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  • Entangled Histories

    Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century

    Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, Katelyn Mesler ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Entangled Histories

    Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century

    Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, Katelyn Mesler ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

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  • Anti-Judaism

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    A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome ... Read more

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  • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

    by Norman Golb ...
    Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy.Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had ... Read more

    $9.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zakhor

    Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    “Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” - New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Cultures of the Jews

    A New History (National Jewish Book Award)

    Edited by David Biale ...
    WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTWho are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors?To address these and similar questions, twenty ... Read more

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  • The Bible in Arabic

    The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of ... Read more

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  • Border Lines

    The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been ... Read more

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  • The Story of Hebrew

    by Lewis Glinert ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish stateThis book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most ... Read more

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  • Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry

    From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times

    by Zion Zohar ...
    "Brilliant essays" providing a comprehensive overview of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews from leading intellectuals on Jewish history and culture ( Midwest Jewish Studies Association).Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the ... Read more

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  • How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews ... Read more

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