Hakutulokset: Sarja Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies
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Campaigner Against Antisemitism
James Parkes, Anglican priest and religious philosopher, cried out to an unheeding Church about the fate threatening the Jews of Europe. When it failed to respond in the measure he …
Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry 1800-2000
This volume consists of articles by Israel Finestein written over a period of more than fifty years. He was throughout a close observer of the Jewish scene and latterly a prominent …
Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience
This book is an expression of how the different memories of different gendered experiences affected the Jewish attitudes towards modernity. Focusing on three geographical centers - …
Jews and Europe in the Twenty-first Century
"Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century" is a collection of interviews with more than ninety prominent Jewish intellectuals, politicians, writers and scientists from across …
Being Jewish and Doing Justice
Now in paperback, Being Jewish and Doing Justice expands the standard concept of Jewish Studies. The prologue offers a novel reading of the idea of 'the people of God,' placing the …
Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem
This book analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity - the Holocaust and the state of Israel. The symbolic points for the …
State and Society in Roman Galilee, A.D.132-212
In the second century A.D., Galilee fostered the formation of rabbinic Judaism. The society that flourished there has laid its mark on Judaism ever since, and it is a society that …
Myths in Israeli Culture
This work is an attempt to comprehend various aspects of the rapidly changing Israeli culture through some of the texts written before and after the establishment of the State of …
Remembering Cable Street
This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. The …
Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem
This book analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity - the Holocaust and the state of Israel. The symbolic points for the …
The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought
The Berlin Haskalah was the Jewish attempt to rearticulate belief to accommodate the new science and philosophy of the Enlightenment. This study argues that the Haskalah should be …
Forging Modern Jewish Identities
Forging Modern Jewish Identities illuminates facets of modern Jewish identity through engagement with diverse historical moments, political and social currents and literature as an …