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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300135527, Yale University Press, May 2020
1392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.
An anthology of Jewish culture between the world wars, the editors' selections convey the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous decades. Despite – or perhaps because of – external threats, Jews vigorously fought over r...
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£150,00
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Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...
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£24,00
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£30,00
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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism
ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...
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£36,00
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Besht Magician, Mystic, and Leader
ISBN: PB: 9781611683080, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2012
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba'al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT) – the purported founder of the Ha...
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£32,00
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