Author: Harvey E. Goldberg
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jewish, foundation, imprint, studies, taper, mark, passages, cycles, life
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2003-10-17
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0520206932
ISBN-13: 9780520206939
American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life--however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life’s momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice and collective identity, emerges as a central fact of contemporary Jewish experience in Harvey E. Goldberg’s multifaceted account of how Jews celebrate and observe the cycles of life. A leading anthropologist of Jewish culture, Goldberg draws on his own experience as well as classic source
Author: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: jewish, stroum, lectures, studies, althea, samuel, history, memory, zakhor
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2005-12-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0295975199
ISBN-13: 9780295975191
Discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.
Author: Edward M. Cohen
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: jewish, series, modern, culture, theatre, literature, repertory, voices, plays, produced, new
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1985-08
List price: $64.50
ISBN-10: 0873959965
ISBN-13: 9780873959964
Author: M. Meiselman
Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
Keywords: jewish, law, ethics, library, woman
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1978-02
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0870683292
ISBN-13: 9780870683299
Author: Barbara Kessel
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: jewish, american, series, history, culture, life, brandeis, roots, jews, raised, gentiles, discover, suddenly
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1584650389
ISBN-13: 9781584650386
Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage.
Author: Jerry Rabow
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Keywords: jewish, messiahs, christian, worlds, changed, muslim, stories, untold, life, jesus
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 9652292885
ISBN-13: 9789652292889
It is a little known fact that there have been more than fifty prominent Jewish ‘Messiahs’. These characters, though unrenowned today, inspired messianic fervor that at times seized the whole Jewish, Christian, Muslim and even secular worlds. The stories of these fifty Messiahs, both male and female, are unknown – suppressed by Jewish religious authorities or ignored by historians of all religions. Until now. In Fifty Jewish Messiahs, these Jewish Messiahs are remembered, and now their forgotten stories - whether humorous, bizarre, tragic or solemn - are finally told. *The Mes
Authors:Daniel J. Elazar, Stuart A. Cohen,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: jewish, political, social, series, studies, present, biblical, polity, organization, times
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1984-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0253331560
ISBN-13: 9780253331564
This major work covers the Jewish political tradition from its biblical beginnings to the present day. The tradition is illuminated in its various epochs by identifying how its principles and modes of action were embodied in the institutions of the Jewish people over their long history.
