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Routledge Jewish Studies Series


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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.

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

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

1st Edition

Edited By Esther Webman
August 10, 2018

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 Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it ...

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939 A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

1st Edition

By David Aberbach
August 09, 2018

The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism. ...

Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism

Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism

1st Edition

Edited By Maria Diemling, Larry Ray
June 28, 2018

The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maintain a distinctive Jewish identity. At the same time, these boundaries have consistently been subject to negotiation, transgression and contestation. The increasing fragmentation of Judaism into ...

Ethical Monotheism A Philosophy of Judaism

Ethical Monotheism: A Philosophy of Judaism

1st Edition

By Ehud Benor
December 20, 2017

The term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism’s tumultuous transition into the modern era. The term emerged in the context of culture-wars concerning the question of whether or not Jews could or should become emancipated citizens of modern European states. It appeared in arguments ...

Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics

Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics

1st Edition

Edited By Curtis Hutt, Halla Kim, Berel Lerner
October 31, 2017

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world. This collection of critical essays brings together the work of established and ...

Violence and Messianism Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century

Violence and Messianism: Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

By Petar Bojanić
October 24, 2017

Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great ...

The Bible and the 'Holy Poor' From the Tanakh to Les Misérables

The Bible and the 'Holy Poor': From the Tanakh to Les Misérables

1st Edition

By David Aberbach
October 19, 2017

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literature from the ancient world placed more importance upon social welfare and the duty of the better-off toward the poor. It is the founding text for ...

From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews The External Influences for Change, c. 1860-1960

From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews: The External Influences for Change, c. 1860-1960

1st Edition

By Daniel Summerfield
April 14, 2011

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 ...

Religious Studies and Rabbinics A Conversation

Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation

1st Edition

Edited By Elizabeth Alexander, Beth Berkowitz
September 07, 2017

Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined...

Modern Gnosis and Zionism The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought

Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought

1st Edition

By Yotam Hotam
July 27, 2017

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical ‘cultural crisis’. One response to this crisis was the emergence of ‘Life ...

Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity Philosophical Marranos

Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos

1st Edition

By Agata Bielik-Robson
June 16, 2017

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employed here, in the domain of modern philosophical ...

Judaism in Contemporary Thought Traces and Influence

Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence

1st Edition

Edited By Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc
June 16, 2017

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed ...

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