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Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology
ISBN: HB: 9780226764153, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed, and it is there that religious scholar Michael Fishban...
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Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone)
ISBN: HB: 9780300212440, Yale University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of...
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Ferdinando Scianna The Venice Ghetto 500 Years After
ISBN: HB: 9788831724777, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2017
100 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 53 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The ghetto today: a story told in pictures, a history in the making. The forty-four black-and-white photographs presented here have been selected from the many pictures taken by Ferdinando Scianna on a succession of visits...
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Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt
ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...
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Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...
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£16,99
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Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...
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£68,00
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Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany
ISBN: PB: 9783593392523, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
451 pp., 21x14 cm, 35 colour illus.
In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...
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£41,50
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Figural Jew Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226315126, ISBN: HB: 9780226315119, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm
The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers reca...
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£27,00
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£70,50
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Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality A Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9781584657309, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2008
404 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much has changed for Jewish women since the first edition of Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality appeared in 1992. Associations of Jewish women – academic, religious, secular – have proliferated, making the women's voices heard. In collecti...
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Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation
ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...
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