Yiddish & Jewish Culture
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The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction. Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference [Hardback]
Joseph Sherman (Editor); Ritchie Robertson (Editor)
$69.00ISBN: 9781900755832
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 5
Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right, and one moreover that was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other ... .... Learn More -
A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods [Hardback]
M. Sokoloff (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801872334
Published by : John Hopkins Univ. Press
The first new dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic in a century, this towering scholarly achievement provides a complete lexicon of the entire vocabulary used in both literary and epigraphic sources from the Jewish community in Babylon from ... .... Learn More -
Edmond Jabès: The Hazard of Exile [Paperback]
Steven Jaron (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900755719
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The Jewish poet Edmond Jabès, born in Cairo in 1912, characterized his writings as 'not belonging'. Drawing on unpublished archival and rare printed sources, Steven Jaron traces this sense of exile to early beginnings, while Jabès was still li... .... Learn More -
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature [Paperback]
Joseph Sherman (Author)
$65.00ISBN: 9781900755771
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 4
To what extent do Yiddish language and literature reflect dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking European Jews? How did the hostile attitude adopted t... .... Learn More -
The Lost Messiah [Hardback]
John Freely (Author)
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ISBN: 9781585673186
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
This is the `astonishing story of Sabbatai Sevi, seventeenth-century rabbi, Kabbalist and probable manic depressive, who convinced large numbers of Jews throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa that he was their long-awaited Messiah... .... Learn More -
Revelation and the God of Israel [Hardback]
Norbert M. Samuelson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521812023
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Norbert M. Samuelson asks--what is the most reasonable possible conception of the doctrine of "revelation" found in the sources of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) in the light of modern challenges from academic studie... .... Learn More -
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities [Hardback]
John R. Bartlett (Author)
$115.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780415186384
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The Jewish Diaspora saw communities spring up in a variety of Hellenistic and Roman cities although studying the nature of these communities has been difficult for a number of reasons. These twelve papers, from a conference held in Dublin in 1997,... .... Learn More -
Die Juden und das Römische Reich [Hardback]
Ernst Baltrusch (Author)
$96.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783534155859
Published by : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
An academic study of the origin of the political and religious causes of the breakdown of relations between the Near East Jewish state and the Roman Empire. The study begins with a discussion of the development of Judaism as a `national' religi... .... Learn More -
The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain [Hardback]
Judah Alharizi (Author)
$77.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781874774037
Published by : Littman Library
The Book of Tahkemoni , or wisdom, was the last great Hebrew work from medieval Spain. Composed around the year 1200 by Alharizi it presents a fluid mix of rhymed prose and verse, and it recounts fifty tales. These include biblical, philosophical,... .... Learn More -
Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish [Paperback]
Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
$65.00ISBN: 9781900755481
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 3
For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an ‘ugly jargon’ despised by the assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zio... .... Learn More