered the… Read more about this item

Braga, Portugal: Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia, 2006. Highly acclaimed European philosophical journal presents a collection of scholarly articles including "Law and Ethics", "A Post-Modern Humanism from the Sources of Judaism", "Revisiting Bertrand Russell's Refusal of the Christian Faith: A Reapraisal", "Time and Creation: The Contribution of Some Safavid Philosophies", "The Other and Me: Interpersonal and Social Responsibility in Emmanuel… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly two-volume text presents a collection and classification of facts meant to provide documentation for the study of how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages, and documented in their canon from the Mishnah, ca. 200… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a collection and classification of facts meant to provide documentation for the study of how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages, and documented in their canon from the Mishnah, ca. 200 C.E.,… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed study of the problem of the Song of Songs' structure by beginning at the bottom, the microstructure of the Song, rather than at the top. Professor Roberts employs a new type of rhetorical method which defines each of the minimal structural units of the Song by identifying… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1998. Scholarly interdisciplinary text focuses on the social and geographical marginalization of groups such as Palestinian and Bedouin Arabs, Oriental Jews, and Ethiopian migrants; examining the persistent challenges from local and regional ethnic entities, and presenting new perspectives on the restructuring of contemporary states. 337 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text presents a detailed one-volume introduction to both Jewish history and religion from its earliest times to the present, and cover many major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible through modern Judaism. Topics include: the Hebrew Bible; the history of Medieval and Soviet Jewery; Jewish history and culture in the Hellenistic period; literature… Read more about this item