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Jewish Studies Forthcoming
The following Jewish Studies titles are coming soon from Academic Studies Press:
Canada’s Jews: In Time, Space and Spirit.
by Ira Robinson
ISBN 978-1-934843-86-4
250 pp. cloth
$95.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish commu-nities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly in the United States) while simultaneously functioning as a distinct society, Canada’s Jewish community holds great interest for scholars, exercising a measurable influence on the culture and politics of world Jewry. Consisting of a series of essays written by experts in their respective fields, Canada’s Jews is a topical encyclopaedia covering a wide variety of topics from history and religion to the intel-lectual and cultural contributions of Canada’s Jews.
Series: Jews in Space and Time
State Ideology in Commercial TV: Lessons from the Israeli Case.
by Noam Yuran
ISBN 978-1-934843-83-3
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: March, 2013
Within a relatively short span of time, the first commercial TV channel in Israel has rendered the well-established state control of television obsolete. However, this triumph of commercial television does not represent a renouncement of the familiar Etatist ethos. It would appear that commercial television owes its success to its ability to reformulate this ethos in new terms, proper to a neo-liberal age. Rather than liberating itself from state ideology, commercial television has become its central arena. Yuran analyzes this new form of ideological articulation and explores the conceptual relation between ideology and the medium of television.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
State Religious Education in Israel: Between Integration and Segregation.
by Zehavit Gross
ISBN 978-1-936235-33-9
200 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: February, 2014
In State Religious Education in Israel, Zehavit Gross analyzes the ideology of state religious education (SRE) in Israel as it is reflected in research, official circulars of the Ministry of Education, and the public discourse published in the religious Zionist press. In particular, Gross examines the ways in which SRE schools socialize their students, creating a population that will become active in particular spheres of Israeli politics.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy.
by Lev Luis Grinberg
ISBN 978-1-936235-41-4
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: October, 2013
In Israel’s Political Economy, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994-1996). The theoretical approach of the book combines eventful sociology, path dependency, and institutional political economy. Grinberg argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians, and Mizrachi Jews. Major historical turning points in history, like the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy: Political Struggles in Mapai, Israel's Ruling Party, 1948-1953.
by Avi Bareli
ISBN 978-1-936235-27-8
350 pp. cloth
$92.00
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Publication Date: December, 2013
Authority and Participation in a New Democracy focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel’s first ruling party, during Israel’s first years of independence, then analyzes the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Bareli’s main claim is that it was only during this period that a hierarchically-organized group of leaders succeeded in imposing its dominance, fostering obedience within the party and creating oligarchic characteristics in Israel’s democracy. The influence of the kibbutz movement, the moshavim movement and of urban intelligentsia— who represented the opposite political view of participatory democracy—was reduced to a minimum. This process would have a profound impact on issues of equality, on the relations between veteran Israelis and immigrants from both European and Islamic countries, and on social and civic norms.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography.
by Jack Jedwab
ISBN 978-1-934843-75-8
200 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: October, 2013
How many Jews are there in Canada? The answer depends on how being Jewish is defined, and by whom. Canada’s national statistical agency collects data on religion and ethnic origin and thus offers the possibility of establishing an official number. While most Canadian Jews declare both their religion and their ethnicity as Jewish, an important number define themselves as either one or the other. Underlying such declarations is an ongoing debate about what it means to be ethnically Jewish. What does the use of ethnicity as a basis for determining community membership imply in defining Canadian Jewish identity? Using census and survey data, Canadian Jews in the 21st Century: Identity and Demography explores the meaning of ethnicity for Canadian Jewry.
Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society
Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism.
by Yosef Salmon
ISBN 978-1-936235-62-9
450 pp. cloth
$92.00
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Publication Date: March, 2013
Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the Establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. The discussion follows historical events in both philosophy and everyday life. It explores the anti-Zionist sphere and also discusses the attitudes towards the conflict of Religion and Nationalism in the world of Religious Zionism. The dispute between advocates of a religious concept of the community and proponents of a secular notion revolved primarily around perceptions of the ideal relationship between the religious and national entities. One group sought to make religion a tool of the nation; the other sought to make the nation a tool of religion.
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition.
by Antonella Castelnuovo, Bella Kotik-Friedgut
ISBN 978-1-936235-58-2
225 pp. cloth
$89.00
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Publication Date: October, 2013
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and the British sociologist Basil Bernstein by highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories revealing significant influences of Jewish thoughts and beliefs. The authors demonstrate that theories and human life are dialectically interconnected: what research can reveal about a man can also provide a better understanding of the very nature of his theory. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, sociologists and students interested in the sociocultural formation of mind.
Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
Eros and Tragedy: Jewish Male Fantasies and the Masculine Revolution of Zionism.
by Ofer Nur
9781936235858
300 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: October, 2013
Between 1920 and 1922, hundreds of members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement left the defunct Habsburg Monarchy and sailed to Palestine, where a small group of members of the movement established Upper Bitania, one of the communities that laid the foundation for Israel’s kibbutz movement. Their social experiment lasted only eight months, but it gave birth to a powerful myth among Jewish youth which combined a story about a heroic Zionist deed, based on the trope of tragedy, with a model for a new type of community that promised no less than a total, absolute elimination of all physical and mental barriers between isolated individuals and their fusion into one entity. This entity was named “the erotic community.” In its quest for human regeneration, Upper Bitania embarked on a journey into a highly specific variant of modern life that, at its core, tried to combine the most profound Nietzscheanism with the insights of Sigmund Freud, all in an anti-capitalist quest for an organic community of “new men.” The quest for a “new man” was to compensate for a crisis of manliness and betrays an obsession with masculinity and male bonding, and their effects on the ideal man and woman.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
The Transmission of Passion: Practicing Psychoanalysis Within and Beyond the Borders of the Land of Israel.
by Moshe Halevi Spero
9781936235841
456 pp. cloth
$112.00
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Publication Date: October, 2013
The authors in this collection reflect deeply and self-consciously about practicing psychoanalysis within or alongside the borders of the Land of Israel. Unique passions characterize the lives of those who live there, on the individual and group level, and this will be true for the psychoanalyst who has been born and raised in Israel or who has immigrated there and has had to struggle with transformations in language, values, and identity. In Israel, one passionately believes or disbelieves, or strives to be dispassionate, with varying degrees of success. The boundaries of the land can “contain” these dynamics, but this depends on how the boundaries are defined, internalized, and symbolized. The dimension of passion will grip the patient and analyst at some point during the evolution of the transference and counter transference matrix, and may bind the two together or drive them apart. Using rich clinical presentation and theoretical innovation, the authors in this compendium discuss these conflicts and consider how terror, war, political ideology, primitive personality structure, the Holocaust, and idiosyncratic religious beliefs arouse these hidden passions and challenge analytic neutrality. Throughout, the authors carefully reexamine the development of their own personal identity, ideology, and professional perspectives in order to ascertain whether or not, or under what conditions, passion can be creatively transmitted.
Series: The Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Book Series
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Israel's Political Economy.
by Lev Luis Grinberg
9781936235414
250 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: December, 2012
In Israel’s Political Economy, Lev Grinberg summarizes his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative since the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) until the Oslo Accords and the neo-liberalization of the economy (1994-1996). Combining eventful sociology, path dependency and institutional political economy, the book argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians and Mizrachi Jews. Major historical turning points in history, such as the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Identity and Pedagogy in Holocaust Education: The Case of Israeli State Schools.
by Erik H. Cohen
9781936235810
230 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
This pedagogical and sociological analysis of Shoah (Holocaust) education in Israeli state schools is based on an empirical survey conducted in 2007-2009 among junior high school and high school students, teachers and principals in general and religious schools, and experts in the field. It explores issues such as materials and methods, beliefs and attitudes, messages imparted, pedagogical challenges, and implications for national and religious identity and universal values. Comparative and multi-dimensional analyses of sub-populations, such as by age and type of school, were conducted. The practical and theoretical implications of the findings are considered in the context of Shoah education in Israel and other educational settings over the past half century.
Series: Jewish Identity in Post Modern Society
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Skeptical Answers to Accursed Questions.
by Gary Saul Morson
9781618111616
300 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
Gary Saul Morson’s ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on “prosaics” (his coinage) argues that life’s defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world’s fundamental state is mess. Viewing time as a “field of possibilities,” he maintains that contingency and freedom are real. To represent open time, some masterpieces have developed an alternative to structure and require a “prosaics of process.” Morson’s curmudgeonly alter ego, Alicia Chudo, invents the discipline of misanthropology,” which explores human vices from voyeurism to violence. Reflecting on his legendarily popular courses, Morson argues that what literature teaches better than anything else is empathy. Himself an aphorist, Morson offers a witty approach to literature’s shortest genres and to quotation in general.
