Search Results - "rabbinics"

Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana / by Bilu, Yoram

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Mishpachah /

Table of Contents: “…Uncovering the ongoing parental role in education in the rabbinic period /…”
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…; Care for the Poor and the Origins of Charity in Early Rabbinic Literature; The Violence of Poverty; Wealth and Rabbinic Self-Fashioning in Late Antiquity; Justice and Righteousness: Jewish and Christian Approaches to Charity and Poor Law in the High Middle Ages; 1Q/4QInstruction: Training for a Money Changer?…”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Jewish Costume in the Roman World; From Iconic O to Yellow Hat: Anti-Jewish Distinctive Signs in Renaissance Italy; How Should a Rabbi Be Dressed? The Question of Rabbinical Attire in Italy from Renaissance to Emancipation (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries); The Clerks' Work: Jews, Clerical Work, and the Birth of the American Garment Industry.…”
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olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba : This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…"The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke -- Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg -- Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes -- Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss -- Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. …”
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Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence /

Table of Contents: “…Lane 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Belzec extermination camp -- Zuzanna Dziuban 3 Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s-70s -- Gaetano Dato 4 Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas -- David Deutsch 5 (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post-genocide Rwanda -- Ayala Maurer-Prager 6 Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinternment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi Terror, 1947-1952 -- Devlin M. …”
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