The 54 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2023
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Here is the list of the 54 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2023. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon;...
Between Nihilism and Hope Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the...
Brown Judaic Studies (BJS) announces the launch of our Open Access Books program. During the 2019-2020 academic year, with the support of a grant from the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Books program, we have been digitizing...
This book explores the fundamental issues in Jewish mysticism and provides a taxonomy of the deep structures of thought that emerge from the texts.
Editors: Alfred L Ivry, Elliot R Wolfson, Allan Arkush This superb collection of writings comes as a tribute to one of the leading scholars of Judaic Studies in our century, Alexander Altmann, and to...
These essays and poems by a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism explore the connections between sexuality, divinity, and textuality, working with topics such as the gender of the Godhead, Apocalypse in the Kabbalah, the...
Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative...
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the...
This collection of essays by leading North American scholars in religious studies explores the complex relationship between the academic study of religion and personal religious experience.
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle...