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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkersby Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Routledge 1996; US$ 27.95This panoramic survey provides an overview of the people who have had a profound influence on the development of Jewish thought through the centuries. more...
Deconstructing the Bibleby Irene Lancaster
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 44.95This book represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment more...
The Maiden of Ludmirby Nathaniel Deutsch; Janusz Bardach
University of California Press 2003; US$ 40.00Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe?or charismatic leader?in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden?s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden... more...
The Gaon of Vilnaby Immanuel Etkes
University of California Press 2002; US$ 60.00A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study, Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character and traces... more...
Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianityby M. Poorthuis; J. Schwartz
BRILL 2004; US$ 170.00This work deals with the role of saints and exemplary individuals in Judaism and Christianity. It examines Jewish and Christian perspectives upon saints and role models from the Biblical period to the 21st century. more...
Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaismby Ken Koltun-Fromm
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 23.95German rabbi, scholar, and theologian Abraham Geiger (1810--1874) is recognized as the principal leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism. In his new work, Ken Koltun-Fromm argues that for Geiger personal meaning in religion -- rather than rote ritual practice or acceptance of dogma -- was the key to religion's moral authority. In five chapters, the book explores issues central to Geiger's work that speak to contemporary Jewish practice -- historical memory, biblical interpretation, ritual and gender practices, rabbinic authority, and Jewish education. This is essential reading for scholars, rabbis, rabbinical students, and ... more...
Maimonidesby Joel L. Kraemer
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.99This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time. Maimonides was born in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and died in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early years in Spain and North Africa to his later years in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and society. His life, career, and writings are the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam. Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak... more...
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkersby Dan Cohn-sherbok
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 27.95This popular Key Guide provides an overview of the broader intellectual currents of Jewish philosophy. It includes a chronological table and maps. more...
Moses Maimonidesby Herbert A. Davidson
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 65.00Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history. more...
An American Rabbi in Koreaby Milton Jehiel Rosen; Stanley Russell Rosen; Stanley Russell Rosen
The University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 28.00During the height of the Korean conflict, 1950-51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles for Der Morgen Zhornal , a Yiddish daily in New York, documenting his wartime experiences as well as those of the servicemen under his care. Rosen was among those nearly caught in the Chinese entrapment of American and Allied forces in North Korea in late 1950, and some of his most poignant writing details the trying circumstances that faced both soldiers and civilians during that time. As chaplain, Rosen was able to offer a unique account of the American Jewish experience on the frontlines and in the United States military while also describing the impact of the American presence on Korean citizens and their... more...









