This study deals with Baruch Kurzweil as a hero of the Hebrew Israeli cultural scene of the 1950s and `60s. Kurzweil`s critical corpus known mainly for his work on S.Y. Agnon`s fiction is treated here not only as literary criticism, but first ...
``The Jewish Pope``, the story of Elchanan, the son of R. Shimeon of Mayence, who was kidnapped from his home, grew up as a Christian, became a pope, and finally returned to his father`s home and to Judaism, is one of the most famous Jewish folk...
The book analyses the theme ``Abraham in the Furnace`` from a historical and contextual perspective by means of more than ninety written Jewish story versions. The personal story of Abraham, as a rebellious individual, merges with the national s...
Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia...
A study of the phenomenon of cooperation between Jews and Arabs in the municipality of Haifa during the British Mandate. This is a first attempt to present a comprehensive and inclusive research that deals with the local government`s influence o...
This book analyses the attitude of Habad philosophers to Maimonides and their interpretation of Maimonidean doctrines. Maimonides was not viewed by Habad philosophers only as an eminent philosopher and rabbinic sage, but also as one who merited ...
An annotated critical edition of Heshek Shelomo, R. Shelomo ben Yehudaof Lunel`s commentary on the Kuzari by R. Yehuda Halevi. This commentary was written between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century and it affords us a rare...
Collection of articles dealing with different views on Repentance and Redemption from a philosophic perspective. The collection focuses on the’approach of Jewish philosophers, beginning with the teachings of Rav Yosef Albo and the Maharal of Pra...
The Vilna Gaon`s writings are all commentaries, thus making it difficult to assess his views on the central issues of Judaism. Now, for the first time, one of the more controversial issues in the Gaon`s writings has been decoded: his views on th...
In All Your Ways Know Him
The Concept of God and avodah begashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism By Tsippi Kauffman May 2009 Paperback Danacode 110-20127 In Stock
This book explores models of avodah be-gashmiyut in nascent Hasidism and aims to determine how it provides a response to the tension between the halakhic demand for a certain manner of religious conduct and the immanentistic trends in the Hasidi...
This book traces the sources, history and development of a broad variety of customs associated with the Jewish life cycle, from birth to death. It draws upon a vast repertoire of sources, both literary and pictorial, Jewish and non-Jewish, and p...
Sartre: Existentialism and Romanticism
Bar-Ilan Law Studies 28-2
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story 3
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Psalms II - small edition
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Samuel I & II- small edition
Music in Jewish Thought
Mordecai is Riding a Horse
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