New Jewish Books
Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome Yiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in...
Studia Judaeoslavica Can studying an artist’s migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and “global” mode? Michail Grobman’s odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to...
Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith by Mózes Salamon Brill Reference Library of Judaism Writing in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion These scholarly essays explore representations and lived experiences of encounters between Jews and Muslims in contemporary urban Western Europe (France, Germany and UK). Building a new transdisciplinary...
In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources are trying to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. The development of new databases and other technological...
Brill Reference Library of Judaism This volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel during the Talmudic period. Using a variety of critical methodologies, this collection offers a...
Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Supplement to Aramaic Studies This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once...
Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern...
A Journey Across Three Continents Brill’s in Jewish Studies Zohar Segev’s book Immigration, Ideology, and Public Activity from an American Jewish Perspective follows four Zionist leaders in the mid-twentieth century. Following the paths of...
An Analysis of the Serekh Ha-yaad Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism How did early Jewish scribes understand their own textual traditions? Using the Serekh ha-Ya?ad from Qumran as a test case, this...