Series: Ars Rossika
Judaism Examined: Essays in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics.
by Moshe Sokol
9781618111654
500 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: February, 2013
This volume of essays examines key themes in Jewish philosophy and ethics from the rigorous perspective of philosophical analysis. The first set of essays takes up the challenge of living a Jewish life, and includes essays on pleasure, joy, human suffering, Jewish ritual practice and the philosophical life. The second set of essays analyzes the value and meaning of autonomy, human freedom and tolerance in Jewish thought, crucial themes in western political thought and life. Other essays in the volume examine the many meanings of Jewish texts, and such crucial issues in applied Jewish ethics as ecology, medical ethics, and justified homicide. Finally, a number of essays plumb the depths of one of the most influential and creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Taken as a whole, this volume advances the engagement of classical Jewish themes with Anglo-American philosophy, shedding new light both on the Jewish tradition, and on the western philosophical enterprise. Review: “In one of the many felicitous expressions in this wide-ranging book, Moshe Sokol says that Rabbi Soloveitchik, the subject of several penetrating essays here, made Brisk (the town of his Talmudic origin and tradition) speak in the language of Berlin (where Rabbi Soloveitchik studied philosophy). Similarly, through the subtle application of the tools of analytic philosophy, Moshe Sokol makes both Maimonides and Soloveitchik speak in the accents of Oxford. Analytic philosophy often runs the risk of triviality; in the hands of a masterful practitioner such as Moshe Sokol, it becomes a supple tool for clarifying the obscure. The Examined Life is well-worth examining – closely!”— Menachem Kellner, University of Haifa
Series: Out of the Series
Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Spiritual Commandments.
by Albert D. Friedberg
9781618111678
310 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: March, 2013
The TaRYaG count—the traditional enumeration of the 613 commandments contained in the five Mosaic books (Torah)—holds a prominent place in Jewish thought. The tradition is based on an aggadah found in the Babylonian Talmud and, with some variants, in Midrash Tanhuma. No one did more to see this count achieve its place of importance than Moses Maimonides, who, in his Sefer ha-Mitsvot, methodically crafted a list with the intent of having it serve as an outline for his upcoming Mishneh Torah, the most comprehensive code of law in Jewish history. In the first half of this work, Friedberg investigates Maimonides’ methods and reasoning and arrives at a new and innovative reason for his interest in the TaRYaG count. Friedberg then continues, carefully examining the language used for presenting commandments in the Mishneh Torah, which suggests to him new dimensions in Maimonides’ legal theory.
Series: Out of the Series
Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South: Jewish Women and Jewish Identity in The Antebellum and Civil War South.
by Jennifer A. Stollman
9781618112064
220 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: April, 2013
Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South: Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South examines southern Jewish womanhood during the Antebellum and Civil War Eras. This study finds that in the Protestant South southern Jewish women created and maintained unique American Jewish identities through their efforts in education, writing, religious observance, paid and unpaid labor, and relationships with whites and African-American slaves This book examines how these women creatively fought proselytization, challenged anti-Semitism, maintained a distinctive southern Judaism, promoted their own status and legitimacy as southerners, and worked diligently as Confederate ambassadors.
Series: Out of the Series
In the Context of His Times: Alfred Dreyfus as Lover, Intellectual, Poet, and Jew.
by Norman Simms
9781618112361
300 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and received letters from his wife Lucie and exercised his intellect through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed him, writing essays on these and other texts he had read in the past, and working out problems in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He practiced his English and created strange drawings his prison wardens called architectural or kabbalistic signs. In this volume, Norman Simms explores how Dreyfus kept himself from exploding into madness by reading his essays carefully, placing them in the context of his century, and extrapolating from them the hidden recesses of the Jewish Alsatian background he shared with the Dreyfus family and Lucie Hadamard.
Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
My Four Years in Soviet Russia.
by Jerzy Edison, Maurice Wolfthal
9781618112545
240 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
This is the memoir of Yitzhak Erlichson, writing under the name Jerzy Edison, a Polish Jew who was nineteen years old when he escaped the Nazis by fleeing toward the USSR from his hometown, Wierzbnik. There he hoped to find a land true to its official ideals of justice, equality, and brotherhood. Arrested as an English spy, he was sent to prisons and slave-labor camps, and after his release worked and traveled in the USSR. To his dismay, he found there injustice, inequality, and anti-Semitism equal to that of his native Poland. Attempting to join the Polish army forming in the USSR, he was told it was “only for Poles.” After the war, and after he met and married his wife, Fania, and they return to Wierzbnik together. There he learns that none of his family survived the German occupation. This fascinating story sheds new light on the realities of life in the USSR during the Second World War.
