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8vom 240pp. According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularizationthe exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the books central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelsons work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.
Trade paperback, 6th (1987) printing, as news, 12mo., 193 pages., ISBN: 0834801582
12mo, The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, but still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that animates the Jewish joke? Why are Jews so often thought of as funny ? And how old can a joke get? The Jewish Joke is a brilliant - and very funny - riff on Jewish jokes, about what marks them apart from other jokes, why they are important to Jewish identity and how they work. Ranging from self-deprecation to anti-Semitism, politics to sex, it looks at the past of Jewish joking and asks whether the Jewish joke has a future. With jokes from Woody Allen, Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho mostly), this is both a compendium and a commentary, light-hearted and deeply insightful.
8vo, hardcover in dj. This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers?Christian, secular, and Jewish?based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture. About the Author: Leonid Livak is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Centre for Jewish Studies. He is the author of How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Émigré Literature and French Modernism (2003).
8vo. 130 x 189 mm. viii, 86, [1] pp.Cloth. Fine. Documenting the Jewish community in Kai Feng Fu, from over a millenia of steady residence. Fascinating study of ancient jewish residents in China from over 1000 years ago
8vo large Paperback. 279pp. Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile; the apogee of Jewish culture under Ptolemies; and finally, the Jewish community's rapid decline and catastrophic disappearance under Roman rule. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski uses scientific analysis to illuminate the reality underlying our image of the past. The biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts are juxtaposed with discoveries of a century of archaeological and papyrological research that has unearthed the edicts of emperors as well as the humble correspondence of common people. In a tantalizing epilogue, Modrzejewski probes a turning point in Western civilization: the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.
318pp. Excellent condition
94pp. Original cloth, Gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, illustrations, genealogies, index. Impressive embossed card with relief color illustrations of coins laid in. Publisher series: By-Paths of Bible Knowledge 20 . (Religion, Bible, Coin Collecting, Jews, Numismatics) le monete della bibbia. numismatica biblica.
8vo, br. ed. 220pp. Jewish Communism' was one of the most powerful and destructive political myths in 20th-century Europe. The cry of Jewish communist conspiracy turned traditional, often religiously inspired anti-Jewish sentiments into a murderous anti-Semitic rampage. The connection of Jews with communism has always been an extremely sensitive issue, which cannot simply be dismissed as a fully irrational phenomenon. Jews were disproportionately present in the revolutionary movement. This does not make the myth of Jewish Communism less mythical, but it does imply that real interests and conflicts were involved. This book presents the first full-length analysis of the identification of Jews with communism. It traces the myth of Jewish Communism from the traditional anti-Jewish prejudices on which it is built, to its crucial role in Eastern European Stalinist and post-Stalinist politics. It documents the painful controversies that the participation of Jews in the revolutionary movement has generated among Jewish observers, among communists, and also among historians. The Author : André Gerrits is Associate Professor in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael).
8vo, Paperback, xix, 188 pages, illustrated, 24 cm. The Passover and its rite are central in the history of Judaism and Christianity. Explaining how the Passover evening celebration, the seder, became one of the most popular Jewish rituals, Baruch M. Bokser shows how it was based on and transformed a biblical sacrificial meal. Bokser demonstrates the significance of the motif of Passover in ancient Judaism, indicating why Jews and Christians employed it to express hopes for redemption. And he also illuminates the process of historical development through the interaction of a traditional heritage with contemporary and outside cultural influences. This is a fascinating book which will add much to our understanding of Judaism and Christianity and of the nature of religion in a changing world. Baruch Bokser was ordained as arabbi at Jewish Theological Seminary and also received a Ph. D. In religious studies from Brown University. Beginning in 1974, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley, leaving in 1982 for Dropsie College in Philadelphia (now the Annenberg Research Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies) . Then in 1986, Bokser returned to the Jewish Theological Seminary to join the faculty and where, at his early death at age 44 in 1990, hewas the director ofthe program in ancient Judaism. "Packs facts, analysis and insight into its relatively short 141 pages of text and footnotes. The hypothesis and argument are clearly spelled [out] and and then supported by detailed references to various Talmud and Mishnah sections which are reproduced as necessary. Although.reprinted in 2002, it is current and consistent with more recent works. I read the book in the weeks leading up to 2009 Passover holidays and found much in Dr. Bokser's work to work into the actual Seder and ignite the interest of those present. In essence, Dr. Bokser makes a very persuasive case that the Passover Seder, as molded in the Hagaddah, was one of the key pillars for the survival of Judaism after the catastrophic destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C. E. Certainly, he establishes that the basics of the Seder as we know it today with its emphasis on freedom, community and symbolic ritual owes its genesis to the Tanna and the Amora of the centuries following the destruction" (Jerome Hoffman, Amazon review)
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8vo, original red cloth , black and white frontis portrait, xiii + 386pp, index, Errata slip mounted on p. [xiv]. translated by Samuel Katz. English version edited, with notes, by Ivan M. Greenberg.. Mr Begin's personal account of Hebrew revolt against British Mandatory rule in Palestine.
