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The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead...
The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London Translated by Edward Levin With an introduction by Todd M. Endelman The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization The enigmatic kabbalist Samuel Falk, known as the Ba’al Shem of...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Rav Kook (1865–1935), the first chief rabbi of pre-state Israel, was a revered thinker whose ideas were in the vanguard of religious Zionist ideology. His theological positions have...
Translator: Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence―cultural, religious, political, economic, and literary―over some 1,500 years. The Jewish...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Something crucial and quite unprecedented happened to kabbalah in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Though it had previously been considered a highly secretive and esoteric tradition, its practitioners...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization For Louis Jacobs, the quest―the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith―was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a...
Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk PrizeShortlisted for the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Jews have been active participants in shaping the...
Principles and Pressures The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from...
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization From its first appearance, the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its...
