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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 Name of God in Jewish Thought A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah

The Name of God in Jewish Thought: A Philosophical Analysis of Mystical Traditions from Apocalyptic to Kabbalah

1st Edition

By Michael T Miller
November 02, 2015

One of the most powerful traditions of the Jewish fascination with language is that of the Name. Indeed, the Jewish mystical tradition would seem a two millennia long meditation on the nature of name in relation to object, and how name mediates between subject and object. Even within the tide of ...

Rabbinic Judaism Space and Place

Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place

1st Edition

By David Kraemer
October 26, 2015

In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling ...

Let My People Go The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration During the Cold War

Let My People Go: The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration During the Cold War

1st Edition

By Pauline Peretz
August 30, 2015

American Jews' mobilization on behalf of Soviet Jews is typically portrayed as compensation for the community's inability to assist European Jews during World War II. Yet, as Pauline Peretz shows, the role Israel played in setting the agenda for a segment of the American Jewish community was ...

Bearing Witness A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History

Bearing Witness: A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History

1st Edition

Edited By Maria Jarosz
July 30, 2015

Bearing Witness offers personal insight into the collective experience of Poles over the last sixty years. One of Poland's leading social scientists combines objective, academic rigor with autobiographical, eyewitness accounts of historic events. Maria Jarosz reflects on the post-World War II world...

Jewish Women's Torah Study Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity

Jewish Women's Torah Study: Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity

1st Edition

By Ilan Fuchs
July 22, 2015

One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection...

Jewish Education and History Continuity, crisis and change

Jewish Education and History: Continuity, crisis and change

1st Edition

By Moshe Aberbach
March 31, 2015

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 draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage ...

A History of Czechs and Jews A Slavic Jerusalem

A History of Czechs and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem

1st Edition

By Martin Wein
February 12, 2015

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. ...

God, Jews and the Media Religion and Israel’s Media

God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media

1st Edition

By Yoel Cohen
November 10, 2014

In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship ...

God Laughed Sources of Jewish Humor

God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor

1st Edition

By Hershey H. Friedman
May 30, 2014

Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts—the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash—in a clear, readable, and ...

A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption

A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption

1st Edition

By Norbert Samuelson
September 30, 2010

This user-friendly guide will help students of the 'Star' to be able to discuss at a basic level what, at least conceptually, Rosenzweig intended to say and how all that he says is interrelated....

Facing the Other The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

1st Edition

By Sean Hand
April 14, 2011

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

From Synagogue to Church: The Traditional Design Its Beginning, its Definition, its End

From Synagogue to Church: The Traditional Design: Its Beginning, its Definition, its End

1st Edition

By John Wilkinson
November 12, 2010

The designs of synagogues and churches are acknowledged to be very alike. But the designers' procedure was confidential, and so far standard explanations have been unsatisfactory. A synagogue should express heavenly values with earthly materials. This combination was in fact expressed in numbers, ...

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