18x13cm, original brown cloth gilt and black titles, 96pp. 1st ed. Medicine in the Bible.
8vo, Between 1894 and 1914, 2.5 million Jews were forced to abandon their homes in their native Eastern Europe for the safety and security of the Western Europe, with many escaping to America. This is the story of Fusgeyer Contingent #4, a group of sixty young Jewish men and women who left Birlad, Romania on April 1, 1904 to escape the pograms, poverty and anti-semitism of their homeland for a better life in America. La storiA DEI FUSGEYERS, I CAMMINATORI MIGRANTI CHE ATTRAVERSARONO A PIEDI BALCANI ED EUROPA CENTRALE PER EMIGRARE IN AMERICA.
1988472241988 grand in-8 reliure toile rouge éditeur - 1988 - 439 pages - Ed. Librairie Droz S. A. Genève - coll. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance N° CCXXVI
1972154619Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1972. XXX, 271 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
650In 12 plein cuir fauve à nerfs raciné.titre,fers filets dorés.Faux-titre,titre,252 pages tranches rouges Moutard 1781,une coiffe réparée.Edition originale
193533011Paris Librairie Lipschutz 1935 in-8° traduction française par le Dr J-M Rabbinowicz
8vo , rilegato , tela , sovracoperta , formato 14x22 , pagine 453 , ottime condizioni
pp. 264. Pietà antica ebrei-palestinesi Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
193321864Paris, Plon, collection Byblis, 1933 ; in-8, chagrin maroquiné prune, dos à nerfs soulignés de filets à froid et dorés, titre doré, filet doré d'encadrement des plats, double filet doré d'intérieur, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture imprimée en orange et noir et dos conservés (rel. de l'époque) ; 208 pp., [4] ff. les 2 derniers blancs, 12 compositions hors-texte en couleurs, avec serpentes, de Manuel Orazi, y compris le frontispice.
8vo, br. ed.
8vo, ril. ed. sovracoperta, pp. 670. (Supercoralli). Figlio unico di un commerciante ebreo, Kurt Gerron ha avuto una vita sensazionale: prima studente di medicina, poi attore e regista di fama, tra i più celebri protagonisti del cinema degli anni Venti. Ma la sua carriera è destinata a infrangersi sotto la scure delle leggi razziali: sospeso da ogni incarico, nel 1944 è deportato a Theresienstadt, il ghetto "modello" dietro cui i nazisti celarono a lungo la verità su campi di concentramento. Non solo la sua carriera, ma l'intera esistenza di Gerron sembra giunta alla fine. Finché non riceve un'inaspettata proposta: dirigere un film di propaganda che racconti all'Europa la vita di quella "città". Rifiutare significa morire, accettare vuol dire rendersi complice dei propri aguzzini. E lui accetta, sperando in una possibilità di salvezza. Gli undici giorni di riprese saranno l'occasione per ripercorrere il passato: la guerra, il matrimonio, e soprattutto la carriera, gli incontri - Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, Max Reinhardt -, i film. Fino al drammatico epilogo, assurdo eppure inevitabile: appena terminate le riprese Gerron sarà trasferito ad Auschwitz e ucciso.
