New Jewish Books
Possible Relations between Knowledge of the Physical World and Traditional Knowledge in Rabbinic Judaism The concept of ‘Ruakh Ra’ah’ (Evil Spirit), is extremely rare in the Tanach, but is found much more frequently in...
Writing the Jewish Self explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary...
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows...
This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the...
Edited by Jens Schröter, Tobias Nicklas, Armand Puig i Tàrrech The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including...
Editors: Irene Aue-Ben David , Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, Christian Wiese Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized...
Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection. This book examines a...
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series...
Edited by John J .Collins, Pieter G. R. Villiers, Adela Yarbro Collins This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek philosophical...
Editors: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-freudenthal, Guy Miron From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global...