Series: Jews of Poland
Saving the Tremors of Past Lives: A Cross-Generational Holocaust Memoir.
by Regina Grol
9781618112569
300 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: December, 2013
The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brzesc (Brisk in Yiddish), which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust, with only about 10 of its members surviving. One of them was Masza Pinczuk, who escaped from the Brzesc ghetto on the eve of its liquidation on Oct.15, 1942. Her future husband succeeded in escaping from the Warsaw ghetto. They were the sole survivors of their respective families, and in this volume their daughter, Regina Grol, shares their story and meditates on the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the lingering impact of the Holocaust on the following generations. Based on interviews and letters, and checked against historical facts, the book includes supporting documents and photographs. It also contains an account of the author’s “internal flanerie” (to use Walter Benjamin’s term), i.e., a retrospective and introspective look at her own life as a child of Holocaust survivors.
Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
Readings on Maramarosh.
by Elieser Slomovic
9781618112422
225 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: June, 2013
Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained “Judenrein” (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and their progeny, including Nobel laureate Elie Weisel and the Talmud scholar Professor David Halivni-Weiss. Maramarosh Shoah survivor and Talmud scholar Professor Elieser Slomovic here provides access to a collection of responsa literature, most of it out of print and previously available only or primarily in Yiddish. Through personal queries about how to live Torah-instructed lives and rabbinic responses, the reader is invited to enter the world of Jewish Maramarosh, where Hasidism flourished and rabbinic scholarship reflected human nobility manifested through the pragmatics of poverty and the dynamics of living closely with nature. Professor Slomovic, recognizing the fluidity and balance over time provided by Talmudic thought as exemplified through rabbinic teaching, invites the reader to join the discourse on the everyday life of everyday people.
Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
Andrei Siniavskii: A Hero of His Time?.
by Eugenie Markesinis
9781618112620
290 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: June, 2013
This groundbreaking critical biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a writer in and of his time shows how this subtle and complex author found his way in a society polarised into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors, how he progressed from identification with the value system and ideology of his time to reaction against it, and his dissidence expressed in literary terms. Based on a close reading of his work, Andrei Siniavskii: A Hero of his Time? explores the way in which Siniavskii’s art does not simply reflect the circumstances of his life and times but is actively shaped by an intricate commerce between the two.
Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures and History
Jewish Customs of Kabbalistic Origin.
by Morris Faierstein
9781618112521
275 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: June, 2013
Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century. They brought new meaning and importance to many Biblical and rabbinic commandments and created new rituals that have become central practices for Jews of all denominations. This volume describes the origins of these traditions and explains the mystical meaning of these specific practices and rituals. Some of these innovations include: Kabbalat Shabbat, inviting the Ushpizin to the Sukkah, Tikkun Leyl Shavuot, and visitation to the grave of Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai on Lag Be-Omer. This volume is written in a style accessible to the non-specialist in Kabbalah and the Jewishly knowledgeable general reader.
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism.
by Shubert Spero
9781618112675
400 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: May, 2013
If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets out to rigorously yet sensitively investigate some of the basic concepts and principles of classical Judaism. The topics addressed range from the familiar—“Is God Knowable?” and “Justifying Religious Belief”—to the unusual—”Judaism and the Aesthetic,” “Does Judaism Have a Theory of Self?” and “Does Messianism Imply Inevitability?” Current issues are not neglected, and are addressed in sections such as “Religious Zionism: What is it?” and “The Ethical Theory of Judaism.” While critical and analytic throughout, the author’s style is clear and uncluttered and uses arguments to convince rather than to impress. Neither apologetic nor unnecessarily provocative, Shubert Spero provides a fresh approach to the neglected yet vital domain of Jewish theology.
Series: Out of the Series
Devar Sephathayim: The Karaite Chronicle.
by Yaron Ben-Naeh, Dan Shapira, Aviezer Tutian
9781618112408
300 pp. cloth
$75.00
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Publication Date: December, 2013
Devar Sephathayim is a Hebrew historical chronicle from the “Tulip Epoch” in the Ottoman Empire composed by R. David Lekhno, a Jewish-Rabbanite sage from the Crimean Khanate. The treatise covers events in the Ottoman Empire, the Khanate of the Crimea, Muscovy, what is now Ukraine, Poland-Lithuania and Saffavid Iran between 1680-1730. It is based on different sources, mostly oral, and presents versions of the historical events as comprehended by mid-level officials in the Crimean Khanate and their Jewish acquaintances. The events mentioned in the composition are generally political and not of specific Jewish interest, but there are also many references to local Jewish history in the Crimea, Istanbul and Ukraine. This chonicle presents another layer in Ottoman-Jewish historical writings and breaks some academic prejudices regarding the medieval Jewish historical consciousness. This volume includes an annotated English translation, an edition of the Hebrew original and a short introduction.
Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Language of Conformity and Dissent: On the Imaginative Grammar of Jewish Intellectuals in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
by Giuseppe Veltri
9781618112385
300 pp. cloth
$85.00
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Publication Date: November, 2013
This book outlines some aspects of Jewish intellectual life in the nineteenth and twentieth century, presenting a narrative of the relationship between Jewish scholars and their cultural environment. It investigates the language of conformity and dissent and interprets it as an imaginative grammar, comprising an arsenal of images, concepts, and interpretations. There is a special focus on German roots, for Germany played a major role as an intellectual laboratory in the areas of the (new) branches of academic life. This book consists of four parts: i) Searching for a Scientific Language; ii) “And the Jews”: Political and Cultural History of a Conjunction; iii) Creative Languages: The Interstitial Spaces of Monotheism; iv) Disjunction: The Jewish Dissenter. A bibliography as well as detailed indexes of authors, scholars and subjects are included.
Series: Out of the Series
The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy.
by Sara Reguer
9781618112446
240 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: April, 2013
Arriving in ancient Rome over 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity throughout the millennia. This book traces their recreation of community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives, as they moved from south to north. Over the centuries, the localized Italian groups were reinforced with the arrival of German, Provencal, Sephardic, and—most recently—Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews. Surviving religious persecution, ghetto-ization, and the Holocaust, the Jews contributed to Italian society when they could. Supplemented by maps, illustrations, sidebars, and primary sources, the book is a scholarly yet popular overview of a minority group that is proudly Italian and equally proud to be Jewish.
Series: Out of the Series
Israeliness in No Man's Land: Israeli Citizenship in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine.
by Enav Yarden
9781618112484
270 pp. cloth
$69.00
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Publication Date: September, 2013
Based on a twenty-month-long ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Samaria region, Israeliness in No Man’s Land introduces the reader to the Jewish- Israeli “settlers” living in what is known as the West Bank of Israel/Palestine, describing their everyday life while focusing on the academic college of Ariel. The book also includes an academic discussion regarding the study of citizenship with ethnographic methods, and it compares the West Bank of Israel/Palestine with other politically-contested regions in the world (such as the TRNC in Cyprus). This volume deals with different aspects of Israeliness and explores the possibility that in the era of globalization it is no longer a synonym for Jewish nationalism. It also explores the potential development of a new and more inclusive and democratic Israeli identity, Israeliness as a “culture of citizenship.”
Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
The Convergence of Politics and Prayer: Jewish Prayers for the Government and the State of Israel.
by Yoel Rappel
9781618112507
320 pp. cloth
$89.00
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Publication Date: August, 2013
The “Prayer for the Welfare of the Government” serves as a positive expression of Jewish loyalty to non-Jewish rulers. The “Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel” requests peace and blessing for the inhabitants of the Land of Israel, its leaders, and soldiers, and expresses hope for and belief in the complete ingathering of the exiles in the Land of Israel. The two prayers are very political, and until now have not yet been the subjects of in-depth and extensive research. This monograph is groundbreaking in its analysis of the connections between the two prayers, their histories and early texts, the messianic meaning of the Tefillah le-Shlom ha-Medinah, the acceptance of this prayer, and alternative prayers intended to change its content and meaning.
Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Intellectual History.
by Alessandro Guetta
9781618112088
240 pp. cloth
$79.00
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Publication Date: August, 2013
Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy`s Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. While remaining faithful to the beliefs, behaviors, and language of their tradition, Italian Jews proved themselves open to a rapidly evolving world of great richness. The crisis of Aristotelianism (which progressively touched upon all fields of knowledge), religious fractures and unrest, the scientific revolution, and the new perception of reality expressed through a transformation of the visual arts: these are some of the changes experienced by Italian Jews which they were affected by in their own particular way. This book explores the complex relations between Jews and the world that surrounded them during a critical period of European civilization. The relations were rich, problematic, and in some cases strained, alternating between opposition and dialogue, osmosis and distinction.
Series: Out of the Series
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