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A Jew in the Street
New Perspectives on European Jewish History
Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.
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Bridging Worlds
Poetry and Philosophy in the Works of Immanuel of Rome
A radical revisitation of Immanuel of Rome’s celestial tour, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden.
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ISBN: 9780814350362
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ISBN: 9780814350355
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ISBN: 9780814350379
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From Left to Right
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.
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ISBN: 9780814345108
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ISBN: 9780814350317
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ISBN: 9780814345115
Disputed Messiahs
Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation
Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.
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ISBN: 9780814341643
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ISBN: 9780814348611
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ISBN: 9780814341650
Brothers from Afar
Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe
Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.
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ISBN: 9780814340288
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ISBN: 9780814348246
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ISBN: 9780814340295
Communings of the Spirit, Volume III
The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951
Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.
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ISBN: 9780814347676
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ISBN: 9780814348253
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ISBN: 9780814347683
Rabbinic Judaism in the Making
The Halakhah from Ezra to Judah I
The study of the evolution of normative Judaism from the time of Ezra (ca. 400 B.C.) to Judah I, the Prince (ca. 200 A.D.).
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ISBN: 9780814344026
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ISBN: 9780814344019
Communings of the Spirit, Volume II
The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1934–1941
Selections from the diary of Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America, detailing a provocative firsthand account of Jewish life in America and of the mind of a very challenging thinker.
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ISBN: 9780814341612
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ISBN: 9780814341629
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Beyond Sectarianism
The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
Provides a new understanding of the evolution and contemporary dynamics of American Orthodox Judaism during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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ISBN: 9780814339534
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ISBN: 9780814339541
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Brings together leading Jewish scholars to explore the developing interrelation between tradition and change within modern Judaism.
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ISBN: 9780814338599
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ISBN: 9780814338605
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The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz
Examines the intellectual proclivities of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenazic rabbinic culture as a whole.
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ISBN: 9780814330241
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ISBN: 9780814338025
Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.
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ISBN: 9780814338001
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ISBN: 9780814338018
The En Yaaqov
Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.
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ISBN: 9780814334805
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ISBN: 9780814335963
Max Lilienthal
The Making of the American Rabbinate
Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.
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ISBN: 9780814335161
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ISBN: 9780814336670
Holy Dissent
Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe
Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
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ISBN: 9780814335178
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ISBN: 9780814335970
Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities
Provides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in both historical and contemporary Jewish communities.
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ISBN: 9780814334010
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ISBN: 9780814337011
Mediating Modernity
Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
A landmark collection of essays by prominent academics in modern Jewish and German-Jewish history, honoring Michael A. Meyer, a pioneer in those fields.
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ISBN: 9780814333952
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ISBN: 9780814339930
Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people.
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ISBN: 9780814332375
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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages
Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.
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ISBN: 9780814333686
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ISBN: 9780814336533
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals
Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Examining the mystical practices associated with food in zoharic kabbalah and the ways they inform us about the kabbalistic experience of embodiment.
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ISBN: 9780814350935
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ISBN: 9780814331811
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ISBN: 9780814340035