New Jewish Books
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...
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...
