Jewish Studies

Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices...

_x005F_x000D_ This book brings together the work of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the US, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. It discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Je..

Based on the volume of twenty-four Hebrew texts of Jewish travellers by J.D. Eisenstein, this volume begins with the ninth century. The text looks at the wandering Jew, a very real character in the great drama of history...

One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection...

This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these authors..

This book brings together a series of original essays which explore the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between s..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sour..

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sour..

This book contains some of Rosenthal's most influential work, ranging from the nature of Jewish political thought, both classical and medieval, to Christian reactions to Judaism and to varying approaches to the study of the Bible...

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for g..

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for g..