Search Results - "rabbinics"

Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman Sephardic culture by Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…forms of sociability -- The construction of the social order -- Three social types : the wealthy, the poor, the learned -- The representation of gender -- Understanding exile, setting boundaries -- The impossible homecoming -- Reincarnation and the discovery of history -- Scientific and rabbinic knowledge and the notion of change.…”
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The city in Roman Palestine by Sperber, Daniel

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Defining Jewish difference from antiquity to the present / by Berkowitz, Beth A.

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Between Alexandria and Jerusalem the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture / by Kovelʹman, A. B.

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Rabbis and revolution the Jews of Moravia in the age of emancipation / by Miller, Michael Laurence

Table of Contents: “…From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan" -- Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordechai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829 -- Nehemias Trebitsch and the decline of the Moravian chief rabbinate, 1832-1842 -- Locking antlers : Hirsch Fassel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and the forging of a new rabbinical ideal -- Conflict and revolution : Samson Raphael Hirsch and the politics of leadership, 1847-1849 -- On the altar of freedom : Moravian Jewry and the Revolution of 1848 -- Emancipation and its aftershocks : the reorganization of Moravian Jewry -- Drifting rabbis, shifting centers, and the burgeoning Czech-German conflict.…”
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Religious-Zionism history and ideology / by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…A revolutionary consciousness -- Rabbi Reines and the foundation of the Mizrachi -- Religious-Zionist education: beginnings -- Rav Kook: an orthodox-national alternative to Religious-Zionism -- The foundation of the Chief Rabbinate -- Ha-Poʻel Ha-Mizrachi: against the exile and the bourgeoisie -- Criticizing Zionist policy -- The settlement drive -- Religious-Zionism and the Holocaust -- Israel's first years: hopes and disappointments -- From rearguard to vanguard: the struggle for greater Israel -- Religious Zionism in the United States -- Religious Zionism: present and future.…”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a purported link between China and Yemen -- Some observations on late Babylonian texts and rabbinic literature -- Visibility of the new moon in cuneiform and rabbinic sources -- "Feet of iron" in the Babylonian Talmud? …”
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A new critical approach to the history of Palestine : Palestine history and heritage project 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- "To Be an Israelite and a Judean as I Want You to Be": Material Culture and Ethnicity during the Iron Age / Hani Nur El-Din -- Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape and Memory, and the Case of Lubya as Lieu De Memoire / Bo Dahl Hermansen -- Community Archaeology in Palestine: Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Archaeological Heritage Sites in Palestine / Iman Saca -- The Al-Nuweima Mosque: An Archaeological Perspective on Modern History / Andrew Petersen -- Archaeology as Anthropology (Bioarcheology) / Issa Sarie -- Mapping Palestine: Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives / Philip Davies -- Land, People, and Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Christian Eyes / Mitri Raheb -- Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland / Shlomo Sand -- The History of Israel. …”
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Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson -- Michael A. …”
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