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  • Women in the Hebrew Bible

    A Reader

    Edited by Alice Bach ...
    Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

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    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Chosen Few

    How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

    by Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? The Chosen Few presents a new answer to this question ... Read more

    $84.69 CAD

  • Yiddish Civilisation

    The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyIn the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to Poland and Lithuania and finally to western Russia and the Ukraine, becoming steadily less German and more Slav in the process. In its late ... Read more

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  • Judaism: The Basics

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series The Basics
    The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition.Key topics covered include:the TorahIsrael – the state and its peoplePassoverReform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionismthe impact of the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Jung-Kirsch Letters

    The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch

    by Ann Conrad Lammers ...
    This book charts Carl Gustav Jung’s 33-year (1928-61) correspondence with James Kirsch, adding depth and complexity to the previously published record of the early Jungian movement. Kirsch was a German-Jewish psychiatrist, a first-generation follower of Jung, who founded Jungian communities in Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, and Los Angeles. Their letters tell of heroic survival, brilliant creativity, ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad

    by Seth Schwartz ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this might be accomplished. Moreover, unlike most other introductions to the subject, it concentrates ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Eclipse of God

    Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy

    by Martin Buber ...
    Biblical in origin, the expression "eclipse of God" refers to the Jewish concept of hester panim, the act of God concealing his face as a way of punishing his disobedient subjects. Though this idea is deeply troubling for many people, in this book Martin Buber uses the expression hopefully—for a hiding God is also a God who can be found.First published in 1952, Eclipse of God is a collection of ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture

    Edited by Judith R. Baskin ...
    The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture is an authoritative and accessible reference work for a twenty-first-century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and religious movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience; they discuss central personalities and places, formative events and enduring literary and ... Read more

    $233.99 CAD

  • The Beginning of Politics

    Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel

    by Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes ...
    New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the ... Read more

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  • The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Joshua Ezra Burns ...
    How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of ... Read more

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  • After One-Hundred-and-Twenty

    Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition

    by Hillel Halkin ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish traditionAfter One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to today. Taking its title from the Hebrew and Yiddish blessing to live to a ripe old age—Moses is said to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD