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The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
Kaplan takes the major formulation of his theological approach, "God as the power that makes for salvation," and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world.
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ISBN: 9780814325520
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ISBN: 9780814339923
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai M. Kaplan—the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles.
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ISBN: 9780814322802
Women of the Word
Jewish Women and Jewish Writing
Women of the Word is part of an emerging effort to listen to the voices of Jewish women both past and present.
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ISBN: 9780814324233
I Want to Fall Like This
Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman, A Bilingual Edition
Selected poems from Rukhl Fishman.
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ISBN: 9780814325414
American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914
This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814325230
On the Edge of Destruction
Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars
On the Edge of Destruction, focusing on the Jews of Poland between the two World Wars, illuminates a critical time in the recent Jewish past that has received surprisingly little attention.
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ISBN: 9780814324943
The Jews of Kurdistan
The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II.
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ISBN: 9780814323922
Hatshepsut, Speak to Me
An innovative and adventurous book, this collection of poems is in the form of a conversation with Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
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ISBN: 9780814323809
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ISBN: 9780814323793
Jewish Wry
Essays on Jewish Humor
Jewish Wry examines the development of Jewish humor in a series of essays on topics that range from Sholom Aleichem's humor to Jewish comediennes through to the humor of Philip Roth.
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ISBN: 9780814323663
Frankfurt on the Hudson
The German Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, Its Structure and Culture
Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing.
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ISBN: 9780814323854
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ISBN: 9780814337516
The Messiah Texts
Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions.
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ISBN: 9780814318508
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ISBN: 9780814341919
Ideas of Jewish History
Acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history.
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ISBN: 9780814319512
A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
All share a common setting—the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic—the Jewish confrontation with modernity.
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ISBN: 9780814318492
The Origins of the Modern Jew
Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824
An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.
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ISBN: 9780814314708
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ISBN: 9780814337547