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  • Fifty Key Jewish Thinkersby Dan Cohn-Sherbok

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 27.95

    Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.Also including... more...

  • The Maiden of Ludmirby Nathaniel Deutsch; Janusz Bardach

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 45.00

    Hannah 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... more...

  • Abraham Geiger's Liberal Judaismby Ken Koltun-Fromm

    Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 23.95

    German 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... more...

  • Maimonidesby Joel L. Kraemer

    The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00

    This 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... more...

  • Fifty Key Jewish Thinkersby Dan Cohn-Sherbok

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 32.95

    Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin. Also... more...

  • Moses Maimonidesby Herbert A. Davidson

    Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 27.99

    Moses 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... more...

  • An American Rabbi in Koreaby Milton Jehiel Rosen; Stanley Russell Rosen; Stanley Russell Rosen

    University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 35.00

    During 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... more...

  • Idolatry and Representationby Leora Batnitzky

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 26.95

    Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology,... more...

  • Samson Raphael Hirschby Roland Tasch

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 196.00

    Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808?1888) was one of those personalities without whom any presentation of the development of German Jewry would remain fragmentary. His name is inseparable with that of the secession movement, a new organizational form which severed all ties to the Jewish ?Main Community? (Großgemeinde). Hirsch was so eloquent in expressing... more...

  • Two Nations in Your Wombby Israel Jacob Yuval; Barbara Harshav; Jonathan Chipman

    University of California Press 2006; US$ 60.00

    Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the inter-religious... more...