Search Results - "messiah"

Pangs of the Messiah the troubled birth of the Jewish state / by Sicker, Martin

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Bandits, prophets & messiahs : popular movements in the time of Jesus / by Horsley, Richard A.

“…Bandits, prophets, and messiahs…”

Apocalyptic messianism and contemporary Jewish-American poetry by Gitenstein, R. Barbara, 1948-

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

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.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view