Book Series
Routledge Jewish Studies Series
New & Published Titles:
Political Theologies in the Holy Land
Israeli Messianism and its Critics
This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49168-6 (Routledge)
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Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought
Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55887-7 (Routledge)
Jews and Judaism in Modern China
Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth;…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45716-3 (Routledge)
Jews and India
Perceptions and Image
Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55888-4 (Routledge)
Antisemitism and Modernity
Innovation and Continuity
The subject of anti-Semitism, not long ago thought to be a dead issue, has been revised due to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55388-9 (Routledge)
Jewish Blood
Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture
This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism,…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47749-9 (Routledge)
Jewish Education and History
Continuity, crisis and change
Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48996-6 (Routledge)
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture
Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77442-0 (Routledge)
The Jews as a Chosen People
Tradition and transformation
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46607-3 (Routledge)
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust
Kafka's kitsch
David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish,"…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46323-2 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals
Forthcoming Titles:
Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse after the Holocaust
Edited by Roni Stauber
To be published June 8th 2010
Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
By Sean Hand
To be published August 1st 2010
A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
By Norbert Samuelson
To be published August 1st 2010
On Liberty: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives
By Daniel Frank
To be published August 1st 2010
Referring to God: Jewish and Christian Perspectives
By Paul Helm
To be published August 1st 2010