New Jewish Books
Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely...
Collected Papers Hannah M Cotton’s collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular,...
Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew...
An Interpretation in the Light of Jewish Reception History The study deals with the theological message and composition of the Book of Isaiah and promotes a thesis that an early Jewish reception history helps...
The Auschwitz Number in Art A generation – of Jews and non-Jews alike – scarred for life: a number indelibly etched into flesh and soul in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, a constant reminder...
Religious Minorities in the North The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. This book, the first study on antisemitism...
Rethinking Diaspora The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Bibliothek, 8° Hs. 7058 (Rl. 203)] is a unique work of scribal art and illumination. Its costly parchment leaves are richly adorned and illustrated with multicolour...
Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There were questions that covered almost all spheres of daily...
Edited by: Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism – both as a unique cultural and religious category....
by Ehud Krinis, Nabih Bashir, Sara Offenberg, Shalom Sadik In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the...
