Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: american, jewish, life, history, culture, series, community, breath, feminism, brandeis
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-03-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0874517060
ISBN-13: 9780874517064

A vigorous portrayal of the effects of a distinct form of feminism on the spiritual and secular lives of Jewish women.

Author: Miryam Wahrman
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: scripture, collide, science, judaism, new, brave
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 158465032X
ISBN-13: 9781584650324

Clones, genetically modified foods, frozen embryos, stem cells, gene therapy: these are some of the new discoveries and scientific developments that are guaranteed to change our lives and our society forever. How does Judaism, an ancient religion, come to terms with such dramatic changes? This insightful book explores Jewish reactions to cutting-edge biological issues that continue to dominate the headlines.Does Jewish law permit production and use of stem cells, gene therapy, and human cloning? Is it permissib le to produce and eat bioengineered foods? How do assisted reproductive technologie

Author: Joyce Antler
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: jewish, culture, american, series, history, life, brandeis, popular, images, women, talking
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0874518423
ISBN-13: 9780874518429

Lively essays investigating American Jewish women’s images in popular culture.

Authors:Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna,
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: american, jewish, history, life, series, culture, brandeis, judaism, historical, perspectives, women
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1584651245
ISBN-13: 9781584651246

New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

Author: Nili Scharf Gold
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: study, institute, european, jewry, series, tauber, poet, amichai, making, israel, national, yehuda
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1584657332
ISBN-13: 9781584657330

Yehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century’s (and Israel’s) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai’s early works, using two sets of untapped materials: notes and notebooks written by Amichai in Hebrew and German that are now preserved in the Beinecke archive at Yale, and a cache of ninety-eight as-yet unpublished letters written by Amichai in 1947 and 1948 to a woman identified in the book as Ruth Z., which were recently discovered by Gold.Gold found irrefutable evidence in the Yale archive and the letters to Ruth Z. tha

Authors:James Madison, Marvin Meyers,
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: james, madison, thought, political, founder, sources, mind
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 1981-10-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0874512018
ISBN-13: 9780874512014

An authentic and responsible selection of Madison’s writings.

Authors:Marcie Ferris, Mark I. Greenberg,
Publisher: Brandeis
Keywords: jewish, history, american, culture, life, series, brandeis, soil, new, roots, southern
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1584655895
ISBN-13: 9781584655893

Jews have long been a presence in the American South, first arriving in the late seventeenth century as part of exploratory voyages from Europe to the New World. Two of the nation’s earliest Jewish communities were founded in Savannah in 1733 and Charleston in 1749. By 1800, more Jews lived in Charleston than in New York City. Today, Jews comprise less than one half of one percent of the southern population but provide critical sustenance and support for their communities.Nonetheless, southern Jews have perplexed scholars. For more than a century, historians have wrestled with various qu