Religion: Judaism

Edited by Ira Brenner

This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fueling the Nazi regime in World War II. Written by world renowned experts in the field, it confronts a vitally important and exceedingly difficult topic with sensitivity, courage, and wisdom, furthering our understanding…

Paperback – 2019-08-30 
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Edited by Kateřina Králová, Marija Vulesica, Giorgos Antoniou

This anthology brings together eight insights into the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and cultural lenses. Even though the Holocaust put an end to many communities in the region, this book chronicles how some Holocaust survivors nevertheless tried to restore their…

Hardback – 2019-07-29 
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By David Jacobson

Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome. Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its destruction in the Judaean-Roman War. This study…

Hardback – 2019-06-27 
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Routledge Ancient Biographies

By Alyssa M. Gray

Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, varied, and even conflicting ideas, as the multiplicity must be recognized and allowed expression. Topics include the significance of the rabbis’ use of…

Hardback – 2019-06-18 
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Routledge Jewish Studies Series

By Motti Inbari

This book explores the process that led several modern Jewish leaders to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. The research compares their ideological change to acts of conversion, and examines the philosophical, sociological, and psychological path of…

Hardback – 2019-06-13 
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Routledge Jewish Studies Series

Edited by Shalva Weil

This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained…

Hardback – 2019-06-06 
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Routledge South Asian Religion Series

Edited by John Tolan

What is a religion? How do we discern the boundaries between religions, or religious communities? When does Judaism become Judaism, Christianity become Christianity, Islam become Islam? Scholars have increasingly called into question the standard narratives created by the various orthodoxies,…

Hardback – 2019-04-25 
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By Steven T Katz

The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present…

Hardback – 2019-04-25 
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Variorum Collected Studies

Edited by John J. Fitzgerald, Ashley John Moyse

Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological machine to be examined, understood, and…

Hardback – 2019-04-23 
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Routledge Studies in Religion

By Emily Leah Silverman

First published 2013. This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust.…

Paperback – 2019-03-25
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Edited by Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of…

Hardback – 2019-03-19
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Mass Violence in Modern History

Edited by Alan Slomowitz, Alison Feit

Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives. The book explores how…

Paperback – 2019-02-26
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Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series