Jewish Studies Books

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1. The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth

   Edited by Esther Webman

   This book examines the impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion across the world since it was compiled in the early 20th century. It explores the tract’s successful dissemination and how such a blatant Anti-semitic fabrication is still accepted as true by so many....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59892-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Ancient World to the Present

   Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira

   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...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58715-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice

   Edited by Beverly Greene, Dorith Brodbar

   This book explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-61065-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

   Edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick

   This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59590-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

   By Gregg Stern

   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 -...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-78210-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide

   By Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs

   This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Studying each scholar’s background and influences, the authors examine the ways in which their major works have been received by critics and supporters,...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-77551-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes: Al-Andalus from the Tenth to Twelfth Century

   By Esperanza Alfonso

   Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-59938-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics: Traditionists and Modernity

   By Yaacov Yadgar

   Common discourse on Jewish identity in Israel is dominated by the view that Jewish Israelis can, and should, be either religious or secular. Moving away from this conventional framework, this book examines the role of secularism and religion in Jewish society and politics. With a focus on the ‘...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-56329-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Jewish Cultural Nationalism: Origins and Influences

   By David Aberbach

   Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature,...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-78148-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. The Jewish-Chinese Nexus: A Meeting of Civilizations

    Edited by M. Avrum Ehrlich

    The Jewish Chinese Nexus explores through a collection of articles the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on earth; Jews and Chinese. This volume studies how they are interacting in modernity; how they view each other and what areas of...

    June 2010 | 978-0-415-59341-0 | Paperback (Routledge)