Search Results - "Root

Living root a memoir / by Heller, Michael, 1937-

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Wisdom's root revealed Ben Sira and the election of Israel / by Goering, Greg Schmidt

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Building Jewish roots the Israel experience / by Shapiro, Faydra, 1970-

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Jewish roots, Canadian soil Yiddish culture in Montreal, 1905-1945 / by Margolis, Rebecca

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The revolutionary roots of modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 by Trachtenberg, Barry

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American Klezmer its roots and offshoots /

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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world the roots of sectarianism / by Masters, Bruce Alan, 1950-

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Suddenly Jewish Jews raised as Gentiles discover their Jewish roots / by Kessel, Barbara, 1950-

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Return to Centro histórico a Mexican Jew looks for his roots / by Stavans, Ilan

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Otherworldly and eschatological priesthood in the Dead Sea scrolls by Angel, Joseph L.

Table of Contents: “…The image of eschatological priesthood in the Dead Sea scrolls -- The historical roots of the eschatological priesthood -- The traditional roots of the eschatological priesthood -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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Bieganski the brute Polak stereotype, its role in Polish-Jewish relations and American popular culture / by Goska, Danusha V. (Danusha Veronica)

Table of Contents: “…Bieganski lives -- Bieganski in the press -- Bieganski takes root in America -- Bieganski in American cinema -- Bieganski as a support for Jewish identity -- The peasant and middleman minority theory -- The necessity of Bieganski : a shamed and horrified world seeks a scapegoat -- Interviews -- Bieganski lives--next door to Shylock -- Final thoughts.…”
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The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought / by Hammerschlag, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas --"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar -- Conclusion.…”
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Jewish renaissance and revival in America essays in memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane /

Table of Contents: “…Common bonds: a collective portrait -- On the road to renaissance: the young mens' Hebrew associations of New York and Philadelphia, 1877-1883 -- A renaissance of Jewish readers in Victorian Philadelphia -- Preserving the past to fashion the future: the editorial board of the Jewish Encyclopedia -- Leah's hope: the legacy of German-Jewish humanism in America --- Revival through celebrity: American fame, Jewish identity, and the early 1960s -- Renewal and havurah: American movements, European roots.…”
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Inside the Antisemitic Mind : The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany / by Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Reinharz, Jehuda

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction The Need for This Book -- 2 Hostility toward Jews and Language Verbal Imposition of Power and Violence -- 3 Hostile Stereotypes of Jews and Their Historical Roots -- 4 Present-Day Verbalization of Stereotypes -- 5 Echo of the Past -- 6 Anti-Israelism as a Modern Variant of Verbal Antisemitism The Modern Conceptualization of the Collective Jew -- 7 A Comparison with Other Countries in Europe Results of a Contrastive Analysis -- 8 The Emotional Basis of Modern Hostility toward Jews -- 9 Acts of Verbal Violence -- 10 Textual Strategies and Patterns of Argumentation -- Appendix The Basic Corpus -- Letters to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, 2002 -- 2012.…”
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Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity / by Veltri, Giuseppe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: In search of a Jewish renaissance -- Jewish philosophy : humanist roots of a contradiction in terms -- The prophetic-poetic dimension of philosophy : the ars poetica and Immanuel of Rome -- Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy -- Conceptions of history : Azariah de' Rossi -- Scientific thought and the exegetical mind, with an essay on the life and works of Rabbi Judah Loew -- Mathematical and biblical exegesis : Jewish sources of Athanasius Kircher's musical theory -- Creating geographical and political utopias : the ten lost tribes and the east -- Ceremonial law : history of a philosophical-political concept -- The city and the ghetto : Simone Luzzatto and the development of Jewish political thought -- Body of conversion and immortality of the soul : Sara Copio Sullam, the "Beautiful Jewess".…”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…Far Away Moses & Company : an Ottoman Jewish business between Istanbul and the United States / Julia Phillips Cohen -- 5. The roots of Jewish concentration in the American popular music business, 1890-1945 / Jonathan Karp -- 6. …”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…: Jewish humor and its roots in the Talmud and Midrash / David Brodsky -- But is it funny? …”
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