Yiddish & Jewish Culture

ISBN: 9781907975288
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Palestine Exploration Fund Annuals
Volume: 11
Jerusalem was a constant focus in the hearts and minds of all pilgrims and tourists travelling to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, but knowing exactly where they might get clean and decent accommodations on arrival was of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813039879
Published by : University Press of Florida
Being Jewish in Brazilthe worlds largest Catholic countryis fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and to the Hebraica, the wor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783374030125
Published by : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Series: Studien zu Kirche und Israel (SKI)
Volume: 1
English summary: Festschrift on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institut Kirche und Judentum]The festschrift contains 28 original contributions to the Christian-Jewish dialogue by internationally renowned Bible scholars, Jewish ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783374030132
Published by : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Series: Studien zu Kirche und Israel (SKI)
Volume: 2
English summary: In both Judaism and Christianity, Job as the poetically condensed question addressing the justice of God and the meaning of suffering to this day plays an outstanding role in the interpretation of human existence. This volu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923875
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation
Volume: 66
Contained herein are 25 articles (20 in English, 5 in Hebrew) that, like the academic oeuvre of volume's honoree, span a broad array of topics within the fields of Hebraica, Judaica, and Biblica. The specific categories represented and the con... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975004
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 10
Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read the original. Since the 1910s, however, Sholem Aleichem’s works ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540401
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
How have French Jewish women reacted to the great traumas of the last century - the Holocaust, North African decolonization and the resulting migration of African Jews to France, the Arab-Israeli crisis and the aftermath of 9/11? Cairns's major... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540524
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 9
Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe’s most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540708
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 8
Berlin emerged from the First World War as a multicultural European capital of immigration from the former Russian Empire, and while many Russian emigrés moved to France and other countries in the 1920s, a thriving east Eur... .... Learn More