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1. Jesus among the Jews

   Representation and Thought

   Edited by Neta Stahl

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   For almost two thousand years, various images of Jesus accompanied Jewish thought and imagination: a flesh-and-blood Jew, a demon, a spoiled student, an idol, a brother, a (failed) Messiah, a nationalist rebel, a Greek god in Jewish garb, and more. This volume charts for the first time the...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. War and Peace in Jewish Tradition

   From the Biblical World to the Present

   Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land than...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt

   By Margaret Betz Hull

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The central argument of this book is that Hannah Arendt's deserved place in the history of Western philosophy has been overlooked, and recognition of her contribution is long overdue. In part a result of Arendt's own insistence on calling herself a 'political thinker' throughout her career, this is...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. On Liberty

   Jewish Philosophical Perspectives

   By Daniel Frank

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the experience of Jews in the modern world. Essays focus on the variety of views of the relationships...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Holocaust and Representations of Jews

   History and Identity in the Museum

   By K. Hannah Holtschneider

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust. Insights from the New Museology are brought to...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

   A Century-Old Myth

   Edited by Esther Webman

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Facing the Other

   The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

   By Sean Hand

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility....

   Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Referring to God

   Jewish and Christian Perspectives

   By Paul Helm

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   There is a long tradition of discussion in the philosophy of religion about the problems and possibilities involved in talking about God. This book presents accounts of the problem within Jewish and Christian philosophy....

   Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews

   The External Influences for Change, c. 1860-1960

   By Daniel Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   In the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falashas to Ethiopian Jews during the twentieth century which made them eligible for immigration into Israel, adding a new dimension to the question...

   Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

    Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

    By Gregg Stern

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    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 lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to -...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge